_DEATH_ ‘Behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.’ Revelation 6:8 There are times when the near presence and the invincible power of death are felt with peculiar solemnity. What St. John saw in apocalyptic vision we see in solemn and often startling reality. I. THE RIDE OF D... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE INTERMEDIATE STATE_ ‘And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain.… And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that thy should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow servants also and their brethren,... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE WRATH OF THE LAMB_ ‘The wrath of the Lamb.’ Revelation 6:16 We should not allow the sympathy, the gentleness, the compassion, the loving humanity of Jesus, as we find Him portrayed in the Gospels, to blind us to the fact that there is such a thing, after all, as the ‘wrath of the Lamb.’ ‘The... [ Continue Reading ]