Shall we turn again in the book of
Zechariah tonight, and reading our lesson tonight beginning
in chapter five.
Chapter five of the book of Zechariah, and
reading the whole chapter of eleven verses.
The prophet writes and declares, Then I turned
and lifted up mine eye, and looked, and
behold, a flying roe.
And he said unto me, What seest thou?
And I answered, I see a flying roe,
the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the
breadth thereof ten cubits.
Then said he unto me, This is the
curse that goeth forth over the face of
the whole earth.
For every one that stealeth shall be cut
off as on this side according to it,
and every one that sweareth shall be cut
off as on that side according to it.
I will bring it forth, saith the Lord
of hosts, and it shall enter into the
house of the thief, and into the house
of him that sweareth falsely by my name.
And it shall remain in the midst of
his house, and shall consume it with the
timber thereof, and the stones thereof.
Then the angel that talked with me went
forth and said unto me, Lift up now
thine eye, and see what is this that
goeth forth.
And I said, What is it?
And he said, This is an ephah that
goeth forth.
He said, Moreover, this is their resemblance throughout
all the earth.
And behold, there was lifted up a talented
lad, and this is a woman that sitteth
in the midst of the ephah.
And he said, This is wickedness.
And he cast it into the midst of
the ephah, and he cast the weight of
the lad upon the mouth thereof.
Then lifted I up mine eyes and looked,
and behold, there came out two women, and
the wind was in their wings, for they
had wings like the wings of a star.
They lifted up the ephah between the earth
and the heaven.
Then said I to the angel that talked
with me, Whither do these bear the ephah?
And he said unto me, To build it
an house in the land of Shinar, and
it shall be established and set thereupon their
own base.
May God bless the reading and the hearing
of his word.
Humbly, but dependent upon the Holy Spirit, we
look to the guidance and the teaching of
the Spirit for our mutual blessing and edification
from the scripture that we have read.
Just a brief summary of what we have
already been covering in this wonderful book, The
Prophecy of Zechariah.
The section from which we have read our
lesson tonight is taken from the second division
of the great book.
That division beginning as we have stated in
chapter one, verse seven, and going down to
the end of chapter six.
It is a series of night visions.
Eight visions that were given to the prophet
Zechariah in one night.
We have already noticed in the earlier visions
the revelation of what God will yet do
for the glory and the blessing and the
restoration of his people Israel, the city of
Jerusalem, and the reestablishing of the divine testimony
to the glory of God upon the earth.
We particularly have the joy this morning of
seeing in chapter four the wonderful fact that
Israel will in consummation shine in its testimony
of the nation upon the earth to the
glory of God.
We found Israel in that glory likened to
the golden lampstand, and the shining out by
the power and the presence and the fullness
of the Spirit of God in that coming
day of Israel's glory through all the earth
for the glory and honor of Jehovah.
We come to a chapter, as we shall
also on tomorrow, which brings the closing visions
of three that remain in relation to something
far different than what we have covered.
What we have seen in the earlier visions
have certainly been messages of consolation, of encouragement,
telling how God will rid the nation of
their sin and defilement, and then set them
for the millennial reign of their Messiah, the
Lord Jesus Christ.
But before the blessings of that millennial glory
can ever commence, it will necessitate that the
Lord will also cleanse the land as well
as the people from everything that defiles or
makes an abomination or make us a lie
in relation to Israel.
What we read tonight and shall in the
morning is the importance of a dark episode
which unfolds in these two visions and the
one on tomorrow.
For we have noted in chapter three that
God will deal in grace with his beloved
people who are in repentance in that coming
day turning to him.
But we must confess God is not only
the God of grace, God is not only
the God of love, but our God is
the God of judgment.
Our God is not only a loving God,
but our God is a holy God.
And our God, though he deals in matchless
grace, must also unfold his true character in
relation to the defilement of sin and in
relation to Israel.
These visions that we have before us tell
that though God will deal in grace with
the repentant part of Israel, he must and
he will deal in judgment with the unrepentant
part of Israel.
Now may I repeat that?
For it is very clear in the teaching
of the word of God, he not only
will deal in grace and love and mercy
and forgiveness with those who repent in the
nations in that future day, but he will
a necessity deal in judgment with the unrepentant
part of the people.
The visions that lie before us in this
chapter reveal that he will deal in divine
judgment and retribution with the unrepentant part of
the nation.
And those who will persist in wickedness will
be judged, for our God is a God
of judgment as well as a God of
grace.
