God’s Message for This Time.
By Editor
What Does It Mean to You?
SOMETIME, according to “the Scriptures of truth,” the end of the proclamation of the Gospel will come. The last call will have been given. The judgment of God will have passed upon all men. Christ will have come in glory to take to Himself those who have served Him and waited for Him. Why may not all this occur in our day—in yours and mine? What reason have we for putting it far off in the future? Of course we may wish to put it off; for we may not be ready. But as the time-tables of railway companies do not consult the wishes of tardy passengers, so God’s great time schedule of this old world will not change to suit us. We may be ignorant of the evidences which God has given that the coming of Christ is near. We may not know that there is line upon line of prophecy, sign following sign, evidence piled on evidence, in the “more sure word of prophecy” that the day of Christ is at hand, that the priestly work of Christ is to be finished. Yet our ignorance will not stay His chariot wheels, will not hinder His coming, will not stay proceedings in the court of heaven, will not postpone our case. Surely, in these momentous times, it behooves every intelligent soul to study God’s word and to know God’s great time-table of the centuries. It behooves us to know what our standing will be in that day. We may or we may not own real estate here, but have we a title clear to a mansion in the skies? They are writ clear and plain in the blood of the Crucified, and your name may be placed in the title deed by faith if you will have it. Your claims here are for time alone; there they may be for eternity. Which is the more important—the pleasure or gain of time, or the eternal riches of God? O soul, do not be deceived. As sure as the Bible is true, God has a message for this time. It is recorded in the fourteenth chapter of Revelation, verses six to fourteen. It is the everlasting Gospel of God announcing the judgment come. It calls from the fear of man to the fear of God; from giving glory to men to giving glory to God. It calls from the worship of the vain, the ephemeral, the temporal, to the worship of the living, eternal Creator—God. It brings every soul to the judgment-seat now, that he may not fear to meet God’s glory face to face when it shines from the face of the coming Christ. That message declares that great Babylon—the human way, the human perversions of the good, the great, inflated bubbles of human speculation—is fallen. Union of religion with all the power of earth is powerless to preserve or conserve life. That message warns against all human combinations not of God, set forth under the beast and his image, warns under the most fearful penalty ever written. Is it safe not to heed such warning? If we fail, what shall we answer to God in that day? This great Threefold Message in its wonderful scope covers every human need, meets every reform demanded, prepares men for the coming of Jesus Christ and a place among the truly immortals. This issue and the two following deal with this great Threefold Message. We entreat you to study it with us. Lay aside all preconceptions, and drink from the great Fountain. Weigh all that we say in the balances of God’s sanctuary; test them by His holy law; then believe and find in Him joy and salvation.