THERE is a dangerous sentiment taking possession of the minds of the great mass of the people at the present time, to the effect that there is no danger of the repetition of the history prior to the Reformation. There is a growing belief that the Papacy is being continually moulded by the spirit of Protestantism, and, further, that the person who ventures to question such a view of the situation is at once regarded as pessimistic.
I maintain that the true optimist is not the man who is crying peace and safety in the face of inevitable danger and peril, but he is a true optimist who warns against the present dangers, and shows the people the true condition and the glorious outcome to those who heed the warning. The Papacy has quietly and stealthily been gaining great influence and prestige in this country. Many professed Protestants have become charmed by her influence, and think that she is being won over to the principles against which they originally protested in the sixteenth century. This presentation of the matter is not surprising to the student of Bible prophecy, for the Word of God has faithfully outlined the progressive steps and the final outcome so that all who will may know.
What God Has Said
In the prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation the Lord has clearly portrayed the whole career of the last great apostasy from the pure principles which came to us as the result of the Reformation. In Dan. 7:11 the Lord clearly defines this power to be the Papacy, and in this interpretation all the leading Protestant commentaries concur. This text plainly teaches that this power will finally be destroyed by the "burning flame" at the second coming of Christ.
In Dan. 8:25 it emphasizes the same truth by saying that this power will be "broken without hand." Those who think that the power of the Papacy will be overcome by any associations political will be doomed to disappointment.
In Revelation 13 the prophet is speaking of the symbol of the leopard beast, which every careful student of prophecy should understand unmistakably refers to the Papacy. It teaches that this power received a deadly wound, and this wound was inflicted in the year 1798. The pope was that year taken prisoner. For nearly two years the Roman Catholic Church was without a visible head. This deadly wound was the result, chiefly, of the teaching of the principles of the Reformation which finally culminated in overcoming the spiritual domination of the Papacy. It will be readily understood that the healing of this wound would be the restoration of the power that the Papacy once possessed, and this would involve her being restored to the condition where she could persecute those who will not yield to her influence, as she did in former days.
An Image to the Papacy
In Rev. 13:14 we are told that the two-horned beast is to make an image to the beast, and all who are familiar with the Papacy will readily appreciate that this would involve the formation of a union of church and state by the power represented by the two-horned beast, which symbol can be unmistakably demonstrated to apply to the United States of America. Should there be any lingering doubt in the mind of any as to whether this symbol refers to this government, it can be easily proved, when it is considered that this is the only nation that could make an image to the beast (the Papacy), for no nation at the time of its rise existed which did not possess a union of church and state. It will therefore be readily seen from this that this government is the only one that could make an image to the beast. This union of church and state, or image, has been in process of development for many years. It has been seen in the action of various religious organizations, seeking to bring about so-called needed reforms. The National Reform Association which is composed of leading ministers of all denominations, with various religious organizations as its allies, has been working strenuously to place all the "Christian laws, institutions, and usages of our government on an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of the land." Repeated attempts have been made, from time to time, to have Congress enact a national Sunday law. Their work was given great prestige by the Supreme Court decision of Feb. 29, 1892, in which it was declared by Justice Brewer that "this is a Christian nation." To demonstrate that there is no mistake in reaching such a conclusion, I would say that this decision has been repeatedly referred to by those who are the chief promoters in seeking for this very measure which embraces all they have desired.
It was argued by Congress concerning the question of the closing of the World’s Fair on Sunday in 1892, that one of the chief reasons for this action was the fact that this was a Christian nation, and, hence, the Sabbath being a Christian institution, it was proper to enforce it.
Another Justice of the Supreme Court has recently given an address on the principles concerning sabbath legislation, in which he indicated very plainly that the Supreme Court of the United States would stand for such legislation. There are also forty-three states out of the forty-five in the Union which have Sunday laws.
