O "The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. (15) That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, (16) A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers. (17) And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as the dung. (18) Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land."
All these verses are to one and the same purport, namely, to intimate God's judgments, and the total inability for any to resist them. Reader! what a blessed privilege is it for you, and for me, to read those solemn scriptures through the medium of the gospel. In this blessed gospel of the ever blessed God it is alone we discover how the aboundings of sin make way for the aboundings of grace. Sin was felt by all men in all ages; but the remedy to sin only discovered in the person, work, and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:19-21.