130 The Revelation of Jesus Christ ing that troublous period; yet he takes us back, with the nine teenth verse, and gives to us in the following chapter more details regarding the great tribulation. "And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of the testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail'" (verse 19). The "ark of his covenant" ( R. V.) is symbolic of God's covenant with His people. He has not forgotten them, nor has He forgotten His promises to their fathers. And we shall see, as we enter further into our study of this wonderful book, that He is going to visit His wrath upon the nations which op press His Chosen People. If any man thinks he can escape the wrath of God with out accepting His Son as Saviour, he will. find himself mis taken one of these days. Should our Lord come now, those who are left behind when the church is taken away, will be hurled, as it were, into the dreadful days of the tribulation. God has spoken, and with Him there "is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." My friend, your only hope of peace and happiness here and eternal salvation hereafter, is to accept now, while you have the opportunity, the atonement which Christ made when He shed His blood on the Cross of Calvary. Nothing is promised you in the way of salvation hereafter, if you reject the "Way of the Cross." Again I would remind you, "Now is the day of salvation!" "While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light" (John 12:36). God is giving us in this age a blaze of light, but the day is coming when the light will be withdrawn. When the church age is over, the judgments recorded in the book of Revelation will come to pass, and what fearful judgments they will be! Some people think such things are impossible, but not so. Before the war of 1914- 1918, men refused to believe that another great war would break out; but it did, and things happened which no man would have thought possible. In "the things which shall be hereafter," after the translation of the church, God is telling us, in symbolic language, that judgment will be visited upon the world. The age of grace will be over; the Holy Spirit will have taken His departure; the Antichrist will be ruling, with
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