Catholics and Protestants
Sunday legislation is the one great question upon which Protestants and Roman Catholics are united in bringing pressure to bear upon state legislators and congressmen. It is only natural for the Roman Catholic Church to do so, for she claims Sunday as the badge or mark of her authority (See "Catholic Christian Instructed," page 200):
"Ques.—What reason have you for keeping the Sunday preferable to the ancient Sabbath which was Saturday? Ans.—We have for it the authority of the Catholic Church and apostolic tradition.
"Ques.—Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept? Ans.—Had she not such power she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."
Again, in "Plain Talk About the Protestantism of To-day," we read: "The observance of Sunday by the Protestants is an homage they pay, in spite of themselves, to the authority of the church."
It will also be interesting to note, in this connection, a few statements from Protestants on this point, "This day (Sunday) is set apart for divine worship and preparation for another life. It is a test of all religion."—Dr. W. W. Everett, in Elgin Sunday Convention.
"The Sabbath [Sunday] is the corner stone of Christ’s kingdom. Let us recognize each recurring Sabbath as a sign of God’s covenant. By this sign the world largely judges the depth of our Christian character, and by this sign God judges us."—Mrs. J. C. Bateham, "Sabbath Leaflet" No. 33.
"For nothing were the noble men who planted true Christianity and an evangelical church in the wilderness now constituting the United States more distinguished than for their reverence for the sabbath. It was quite a prominent feature of their character, a sign between them and the heathen world around them, and to a large extent it has continued to be a mark to mark the religion of the present day."
The Mark
From this it will be easily understood what the mark of the beast (the Sunday institution enforced by law) is, against the reception of which the most terrible judgments of the Bible are pronounced, which are as follows: "And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb; and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever; and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name." Rev. 14:9-11.
It will be interesting to observe that Protestants in exalting Sunday, the false sabbath, and enforcing the same by civil enactments, are striking at the very foundations of Protestantism and all that the Reformation stood for. The two great cardinal and fundamental points against which the celebrated Protest of 1529 was aimed, are: first, adopting tradition in the place of the pure Word of God, the Bible; and, secondly, against civil authority interfering with the free exercise of one’s religious rights. Their seeking the power of the state to uphold a religious institution like Sunday, is a subversion of the principles of Protestantism.
What It Means
In order that the reader may see that this is not a fanciful presentation of the situation, and to show that prosecution will be the ultimate outcome of all this controversy in departing from the true principles of Protestantism, I will herewith append an item of modern history:
Since 1878, among Seventh-day Adventists, under Sunday laws, in no less than seventeen different states and territories of the Union, there has been an aggregate of about 150 arrests. The total fines and costs of the cases amount to about $5,500; the number of days served in prison about 1,500; in chain gangs, 445. As a result of these hardships endured, and confinements, the death of two men was hastened, and several have not recovered from the effect of bad food and ill treatment.12Other things which indicate a departure from the principles which came to us as the result of the Reformation, are as follows: The governmental appropriations which have been made toward Roman Catholic sectarian schools among the American Indians; the choice of a Roman Catholic on the board of arbitration in the settlement of the great coal strike in 1902; and the deference shown to the prelates of the Catholic Church on occasions of great governmental functions, such as the inauguration of the President, and many other things mentioned in the recent past in this journal.
The Literary Digest, in quoting from Harper’s Weekly, says that "two members of the cabinet, a justice of the Supreme Court, and representative legislators and military and naval officials sat down at dinner with an Italian member of the College of Cardinals, at which he was the guest of honor, and a member of the cabinet the host; nor has any previous President ever welcomed a Roman Catholic Italian prelate as cordially as President Roosevelt recently welcomed Cardinal Satolli."
The Boston Republican, a Roman Catholic paper, when speaking of the help the Roman Catholics rendered in the recent Presidential election, says: "There was good reason why the Catholic Church authorities should have been friendly to Mr. Roosevelt. When the truth is told, he has easily been the one man in the President's chair who has insisted upon righteous dealings with the various governmental problems in which the Catholic Church has been vitally interested."
