"We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things
done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad."
2 Cor. 5:10.
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"Above the throne is revealed the cross; and like a panoramic view appear the scenes of Adam's
temptation and fall, and the successive steps in the great plan of redemption.
The Saviour's lowly
birth; His early life of simplicity and obedience; His baptism in Jordan; the fast and temptation in
the wilderness; His public ministry, unfolding to men heaven's most precious blessings; the days
crowded with deeds of love and mercy, the nights of prayer and watching in the solitude of the
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mountains; the plottings of envy, hate, and malice which repaid His benefits; the awful,
mysterious agony in Gethsemane beneath the crushing weight of the sins of the whole world; His
betrayal into the hands of the murderous mob; the fearful events of that night of horror--the
unresisting prisoner, forsaken by His best-loved disciples, rudely hurried through the streets of
Jerusalem; the Son of God exultingly displayed before Annas, arraigned in the high priest's
palace, in the judgment hall of Pilate, before the cowardly and cruel Herod, mocked, insulted,
tortured, and condemned to die--all are vividly portrayed. 343.1
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And now before the swaying multitude are revealed the final scenes--the patient Sufferer
treading the path to Calvary; the Prince of heaven hanging upon the cross; the haughty priests
and the jeering rabble deriding His expiring agony; the supernatural darkness; the heaving earth,
the rent rocks, the open graves, marking the moment when the world's Redeemer yielded up His
life.
343.2
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The awful spectacle appears just as it was. Satan, his angels, and his subjects have no power to
turn from the picture of their own work. Each actor recalls the part which he performed. . . . All
behold the enormity of their guilt. They vainly seek to hide from the divine majesty of His
countenance, outshining the glory of the sun, while the redeemed cast their crowns at the
Saviour's feet, exclaiming: "He died for me!"
343.3
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