The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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This great apostate will corrupt the truth of God and will promulgate doctrines that will take away what hope men might cherish. . "Man men die ..." Having rejected salvation through the shed b) 00 d of the Son of God, those who embrace_the doc trines of this false leader will find not only physical, but spiritual death as well.
THE FOURTH TRUMPET 8: 12, 13
"And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkei:ed, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the mght likewise. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the lnhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" The light which God has given to men will be withdrawn from them. There will come a time when men will be envel oped by a terrible moral darkness. As we have already learned, God will send a strong delu sion upon men; and even now the shadows of spiritual dark ness are deepening. You have only to look about you to realize that fact. All sorts of damnable cults and heresies are being advanced in the name of Christ, and are deceiving many. Scores of professed Christians are going out of the church into Christian Science and Theosophy. Not long ago there was an account in the papers of a woman who left her church to embrace the Hindoo faith. Do you ask why it is that men and women turn from the light of the Christian faith, and go away into the darkness of fals~ religions? It is because they have steeled their hearts against God. They have heard the truth, time and time again perhap~, and have rejected it. It is a very serious matter to play With the things of God, to listen to the Gospel of grace, and then go out from the house of God, repudiating the Son of God. The man outside this building tonight, who has not heard the truth over and over again, can see more clearly than can the one who sits, Sunday after Sunday listening to the message from the Word of God, and then goes out without
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