But does judgment close the story? That never has been, nor could it be. It only makes way for the purpose of God. The judgment of this “present evil world” will introduce the millennium or “the world to come.” And Israel will be received as the seal and pledge of that bright and happy age—as our prophet says, “though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more; and now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds asunder. O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows, for the wicked shall no more pass through thee, he is utterly cut off” (see Nah. 1:12-15).
Or, in the words of one of ourselves, the saints of God in this day, “the vengeance of God is the deliverance of the world from the oppression and misery of the yoke of the enemy and of lust, that it may flourish under the peaceful eye of its Deliverer.” Come, Lord Jesus! Do not present doings of the Spirit show a rapid gathering in of the elect unto the hastening of that hour?