God Will Judge the Wicked
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BY J. E. FORREST.
“FRET not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”— Psalms 37: 1, 2. “Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. For evil-doers shall be cut off, . .. For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be; yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.”— Verses 8 to 10. “The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. The Lord shall laugh at him; for he seeth that his day is coming. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their jaws shall be broken.”— Verses 12 to 15. “Depart from evil and do good, and dwell forevermore. For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved forever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.”— Verses 27, 28. “Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. — Verses 37, 38.
The righteous and the wicked are growing together here, but they shall be separated when the Lord shall come to judge the world. Matthew 13: 49. Surely all who will read the Word of God can easily see that the wicked shall be suddenly destroyed and that without remedy. God has said it. “Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away,” saith the Lord. “But the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”- 2nd Peter 3: 7. God has sent his Son into the world that he might destroy the works of the Devil. 1st John 3: 8. Therefore all who will come to him here while in this life may have the works of the Devil destroyed out of them and they themselves be saved from wrath, but all who fail to forsake their wicked ways, shall be destroyed both soul and body in hell. The wages of sin is death, eternal banishment from the presence of the Lord. How is it with you, sinner? Cast a thought at the sad picture described in Luke 16, where the rich man was in hell and lifted up his eyes and cried for Abraham to send Lazarus that he might dip his finger in water and cool his tongue. Can this be your lot? Surely you will say no. Very well then, if you would escape these things, turn to God for mercy and he will hear you. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.— John 3: 16.
The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe in that day. 2nd Thessalonians 1: 7 to 10.
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