Practical Conversations With Our Young People: The Coming of the Lord, Part 3

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Across the waters, in the beautiful city of The Hague, stands a great marble structure, proudly called the “Palace of Peace.” Millions of dollars were expended in its erection, and it was purposed to peaceably adjust within its walls the quarrels of all nations. Great men said, “War is no more. Peace reigns.” But God is not mocked. He had said, “I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him.” Ezekiel 21:2727I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. (Ezekiel 21:27). As if to mock the wisdom of man, there rages almost within the shadow of this deserted palace the greatest conflagration of war this earth has ever witnessed. Perhaps before its flames are extinguished, they will lick the very domes of the proud structure.
Young people, God is speaking in all these things. To the unsaved He is saying, “Flee from the coming wrath.” (Matt. 3:77But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matthew 3:7).) To you, young believer, He is saying, “The end of all things is at hand, be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.” (1 Peter 4:77But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. (1 Peter 4:7).) In view of the awful condition in which the world finds itself today, how fitting and good for the young Christian to be occupied with the Word of God and with looking into its promises with reference to the coming again of his blessed Lord.