Signs of the Times 1879/11/27
Jacob and Esau represent two classes. Jacob, the righteous; and
Esau, the wicked. Jacob's night of wrestling and anguish represents the
time of trouble
through which the people of God must pass just prior to
the second coming of Christ. Jeremiah refers to this time: "Wherefore
do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail,
and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great so
that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he
shall be saved out of it." Daniel, in prophetic vision looking down to
this point, says: "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great
prince which standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall
be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to
that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every
one that shall be found written in the book." Isaiah speaks of the same
time: "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy door
about thee, hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be
overpast. For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall
disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain."
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