and every mountain and island is moved out of its place. "Our God shall
come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before Him, and it
shall be very tempestuous round about Him. He shall call to the heavens
from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people."(1107)

"And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the
chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every freeman,
hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that
sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day
of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?"(1108)

The derisive jests have ceased. Lying lips are hushed into silence. The
clash of arms, the tumult of battle, "with confused noise, and garments
rolled in blood,"(1109) is stilled. Naught now is heard but the voice of
prayer and the sound of weeping and lamentation. The cry bursts forth from
lips so lately scoffing, "The great day of His wrath is come; and who
shall be able to stand?" The wicked pray to be buried beneath the rocks of
the mountains, rather than meet the face of Him whom they have despised
and rejected.

That voice which penetrates the ear of the dead, they know. How often have
its plaintive, tender tones called them to repentance. How often has it
been heard in the touching entreaties of a friend, a brother, a Redeemer.
To the rejecters of His grace, no other could be so full of condemnation,
so burdened with denunciation, as that voice which has so long pleaded,
"Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?"(1110) O that
it were to them the voice of a stranger! Says Jesus: "I have called, and
ye refused; I have stretched out My hand, and no man regarded; but ye have
set at naught all My counsel, and would none of My reproof."(1111) That
voice awakens memories which they would fain blot out,--warnings despised,
invitations refused, privileges slighted.

There are those who mocked Christ in His humiliation. With thrilling power
come to their minds the Sufferer's words, when, adjured by the high
priest, He solemnly declared, "Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man
sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
heaven."(1112) Now they behold Him in His glory, and they are yet to see
Him sitting on the right hand of power.

Those who derided His claim to be the Son of God