Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

The terrors of Sinai were to represent the scenes of the
judgment to the people. The sound of a trumpet summoned Israel to
meet with God--the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God
shall summon both the living and the dead from the whole earth to
the presence of their Judge. At the great judgment day, Christ will
come "in the glory of His Father with His angels" (Matthew 16:27).
All nations will be gathered in His presence.
When Christ comes in glory with His holy angels, the whole
earth will be ablaze with the terrible light of His presence. "Our God
shall come, and shall not keep silent; a fire shall devour before Him,
and it shall be very tempestuous all around Him. He shall call to the
heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His
people" (Psalm 50:3, 4). "The Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those
who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel" (2
Thessalonians 1:7, 8).
When Moses came from the divine Presence on the mountain,
guilty Israel could not endure the light that glorified his face. How
much less can sinners look on the Son of God when He will appear
in the glory of His Father, surrounded by all the holy angels, to carry
out judgment on the transgressors of His law and those who reject
His atonement. "The kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men,
the commanders, the mighty men" shall hide themselves "in the
caves and in the rocks of the mountains," and they shall say to the
mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him
who sits on the throne ... . For the great day of His wrath has come,
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