Multiple millions of professing Christians around the world are craving for, longing for, and looking forward to The Day of the Lord. Thinking that when Christ returns permanently on that day, everything in the garden will be rosy for them. It is spell binding to know that God says Woe unto you that desire The Day of the Lord ! To what end is it for you? The day of The Lord is darkness, and not light Amos 5:18. But read on----
To have understanding of Biblical doctrines, one must keep the Commandments, for Ps.111:10 says "a good understanding have all they that do His commandments." The theologians, pastors, and parishioners of all the so-called Christian church denominations seem to want to claim understanding apart from any adherence to the law of Moses, which Yahshua the Messiah (in His preexistent form) gave to him on Mt. Sinai, and so they do not keep the Commandments. Therefore, we must regard as suspect their views on prophecy and The Day of Judgment.
What precisely is meant by II Peter 2:9 quoted at the head of this paper? "To reserve" is defined in Webster's dictionary as "to keep in store for future use, to keep back for a special purpose." This reserving actually involves sparing the wicked, for the time being, from what would normally be considered their "just desserts". This is indeed exactly what David the psalmist of Israel observed, and was hard-pressed to explain. He was tempted, as we shall see, by the prosperity of the wicked, to think that he had cleansed his heart in vain. In Ps.73:3-17 David says:
"I was envious ... when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like [or with] other men (Hebrew enosh= weak man, as subject to death and suffering) ... they have more than heart could wish.
Ps.73:9--They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks thru the earth (slander and boasting) ... these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. Truly I have cleansed my heart in vain ... for all day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning...
When I sought to understand this, it was too painful for me; until I went into the sanctuary of Elohim. Then I understood their end. (vss. 16-17)"
It is logical to assume that "the end" to which the wicked press is none other than The Day of Judgment (which Peter spoke of), ie. The Day of Yahweh mentioned in many other prophecies, and the subject of the book of Revelation.
What is "the end" of the wicked?? This paper takes a fresh look at this. A related question that begs an answer is this: Why, in this life, do the Hitlers, the Stalins, Mafioso and hypocrites, creators of usury, suffer so little in comparison to what they dish out? The answers to these questions--from scriptures--are going to surprise many, in or out of the church. But the views on offer do make sense; and are intelligible, just, and satisfying, and stranger than fiction, I might add. They challenge ones own faith and comprehension.
Psalm 73:18-20 gives some hints on the nature of "their end". It involves them being set in slippery places, being cast down into destruction, being consumed with terrors. "They will be swept up; they will be finished by decadence!" (Concordant Version of the O.T.)
A very interesting parallel passage to Ps.73 can be read in Job 21, where in verse 7 Job asks the question:
"Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them ... their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of Elohim upon them ... They spend their days in wealth (v. 13), and in a moment [without suffering] go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto Elohim, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? ... (v. 30) The wicked is reserved to THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION. They shall be brought forth to THE DAY OF WRATHS (plural, see Oxford Bible margin)."
"Brought forth" is used sometimes to refer to the resurrection of the dead (see Isa.66:7-8). Since the Elect are not appointed to wrath, but to obtain salvation (1 Thes.5:9), logic as well as scripture tells us The Day of Wraths follows the resurrection in the book of Revelation.
Why is "wraths" in the plural in Job 21:30? Because there is a plurality of judgment---7 Trumpet Plagues and 7 Vials--in THE DAY OF YAHWEH, which is described in the book of Revelation. During THE DAY OF YAHWEH He shall declare his (the sinner's) way to his face in the ultimate confrontation imaginable between man and Elohim. This is what Job 21:30-31 is speaking of. All sin not covered by the blood of Yahshua the Christ is repaid to them that have inflicted harm. That repayment is in the form of these horrific Trumpet Plagues, which have the purpose of bringing about repentance.
Isa. 26:9 tells us that when the Judgments of Yahweh are in the earth, then the inhabitants thereof will learn righteousness. Think about it! Couple that thought with the one that says "Yahweh has made all things for Himself: yea, even the wicked for THE DAY OF EVIL" (Pro. 16:4).
