Bible Repentance: Path to Love - Robert J. Wieland

When the experience Christ calls for is understood
and embraced by the “angel” of the church, the
methods of its promotion will be. uniquely
effective. It will be clearly seen that the Holy
Spirit, not advertising promotional technique, will
have “caused it to be proclaimed and published.”
As in Nineveh’s day, “the king and his nobles” will
range themselves solidly in support of the
experience Christ calls for. (See Jonah 3:5-9).
Where the Jews of Christ’s day failed, “the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans” is to
succeed. Although it is true that in past history
God’s calls to repentance have usually been
refused, it is not necessary to expect that the final
call He sends to the last-day church must also fail.
The prophetic picture is clear that something must
happen in the end of time that has never happened
before. The long sad history of milleniums of
defeat must be changed at last, and the remnant
church glorify the Lord and vindicate Him before
the world and before the universe in a way that has
never yet been done. Thus the church will “make
herself ready” to be worthy to become the Bride of
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