The Wicked and the End of Wickedness
“God is angry with the wicked every day.” Ps. 7:11. Yet the Lord says, “For yet a little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.” Isa. 10:25. What will be the state of the wicked, when His anger who is angry with them every day has ceased in their destruction? Where will they be? “Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be.” Ps. 37:10. “Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end.” Ps. 7:9. A prophetic prayer, indited by the Spirit of God. Such prayers will surely be answered. How will the wickedness of the wicked come to an end? By their conversion? “The destructions of the enemy are come to a perpetual end, and their cities hast thou destroyed.” Ps. 9:6, margin. “But the Lord shall endure for ever.” Verse 7. Shall the wicked endure as long? If we are progressing to an end, the time will come when the end will be reached. Yet some hold that the punishment of sin will be eternally progressing; but that the time will never come when it can truly be said that the wicked have been punished, and sin has received its just deserts.