These few items, and the many which might be produced, will be sufficient to convince the most incredulous that the principles of the Reformation have been wofully subverted. May the Lord hasten the time when every true Protestant will arouse himself to the alarming situation, and hasten to give the warning against the beast, the image, and the reception of his mark.
SIGNS IN THE EARTH
By A. J. Saxby Bourdeau
Where Are These "Signs" Recorded?
"In the last days, saith God, . . . I will show SIGNS IN THE EARTH." Acts 2:17-19.
Tell us . . . what shall be the SIGN of Thy coming, and of the END OF THE WORLD?—Disciples. Matt. 24:3.
There shall be SIGNS . . . UPON THE EARTH. . . . THEN shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.—Jesus. Luke 21:25-27.
THE apostle Peter tells us (2 Peter 1:19) that "we have also a more sure Word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the Day-star arise in your hearts." The secrets which the Almighty has revealed "unto His servants the prophets," we may read in the Bible, God's "Sure Word of Prophecy:"
"Most wondrous book, bright candle of the Lord!
Star of eternity; the only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss."
Where Are the "Signs" Themselves?
About us on every hand, the mighty Ruler of the universe has hung His great "signs"—(1) in the physical world; (2) in the social world; (3) in the political world, and (4) in the religious world. So plainly written are these great "signs," that "he may run that readeth." Hab. 2:2.
A mere catalogue of all the "signs in the earth," to say nothing of the "signs in the heavens" (see article "Signs in the Heavens," Message Series No. 2, October 25, by Prof. Geo. W. Rine) would consume a goodly portion of the sixteen pages of this issue. We shall, therefore, of necessity be obliged to mention only a few of the many responses of current history to the voice of second advent prophecies.
Signs in the Physical World
1. Earthquakes in Divers Places
These are the exact words of our Lord in His outline of the world's history from A.D. 33 to His second coming. Read Matthew 24 or Luke 21.
"There shall be . . . earthquakes in divers places." Matt. 24:7. Such was His direct reply to the disciples' question: "What shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Matt. 24:3. Luke says, "Great earthquakes."
Note the growing frequency of earthquakes "in the last days," as given by Ponton and Mallet, showing that the earth is waxing old (Isa. 51:6):
No. of Earth-
Years
quakes
Average
Those recorded before—
A.D. 1
1700
58 1 in 29 years
" 1 to 900
900
197 1 " 4 "
" 900 " 1500
600
532 1 " 1 year
" 1500 " 1800
300
2,804 9 " 1 "
" 1800 " 1850
50
3,240 64 " 1 "
" 1850 " 1868
18
5,000 277 " 1 "
In one single year (1868) over 100,000 perished by earthquakes. The great Lisbon earthquake, affecting a large portion of the earth, destroyed thousands upon thousands of lives—60,000 in Lisbon alone. In 1875, the city of Cucuta, Colombia, became, in thirty brief seconds, "a mountain of ruins, over 10,000 persons being destroyed. And so we might quote page after page of thrilling accounts of awful earthquakes; the most recent of all, occurring in Italy about one month ago, is still fresh in the minds of all newspaper readers.
2. "Fire, and Pillars of Smoke"
"I will show wonders, . . . in the earth . . . fire, and pillars of smoke . . . before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." Joel 2:30, 31.
What great "wonders" of God "in the earth" emit "fire" and "pillars of smoke"?—Volcanoes, most assuredly. And, as if to confirm this application, Peter, quoting this same prophecy, translates it: "Fire, and vapor [or steam] of smoke." Acts 2:19. Thus are graphically described the fire, steam, and smoke emitted by volcanoes. History records 13,000,000 deaths by volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, from A.D. 79, when old Vesuvius buried wicked Pompeii and Herculaneum, to the overthrow of St. Pierre by Mt. Pelée, in 1902. In the latter instance 30,000 perished in three minutes, and 20,000 more later on. Extinct volcanoes are again showing signs of activity, and new ones are being forced up from ocean's depths. How forcibly do these lofty, fiery torches of the Lord remind the world that "the heavens and the earth, which are now, . . . are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men"! Read 2 Peter 3:7.
