Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

Postlogue
The travail and the distress, the heartbreak and
anguish that this generation has caused the Divine
Bridegroom, must be understood by the Bride
before the divine Suitor can be sure she really
wants Him and is sincere about getting married.
She will have to sense that her insult to the
Heavenly Lover is the supreme sin of all time. This
will bring to her consciousness the terrible truth
that her last sin is greater than her first sin at the
cross.
For centuries vivid verbal portraits of the agony
at the cross have been painted. Artists have added
their graphic talents, producing pictures to impress
the eye. But all these scenes have been only a
feeble concept to portray Christ's suffering and
death, scarcely piercing our conscience so that our
repentance remains but the shadow of the real. The
repentance of the ages is yet future, awaiting the
Bride's understanding and conviction. It is this
repentance that will make the atonement effective
to the sin-plagued heart of humanity.
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