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Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned,And sun and stars forevermore have set,The things which our weak judgment here has spurned—The things o'er which we grieved with lashes wet—Will flash before us out of life's dark night,As stars shine most in deeper tints of blue;And we shall see how all God's plans were right.And how what seemed unkind was love most true.FM432EZEKIEL 13THE GAPS IN THE WALLEzekiel 13:1. 2.And the Word of the Lord came unto me,saying, Son of man, prophesy against theprophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thouunto them that prophesy out of their ownhearts, Hear ye the Word of the Lord.— God'sWord is to write and speak against the preachersof Christendom that say things originating intheir own imaginations; let them listen now tothe Words of Jehovah.Ezekiel 13:3.Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto thefoolish prophets, that follow their own spirit,and have seen nothing.— Woe to the foolishpreachers, who as blind leaders have seennothing respecting today's crisis in the Word ofGod, or in the signs of the times!Ezekiel 13:4.O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in thedeserts .— O Christendom, thy preachers will belike cunning foxes, finding profit in thedesolation of their country!Ezekiel 13:5.Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neithermade up the hedge for the house of Israel tostand in the battle in the Day of the Lord.—They have not preached God's Truth to fill up thebreaches among Christendom's defenders, or tobuild up the broken-down forsakers ofChristendom's moral and spiritual defenses, to