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156 DAY OF THE LORD So, the dead in Christ shall rise first and come with the Lord in His second coming, since St. Paul tells us that those which are alive at the second coming will be caught up with them (i.e, with the risen saints) in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. This agrees with what St. Jude tells us in Jude 1:14-15 about the saints coming with the Lord: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. This taking up of the elect to meet the Lord on the clouds has already been declared to us by the Lord Himself in Matthew 24:30-31: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Revelation 14 tells us that this gathering of the elect will precede the punishment of Gog and his armies, and the destruction of the world: And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. (Rev 14:14-20)
DAY OF THE LORD 157 This scene, which St. John saw in heaven clearly shows us two events following one another in sequence. The first sickle that reaps the earth corresponds to the angels gathering the elect to meet the Lord in the air, the ‘rapture of the elect.’ The second sickle is the destruction of the wicked represented by the enormous blood shed. Note that the second reaping is ordered by the angel having power over fire, for the destruction of the world will be by “fire which comes down from God.” THE FIERY DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD: There are many verses in the Bible that tell us that the day of the Lord (the second coming of the Lord) will be associated with a fiery end of the world. Here are some of these verses: Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. (Ps 50:3) A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about. (Ps 97:3) For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many. (Isa 66:15-16) The strongest indication of this, however, is given to us in St. Peter’s second epistle, chapter 3: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (II Pet 3:7) 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. (II Pet 3:10) To me, personally, the image given by St. Peter for the fiery end of the world looks like that of a major thermo-nuclear war. Another passage in the Old Testament that strongly suggests this is found in the Book of Zechariah:
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THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING 1 The revel
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HIS BEGINNINGS 93 THE THREE KINGS:
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