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The Revelation of Jesus Christ
David could not understand why the wicked prosper, and he talked to God about it. He wondered why they were not cut off, and God said to him, "When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed forever" (Psa. 92: 7). And so it will be when the first trumpet is sounded. Grass and green, growing things stand for the prosperity of the rich man; and we see here that man's prosperity is to end in calamity. The destruction of the trees and of the green grass speaks to us of the judgment that shall strike at the rich, unregenerated men who have become prosperous in the things of the world. but who have rejected the Gospel of grace. Nebuchadnezzar is a type of the rich, independent, God ignoring, rich man. In the book of Daniel we see him, in his prime, likened to a great tree. And what happened to that: tree? God ordered it cut down. His prosperity, his pride. his independence became as nothing; and he lost his reason. becoming as the very beast of the 'field, eating grass like the: oxen. James sounds a warning to the unregenerated rich man. "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten" (James 5: I, 2). The rich of the earth are having a foretaste of those miser ies right now. Many people who three years ago were clipping coupons and thinking they were to be on Easy Street for the rest of their days do not know which way to turn today. T~e Lord Jesus Christ speaks to men through His Word and through His messengers, but He has other ways of speaking to them. Many a man and many a woman will thank God through all eternity for the time of depression through which the world is now passing. I recall an incident which I witnessed several years ago when the first crash came. A friend took me to visit the Stock Exchange in Philadelphia. It was a fascinating scene. A man in front of a blackboard was putting up figures, and those fig ures were changed constantly. I saw a woman, well~dressed, near the front of the crowd, watching with a tense, strained look on her face. When the man at the board changed some figures, making a difference of twenty~five points, that woman
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