THE SECOND COMING

 

²⁸ [The Messiah] will appear a second time… to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him. HEBREWS 9

⁴⁰ For My Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. JOHN 6

⁹ In that day they will say, “Surely this is our God; we trusted in Him, and He saved us. This is the Lord, we trusted in Him; let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.” ISAIAH 25

The Second Coming is wrapped with misconceptions. Let us try to undo them:

Misconception No. 1:  The rebuilding of the Jerusalem Temple would precede the Second Coming.

² In the last days… ³ many peoples will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. ISAIAH 2

¹⁵ …standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation spoken of through the prophet Daniel…” MATTHEW 24

⁴ [The man of lawlessness]… sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God. 2 THESSALONIANS 2

The three verses above are often quoted to justify belief that the rebuilding would precede the Second Coming. But none of them speaks of a physical temple. “The mountain of the Lord” and “the house of the God of Jacob” are spiritual. The “holy place” and “God’s temple” where the abomination would be seen standing is the Church.    

The house that must be rebuilt is the human spirit. The rebuilt spirits then put together will form the Body of Christ, the spiritual temple to replace the physical temple.

¹⁸ The Jews demanded of Him, “What miraculous sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do all this?” ¹⁹ Y’shua answered them, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days.” ²⁰ The Jews replied, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and You are going to raise it in three days?” ²¹ But the temple He had spoken of was His body. JOHN 2

²² And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. EPHESIANS 2

¹⁹ Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? 1 CORINTHIANS 6

¹⁶ Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple. 1 CORINTHIANS 3

¹⁴ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? ¹⁵ What harmony is there between the Messiah and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will live with them, and walk among them, and I will be their God. ¹⁷ Therefore, come out from them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing and I will receive you. ¹⁸ I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. 2 CORINTHIANS 6

Misconception No. 2:  The Second Coming would take a long time to come.

Expect it to come any moment now.

Our first basis is the return of Lucifer in our midst, “for a short time.”

Our second basis is the reversal of polarity of the sun. Solar waves will be sent at the earth’s direction and will intensify the heat at its core. Maximum activity will be reached in the year 2012. Volcanoes will erupt with terrible magnitudes and stir massive earthquakes, tsunamis to follow—as prophesied.

Our third basis is the quatrain of Nostradamus that speaks of an asteroid hitting or coming close to the earth in 2012. NASA has seen it through its Hubble telescope as fast approaching our solar system. It is a dark “planet” one and a half times the size of earth surrounded by a yellow “atmosphere.” NASA calls it “Planet X.” In ancient Sumer they called it “Nibiru.” Revelation 8:11 calls it “Wormwood.”

¹⁰ The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— ¹¹ the name of the star is Wormwood [“Bitterness”]. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. REVELATION 8

³ The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead man, and every living thing on the sea died. ⁴ The third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood. ⁵ Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say: “You are just in these judgments, You who are and who were the Holy One, because You have so judged; ⁶ for they have shed the blood of Your saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink as they deserve.” ⁷ And I heard the altar respond: “Yes, Lord God Almighty, true and just are Your judgments.” REVELATION 16

Our fourth basis is the entry of the earth into the photon belt of Alcyone at about the same time of Wormwood’s arrival. Our solar system orbits around Alcyone—the principal sun of Pleiades. Like to the planet Saturn, Alcyone has a ring called photon belt. It will take 2,000 years for our solar system to pass through it.

What does the photon belt consist of? Electromagnetic cloud that radiates intense, high-frequency photon (light) rays. What could happen when the earth enters it? The electromagnetic cloud would interfere with the solar rays and total darkness would reign along with massive power loss and non-use of our electrical equipment. Then we would experience electric shock and total daylight due to the presence of pyrotechnic lights in our skies. The stars would appear like they were falling to earth from the sky, which will signal the end of the Great Tribulation and the advent of the Second Coming.

