Correct This Time

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 11, 1883

Correct This Time.

TRUTH and error are found side by side in this world, and nowhere are they more freely intermingled than in the popular religious journals. We have frequent occasion to notice the false doctrine taught by the Christian Union, and we are therefore the more glad to give place to the following forcible statements of fact, which we find in that paper:—

"It is at the end of this world, when the Son of man comes in his glory, that he gathers the wheat into the granary and burns the tares; that the angels sever the wicked from among the just; that two women are grinding at the mill, and one taken and the other left; that the door of entrance to the wedding-feast is closed, and the belated foolish virgins bewail their folly; that the unprofitable servant is cast into outer darkness; that all nations are gathered before the Judge, the sheep on the right hand but the goats on the left. It is when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, that those who know not God and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord. Throughout the New Testament, in the words of Christ, in the teachings of Paul, in the pictures of Revelation, the thought is always the same. The final Judgment is connected with the end of all things; never with the end of the individual life."