There are those that magnify the love of
God at the expense of denying the judgment
of God.
But our God is holy.
Our God is a consuming fire.
It is a fearful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God, wrote the
writers of the Hebrews.
And again and again, the scriptures bring out
not only the love and the grace of
God, but also the judgment of God upon
unrepentant sinners.
Now if his grace is rejected, then his
judgment must and will be known.
And I believe if you will keep the
application of this chapter to the unrepentant part
of Israel, you will recognize that God will
deal with the unrepentant portion of his earthly
people to their destruction and to their final
judgment.
Now that is true in all the world.
That is true with all people.
Those who reject the grace of our God
must of necessity submit themselves in the day
of judgment to his divine retribution.
Now what we have are two visions in
the chapter.
The vision of the flying roll, and then
the latter part, the vision of the ephah.
We open the chapter by reading of the
flying roll.
Then I turned and lifted up my eyes
and looked, and behold, a flying roll.
And this is a message of deep and
great importance that is coming from the living
God.
And there are some facts regarding this flying
roll that are certainly interesting.
First, the position of it.
Second, the size of it.
And third, the message it contains.
And then fourth, the ultimate result of it.
Let me repeat it.
First, the position.
And note the position is, it is a
flying roll.
Now because of this description of the roll
being a flying one, it denotes the rapidity
and the sudden approach of its execution.
Now please may I repeat that.
It denotes the rapidity and the suddenness of
its execution.
But beloved, may I state, you that are
familiar with the word of God, and you
that are familiar with the events of the
future, will acknowledge that the day, the great
day of the Lord, the great day of
his wrath, is coming very suddenly, and will
be rapidly upon the human race at the
coming again of our Lord Jesus, when he
shall come and appear in great glory and
power.
And may I emphasize that I fully believe
with earnestness of soul, the world is near
that sudden day of divine judgment.
And in the context of our prophecy, relating
primarily to Israel, the nation of Israel is
also nearer to the day of that judgment,
when the visitation of God upon the nation
for their accumulated sins will be visited in
the day of his wrath, upon the unrepentant
part of the people.
And then note the size of it.
As you look in verse two, he said
unto me, what seest thou?
And I answered, I see a flying rose.
The length thereof is twenty cubits, the breadth
thereof ten cubits.
It is uniquely the size of the holy
place in the tabernacle, or in the temple.
Twenty cubits by ten cubits.
It is the size, the exact size, of
Solomon's porch in the day of his temple.
And it indicates, because of its reference to
the size, that is the size of the
holy place, it indicates the source of the
impending judgment will emanate out of the holy
place in accordance to the measure of God's
holiness.
My beloved, may I say, the world has
never seen at large the pouring out of
the fury and the wrath of a holy
God.
But when you and I read the book
of the Revelation, and when particularly we come
to the confirmation of the judgments, following the
seal judgments, the trumpet judgments, and then the
final outpouring of the fury of the wrath
of God, when you read Revelation 15 and
chapter 16, the pouring out of the final
wrath of God upon the unrepentant, godless world,
that wrath comes right out of the holy
place in heaven above.
Likewise, in the primary teaching of our chapter,
the divine wrath of Jehovah shall be meted
out as from his holy presence upon the
unrepentant part of his people.
We can apply it to the whole world
in that coming day of the Lord, but
in its primary message of Zechariah, it is
in relation to Israel.
Then note the message it has as we
go to verse three, Then said he unto
me, This is the curse that goeth forth
over the face of the whole earth, or
the whole land, as some translate it, for
every one that stealeth shall be cut off,
as in this sign according to it, and
every one that sweareth shall be cut off,
as on that sign according to it.
There are two particular sins that are named
in relation to this judgment, and the message
of the final robe.
One sin is the sin of theft, the
other is the sin of perjury, stealing, lying,
and particularly the sin of theft and perjury
predominates in the judgment, as thus the visitation
of God's wrath will be upon his earthly
people.
And may I say, if it can be
literal in verse three, if it is over
the face of the whole earth, there is
no reason to relegate it alone to Israel,
though it is particularly against Israel and God's
judgment upon the unrepentant part.
But the whole earth predominates with moral sins
that stand out at the end of the
age.
May I go with you to the book
of Revelation, please?
Chapter nine.
I'd like to bring out what is a
most important thought in the ninth chapter of
the book of the Revelation, which applies not
merely to Israel, but entirely to the whole
earth.
As we read in chapter nine, let me
begin at verse twenty-one.