²⁹ Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken. MATTHEW 24

¹² …The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red, ¹³ and the stars in the sky fell to earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind. ¹⁴ The sky receded like a scroll, rolling up. REVELATION 6

³¹ The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before the great and terrible day of the Lord arrives. JOEL 2 nlt

³² Now learn this lesson from the fig tree. As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. ³⁴ I tell you the truth, this generation [age] will not come to pass until all these things have happened. MATTHEW 24

⁶ On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost. ⁷ It will be a unique day, without daytime or nighttime—a day known to the Lord. When evening comes, there will be light. ZECHARIAH 14

Our fifth basis is the prophecy of St. Malachi: that only 112 popes would head the Roman Catholic Church counting from 1143 ad. Pope Benedict XVI is already the 111th.

Our sixth basis is the warning in the Bible Code II, The Countdown.[1]  The book proves that God inspired cryptograms to be encoded in the Hebrew text of the Bible so that both past and future events could be known by us. The cryptograms warned of “the end of days… atomic holocaust… world war…” happening in Hebrew year 5766 (2006 to us).  It is now 2010 and of course the atomic holocaust did not happen, but as the scribe was reading the book last year, he recalled Prophet Daniel speaking to him frantically on three separate occasions in 2003, three years before 2006. The scribe was told to read about “the writing on the wall” in the Book of Daniel and to warn everyone of the “end of days” being at hand.  

Our seventh basis for saying this is the purpose of the Illuminati-Bilderberg Group to establish “a World Government by the year 2012 and a global army through the United Nations.” (Wes Penre)

Our eighth basis is the rise and increase in number of Messianic Christians in Isra’el.

 ⁴ Then He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! ⁵ This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. ⁶ I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord… ¹⁴ I will put My Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’” EZEKIEL 37

The point is, we are living on borrowed time (2 Peter 3:9). The evil empire plans to fast-track the end of days by 2012. Even if it does not, the Book of Revelation says supernatural events will. The Web-Bot Project looked into the universal subconscious mind by tracking the worldwide web and concluded that a series of catastrophes will rock the planet and peak by 2012. Respectable scientists like Albert Einstein have warned of the planet earth’s own polar shift to occur early in the twenty-first century. I Ching (the “Book of Changes” from China) warned in 2800 bc that the end of history would happen on Dec. 21, 2012. The Mayan Civilization (6^th-9th century bc in South America) ended its ancient calendar in the winter solstice of December 2012. Our hope, as we write this, is for God to defer it and not put an abrupt end to life on earth, but then even if He does, Revelation 20:4 implies that He would do so only “for a short time.”  

¹⁹ … God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ … so that men are without excuse. ROMANS 1

Misconception No. 3:  Some churches teach that the Second Coming would be in spirit form; others teach physical form.

The Son of Man resurrected and reappeared in physical form. He ascended unto heaven and thereafter returned to earth in spirit form staying with us since then. In the strictest sense, however, Second Coming pertains to the Lord’s Day—the Day of Judgment.

Misconception No. 4:  The Spirit would be absent during the Great Tribulation—the  Age of Grace and the Church Age and the Great Tribulation being three separate eras.

The Spirit has not left and never will. 

⁵ As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will never leave you nor forsake you. JOSHUA 1

²⁰ Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with Me. REVELATION 3

¹⁰ I will put My laws in their minds and write them in their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. HEBREWS 8

¹⁴ I will rescue those who love Me. I will protect those who trust in My name. ¹⁵ When they call on Me, I will answer; I will be with them in trouble. I will rescue and honor them. PSALM 91 nlt

The Age of Grace and the Church Age and the Great Tribulation walk together. They are one era and we are now in it.   

Misconception No. 5:  The world under the Millennial Rule would be a perfect state and everyone would enjoy prosperity, health, truth, love, inner joy and serenity.

