"Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with
ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon all."
Jude 14, 15.
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"At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth. He is accompanied by the
host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue of angels. As He descends in terrific majesty He
bids the wicked dead arise to receive their doom. They come forth, a mighty host, numberless as
the sands of the sea. What a contrast to those who were raised at the first resurrection! The
righteous were clothed with immortal youth and beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease
and death.
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Every eye in that vast multitude is turned to behold the glory of the Son of God. With one voice
the wicked hosts exclaim: "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" It is not love to
Jesus that inspires this utterance. The force of truth urges the words from unwilling lips. As the
wicked went into their graves, so they come forth with the same enmity to Christ and the same
spirit of rebellion. They are to have no new probation in which to remedy the defects of their past
lives. Nothing would be gained by this. A lifetime of transgression has not softened their hearts.
A second probation, were it given them, would be occupied as was the first in evading the
requirements of God and exciting rebellion against Him.
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Christ descends upon the Mount of Olives, whence, after His resurrection, He ascended, and
where angels repeated the promise of His return. Says the prophet: "The Lord my God shall
come, and all the saints with thee." "And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof, . . . and there shall be a very great valley." "And the Lord shall be king over all the earth:
in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one."
Zechariah 14:5, 4, 9. As the New
Jerusalem, in its dazzling splendour, comes down out of heaven, it rests upon the place purified
and made ready to receive it, and Christ, with His people and the angels, enters the Holy City."
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