Following one of the greatest pouring out of
judgments, and that is the sixth seal judgment,
or the sixth trumpet judgment, rather, we have
in verse twenty-one these words, and I
wish you to note them carefully.
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of
their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of
their thanks.
Now, here in relation to the whole world
is the predominance of four great moral sins.
They predominate today.
You have the multiplicity of murders, and we
know that.
You have what follows, if translated in your
authorized version by the word sorcery, or witchcraft,
which is the Greek word pharmakia, and which
means the administering of drugs.
The illicit administering of drugs.
And beloved, in one decade, you and I
have seen this grow to an enormous size,
and constantly increasing in the last day.
Coupled with it, fornication, promiscuous licentiousness in sexual
relationships in the world today.
Predominating and accompanying these tests, they are the
predominant sins that prevail at the end of
the age.
Now, in relation to Israel, there is the
predominance of theft and perjury.
And may I point out, these are two
sins against that are found recorded in the
great decalogue, the Law of Moses.
Thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not lie.
My beloved, may I say, I say it
humbly, but in Israel and the history of
the nation, there has been a predominance of
those sins.
They have sworn, they have perjured themselves, often
even in the name of Jehovah.
But oh God, he's going to bring the
culmination of those national sins to judgment in
relation to we lusty people.
And I want you to notice, you read
please, or the end of verse three, let
me read.
Everyone that sweareth shall be cut up, or
everyone that stealeth shall be cut up.
Everyone that sweareth shall be cut up.
And God says, I will bring it forth,
saith the Lord of hosts.
It shall enter into the house of the
thief, into the house of him that sweareth
falsely by my name.
And it shall remain in the midst of
his house, and shall consume it with the
timber thereon, and the stones thereon.
Oh, how we can recognize that very similarly,
as you may read in Leviticus chapter fourteen,
here is a house that is full of
leprosy.
And the leprosy must be judged, and the
house becomes rotten, and comes under the judgment
of God.
Oh beloved, may I still qualify my statement?
It is the unrepentant part of Israel.
I think that we could safely assume, and
we shall see it in a later chapter,
at the end of chapter twelve, or yes,
by chapter twelve or thirteen, you will find
that possibly only one-third of the nation
of Israel comes through the fire of the
great tribulation to be the redeemed remnant to
enter the kingdom.
And two-thirds are cut off.
One of the solemn facts in relation to
Israel today is the fact the majority will
be cut off in judgment.
Well, you can think of the statement of
the Lord Jesus in relation to the whole
world, when he said long ago, straight is
the gate, narrow is the way that leadeth
unto life, and few there be that find
it.
But broad is the road that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in
thereat.
It is a solemn fact that there seems
to be the majority on the road to
destruction.
And when one sees the return of the
exiles to their land today, we wonder how
many of them will come through the fiery
trials that lie before them, and the visitation
of God's judgment in that soon coming day.
O beloved, don't forget, our God is a
holy God, and our God will judge the
guilt of the nation's sin, as indicated in
this vision, and bring to judgment and conclusion
the inevitable reward of their sins.
And that's true for the whole world.
Now let's go to the second vision, in
the chapter.
For in the second vision, we find that
God will not only judge the guilt of
their sin, but he will also judge the
sin itself, as indicated in this vision before
us, the vision of the ephod.
Then the angel that talked with me went
forth, and said unto me, Lift up now
thine eyes, and see what is this that
goeth forth.
And I said, What is this?
And he said, This is an ephod that
goeth forth.
He said, Moreover, this is their resemblance, their
appearance, through all the earth.
The going forth of an ephod.
Now an ephod was the largest measure of
dry weight used amongst the Jews.
And here we can recognize this large measure
of weight that is used in the vision,
could certainly indicate the full measure of Israel's
sins.
You know, may I say it reverently, one
of the hardest things for a Jew to
believe is the enormity of the nation's sins
against Jehovah.
Will you go with me to 2 Chronicles
chapter 36 please.
We mentioned it the other evening, and I'd
like to turn to it and read the
words, before the Babylonian captivity, concerning what God
declared regarding the sins of the nation.
The last chapter in the second book of
Chronicles, chapter 36.
Let me begin reading at verse 14, and
read if I may through verse 16.
For the enormity of the sins of his
earthly people cannot and neither should they be
minimized.
Listen to the word of God as he
writes, Moreover, all the chiefs of the priests
and the people transgressed very much after all
the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the
house of the Lord, which he had hallowed
in Jerusalem.