The restraints on Satan, evil spirits, carnal human nature, and man's technology are removed by Yahweh to bring about these end-time judgments. The fulfilment of Rev. 8-19 represents, in essence, man's final delivery to Satan "for the destruction of his flesh, in order that his spirit might be saved in THE DAY OF THE LORD YAHSHUA" (see I Cor. 5: 5) But for that to happen, many, from previous generations, will have to be resurrected.
And so man and his wickedness and rebellion, his ill-founded systems of government, his licentious, lewd culture, his misguided idolatrous religions, his monopolistic medical establishment--are all brought to an end in stages (14 to be exact), lasting seven years.
And just as the "DAY OF THE LORD" and "IN THAT DAY" prophecies in the O.T. do not refer to a single day, but rather to the period of transition between man's age and the Messianic Age, so also THE DAY OF JUDGMENT is not a single day, but is in reality THE DAY OF THE LORD (lit. THE DAY OF YAHWEH in Hebrew) spoken of in scores of Old Testament prophecies. This period constitutes the wrath of Yahweh upon all who have not obeyed the gospel of grace and Truth.
It begins at the opening of the 7th seal, and ends at the 7th vial. When The Beast ascends out of the bottomless pit at the 5th Trumpet Plague, the Two Witnesses {who have the power to call down the first four Trumpet Plagues} are overcome and killed by The Beast. This ends the first half Of THE DAY OF YAHWEH, since their ministry spans 1260 literal days. I base this conclusion on Rev. 1 1:2-3,7,14 together with 9:1-11. The European centred Beast power then has authority to tread down Jerusalem for 42 months, bringing the state of Israel ["Judah" in prophecy] and other Israelite nations (Britain, America, Canada, Australia, etc.) into captivity [Hosea 5:5, never before fulfilled in history, shows a simultaneous end-time destruction of these nations--Israel, Ephraim, and Judah--necessitating the greatest Christ-led Exodus/deliverance of all time (see Jer. 16 and 17, etc.)].
After two years of sheer international agony, Yahweh has mercy on Israel and Judah and takes the cup of trembling and fury out of their hands and puts it into the hands of the Vatican-led Europe and other Gentile nations aligned with her one-world Church and government. (see Isa. 51:17-23) This shift takes place at the 7th Trumpet Plague. Hence, the purpose of the vials--which comprise the 7th Trumpet Plague--is different from the Trumpet plagues--it is to punish Babylon, the Vatican, and other Gentile nations of the world who have perhaps been used previously (during the Trumpets Plagues) by Yahweh to punish the state of Israel and Anglo Saxon nations.
The 42 months is subsequent to the 1260 days, and in fact cannot be synonymous, as so many interpreters try to make them. [A month averages 29.5 days, therefore 42 months cannot equal 1260 days; there have not been 30-day months since the Noachian deluge. It is illogical to assume that John uses the term 'month' to refer to these, else how could he refer to a literal month??]
Hence, the 5th Trumpet Plague is the mid-point of a 7-year DAY of YAHWEH inaugurated by the unprecedented heavenly signs of the 6th seal, and heralded by the statement of the wicked found there (Rev. 6:17):
"Hide us from the face of Him that sits upon the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb; for THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH is come, and who shall be able to stand?" [This latter question is oft associated with Messiah's coming in several prophecies (Mal. 3:1-2, Nahum 1:6, Ps. 76:7-9)]
It is the thesis of this paper that there is conclusive and interesting evidence to indicate that the dead who are not in Christ, the unrepentant (which includes most of the nominal church today, and in past generations), will be resurrected back to physical life at the 6th seal return of Yahshua the Messiah, and are thus brought unto THE DAY OF JUDGMENT--the Day of the Lord--commencing at the 7th seal.
We have already considered I Cor. 5:5 in this regard. Now let us look at I Cor. 3:15:
"Every man's work shall be made manifest: for THE DAY (THE DAY OF YAHWEH?) I shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire [fire being the major feature of the judgments at the end]; and the fire shall try every man's work, of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss [of reward]: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.
