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The European Union in Prophecy
42. Controversy Ended
At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth. He is
accompanied by the host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue of angels. As He
descends in terrific majesty He bids the wicked dead arise to receive their doom. They
come forth, a mighty host, numberless as the sands of the sea. What a contrast to
those who were raised at the first resurrection! The righteous were clothed with
immortal youth and beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease and death.
Every eye in that vast multitude is turned to behold the glory of the Son of God.
With one voice the wicked hosts exclaim: "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of
the Lord!" It is not love to Jesus that inspires this utterance. The force of truth urges
the words from unwilling lips. As the wicked went into their graves, so they come
forth with the same enmity to Christ and the same spirit of rebellion. They are to have
no new probation in which to remedy the defects of their past lives. Nothing would be
gained by this. A lifetime of transgression has not softened their hearts. A second
probation, were it given them, would be occupied as was the first in evading the
requirements of God and exciting rebellion against Him.
Christ descends upon the Mount of Olives, whence, after His resurrection, He
ascended, and where angels repeated the promise of His return. Says the prophet:
"The Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee." "And His feet shall stand
in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the
Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, . . . and there shall be a very great
valley." "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one
Lord, and His name one." Zechariah 14:5, 4, 9. As the New Jerusalem, in its dazzling
splendor, comes down out of heaven, it rests upon the place purified and made ready
to receive it, and Christ, with His people and the angels, enters the Holy City.
Now Satan prepares for a last mighty struggle for the supremacy. While
deprived of his power and cut off from his work of deception, the prince of evil was
miserable and dejected; but as the wicked dead are raised and he sees the vast
multitudes upon his side, his hopes revive, and he determines not to yield the great
controversy. He will marshal all the armies of the lost under his banner and through
them endeavour to execute his plans. The wicked are Satan's captives. In rejecting
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