LAST CHANCE TO LISTEN!
They refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.--Zechariah 7:11
The straight testimony must be borne whether men will hear or whether they will forbear. Those reproved who will not be warned, counseled, or reformed, but who justify their own course of action will be left to their own ways, to be filled with their own doings. Like the inhabitants of the old world, they will follow with persistent zeal the imagination of their own heart, and they will perish in their sins.
When the earth is reeling to and fro like a drunkard, when the heavens are shaking, and the great day of the Lord has come, who shall be able to stand? One object they behold in trembling agony from which they will try in vain to escape. "Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." [Revelation 1:7.] The unsaved utter wild imprecations to dumb nature--their god: "Mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb." [Revelation 6:16.]
Creation is loyal to her God, and deaf to the frenzied call. That unrequited love is now turned to wrath. Sinners who would not let Jesus take away their sins are rushing from place to place in search of a hiding place, crying, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and our souls are not saved!
Oh that they had seen the Rock of shelter and perfect safety--the Cleft of the Rock--whether they might flee until the indignation be overpast! "A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest." [Isaiah 32:21.] That Lamb whose wrath will be so terrible to the scorners of His grace, will be grace and righteousness and love and blessing to all who have received Him. (Letter 137, April 6, 1896)
REFLECTION: The priests were greatly rejoiced. These leaders of Israel had been given the privilege of receiving Christ as their Saviour, without money and without price. But they refused the precious gift offered them in the most tender spirit of constraining love. They refused to accept that salvation which is of more value than gold, and bought their Lord for thirty pieces of silver. (The Desire of Ages, 564)
They refused to heed, shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears so that they could not hear.--Zechariah 7:11
The straight testimony must be borne whether men will hear or whether they will forbear. Those reproved who will not be warned, counseled, or reformed, but who justify their own course of action will be left to their own ways, to be filled with their own doings. Like the inhabitants of the old world, they will follow with persistent zeal the imagination of their own heart, and they will perish in their sins.
When the earth is reeling to and fro like a drunkard, when the heavens are shaking, and the great day of the Lord has come, who shall be able to stand? One object they behold in trembling agony from which they will try in vain to escape. "Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him." [Revelation 1:7.] The unsaved utter wild imprecations to dumb nature--their god: "Mountains and rocks, 'Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb." [Revelation 6:16.]
Creation is loyal to her God, and deaf to the frenzied call. That unrequited love is now turned to wrath. Sinners who would not let Jesus take away their sins are rushing from place to place in search of a hiding place, crying, The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and our souls are not saved!
Oh that they had seen the Rock of shelter and perfect safety--the Cleft of the Rock--whether they might flee until the indignation be overpast! "A man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest." [Isaiah 32:21.] That Lamb whose wrath will be so terrible to the scorners of His grace, will be grace and righteousness and love and blessing to all who have received Him. (Letter 137, April 6, 1896)
REFLECTION: The priests were greatly rejoiced. These leaders of Israel had been given the privilege of receiving Christ as their Saviour, without money and without price. But they refused the precious gift offered them in the most tender spirit of constraining love. They refused to accept that salvation which is of more value than gold, and bought their Lord for thirty pieces of silver. (The Desire of Ages, 564)
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