Are you faitfhul? -
12-06-2003, 11:57 AM
But in that day, as in the time of Jerusalem's destruction, God's people will be delivered, everyone that shall be found written among the the living. (Is.4:3). Christ has declared that He will come the second time to gather His faithful ones to Himself: "Then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (Matt. 24:30, 31). Then shall they that obey not the gospel be consumed with the spirit of His mouth and be destroyed with the brightness of His coming. (2 Thess. 2:8)
Like Israel of old the wicked destroy themselves; they fall by their iniquity. By a life of sin, they have placed themselves so out of harmony with God, their natures have become so debased with evil, that the manifestation of His glory is to them a consuming fire.
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