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The European Union in Prophecy
My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
Now is fulfilled the Saviour's prayer for His disciples: "I will that they also, whom
Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am." "Faultless before the presence of His
glory with exceeding joy" (Jude 24), Christ presents to the Father the purchase of His
blood, declaring: "Here am I, and the children whom Thou hast given Me." "Those that
Thou gavest Me I have kept." Oh, the wonders of redeeming love! the rapture of that
hour when the infinite Father, looking upon the ransomed, shall behold His image,
sin's discord banished, its blight removed, and the human once more in harmony with
the divine!
With unutterable love, Jesus welcomes His faithful ones to the joy of their Lord.
The Saviour's joy is in seeing, in the kingdom of glory, the souls that have been saved
by His agony and humiliation. And the redeemed will be sharers in His joy, as they
behold, among the blessed, those who have been won to Christ through their prayers,
their labors, and their loving sacrifice. As they gather about the great white throne,
gladness unspeakable will fill their hearts, when they behold those whom they have
won for Christ, and see that one has gained others, and these still others, all brought
into the haven of rest, there to lay their crowns at Jesus' feet and praise Him through
the endless cycles of eternity.
As the ransomed ones are welcomed to the City of God, there rings out upon the
air an exultant cry of adoration. The two Adams are about to meet. The Son of God is
standing with outstretched arms to receive the father of our race--the being whom He
created, who sinned against his Maker, and for whose sin the marks of the crucifixion
are borne upon the Saviour's form. As Adam discerns the prints of the cruel nails, he
does not fall upon the bosom of his Lord, but in humiliation casts himself at His feet,
crying: "Worthy, worthy is the Lamb that was slain!" Tenderly the Saviour lifts him
up and bids him look once more upon the Eden home from which he has so long been
exiled.
After his expulsion from Eden, Adam's life on earth was filled with sorrow. Every
dying leaf, every victim of sacrifice, every blight upon the fair face of nature, every
stain upon man's purity, was a fresh reminder of his sin. Terrible was the agony of
remorse as he beheld iniquity abounding, and, in answer to his warnings, met the
reproaches cast upon himself as the cause of sin. With patient humility he bore, for
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