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Like Noah, Israel passes through it.
So the Church should humble herself to walk with God
(Micah 6:8), as Enoch did (Gen. 5:24), having the tes-
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timony that she pleases God, and watch for the Rapture
at any moment.
The Jews, through their dates and seasons, may look
for the Revelation, or day of the Lord, a day of thick
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darkness to them, in which there is no light at all. Yet,
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in it they will accept Christ and "at evening time it
shall be light," land "living waters shall go out from Je-
rusalem." Zech. 14:6-8.
The Rapture, or being caught away, at the coming of
the Bridegroom, is full of the sweetest comfort for the be-
liever, and therefore Paul says, "Comfort one another
with these words." 1 Thes. 4:18.
But the Revelation of Christ with His Saints, to take
vengeance on the ungodly, is full of solemnity and terror
to them who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus
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Christ.
(21) Heb. 11:5. By faith house of David, and upon the
Enoch was translated that he inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
should not see death ; and was spirit of grace and of supplica-
not found, because God had tions ; and they shall look upon
for before his me whom they have pierced, and
translated him :
translation he had this testi- they shall mourn for him, as
mony, that he pleased God. one mourneth for Tiis only son,
(22) Amos B:18. Woe unto and shall be in bitterness for
you that desire the day of the him, as one that is In bitter-
Lord ! to what end is it for you? ness for Tiis first-born.
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the day of the Lord is darkness, (24) Rev. 6 :12. And I beheld
and not light. when he had opened the sixth
19. As if a man did flee from seal, and, lo, there was a great
a lion, and a bear met him ; or earthquake ; and the sun became
went into the house, and leaned black as sackcloth of hair, and
his hand on the wall, and a the moon became as blood ;
serpent bit him. 13. And the stars of heaven
20. Shall not the day of the fell unto the earth, even as a
Lord be darkness, and not light? fig tree casteth her untimely figs,
even very dark, and no bright- when she is shaken of a mighty
ness in it? wind.
(23) Zech. 12 :9. And it shall 14. And the heaven departed
come to pass in that day, that as a scroll when it is rolled to-
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I will seek to destroy all the gether ; and every mountain and
nations that come against Jeru- island were moved out of their
salem. places.
10. And I will pour upon the 15. And the kings of the