T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S anilllUlllllIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllllllIllllillllHIIIIIIIIIIIIlIJi I LATTER DAT f | MOCKERS | 3 (From “Watch and Pray” ) ' ~ ttlH IIllllllllM IU IIIIIIIIIIIIllllH lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli; H N THE dark days of Israel, when their sin and apostasy was great, God sent the proph et Ezekiel among them, to warn them that the judgment of God was about to fall upon them and upon their city, Jerusalem. When the religious leaders of Israel heard these prophecies of their coming doom, they immediately began to mock, “ The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.” Like a lot of religious leaders today, they would not believe that any thing serious could happen to them in their days. They tried to make them selves believe that these pessimistic prophecies referred to things thousands of years away. But listen how God answered those mockers in Israel.. “Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God,” And just a little over three years from then, the wrath of God fell upon Israel, and Jerusalem was captured by the Gentiles and the people themselves were led captive into Babylon and scattered to the ends of the earth. What those mockers in Israel declared to be “ far off,” all happened in a little over three years from the days of their mockery. But this prophecy of Ezekiel’s will have a double fulfilling. At the end of this wicked age, when a still greater doom will fall upon Israel and the whole world, because they rejected the Lord Jesus Christ, the same kind of mockers will again rise up, and mock the sacred prophecies spoken "by $ holy men of old. The Lord Jesus warned us that these mockers would rise up among HAVE YOU HEARD THE CALL?
934
at best, and the densely black coal around them absorbs many of the scanty rays. The result is that in time many miners become unable to see in semi-darkness, and the trouble develops other unpleas ant features, physical and mental. What a parable lies here! Live in the dark, or with too little light, and the whole body is affected. Live in spiritual darkness, doing the works of the flesh, following the leading of the darkened mind, and the whole soul becomes dis eased. The sense of spiritual things dies out. As the disease progresses the differ ence between right and wrong begins to fade away. By and by the soul is without God, without light, without hope, with out guidance, a poor, blind, groping thing that does not realize its own misery. “If the light that is in us be darkness, how great is that darkness!”—C. E. World. Orders Contrary to God’s Word Three hundred Knights of Pythias on one train going into New York, and an other train loaded with passengers were coming out on the same track, and there was a terrible collision. Some forty or fifty people were killed. Everywhere, the paper said, there were the' dying and the crying and the wounded, and every where there lay the dead, and when they began to pull away, the rubbish they found the engineer of one of those trains. He was crushed under his engine and just a little life was left. In his right hand he held a piece of yellow paper on which were written the orders that the chief dispatcher had given to him. Tears were running down his face and blood was rushing from his mouth, and in a little while he was dead. But amid the cries they heard him say, “Somebody gave me the wrong orders.”—L. R. Scar borough.
Sons of God X John 3:1-3.
1. What believers are;—Sons of God. 2. What they shall be—-“ Like Him.” 3. What they should be—Holy (v. 3.)
Made with FlippingBook Online newsletter