3. "The Sea and the Waves Roaring"
Said Jesus: "There shall be signs, . . . the sea and the waves roaring. . . . Then shall they see the Son of Man coming." Luke 21:25-27. This evidently refers to extraordinary upheavals of the ocean, such as terrific storms and tidal waves, the latter being generally caused by earthquakes and submarine volcanic action. A few pithy extracts from many and detailed accounts of notable tidal waves, cyclones, etc., must suffice:
I saw the whole surface of the sea rise as if a mountain side, actually standing up. Another shock, with a fearful roar now took place. With a horrible crash the sea was on us, and at one sweep dashed what was Iquique onto the pampa. I lost my companions, and in an instant was fighting with the dark waters. The mighty waves surged, and roared, and leaped. The cries of human beings and animals were frightful.—Harper's Magazine, May, 1877.
Speaking of marine cyclones, Mr. Talmage said: "At the mouth of the Ganges are three islands—the Hattia, the Sundeep, and the Decan Shahbaspoor. In the midnight of October, 1876, the cry on all those three islands was, 'The waters! the waters!' A cyclone arose and rolled the sea over those three islands, and of a population of 340,000, 215,000 were drowned, only those being saved who had climbed to the tops of the highest trees. Did you ever see a cyclone? No? I pray God you may never see one."
Says the New York Tribune: "The tidal disturbances are the most remarkable and extensive of which there is any record. Both the great ocean waters of the Atlantic and Pacific have been agitated in their whole extent. We mention in particular the tidal waves at St. Thomas (1868) and all the neighboring islands, which were full fifty feet in height. It is said by those who have witnessed these waves that the ocean's roar is exceedingly frightful."
May 9, 1877, a terrible earthquake and tidal wave on the Peruvian and Bolivian coasts destroyed 600 lives and $20,000,000 worth of property.
With the terrible fate of Galveston, still vivid before our minds, and with encyclopedias and newspapers filled with instance after instance of tidal disasters, cyclones, and other havoc produced by the "stormy wind fulfilling His word" (Ps. 148:8) who shall say that the "roaring" of the sea and the waves is not a sign of the end?
4. Armies of Crop-destroying Insects
The first chapter of Joel describes the times just before Christ's second coming:
"Cry unto the Lord, Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand." Verses 14, 15.
The Lord deems this prophecy of sufficient importance to be recounted to generation after generation: Here is the prophecy (read the entire chapter):
"That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten. . . .
"A nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion. He hath laid my vine waste, and . . . my fig tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white. . . .
"The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted. . . . Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vine-dressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
"The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered.
"Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand.
"The seed is rotten under their clods." Joel 1. Here is the response of current history to the prophecy:
In the Scientific American (article entitled "The Annual Battle with Insects") we read:
For a quarter of a century science has been laboring in the cause of agriculture to reduce the number of garden pests and to hold them in check. The annual battle with the insect foes are carried on energetically from early spring till late autumn; and the farmer or gardener is not quite sure of his crops until they have been actually harvested.
In spite of all the protective agencies that science has surrounded the fields and gardens with, disasters of gigantic proportions will break out occasionally through the sudden increase of some obnoxious insect or fungus growth. It is the destruction of the potato crop one season, by the Colorado beetle; the total failure of the wheat-fields in certain states by the rust or blight another year; or the wide-spread injury to the cotton plants by the boll-worms.
Somewhere within the United States some crop is pretty sure to be seriously damaged by the insects13or the fungus growth nearly every season. . . . By the middle of summer, insect foes are swarming all over the garden and on every plant. Plant-lice, or aphides, attack all weak plants, and they multiply at the rate of from five to twenty millions in a season from one progenitor.
