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The European Union in Prophecy
people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they
stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their
tongue shall consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to pass in that day, that
a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold everyone
on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his
neighbor." Zechariah 14:12, 13. In the mad strife of their own fierce passions, and by
the awful outpouring of God's unmingled wrath, fall the wicked inhabitants of the
earth--priests, rulers, and people, rich and poor, high and low. "And the slain of the
Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the
earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried." Jeremiah 25:33.
At the coming of Christ the wicked are blotted from the face of the whole earth-
-consumed with the spirit of His mouth and destroyed by the brightness of His glory.
Christ takes His people to the City of God, and the earth is emptied of its inhabitants.
"Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside
down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof." "The land shall be utterly
emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word." "Because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate:
therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned." Isaiah 24:1, 3, 5, 6.
The whole earth appears like a desolate wilderness. The ruins of cities and
villages destroyed by the earthquake, uprooted trees, ragged rocks thrown out by the
sea or torn out of the earth itself, are scattered over its surface, while vast caverns
mark the spot where the mountains have been rent from their found