{Chapter 42: The Controversy Ended}
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At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth.
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My Note: This is the Third Coming Of Jesus Christ to the First Earth. He will be coming with the New Jerusalem on a Great and High Mountain when he comes. When mount olivet is split in two and the New Jerusalem descends and settle in the opening. Then the second resurrection happens and Satan is let loose out of His prison for a little season. When Gog and Magog is prime for battle against the New Jerusalem, to take the city. Fire come down from heaven and consume Satan and all the wicked. After Satan and the wicked are fully consumed then the Godhead make the New Heaven and the New Earth, and the First Heaven and the First Earth will pass away. (Rev. 21:1)
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They are to have no new probation in which to remedy the defects
of their past lives. Nothing would be gained by this. A lifetime
of transgression has not softened their hearts. A second probation,
were it given them, would be occupied as was the first in evading
the requirements of God and exciting rebellion against Him.
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Christ descends upon the Mount of Olives, whence, after His
resurrection, He ascended, and where angels repeated the promise
of His return. Says the prophet: "The Lord my God shall come, and
all the saints with Thee." "And His feet shall stand in that day upon
the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the
Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof, ... and there shall
be a very great valley." "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth:
in that day shall there be one Lord, and His name one." Zechariah 14:5, 4, 9.
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As the New Jerusalem, in its dazzling splendor, comes
down out of heaven, it rests upon the place purified and made ready
to receive it, and Christ, with His people and the angels, enters the Holy City.
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He will marshal all the armies of the lost under his banner and through them
endeavor to execute his plans. The wicked are Satan’s captives. In
rejecting Christ they have accepted the rule of the rebel leader. They
are ready to receive his suggestions and to do his bidding. Yet, true
to his early cunning, he does not acknowledge himself to be Satan.
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He proposes to lead them against the
camp of the saints and to take possession of the City of God. With
fiendish exultation he points to the unnumbered millions who have
been raised from the dead and declares that as their leader he is well
able to overthrow the city and regain his throne and his kingdom.
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In that vast throng are multitudes of the long-lived race that
existed before the Flood; men of lofty stature and giant intellect, who,
yielding to the control of fallen angels, devoted all their skill and
knowledge to the exaltation of themselves; men whose wonderful
works of art led the world to idolize their genius, but whose cruelty
and evil inventions, defiling the earth and defacing the image of
God, caused Him to blot them from the face of His creation.
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They look upon the strength and numbers
on their side, and declare that the army within the city is small
in comparison with theirs, and that it can be overcome. They lay
their plans to take possession of the riches and glory of the New
Jerusalem. All immediately begin to prepare for battle. Skillful
artisans construct implements of war. Military leaders, famed for
their success, marshal the throngs of warlike men into companies
and divisions.
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At last the order to advance is given, and the countless host moves
on-an army such as was never summoned by earthly conquerors,
such as the combined forces of all ages since war began on earth
could never equal. Satan, the mightiest of warriors, leads the van,
and his angels unite their forces for this final struggle.
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By command of Jesus, the gates of the New Jerusalem are
closed, and the armies of Satan surround the city and make ready
for the onset.
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Now Christ again appears to the view of His enemies. Far above
the city, upon a foundation of burnished gold, is a throne, high and
lifted up. Upon this throne sits the Son of God, and around Him
are the subjects of His kingdom. The power and majesty of Christ
no language can describe, no pen portray. The glory of the Eternal
Father is enshrouding His Son. The brightness of His presence fills
the City of God, and flows out beyond the gates, flooding the whole
earth with its radiance.
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In the presence of the assembled inhabitants of earth and heaven
the final coronation of the Son of God takes place. And now, invested
with supreme majesty and power, the King of kings pronounces
sentence upon the rebels against His government and executes justice
upon those who have transgressed His law and oppressed His people.
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As soon as the books of record are opened, and the eye of Jesus
looks upon the wicked, they are conscious of every sin which they
have ever committed.
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They see just where their feet diverged from
the path of purity and holiness, just how far pride and rebellion have
carried them in the violation of the law of God. The seductive temptations
which they encouraged by indulgence in sin, the blessings
perverted, the messengers of God despised, the warnings rejected,
the waves of mercy beaten back by the stubborn, unrepentant heart-
all appear as if written in letters of fire.
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Above the throne is revealed the cross; and like a panoramic view
appear the scenes of Adam's temptation and fall, and the successive
steps in the great plan of redemption.
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The awful spectacle appears just as it was. Satan, his angels,
and his subjects have no power to turn from the picture of their own
work. Each actor recalls the part which he performed.
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There is Nero, that monster of cruelty and vice, beholding the joy and exaltation
of those whom he once tortured, and in whose extremest anguish
he found satanic delight. His mother is there to witness the result
of her own work; to see how the evil stamp of character transmitted
to her son, the passions encouraged and developed by her influence
and example, have borne fruit in crimes that caused the world to shudder.
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Those pretended fathers of the church have an
account to render to God from which they would fain be excused.
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They have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence
of eternal death is pronounced against them.
