Showing How the Sword Has Ever Been Drawn When Man’s Cup of Wickedness Overflows
By MR. C. H. FOUNTAIN England
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He used them one against the other as it suited His purpose. Thus, we fre quently find that He gave the Israelites into the hand of one pagan ,nation after another, beginning with the Egyptians and ending with the Romans, and, since their dispersion, though not so express ly stated, He has given them into the hand of all the nations on earth, “ from the one end of it even unto the other.” “ He delivered them into the hands of the spoilers and sold them into the hands of their enemies.” “ The anger of the. Lord was hot against them and whithdrsoever they went out the hand of the Lord was against them for evil.” In the face of such statements as these, clear and emphatic to the last degree and scattered all over the Old Testament, modernists can only deny God’s connection with these events by denying the veracity and Divine inspira tion of Scripture. And this they do. Having set up a God who could not possibly, in their opinion, bring or send evil upon anyone, there is no other course left to them. It is easy to see therefore, why the Old Testament is so discredited today. It is simply because it presents a God Who does not fit in with “ modern sanc tions’ - and more “ enlightened” ideas from which such crude and médiéval conceptions as punishment, retribution and judgment are for ever excluded. It is only another phase of the orig inal Lie, “ Ye shall not surely die,” ,the oldest gospel on record— and its author is the same; the “ Father of Lies.” »For he well knows, that if he can destroy the “ fearful looking for of judgment” and persuade men that all such fancies WHY DID SHE WEEP?
has a sword and its history is all through the Bihle. i meet with it immediately er the Fall when He placed
in the Garden a flaming Sword which turned every way. No human hands wielded it then, hut He has since placed it in many such for the execution of His decrees. Judgment, we are told, is “ un-, thinkable,” yet in the second verse of the Bible we find one of the greatest judgments on record when the once fair creation was made chaos. We meet with it, on a colossal scale again, when the whole race perished at the Flood. And both seem to have been brought about in the same way, by submerging the earth in the waters. Of the rea sons which brought about the state of chaos described in Gen. 1:2 we know -very little, but we read that “ darkness was upon the face of the deep,” not of the earth, and later, the dry land was commanded to appear, out of the water. We can scarcely imagine that the earth, probably inhabited by a race of beings before man entered into possession (as suggested by the word “ replenish” to fill again), could have been normally submerged in the waters. It was there fore allowed by God, for reasons known only to Himself, to be overwhelmed by the oceans, just as it was again at the Deluge. These two judgments seem almost identical, in the method em ployed though we know little or noth ing of the first. In these earlier ca tastrophes and in such tragedies as the destruction of Sodom, God seems to have executed His own sentences with out human co-pperation. But when man began to multiply after the Flood,
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