And the Lord God of their fathers sent
to them by his messengers, rising up the
times and sending, because he had compassion upon
his people and on his dwelling place.
But they not the messengers of God, they
despised his words, they misused his prophets, until
the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people,
till there was no remedy.
And then what follows is his judgment at
the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
O beloved, let us not minimize, and neither
will God minimize the extent of the sin
of the nation in that coming day.
May I go even further, to remind your
hearts, they have not only despised his word,
they have not only despised his messengers of
prophets, but they despised his beloved son when
he came to the earth, and slew the
one who was the Prince of Light, their
very Redeemer.
And also when you come at the end
of the book of the Acts, Paul consummates
his testimony of Israel as having in the
words of Isaiah, despised his Holy Spirit.
And my beloved, may I say solemnly, the
guilt of Israel's sin as a nation, will
yet be faced as a nation.
The repentant part will find forgiveness.
The unrepentant, there's nothing left but judgment.
And that same analogy can be given to
the whole world.
Now my beloved, may I say, insert this
fact, if you are not saved, may I
remind you of the words of Paul, as
he said in Acts 13, through this man
Christ is preached unto you the forgiveness of
sins, and all the beliefs are justified from
all things, by which you could never be
justified, from which you could never be justified
by the law of Moses.
But beware!
Beware!
And despite that, that offer of mercy lets
you perish.
Our God is a consuming fire.
I listened to a program last week.
My eye caught the message of it, as
it was advertised.
Is atheism a religion?
I listened to the words of that woman,
Mrs. Murray, and as I listened to what
she had to say concerning the Lord Jesus
Christ, and called him a despicable character, that
he would ever consign men to a place
where there would be weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth.
And my beloved, let us not fail to
realize, though our God is a God of
love, of which he knows nothing, yet our
God is a consuming fire.
And I indeed tremble to realize what such
a woman and many others are facing.
But oh beloved, if tonight you're here without
the Lord Jesus, may I plead with you
to realize the day of judgment is inevitable.
There is only one inevitable alternative.
Listen to the words.
The wages of sin is what?
Death.
Eternal death.
But the gift of eternal life, the gift
of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord.
You either have the gift, or you take
the wages.
And thank God I received the gift, and
I hope you all have too.
And when the prophet saw the vision of
the ephod, that largest measure of weight, oh
perhaps it would indeed suggest that the weight
of Israel's sin had undoubtedly come to its
full measure.
And one thing is sure, that in relation
to the whole world, the world's sin will
have come to its full measure in that
day of the Lord.
Oh beloved, what a terrible day lies before
the world.
What a terrible day before many of the
people of Israel.
Now note, the prophet goes on to say
in verse 7, there was lifted up a
talent of lead.
And a talent of lead, now here is
a weight.
One of the weightiest pieces in Israel.
A talent weighed about 115 to 125 pounds
in weight, according to the time of Israel's
history.
It varied between them.
And this is a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephod.
And he said, this is wickedness.
And he cast it in the midst of
the ephod, and he cast a weight of
lead upon the mouth thereof.
A circular mass of lead holding in the
contents of the ephod.
Now note what the ephod represented, as typified
by the woman in the midst of it.
Wickedness, wickedness, wickedness.
Beloved, may I propel the truth of this
message to the closing days of this age.
For again, this may have been true, partially
true, in the days of Zechariah concerning Israel,
as well as the preceding vision.
The sin of theft, the sin of perjury.
But don't translate these to the end of
the age.
And you will find at the end of
the age, that wickedness will be consummated in
its fullness.
Go into 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, please.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
I want you to note the weight of
lead, as suggested by the spirit of God
in the letter of 2 Thessalonians.
Let me read in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2,
and may I begin, if you please, at
verse 1.
2 Thessalonians chapter 2.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering
together unto him, that ye be not soon
shaken in mind, or be troubled neither by
spirit nor by word, nor by letter as
from mouth, that the day of the Lord,
which is the right translation, is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means,
for that day shall not come, except there
come a falling, or the falling away, the
apostasy first, and that man of sin be
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and
exalts himself above all that is called God,
or that is worshipped, so that he as
God sitteth in the temple of God, showing
himself that he is God.
Remember ye not that when I was yet
with you, I told you these things?
Now may I point out, what we have
read describes the consolation of wickedness at the
close of the age, as represented and embodied
in this man of sin.
The man of sin!
But then go on and read with me,
verse six and seven.