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He who was once a covering cherub remembers whence he
has fallen. A shining seraph, "son of the morning;" how changed,
how degraded! From the council where once he was honored, he is
forever excluded. He sees another now standing near to the Father,
veiling His glory. He has seen the crown placed upon the head of
Christ by an angel of lofty stature and majestic presence, and he
knows that the exalted position of this angel might have been his.
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He has worked deliberately and systematically, and with marvelous success, leading
vast multitudes to accept his version of the great controversy which
has been so long in progress.
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For thousands of years this chief of
conspiracy has palmed off falsehood for truth. But the time has now
come when the rebellion is to be finally defeated and the history
and character of Satan disclosed.
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In his last great effort to dethrone
Christ, destroy His people, and take possession of the City of God,
the archdeceiver has been fully unmasked. Those who have united
with him see the total failure of his cause.
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His accusations against the mercy and justice of God are now silenced.
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And now Satan bows down and confesses the justice of his sentence.
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Every question of truth and error in the long-standing controversy has now
been made plain. The results of rebellion, the fruits of setting aside
the divine statutes, have been laid open to the view of all created
intelligences. The working out of Satan's rule in contrast with the
government of God has been presented to the whole universe.
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Satan's own works have condemned him. God's wisdom, His justice,
and His goodness stand fully vindicated.
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Before the universe has been clearly presented the great sacrifice
made by the Father and the Son in man's behalf. The hour has come
when Christ occupies His rightful position and is glorified above
principalities and powers and every name that is named. It was for
the joy that was set before Him-that He might bring many sons
unto glory-that He endured the cross and despised the shame. And
inconceivably great as was the sorrow and the shame, yet greater is
the joy and the glory.
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But of all the countless millions whom he has allured
into rebellion, there are none now to acknowledge his supremacy.
His power is at an end. The wicked are filled with the same hatred of
God that inspires Satan; but they see that their case is hopeless, that
they cannot prevail against Jehovah. Their rage is kindled against
Satan and those who have been his agents in deception, and with the
fury of demons they turn upon them.
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Fire comes down from God out of heaven. The earth is broken up. The
weapons concealed in its depths are drawn forth. Devouring flames
burst from every yawning chasm. The very rocks are on fire. The
day has come that shall burn as an oven. The elements melt with
fervent heat, the earth also, and the works that are therein are burned
up. Malachi 4:1;2 Peter 3:10. The earth's surface seems one molten
mass-a vast, seething lake of fire. It is the time of the judgment and
perdition of ungodly men-"the day of the Lord's vengeance, and
the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion." Isaiah 34:8.
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Some are destroyed as in a moment, while others suffer many days. All are punished
"according to their deeds." The sins of the righteous having been
transferred to Satan, he is made to suffer not only for his own rebellion,
but for all the sins which he has caused God's people to commit.
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His punishment is to be far greater than that of those whom
he has deceived. After all have perished who fell by his deceptions,
he is still to live and suffer on.
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In the cleansing flames the wicked are
at last destroyed, root and branch-Satan the root, his followers the
branches. The full penalty of the law has been visited; the demands
of justice have been met; and heaven and earth, beholding, declare
the righteousness of Jehovah.
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While the earth was wrapped in the fire of destruction, the righteous
abode safely in the Holy City.
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The fire that consumes the wicked purifies the earth. Every trace of the curse is
swept away. No eternally burning hell will keep before the ransomed
the fearful consequences of sin.
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One reminder alone remains: Our Redeemer will ever bear the
marks of His crucifixion. Upon His wounded head, upon His side,
His hands and feet, are the only traces of the cruel work that sin
has wrought. Says the prophet, beholding Christ in His glory: "He
had bright beams coming out of His side: and there was the hiding
of His power." Habakkuk 3:4, margin.
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The earth originally given to man as his kingdom, betrayed by him into the
hands of Satan, and so long held by the mighty foe, has been brought
back by the great plan of redemption.
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There the wide-spreading plains swell into
hills of beauty, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits.
On those peaceful plains, beside those living streams, God’s people,
so long pilgrims and wanderers, shall find a home.
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The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels
and with the faithful ones of all ages who have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood of the Lamb, the sacred ties that
bind together "the whole family in heaven and earth" (Ephesians
3:15)-these help to constitute the happiness of the redeemed.
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Every faculty will be developed, every capacity increased. The
acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the
energies. There the grandest enterprises may be carried forward, the
loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized; and still
there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire,
new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of
mind and soul and body.
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All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of
God's redeemed. Unfettered by mortality, they wing their tireless
flight to worlds afar-worlds that thrilled with sorrow at the spectacle
of human woe and rang with songs of gladness at the tidings of a
ransomed soul.
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As Jesus opens before them the riches of redemption and
the amazing achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the
hearts of the ransomed thrill with more fervent devotion, and with
more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of gold; and ten thousand
times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of voices unite to
swell the mighty chorus of praise.
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The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more.
The entire universe is clean.
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From the minutest atom to the greatest world, all things, animate
and inanimate, in their unshadowed beauty and perfect joy, declare
that God is love.
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