For The Great Day Of THEIR Wrath Has Come, And Who Can Stand?"

Woe be to all the Philistines!

(William Secker, "The Consistent Christian" 1660)

"Be happy, young man, while you
are young, and let your heart give
you joy in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart 

and whatever your eyes see--

but know that for all these things, 
GOD will bring you to judgment!"
Ecclesiastes 11:9

This is just as if GOD had said, 

"Well, poor sinner, run down 

the hill as fast as you please--

but know that you will surely 

break your neck at last!" 

As GOD'S mercy lets no 

service pass unregarded--

so GOD'S justice lets no 

sin pass unrevenged!

As GOD is too merciful to 

condemn the innocent--

so HE is too just to acquit 

the guilty!

Poor sinner, will you so willfully 

embrace those poisonous 

vipers, your lusts--

which will so assuredly 

sting you with the pains 

of eternal damnation? Why will you

rashly pursue anything in this world--

which will subject you to the intolerable

curse of GOD in the eternal world?

This is the day of GOD'S long-suffering--

but the judgment day will be the day

of the sinner's long-suffering. Here,

the cords of patience, do, as it were,

tie the hands of vengeance.

But our Samson will at last be

roused, and break all these cords--

and then woe be to all the Philistines! 

HE who now shakes HIS sword 

over the hardened sinner's head--

will in the great day, sheathe it 

in HIS heart! 

"Then the kings of the earth, 
the princes, the generals, the rich, 
the mighty, and every slave and every 
free man hid in caves and among 
the rocks of the mountains. They 
called to the mountains and the rocks, 
"Fall on us and hide us from the face 
of HIM who sits on the throne and 
from the wrath of the LAMB! 
For the great day of THEIR wrath 
has come, and who can stand?" 
Revelation 6:15-17

Thus, all who refuse and reject 

HIM as a refining fire--

must be obliged to meet, and 

feel HIM as a consuming fire! 

How can they endure 

the wrath of the LAMB--

who have consistently 

disregarded the death 

of the LAMB? If the night 

of death finds them graceless--

the day of judgment will find 

them speechless!

Reader, if you have uniformly
lifted up your rebellious hand 
against CHRIST--

how will you be able to lift
up your guilty head
before CHRIST? 

"For GOD will bring every act 
to judgment, including every 
hidden thing, whether good or 
evil!" Ecclesiastes 12:14

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