I want you to see the talent of
lead that restrains the final manifestation of this
wicked one, and wickedness is represented in him.
Now ye know what withholdeth, what restraineth that
he might be revealed in his time, for
the mystery of iniquity doth already work, only
he who now letteth, or hindereth, will hinder
until he be taken out of the way.
My beloved is in the vision of the
ephah.
There is a restraining influence to the final,
full manifestation of apostasy and wickedness at the
end of the age.
But when that restrainer is removed, by the
taking out of the world undoubtedly of the
church, by the spirit to meet the Lord
in the air, then, verse eight, then shall
that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord
shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his
coming.
Now let's go back to our chapter and
connect it in Zechariah chapter five, and let
us see what happens in verse nine.
Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked,
and behold, there came out two women, and
the wind was in their wings.
Women, that certainly are the embodiment of iniquity,
and undoubtedly, as we find the expression, they
come out like the wind in their wings,
and they had the wings like the wings
of a stork.
And if you know your Bible sufficiently, the
Old Testament declares in the Pentateuch, the stork
was an unclean bird.
And when you find a woman associated with
wickedness, you have that which is unclean.
And how we can recognize, please let me
repeat what the Lord Jesus said in chapter
two of the book of the Revelation, as
he spoke of that wicked woman Jezebel, as
he speaks in chapter seventeen in the vision
to John, of that wicked woman Babylon, the
great mother of harlots.
My beloved, may I say this, you and
I have no conception of the rapidity of
the lawlessness and wickedness that will continue after
the rapture of the church.
I never thought I'd live to see such
wickedness as exists today.
But may I say again, when the retrainer
is removed, the two women come out of
the heathen, and with the wings of the
wind, they do their diabolical work rapidly at
the end of the age.
And the apostate state comes to its final
fulfillment, and its final accomplishment.
You know, the apostasy's bad enough now, but
how terrible it's going to be later.
I'm glad the Lord's coming for his people,
to take us on.
Oh, please let me state as we wait
in second Thessalonians.
You and I will not be living on
the earth, if believers now, living on the
earth, during that terrible, great and terrible day
of the Lord.
And that wicked one will not be revealed
until you and I have come to glory.
Hallelujah!
I'm glad I'm going to leave.
You know, I don't know anything better than
to get out of this world.
What?
Yes.
Especially when you know you're going to glory.
The world is the best place I know
to get out of.
And the longer I live in this world,
the less I feel like living longer in
it.
The way it's going.
Oh my beloved, you know it's wonderful to
see the glory that lies before us, even
before Israel.
But let's face the practical issue, that as
far as the ungodly and the unrepentant part
of the world, is divine wrath and judgment.
Now let's look and see what happens to
the women as they carry the ephah.
They had wings like the wings of a
storm, and they lifted up the ephah between
the earth and heaven.
And then the prophet says to the angel
that talked with him, Whither do these go
that bear the ephah?
He said unto me, to build it an
house in the land of Shina.
And it shall be established, and it shall
be set there upon their own base.
Beloved, may I say two things.
The two women could certainly indicate and represent
apostate Judaism as well as apostate Christianity.
Go with me to 1 John chapter 2
please.
The first epistle of John chapter 2.
Note these words that John writes in chapter
2 of his first epistle.
May I read these words of verse 22.
Who is a liar, but he that denieth
that Jesus is the Christ.
He is Antichrist, that denieth the Father and
the Son.
Now I want you to know something.
If you'll read the preceding section of this
chapter, this portion, you'll find John telling the
young believers of his day there were many
Antichrists, many Antichrists in the world.
But here he refers to the Antichrist.
And when you look at verse 22, that
Antichrist denieth Judaism, that Jesus is the Christ.
My, you speak to an unbelieving Jew.
You try again to acknowledge that Jesus is
Messiah.
You have a great difficulty.
Only the Spirit of God can remove the
scales of blindness and reveal the Messiah to
a Judane.
And thank God he's able.
But the majority are blinded to the reality
that their Messiah was none other than the
Christ.
And my beloved, at the end time, the
Antichrist will deny that Jesus is the Christ,
as he claims himself to be the Christ.
But he not only denieth Judaism, but he
denieth Christianity.
And Christianity is the denial of the Father
and the Son.
And may I say, as you see the
two women lifting the ephah, and they settle
it down on the plain of Shina, may
I go back very briefly to remind you
that the very first mention of Shina is
in relation to Nimrod, who is the founder,
the first one who built Babylon.
