The Revelation of Jesus Christ
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"How did the white man get it?" Well, you know how he got it-the same way he got America. Then that Japanese said, "The day is coming when my land will be the spokesman of all the Oriental races of the world; we are just biding our time." And that is what they are doing. If you journey through the East today, you will find pervading the air a sense of ex~ pectancy, of waiting. The day will come when the church will be translated and the apostasy in Christendom will be at its height. Then God will cause those forces that are holding back the East to be removed, and the vast army which the Holy Spirit permitted John the Apostle to see will be on the march! 3. "And the Rest of the Men . .. Repented Not." John, inspired by the Holy Spirit, has portrayed to us a world that will have vials of wrath poured out upon it. He has told us how men will be killed and tortured; and yet-so blinded will they have become by that time-they will not repent. "And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts." Why does the Spirit of God put that statement in? The Roman Catholic tells you that if you go through purgatory, you will be purified through suffering; the Russellite tells you that in this period of time punishment will touch the hearts of people; the Word of God tells you that during the tribulation, when the power of the devil is manifested as never before, men will not repent; they will be hardened in their sins. Like Ephraim, they will be "joined to idols." Today, the day of grace, men sit and listen to the Gospel over and over, without making a move toward accepting the Lord Jesus Christ. They may not know it, but day by day they are becoming a little more hardened. Their character is becoming fixed; and the day will come, if they continuaJly re~
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