Climactic Moment

[Thompson, Darryl]

Climactic Moment

Who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he
appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap. Mal.
3:2. 

The people of Israel, because of their sinfulness, were forbidden to
approach the mount when God was about to descend upon it to proclaim His
law, lest they should be consumed by the burning glory of His presence.
If such manifestations of His power marked the place chosen for the
proclamation of God's law, how terrible must be His tribunal when He
comes for the execution of these sacred statutes. How will those who
have trampled upon His authority endure His glory in the great day of
final retribution? . . . 

When the divine Presence was manifested upon Sinai, the glory of the
Lord was like devouring fire. . . . But when Christ shall come in glory
with His holy angels the whole earth shall be ablaze with the terrible
light of His presence. . . . 

Never since man was created had there been witnessed such a
manifestation of divine power as when the law was proclaimed from Sinai.
. . . Amid the most terrific convulsions of nature the voice of God,
like a trumpet, was heard from the cloud. The mountain was shaken from
base to summit, and the hosts of Israel, pale and trembling with terror,
lay upon their faces upon the earth. He whose voice then shook the earth
has declared, "Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also
heaven." . . . 

When Moses came from the divine Presence in the mount, where he had
received the tables of the testimony, guilty Israel could not endure the
light that glorified his countenance. How much less can transgressors
look upon the Son of God when He shall appear in the glory of His
Father, surrounded by all the heavenly host, to execute judgment upon
the transgressors of His law and the rejecters of His atonement. . . . 

But amid the tempest of divine judgment the children of God will have no
cause for fear. "The Lord will be the hope of his people, and the
strength of the children of Israel." The day that brings terror and
destruction to the transgressors of God's law, will bring to the
obedient, "joy unspeakable, and full of glory." 


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