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The European Union in Prophecy
The people see that they have been deluded. They accuse one another of having
led them to destruction; but all unite in heaping their bitterest condemnation upon
the ministers. Unfaithful pastors have prophesied smooth things; they have led their
hearers to make void the law of God and to persecute those who would keep it holy.
Now, in their despair, these teachers confess before the world their work of deception.
The multitudes are filled with fury. "We are lost!" they cry, "and you are the cause of
our ruin;" and they turn upon the false shepherds. The very ones that once admired
them most will pronounce the most dreadful curses upon them. The very hands that
once crowned them with laurels will be raised for their destruction. The swords which
were to slay God's people are now employed to destroy their enemies. Everywhere
there is strife and bloodshed.
"A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy
with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the
sword." Jeremiah 25:31. For six thousand years the great controversy has been in
progress; the Son of God and His heavenly messengers have been in conflict with the
power of the evil one, to warn, enlighten, and save the children of men. Now all have
made their decisions; the wicked have fully united with Satan in his warfare against
God. The time has come for God to vindicate the authority of His downtrodden law.
Now the controversy is not alone with Satan, but with men. "The Lord hath a
controversy with the nations;" "He will give them that are wicked to the sword."
The mark of deliverance has been set upon those "that sigh and that cry for all
the abominations that be done." Now the angel of death goes forth, represented in
Ezekiel's vision by the men with the slaughtering weapons, to whom the command is
given: "Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but
come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary." Says
the prophet: "They began at the ancient men which were before the house." Ezekiel
9:1-6. The work of destruction begins among those who have professed to be the
spiritual guardians of the people. The false watchmen are the first to fall. There are
none to pity or to spare. Men, women, maidens, and little children perish together.
"The Lord cometh out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their
iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."
Isaiah 26:21. "And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the
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