the great controversy: The Controversy Ended

January 24, 2024 (Gregorian Calendar)
Wednesday, Tir 15, 2016 (Ethiopian Calendar)
14th of Sh’vat, 11/6006 (Enochian Calendar)

the great controversy
~ the controversy ended ~

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“At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth. He is accompanied by the host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue of angels. As He descends in terrific majesty He bids the wicked dead arise to receive their doom. They come forth, a mighty host, numberless as the sands of the sea. What a contrast to those who were raised at the first resurrection! The righteous were clothed with immortal youth and beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease and death.”

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“Every eye in that vast multitude is turned to behold the glory of the Son of God. With one voice the wicked hosts exclaim: “Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord!” It is not love to Jesus that inspires this utterance. The force of truth urges the words from unwilling lips. As the wicked went into their graves, so they come forth with the same enmity to Christ and the same spirit of rebellion. 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.”

~ Satan prepares for a last mighty struggle for the supremacy
~ while deprived of his power and cut off from his work of deception, the prince of evil was miserable and dejected; but as the wicked dead are raised and he sees the vast multitudes upon his side, his hopes revive, and he determines not to yield the great controversy
~ 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
~ Satan consults with his angels, and then with these kings and conquerors and mighty men
~ 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
~ in the presence of the assembled inhabitants of earth and heaven the final coronation of the Son of God takes place
~ 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
~ 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 whole wicked world stand arraigned at the bar of God on the charge of high treason against the government of heaven
~ they have none to plead their cause; they are without excuse; and the sentence of eternal death is pronounced against them
~ it is now evident to all that the wages of sin is not noble independence and eternal life, but slavery, ruin, and death
~  as if entranced, the wicked have looked upon the coronation of the Son of God
~ they see in His hands the tables of the divine law, the statutes which they have despised and transgressed
~ the aim of the great rebel has ever been to justify himself and to prove the divine government responsible for the rebellion
~ Satan sees that his voluntary rebellion has unfitted him for heaven – he has trained his powers to war against God; the purity, peace, and harmony of heaven would be to him supreme torture
~ the wicked receive their recompense in the earth

Proverbs 11: 31
Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth:
much more the wicked and the sinner.

Malachi 3: 1-4
For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up,
saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings;
and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet
in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

~ pain cannot exist in the atmosphere of heaven
~ there will be no more tears, no funeral trains, no badges of mourning
~ there is the New Jerusalem, the metropolis of the glorified new earth
~ all the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s redeemed

“The great controversy is ended. Sin and sinners are no more. The entire universe is clean. One pulse of harmony and gladness beats through the vast creation. From Him who created all, flow life and light and gladness, throughout the realms of illimitable space. 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.”

source: The Great Controversy by EG White

This is the end of “the Great Controversy”. I don’t know how things worked out the way they did, but I will be taking a short break after today.

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