THE END OF THE WORLD.

THE END OF THE WORLD.

The great white throne will be set up, the wicked, unconverted dead will be raised. The sea — that great cemetery — will give up its dead; and death and hell will yield up their prisoners to stand at the bar of the last grand assize. Those who have been for ages awaiting their final sentence, bound hand and foot in outer darkness, will be brought forth to hear the words of doom which will appoint their everlasting portion in the fiery depths of the burning lake. “The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the ^[p. 37] elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up”, 2 Peter 3: 10.

Then in Revelation 21 we read of a

NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH,

into which the new Jerusalem, the glorified church, will descend. No trace of sin will ever be found in that new creation: righteousness will dwell there, and God will be all in all. In the past eternity the wisdom of God rejoiced, by anticipation, in the habitable part of the earth, and found its delights with the sons of men, Proverbs 8: 31. In the coming eternity this will have its complete fulfilment in a scene where everything is based upon redemption, and where no failure can ever come. “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away”, Revelation 21: 3, 4.

Christians, this is our destiny. To be part of the display of the glory of God, and this in the blissful company of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us, and to whom we owe everything, FOR EVER AND EVER.