Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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1917-18 THE COMING OF THE LORD 509
forthcoming]."' All this points to the danger of not
being ready for his manifestation; of being like the foolish
virgins, who had no oil in their vessels with their
lamps; and while they are going away to buy
THE DOOR IS SHUT
and tho they are virgins, and are now provided with oil
in their vessels, yet the time for their reception is past,
and they are no longer recognized by the Bridegroom
who answers their knocking with the terrible message:
"I know you not." Again in Revelation xii. a similar
truth is taught, for the Manchild is said to be
CAUGHT UP T0 GOD AND T0 HIS THRONE
while the Woman iiees into the wilderness to a place
prepared of God, but
THE REST OF HER SEED
is exposed to the fury of the Dragon, and are apparently
those saints against
whom the Beast makes war and
prevales against them.
the sword,
Many of them are killed with
BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS
and none are allowed to buy or sell who have not sworn
allegience to Antichrist and received his mark. What
manner of persons ought we to be therefore in all holy
living and godliness, looking forward and hastening unto
the Day of God, waiting for God's Son from heaven,
who shall change these bodies of our humiliation into the
|ikeness of his glorious body. "Every one," says John,
"who has this hope set on him, purifies himself even as
he is pure.
Now, therefore, little children, abide in him
that you may not be shamed away from him at his ap-
blame-
pearing, but be found of him without spot and
less."
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