God Intervenes in Armageddon

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Ellen G. White Estate, Devotional for October 15
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God Intervenes in Armageddon

A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for 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. Jer. 25:31. 


For six thousand years the great controversy has been in progress; the
Son of God and His heavenly messengers have been in conflict with the
power of the evil one, to warn, enlighten, and save the children of men.
Now all have made their decisions; the wicked have fully united with
Satan in his warfare against God. The time has come for God to vindicate
the authority of His downtrodden law. Now the controversy is not alone
with Satan, but with men. "The Lord hath a controversy with the
nations"; "He will give them that are wicked to the sword." 

The mark of deliverance has been set upon those "that sigh and that cry
for all the abominations that be done." Now the angel of death goes
forth, represented in Ezekiel's vision by the men with the slaughtering
weapons, to whom the command is given: "Slay utterly old and young, both
maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon
whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary." Says the prophet: "They
began at the ancient men which were before the house." Ezekiel 9:1-6.
The work of destruction begins among those who have professed to be the
spiritual guardians of the people. The false watchmen are the first to
fall. There are none to pity or to spare. Men, women, maidens, and
little children perish together. 

"The Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth
for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall
no more cover her slain." Isaiah 26:21. . . . In the mad strife of their
own fierce passions, and by the awful outpouring of God's unmingled
wrath, fall the wicked inhabitants of the earth--priests, rulers, and
people, rich and poor, high and low. "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: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried."
Jeremiah 25:33.

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