A Word to the Little Flock - James S. White

street, and equity cannot enter.
Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from
evil maketh himself a prey; and the Lord saw it,
and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
"And he saw that there was no man, and
wondered that there was no intercessor." (Isaiah
59:14-16)
I think that the next two verses, which speak of
our Lord's putting on the "garments of vengeance
for clothing," to "repay fury to his adversaries,"
point to the wrath of God in the seven last plagues.
God has shown this day of wrath, in prophetic
vision, to some of his servants by different
symbols. Ezekiel saw it in the men with "slaughterweapons,"
slaying "utterly, old and young." (Eze.
9:5-6) John saw it in the "seven last plagues;"
while Esdras saw it in the famine, pestilence, and
the sword. The Bible contains many descriptions of
this soon expected day of wrath.
"A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
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