priests of its own god—to fulfill His pur-
pose. He can do the same today. Watch
the mighty work of God among the na-
tions, for we are rapidly approaching the
time when God will perform His ‘strange
work.”
War, destruction, death, disease, famine,
and other evils will not continue forever.
God hath appointed a day in which He will
judge the world. He has a final account to
settle with those who “destroy the earth.”
Revelation 11: 18.
“The Lord hath a controversy with the
nations, He will plead with all flesh; He
will give them that are wicked to the
sword, saith the Lord. Thus saith the
Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth
from nation to nation, and a great whirl-
wind shall be raised up from the coasts of
the earth. And the slain of the Lord shall
be at that day from one end of the earth
even unto the other end of the earth.”
Jeremiah 25: 31-33.
Hosea gives an itemized account of the
reasons for this controversy:
“The Lord hath a controversy with the
inhabitants of the land, because there is
no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of
God in the land. By swearing, and lving,
and killing, and stealing, and committing
adultery, they break out, and blood
toucheth blood.” Hosea 4:1, 2.
The final judgment upon men will be
the seven last plagues. They will be the
most awful scourges ever known. Because
they are unmixed with God’s mercy, they
are termed a strange act:
“The Lord shall rise up as in Mount
Perazim, He shall be wroth as in the valley
of Gibeon, that he may do His work, His
strange worl; and bring to pass His act,
His strange act.” Isaiah 28:21.
Yes, God is going to do something soon!
Will you be among that company in that
day who will look up, when He comes in
the clouds of heaven, and say: “Lo, this is
our God; we have waited for Him, and He
will save us”? Isaiah 25:9.
Why Will Christ Beturn?
(Continued from page 13)
is the will of Him that sent Me, that every
one which seeth the Son, and believeth on
Him, may have everlasting life: and I will
raise him up at the last day.” John 6:
39, 40. Plainly Christ teaches that even
those who believe on Him are dependent
upon a resurrection at the last day.
Paul teaches the same truth, that if there
1s no resurrection at the last day ‘then
they also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are perished.” 1 Corinthians 15: 18. There-
fore the resurrection is the only hope of
future life beyond death and the grave.
Christ must raise the dead; otherwise His
resurrection fails. He is coming again to
do this. What a day it will be! It is in-
describable!
Jesus died and was resurrected to re-
deem our bodies. One purpose of His com-
ing 1s to bring this fully about. The
Apostle Paul savs, “For we know that the
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in
pain together until now. And not only
they, but ourselves also, which have the
firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves
groan within ourselves, waiting for the
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our
body.” “For our citizenship 1s in heaven;
whence also we wait for a Saviour, the
Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew
the body of our humiliation, that it might
be conformed to the body of His glory.”
Romans 8: 22, 23; Philippians 3: 20, A.R.V.
Jesus made possible an eternal reward
to all those who believe on Him. He is
coming again to bring this reward. Jesus
Himself says, “And, behold, I come
quickly; and My reward is with Me, to
give every man according as His work
shall be.” Revelation 22:12. Again He
says, “And thou shalt be blessed; for they
[the poor] cannot recompense thee: for
thou shalt be recompensed at the resur-
rection of the just.” Luke 14:14. Again,
“For the Son of man shall come in the
glory of His Father with His angels; and
then He shall reward every man according
to his works.” Matthew 16:27. And the
Apostle Paul, just before his death, ex-
claimed, ‘ For I am now ready to be offered,
and the time of my departure is at hand.
I have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith: hence-
forth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the right-
eous judge, shall give me at that day: and
not to me only, but unto all them also that
love His appearing.” 2 Timothy 4: 6-S.
Peter had the same hope: “When the
Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall re-
ceive a crown of glory that fadeth not
away.” 1 Peter 5:4.
A Theory that Hethrones God
(Continued from page 6)
conduct? These questions are not answered
by miserable and futile attempts of theolo-
gians to adapt the evolutionary idea of
the universe to the teachings of the Chris-
tian religion.
Whatever plausible excuses organized
religion may offer for its acceptance of the
theories of Darwin and Wallace, the fact
remains that those theories cannot pos-
sibly be reconciled with the majestic sim-
plicity of the opening words of the Bible:
“In the beginning God created the heaven
and the earth.” Much less can they be
reconciled to the words of the fourth com-
mandment: “IFor m six davs the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea, and all
that in them 1s.” Exodus 20: 11. Back to
God and the Bible we must go, urged Mr.
Brown, 1n his remarkable broadcast, if we
would visualize a better world, and build
here a solid foundation for human society.
Human effort and human enterprise are
futile and destructive unless linked up
with the law of God and Christian faith.
Mr. Brown, in concluding his broad-
cast, solemnly and impressively reminded
his hearers, in the words of Holy Writ:
“Except the Lord build the house, they
labor in vain that build it.” Psalm 127: 1.
aoul-Searing World Events
(Continued from page &)
still “run to and fro,” not knowing in
which direction to turn to find the comfort
their souls crave. (Amos 8:12.) Their
inventive genius—great though it be—will
avall them nothing in the final judgment
hour.
Men of themselves cannot save the
world. The key to this world’s present
perplexities 1s in the prophecies of the
word of God and the saving grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
To everyone today comes the insistent
pleading of the Holy Spirit: “Seek ye the
Lord while He may be found, call ye upon
Him while He is near: let the wicked for-
sake his way, and the unrighteous man
his thoughts: and let him return unto the
Lord, and He will have mercy upon him;
and to our God, for He will abundantly
pardon.” Tsaiah 55:6. 7.
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