Psalms 50:1-4

Psalms 50:1-4. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

To profess to be the people of God is a very solemn thing, for the apostle Peter tells us that "judgment must begin at the house of God." Those who profess to be his people shall be like the wheat on the threshing floor. John the Baptist, preparing the way for the first coming of Christ, said of him, "whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor." When he comes again, he will separate the precious from the vile, the true saint from the mere pretender.