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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 25, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 25.

3793 — Where Judgment Begins

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An apostle gives very clearly the answer to this question: "For the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?" 1 Peter 4:17. In another scene of judgment presented in Ezekiel 9, it is said, "Then they began at the ancient men [the elders] which were before the house." Verse 6. The judgment which has now begun is that which pertains to those who have professed the name of Christ, who have sometime been His children, through all the ages of the past, those whose names have been recorded in the Lamb's Book of Life; and the question is, Shall those names be retained there, or will they be blotted out?