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{Chapter 42: The Controversy Ended}

Please be advised to read the whole book of the Great Controversy to get Context.


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At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 662

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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 662-663


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 662-663


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 663


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 663


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 663-664


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 663-664


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 664


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 664


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 664-665


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 664-665


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 665-666


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 665-666


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 666


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 666


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 667


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 667-668


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Those pretended fathers of the church have an account to render to God from which they would fain be excused.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 668


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 668


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 669


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 669-670


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670


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His accusations against the mercy and justice of God are now silenced.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670


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And now Satan bows down and confesses the justice of his sentence.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670-671


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Satan's own works have condemned him. God's wisdom, His justice, and His goodness stand fully vindicated.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 670-671


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 671


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 671-672


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 672-673


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 673


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 673


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 673


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While the earth was wrapped in the fire of destruction, the righteous abode safely in the Holy City.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 673-674


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 673-674


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 674


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 674


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 675


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 677


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 677


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 677


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 678


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The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 678


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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.

The Great Controversy 1911 Edition, Page 678