As a further, authoritative substantiation of the prophecy, I take the following list of "the principal injurious insects of the year" from the Year-book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, for 1900. And this list, the Secretary of Agriculture says, is "only a partial one."
The Hessian fly, green pea louse, apple louse, grain lice, San Jose scale, striped and twelve-spotted cucumber beetles, squash bug, cabbage worms of different species, various cutworms, particularly the variegated cutworm, the Angoumois grain moth, plum curculio, oblique-banded and strawberry leaf-rollers and related forms, flea-beetles of various species, . . . fruit-tree bark-beetle, common species of fruit-tree borers, oyster-shell and other bark-lice, codling-moth, and similar fruit-species; the bean weevil, apple-tree tent caterpillar, pine-bark beetles, . . . tomato worms, the boll worm or corn-ear worm, harlequin cabbage bug, rose chafer, cinch bug, pear-tree Psylla, army worm and fall army worm, bill bugs, melon louse, cabbage louse, and horn fly.
Is it any wonder, then, that with these armies of insects to contend with, and multiplying as they do—is it any wonder that the prophet says that "joy is withered away from the sons of men"?
5. "Famines and Pestilences . . . in Divers Places"
With the proofs of the earth waxing old before us—crop failures always somewhere, how easy it is to see fulfilled "in divers places" the following prediction of Christ:
"There shall be famines, and pestilences, . . . in divers places." Matt. 24:7.
Famines.—History records over 350 great famines since A.D. 1769. Over forty of these occurred in India alone. Thousands upon thousands perished in the India famines of 1897 and 1900. But these are as nothing compared to the great famines yet to follow in the wake of the world's great, final wars between the nations.
Pestilences.—Among the great pestilences may be mentioned the following: "A.D. 169, in Rome, 10,000 deaths daily; A.D. 717, in Constantinople, 300,000 deaths; A.D. 1346 to 1349, in Europe, 25,000,000 deaths (about one-fourth of the inhabitants) by the "black death;" A.D. 1570 to 1670, 500,000 deaths; in 1472, in Paris, 40,000 in one day," to say nothing of millions upon millions of modern victims of cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, etc.
"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. . . .
"Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:9-13.
GREAT FIELD OF PROPHECY
GREAT FIELD OF PROPHECY
God's Highways to the Forever-Land.
DID you ever look at a map of Washington, our beloved capitol city, or from some elevation on the superb capitol building note the twelve great avenues which lead from all parts of the great city to its center?
If on some Inauguration Day it were announced that a company of soldiers would be placed on each of these avenues with instructions to start at certain times for the capitol, and when all should reach the center the great event of the day would occur, how anxious the waiting ones would be! Those on Pennsylvania Avenue would learn somewhat of the progress of the cavalcade on that street, but would know nothing of the progress made by the company on Delaware Avenue. Those on North Capitol Street would know naught of the progress made on South Capitol Street. In the great surging mass surrounding the capitol there would be waiting, carelessness, anxiety, and confusion. The only ones who could surely know would be they who were stationed in the capitol aerie, high up in the dome, where all the great avenues could be seen, and the companies noted from the time they started. They could see for themselves, and could tell the throng below when the great event was near.
The second coming of Jesus Christ, which ushers in the kingdom of God, which restores the righteous to life, when all the good of all ages enter upon their eternal reward, is the great central theme of redemptive work, the focal center of all God's predictions of the future. And the great prophetic chains of prophecy are so many great highways leading from various times in past ages up to the crowning center, the coming of the King.
By more than a dozen of these great highways of prophecy do the Scriptures lead us up from various periods of the past to the coming of Christ; among these are—
1. Daniel 2, in which the great, dominant, moulding empires of earth are set forth under the symbol of a great image, composed of four metals,—gold, silver, brass, iron, and iron mixed with clay, symbolizing respectively, Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. This prophecy is given to show that no kingdom of man can endure; all will be succeeded by the eternal kingdom of Christ.
