184
The Revelation of Jesus Christ
WHATSOEVER A NATION Sows, THAT SHALL IT ALSO REAP Before we consider what these judgments are, I want to say this to you: There is no use trying to comfort yourself with the thought that the judgments that we read about in this book will never b.e allowed to come to pass, just because God is so kind. God is allowing many things to take place in the world today: and the only way you can explain this fact is that God hates sin, and He shows us just how much He hates it by the terrible things that He associates with it. There is one thing, my dear man, that you and I can never deny, and that is God's inexorable law that "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Gal. 6:7). Whatsoever a nation soweth, that shall it also reap; and in the day about which we are studying, Almighty God is going to speak to the nations of the earth that have steeled their hearts against His Son and against the Gospel of His Son. Those who think that, just because these judgments, long predicted, have not yet fallen, they will never fall, will one' day wake up to the awful reality of these things. God is with holding judgment, only because He is "longsuffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (II Pet. 3:9). It is a serious matter to close our eyes to the "Thus saith the Lord" of this closing book of His Word. Even some ministers and some theological seminaries do this very thing. But God's Word shall never be broken. And the nations that defy His, as well as the in dividuals who reject Him, will learn the meaning of His wrath. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." "THE SoNG OF MosEs ••• AND THE SoNG OF THE LAMB" "'And I saw as It were a sea of glass mingled with fire : and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous arc thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, 0 Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest" (15:2-i).
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker