---everything that he has done here
---and must meet there and bear the consequence of what he has done here.
While there is any hope at all that a man may turn from his evil
way, while there is any hope at all that anything good shall be found, the long-suffering of the Lord can endure the perversity of the natural heart, waiting for the man to come to Himself, and the soul to awake to righteousness, the sins be blotted out forever and the soul be saved in everlasting righteousness.
2 Peter 3:15 ...the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation.
2 Peter 3:15 ...the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation.
--But when existence has been corrupted at its very source;
--when the fountain both in its spring and in its utmost flow, is only evil and unto evil continually;
--and when every call of God is repelled with scoffing and bitterness, then continued existence means only the heaping up of distress and misery for the soul in the great day of account.
And this is the story and the philosophy of the all-sweeping calamity that befell in the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah; the inhabitants of Canaan, Pompeii and Herculanaeum; the fall of Babylon and of Rome,—and every other such; and the fall of the world again at the last."
And this is the story and the philosophy of the all-sweeping calamity that befell in the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah; the inhabitants of Canaan, Pompeii and Herculanaeum; the fall of Babylon and of Rome,—and every other such; and the fall of the world again at the last."
A.T. Jones