2. Daniel 7 symbolizes the same empires by cruel beasts: Babylon by the lion; Medo-Persia, the bear; Grecia, the leopard; Rome, by the terrible non-descript beast. In this chapter is the prophetic outline of the rise, the character, the work, and the time of continuance of the Papacy. Succeeding all is the everlasting kingdom of Christ and His people.
3. Daniel 8 and 9, in addition to the work of civil persecuting powers, predicts the very time of our Lord's first advent as the Messiah, the length of His ministry, the time of His death, and the time of the beginning of the judgment at the end of the 2,300 days. A wonderful prophecy.
4. Daniel 10 and 11, a literal prophecy covering the same great powers of earth from the time of Daniel till the earthly representative of God's great adversary, the king of the north (Isa. 14:12-14), shall give way to Michael, the Christ of God.
5. Revelation 6 to 8, the Seven Seals, is a setting forth of earth's agonies, and the repeated cry of God's creation to Christ the Redeemer to come.
6. Revelation 8 to 11, contains the prophecy of the Seven Trumpets, the breaking up of the Roman kingdom, the very time of the continuance of the Mohammedan powers, the closing of the work of the judgment of our God.
7. Revelation 12 is a prophecy of the great adversary in his war against Christ and His church, till Satan's bottled wrath is poured out against the commandment-keeping remnant.
8. Revelation 13 and 14 portray the adversary's agents, under symbolical beasts, including the United States of America; God's great threefold instructing, warning message; and the glorious triumph of His people.
9. Revelation 17 and 18 are prophecies of the foes of God's church, having special application to the last days. Revelation 12 is a prophecy of the instigator of all evil, the devil; Revelation 13, his civil-government agents; Revelation 17, civil governments as perverted and guided to destruction by an apostate church; and Revelation 18 the character and work of that apostate church.
10. The prophecy of the Two Witnesses of Revelation 11, a portrayal of the Word of God through the centuries, and the futile effort of man to destroy it.
11. Revelation 2 and 3 is a prophecy of the Seven Churches, showing the internal state of the churches throughout this dispensation.
The above diagram illustrates in part the great field of prophecy. The radiating spokes show eight lines of prophecy. The time of the end is marked by the close of the 1,260 days of papal domination in 1798. Note the special signs all occurring since that time and now. Jesus says: "When ye see all these things, know that He is near, even at the doors."
12. And then we have our Lord's literal prophecy of His coming again, found in Matthew 24, in Mark 13, in Luke 21, foretelling numerous signs to occur previous to His return, and marking the last days of earth's sorrow and travail with particular distinctness.
Here are twelve great highways leading to the coming of Christ and His coronation. Trace some of them down and every prediction seems to be fulfilled. The coronation ought to take place. We pass to other prophetic highways and fulfilment is not quite complete. We climb the heights of God, where we can see His visions (Eze. 40:2, 4); we get up into "the high mountain" (Isa. 40:9), that we may get God's view. There we can see the fast-fulfilling prophecies one and all. There we can see that only one step remains, one more act in the drama, and then the appearing of our Lord.
Trace down as we may, all and each, of the great time-tables of prophecy and we are brought to the next station on each road, the New Jerusalem and the Forever-land. "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants the prophets."
The Revelations of Prophecy
ants the prophets," Amos 3:7. The prophecies are the revelations of God to His people.
"We have also a more sure Word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn."
"Knowledge shall be increased;" "the wise shall understand." Dan. 12:4, 10.
God’s Unchanging Plan
God's government is not a creature of exigencies. He can not be surprised. Whatever course His creatures may take, will not affect final results. They may take themselves out of God's plan, but they can not counterwork or thwart that plan. It is perfect, and, out of all the confusion that sin has caused, it will work out perfect results.