And that great system of Babylon as a
religious system from which, without doubt throughout all
history, from which idolatry has sprung, began in
Babylon.
And the figurative expression is, God says, I'm
going to bring it back where it started,
at its base and judge it.
And all I want to do, and time
doesn't permit going into it in detail, for
we couldn't do it tonight.
You read Revelation chapter seventeen and eighteen, and
in those two chapters of Revelation seventeen and
eighteen, you will find that the greatest sin
in Israel of old, which was idolatry, will
come to its subtle abode at the place
of its inception, and be judged as mystical
Babylon, the mother of harlots, is seen in
that coming day.
Oh beloved, may I say, when you, when
you think of what is going on today,
the ecumenical movement of today, beloved, frankly, the
whole ecumenical movement is going ultimately to come
to its own base, where it began in
the history of mankind.
Nimrod the Great, Babylon, where he established his
city and his kingdom.
And thus you see it consummated in Revelation
seventeen and eighteen, as thus the religious system
of idolatry, whether it's apostate Judaism, which will
worship the image of the beast, or whether
it's apostate Christendom, for they'll all bow down
to that, except those who will be the
lords in that day.
And the judgment of it will be poured
out from a holy God about to destroy
it completely.
You know, Israel has never been an idolatrous
nation since they went into Babylonian captivity.
But their greatest idolatry of the nation is
yet to come.
Let me read Matthew 24 verse 15 with
you.
The words of the Lord Jesus, if you
please.
The greatest sin in Israel of all was
idolatry.
The consummating sin of Israel will yet be
idolatry.
Listen to the words that our Lord Jesus
said in Matthew 24 and verse 15.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of
desolation.
Abomination is always linked with idolatry in its
meaning.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of
desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing
in the holy place, then flee.
And my beloved, though the house has been
cleansed of idolatry, yet the spirit of idolatry
is to return back and bring the nation
under the fierce judgment of God.
Let's conclude our chapter in Zechariah and recognize
that He sent unto me to build in
a house in the land of Shina, and
it shall be established, it will be placed
there, and set there upon her own base.
And God will bring a final judgment, not
only on the sins of the people, but
also as we have seen, He will judge
the sin itself as it consummates in the
worst form of idolatry the nation has ever
known.
The worship of the beast and his image
in that coming day.
O beloved, what we must say, God is
a God of judgment, and the unrepentant section
of Israel will be visited with his judgment
in that coming day.
Where one can say humbly but gratefully, how
thou could think so well of me, and
be the God thou art, is darkness to
my intellect, but sunshine to my heart.
Thank God that those of us who were
saved have been awakened from the wrath to
come, and to flee from it, from coming
judgment to Christ for safety.
My beloved, may I ask, if God declares
what He will do with Israel, may I
ask the question, what will He do with
you?
Flee from the judgment to come, and find
your safety in the Lord Jesus Christ, shall
we pray.
Blessed Father, it's difficult to speak of thy
strange work of judgment, but thou art a
God of righteousness and holiness.
Holiness becometh thy house forever, wrote the psalmist.
Thou art too pure an eyes to behold
iniquity, and to tolerate evil.
And our Father, we know that at Calvary
we see the manifestation of not only thy
love and thy grace, we see the manifestation
of thy holiness.
That thou shouldest place upon that sinless sufferer,
the sin and the guilt of a whole
world, and that upon him the guilt and
the judgment of sin should ever be placed.
Lord, we read thy love and thy grace
there, but we also read thy holiness.
For the fires of judgment fell upon that
blessed sin offering, when he gave himself for
our sins.
Now Father, if there's any unbelieving sinner in
our midst, we pray that the Holy Spirit
will convince them they need the sacrificial value
of that precious blood.
And as we sang in our opening of
the service, would you be free from the
burden of sin?
There's power in the blood of the Lamb.
We pray tonight, if there's a soul that
has the sword of divine wrath and judgment
hanging over it, that soul will now flee
to the Lord Jesus for salvation and safety
forever.
Otherwise, they will bear the judgment through a
never-ending eternity.
Lord, we pray for thine earthly people.
We know, Lord, they're back in the land,
many of them in unbelief.
Lord, wilt thou not open the eyes of
many today to see their Messiah was the
one who died at Calvary, whom they ignorantly
and willfully crucified?
And may many be brought to him before
those awful days of tribulation come.
Hear our prayer and sanctify thy truth and
its solemnity to all of our hearts.
We ask it in our Savior's name and
we ask it for his honor and glory.
Amen.