³ [God] will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths. ⁴ He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. ISAIAH 2 

¹⁸ In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll [Scripture], and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see. ¹⁹ Once more the humble will rejoice in the Lord; the needy will rejoice in the Holy One of Isra’el. ²⁰ The ruthless will vanish; the mockers will disappear, and all who have an eye for evil will be cut down. ISAIAH 29

⁶ The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them… ⁹ They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. ISAIAH 11

Divine revelation tells us that two separate Millennial Rules will come: one before the Judgment and one after the Judgment. 

Before the Judgment, prosperity, health, truth, love, inner joy and serenity can be enjoyed but on a limited scale. The reason is, the world remains in an imperfect state (dark and gloomy, lawless and wicked); and those deserving of prosperity et al will likely go through baptism of fire. After the Judgment, God will create a new earth and a new heaven. Those who pass their baptism of fire will experience the perfect state and enjoy full prosperity, health, truth, love, inner joy and serenity.

Judgment Day

¹⁰ The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. Men gnawed their tongues in agony ¹¹ and cursed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, but they refused to repent of what they had done. REVELATION 16

⁵ Suddenly, in an instant, ⁶ the Lord Almighty will come with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with windstorm and tempest and flames of a devouring fire. ISAIAH 29

¹⁶ [He] will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and the trumpet call of God. 1 THESSALONIANS 4

³⁰ The Lord will roar from on high; He will thunder from His holy dwelling… He will shout against all who live on the earth. ³¹ The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth. JEREMIAH 25

¹⁶ There [will be] thunder and lightning, a thick cloud [will appear] in the mountains, and a very loud trumpet [will be] heard. All the people… [will] tremble with fear… ¹⁸ …violently. ¹⁹ The sound of the trumpet [will become] louder and louder. EXODUS 19 tev

²⁴ The Son of Man in His day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other. LUKE 17 

⁷ Every eye will see Him. REVELATION 1

⁶⁴ You will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds. MATTHEW 26

²⁷ For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁰ …All the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. MATTHEW 24

² Ten thousand angels [will be] with Him, a flaming fire at His right hand. DEUTERONOMY 33 tev

¹¹ The eyes of the arrogant will be humbled and the pride of men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day. ISAIAH 2

⁴ On that day [the Lord’s] feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west, forming a great valley, with half of the mountain moving north and half moving south. ZECHARIAH 14

¹⁷ The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and out of the temple came a loud voice from the throne, saying, “It is done!” ¹⁸ Then there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder and a severe earthquake. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since man has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. ¹⁹ The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of His wrath. ²⁰ Every island fled away and the mountains could not be found. ²¹ From the sky huge hailstones of about a hundred pounds each fell upon men. And they cursed God on account of the plague of hail, because the plague was so terrible. REVELATION 16

¹² There was a great earthquake. ¹⁴ …and every mountain and island was removed from its place. REVELATION 6

¹⁹ The earth is broken up, the earth is split asunder, the earth is thoroughly shaken. ²⁰ The earth reels like a drunkard, it sways like a hut in the wind; so heavy upon it is the guilt of its rebellion that it falls—never to rise again. ISAIAH 24

⁹ The Lord will be King over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and His name the only name. ZECHARIAH 14

¹⁰ At the name of Y’shua every knee [shall] bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth, ¹¹ and every tongue [shall] confess that Y’shua the Messiah is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. PHILIPPIANS 2

²⁰ In that day men will throw away to the rodents and bats their idols of silver and idols of gold, which they made to worship. ²¹ They will flee to caverns in the rocks and to the overhanging crags from dread of the Lord and the splendor of His majesty, when He rises to shake the earth. ISAIAH 2

¹⁵ Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. They called to the mountains and rocks, ¹⁶ “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?” REVELATION 6

³ Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before Him, and around Him a tempest rages. ⁴ He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people. PSALM 50

¹⁰ The heavens will disappear with a roar and the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. ¹² …That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat. ¹³ But in keeping with His promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness.  2 PETER 3

²⁸ When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. LUKE 21

The Lord’s Day will once again prove the integrity of the Word. 

