CanTherebeUnity (continued)
He says, "Many will try to enter and will not be able to." When will this be? At what period will the door of salvation be shut for ever? When will the "making of every effort" to enter in be of no use? These are serious questions. The door is now ready to open to the chief of sinners; but a day comes when it will open no more. The time foretold by our Lord is the time of His own second coming to judge the world. The patience of God will at last have an end. The throne of grace will at last be taken down, and the throne of judgment will be set up in its place. The fountain of living waters will finally be closed. The narrow door will at last be barred and bolted. The day of grace will be passed and over. The day of reckoning with a sin-laden world will finally begin. And then will be brought to pass the solemn prediction of the Lord Jesus "Many will try to enter in and will not be able to." All prophecies of Scripture that have been fulfilled up to this time, have been fulfilled to the very letter. They have seemed to many unlikely, improbable, impossible, up to the very time of their accomplishment; but not one word of them has ever failed. The promises of "good things" have come to pass, in spite of difficulties that seemed impossible: 1. Sarah had a son when she was well past the age for the bearing of children. 2. The children of Israel were brought out of Egypt and planted in the promised land. 3. The Jews were redeemed from the captivity of Babylon, after seventy years, and enabled once more to build the temple. 4. The Lord Jesus was born of a pure virgin, lived, ministered, was betrayed, and cut off, precisely as Scripture foretold.