TABLES WILL BE TURNED
Abraham said, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but know now he is comforted and you are tormented."--Luke 16:25
The awful spectacle appears just as it was. Satan and his subjects have no power to turn from the picture. Each actor recalls the part he performed. Herod, who slew the innocent children of Bethlehem; the base Herodias, upon whose soul rests the blood of John the Baptist; the weak, time-serving Pilate; the mocking soldiers; the maddened throng who cried, "His blood be on us, and on our children!"--all vainly seek to hide from the divine majesty of His countenance, while the redeemed cast their crowns at the Saviour's feet, exclaiming, "He died for me!"...
The whole wicked world stand arraigned on the charge of high treason against the government of heaven. They have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them.
The wicked see what they have forfeited by their rebellion. "And this," cries the lost soul, "I might have had. Oh, strange infatuation! I have exchanged peace, happiness, and honor for wretchedness, infamy, and despair." All see that their exclusion from heaven is just. By their lives they have declared: "We will not have this man [Jesus] to reign over us." (From Here to Eternity, 404-405)
Amid the ransomed throng are the apostles of Christ, the heroic Paul, the ardent Peter, the loved and loving John, and their truehearted brethren, and with them the vast host of martyrs; while outside the walls, with very vile and abominable thing, are those by whom they were persecuted, imprisoned, and slain. (The Great Controversy, 667)
REFLECTION: People will be judged according to what they have done. Their characters will be revealed, and their fate will be sealed. The tables will be turned; the despised will be inside the walls of the Holy City. The once proud and arrogant ones will look in from the outside.
Abraham said, "Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but know now he is comforted and you are tormented."--Luke 16:25
The awful spectacle appears just as it was. Satan and his subjects have no power to turn from the picture. Each actor recalls the part he performed. Herod, who slew the innocent children of Bethlehem; the base Herodias, upon whose soul rests the blood of John the Baptist; the weak, time-serving Pilate; the mocking soldiers; the maddened throng who cried, "His blood be on us, and on our children!"--all vainly seek to hide from the divine majesty of His countenance, while the redeemed cast their crowns at the Saviour's feet, exclaiming, "He died for me!"...
The whole wicked world stand arraigned on the charge of high treason against the government of heaven. They have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them.
The wicked see what they have forfeited by their rebellion. "And this," cries the lost soul, "I might have had. Oh, strange infatuation! I have exchanged peace, happiness, and honor for wretchedness, infamy, and despair." All see that their exclusion from heaven is just. By their lives they have declared: "We will not have this man [Jesus] to reign over us." (From Here to Eternity, 404-405)
Amid the ransomed throng are the apostles of Christ, the heroic Paul, the ardent Peter, the loved and loving John, and their truehearted brethren, and with them the vast host of martyrs; while outside the walls, with very vile and abominable thing, are those by whom they were persecuted, imprisoned, and slain. (The Great Controversy, 667)
REFLECTION: People will be judged according to what they have done. Their characters will be revealed, and their fate will be sealed. The tables will be turned; the despised will be inside the walls of the Holy City. The once proud and arrogant ones will look in from the outside.
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