¹¹ Men of Galilee… why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Y’shua, who had been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven. ACTS 1

² In My Father’s house are many rooms. ³ I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with Me that you may also be where I am. JOHN 14

²² Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. ²³ On that day, you will no longer ask Me anything. I tell you the truth, My Father will give you anything in My name. JOHN 16

⁷ And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off? ⁸ I tell you, He will see that they get justice, and quickly. LUKE 18

The Judgment

¹⁵ The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Messiah, and He will reign forever and ever.” ¹⁶ And the twenty-four elders, who were seated up on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, ¹⁷ saying: “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign. The nations were angry; and Your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding Your servants the prophets.” REVELATION 11

¹¹ Then I saw a great white throne and Him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from His presence, and there was no place for them. ¹² And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and the Books [of Accounts] were opened. Another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the Books. ¹³ The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. ¹⁴ Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the Second Death. ¹⁵ If anyone’s name was not found written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. REVELATION 20

¹⁰ For we all [from the time of Adam to the Day of Judgment] must appear before the Judgment Seat of the Messiah, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 CORINTHIANS 5

³¹ When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His throne in heavenly glory. ³² All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. MATTHEW 25

² And I saw what looked like a sea of glass mixed with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and over the number of his name. They held harps given them by God ³ and sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb. REVELATION 15

Judgment is only for the impure.    

²⁸ Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming, when all who are in their graves will hear His voice ²⁹ and come out—those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned… ²² The Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son. JOHN 5

¹⁸ Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son… ³⁶ Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him. JOHN 3

¹² All who sin apart from the Law will also perish apart from the Law, and all who sin under the Law will be judged by the Law. ROMANS 2

The impure are self-condemned. They had been warned. They could have washed their robes but they did not. It was their choice to remain impure, among the dead; so now they will have to face the consequence, with no one to blame but themselves.

⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. PSALM 1

⁵ The arrogant cannot stand in Your presence. PSALM 5

The Books of Accounts will flash an instant replay of their individual lives. It will bare their thoughts, actions and words, and the motives behind each of them. They will be reminded of the enemy strongholds they did not get rid of. And because their names are written in the Book of Life, they will be condemned and thrown into the lake of fire.

¹⁷ There is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open. LUKE 8

³ What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs. LUKE 12

⁶ God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you, ⁷ and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Y’shua is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with His powerful angels. ⁸ He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the Gospel of our Lord Y’shua. ⁹ They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of His power ¹⁰ on the day He comes to be glorified in His holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. 2 THESSALONIANS 1

The Judge

⁴⁷ As for the person who hears My words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. ⁴⁸ There is a Judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; that very Word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. JOHN 12

¹² For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges thoughts and attitudes of the heart. HEBREWS 4

No Record of Wrongs

An instant replay of the lives of the saints will also be flashed. The replay will contain no record of their wrongs. It was deleted from the Book of Accounts the moment spiritual detoxification was done for them. Love does not keep a record of wrongs (1 Corinthians 13:5).

¹⁶ A scroll of remembrance was written in God’s presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored His name. MALACHI 3

The saints will not be judged so the instant replays will not be for judgment purposes. But so the impure might see how they had abused them and how the saints endured. 

⁹ I will make those who are of the synagogue of Lucifer, who claim to be Jews though they are not—I will make them come and fall down at your feet and acknowledge that I have loved you. REVELATION 3

Revelation 20:12 says another book will be opened, the Book of Life. It will show the names of the saints written on it, which shall be their permanent visa to the kingdom of God.

MILLENNIAL RULE

Our deeds in this life will determine our first 1,000 years in the afterlife. 

The Second Death

⁹ The Lord knows how… to hold the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment, while continuing their punishment. ¹⁰ This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. 2 PETER 2

⁴¹ Then [the King] will say to those on His left, “Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” MATTHEW 25

¹ In that day the Lord will punish with His sword, His fierce, great and powerful sword. ¹¹ …For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them and their Creator shows them no favor. ISAIAH 27

⁹ There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. ROMANS 2

⁸ The cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the Second Death. REVELATION 21

⁹ The wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God… Neither the… adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the greedy nor the drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 CORINTHIANS 6 

²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree, that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them. ROMANS 1

⁹ If anyone worships the beast and his image, or receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, ¹⁰ he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. ¹¹ And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name. REVELATION 14

Divine revelation tells us that the condemned will voluntarily throw themselves into the fiery furnace. The angels will tie in bundles and throw those who won’t (Matthew 13:30). There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:42).

Because they were selfish on earth, so now Divine Justice will be more selfish to them. Destitution will be their company, a situation worse than poverty. They will get hungry but there will be no food; thirsty but no water. They can move but not escape. They will want someone to talk with, even for a brief moment, but no one will be there.  They will want someone to see and touch, but there will be no one to see and touch. Men above will be seen and heard feasting and rejoicing in the kingdom of God (Luke 16:23) but it won’t console them. Envy, helplessness and frustration will depress their hearts.

⁶ On the wicked will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot. PSALM 11

The environment will be like a vacuum, an unbearable monotony in pitch black nothingness (Matthew 25:29). It will be extremely hot, about 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, the smell of sulfur irritating to the nose. The floor will be slimy and filled with crawling worms. Cries of suffering and repentance, screams for help and mercy, will pester the ear.

Yet all of the above are just the beginning of the agony.

¹⁷ The Light of Isra’el will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; in a single day it will burn and consume His thorns and His briers. ISAIAH 10

¹⁹ The people will be fuel for the fire. ISAIAH 9

³¹ The mighty man will become tinder and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the fire. ISAIAH 1

¹ “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them… ³ “Then you [who revere My name] will trample down the wicked; they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day when I do these things.” MALACHI 4

Second Death will mean constant torment. The flesh will burn to the bone. New flesh will grow but the fire will burn it again. The process will be terribly and repetitiously painful.   

¹⁹ The angel swung his sickle on earth, gathered its [bad] grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God’s wrath. ²⁰ They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press rising as high as the horses’ bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia. REVELATION 14

They will long to die but death will elude them.

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it. ¹⁹ As often as it comes it will carry you away; morning and morning, by day and by night, it will sweep through. ISAIAH 28

Y’shua said, “O humankind, if you only knew what awaits you, you would not stop weeping and praying for God’s mercy and forgiveness while on earth. He who committed one sin would be made to suffer one hell and he who committed two sins would be made to suffer two hells. There is only one hell but the condemned would suffer like he were in ten, one hundred, or one thousand hells. Believe Me because I am telling you the truth, you would prefer your heavenly Father to impose upon you today all the sufferings on earth than suffer one hour in the lake of fire.” (cf. Gospel of Barnabas)

²¹ There is no rest, says my God, for the wicked. ISAIAH 57

The Rapture

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on His right, “Come, you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.” MATTHEW 25

³¹ And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. MATTHEW 24

The trumpet call will signal the permanent reunion of the saints with their Creator. The dead in Christ will rise first in the clouds, then the survivors of the seventh plague will catch up with them, to meet God in the air (1 Thessalonians 4). Bible scholars call the rising process Rapture. God will fast-track the reunion by meeting them halfway.

²⁰ But while [the repentant son] was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. LUKE 15

⁹ After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne, and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. ¹⁰ And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.” ¹³ Then one of the elders asked me, “These in white robes—who are they, and where did they come from?” ¹⁴ I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the Great Tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb.” REVELATIONS 7

²⁴ I tell you the truth, whoever hears My Word and believes in Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. JOHN 5

Warning to the Obstinate

²³ And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴ But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the Day of Judgment than for you. MATTHEW 11

⁴⁸ Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given. LUKE 12 tev

⁶ Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. 1 PETER 5

⁵ Unless you repent, you too will all perish. LUKE 13

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[1] Michael Drosnin, Bible Code II The Countdown (USA: Viking Penguin, 2002).