Is this not what the Laodiceans were warned about? In Yahshua' s correction of them, He implied that their faith was so insufficient, that it would have to be tried (Gr. refined) by fire (Rev.3:18). If they do not repent, they will be left behind, and the shame of their nakedness will appear [in concentration camps, and Yes, I acknowledge there are equally valid symbolic interpretations of this nakedness].
The Laodiceans were told to open their doors to Him and His prophets who were standing at their doors (Rev. 3:20), and knocking; however, they were not open and seeking for spiritual input and correction. Therefore, when the Bridegroom finally comes, they are not ready, and the door is shut. Then they say, "Lord, Lord, open to us." But Christ tells them He does not know them! These are appointed to endure the Beast system and the wrath period, and those out of Laodicea and Sardis who overcome during the final seven years are referred to in Rev. 16:15, which is at the 7th vial at the end of THE DAY OF YAHWEH.
There it basically is telling us that those having lived through all the Trumps and Vials will be blessed with Heaven's feast (1 9:7) if they are watching [something Sardis failed to do (Rev. 3:3)] and keeping their garments. Rev. 16:15's terminology--"lest they walk naked, and the shame of their nakedness appear"--is clearly a reference back to the message to Laodicea in chap. 3:18. In other words, though they missed the boat at the 6th seal Return of Christ, they will probably "get it right" by the 7th Vial, having suffered immeasurably in the interim.
Likewise, many in the Sardis category were not watching or keeping their garments, and would not therefore know the hour of Christ's coming (Rev. 3:3 says exactly this, Church!, and is plain inference that one can know what hour He will come on us). Therefore, they are left behind to endure through fiery Trumpet Plagues, and overcome only via direct confrontation with a Beast system that insists on a literal embedding of a microchip in the hand or forehead, and other freedom-denying usurpations.
Many gain eternal life during THE DAY OF YAHWEH only by refusing the Mark of the Beast, and putting their neck to the guillotine. And He shall gather them, by resurrection and catching up, to a place called Armageddon (Rev. 16:16), which in Hebrew means, the Mount of the Congregation. (This Hebrew term is used in Isa. 14:13, where Lucifer said he would ascend into heaven, and exalt his throne above the stars of Elohim, and sit also upon the Mount of the Congregation, in the sides of the North, which all commentators agree is the abode of Yahweh.)
It is perhaps an axiom of human nature that pain in the flesh is necessary in order for Yahweh to get the attention and effect the obedience of inveterate sinners--whether he be the darkened, ignorant idolatrous Gentile, or the stubborn, self-righteous blind, hypocritical Pharisee. Since many are called out of this world in this age, but NOT all, Yahweh postpones the punishment of numerous persons until a second life during the final seven years of this age.
No doubt, most "churched" people (for whom this idea is foreign and unheard of, and who balk at the paradigm shifts required by Biblical truths) will dismiss this concept out-of-hand without even much of a hearing (most religious folks I've met are not very scientific, patient, or open-minded in their pursuit of Truth. These are essential ingredients toward receiving the divine Love of the Truth (II Thes.2:10).
Next it is in order for us to take a closer look at Heb. 9:27, which I'm sure most Churches think they understand, but let's ask some probing questions. If it is appointed unto men to die only once, then why does it mention a second death in Rev. 20:6? The truth is that there is a second life during the seven years described in Revelation 8,9,13,16. This period is called "Judgment" in Heb. 9:27, which could just as well be rendered "punishment". To experience either requires consciousness (after having died once).
Note also that Heb. 9:27 does not say that "all" men must die once. Some saints alive at the return of Yahshua will be caught up and never experience death. Paul states this in I Cor. 15:51 --"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed."
Verses 27 & 28 of Heb. 9 are set up as an analogy. The appointment of men once to die before the judgment answers to Christ's first Coming and appointment as our sin offering (the latter being the only solution to the former): but notice, to those looking for Him He appears a second time for their salvation and the redemption of their bodies. Those having done evil, in or out of the Church, not looking for Him, come forth to the resurrection of judgment (John 5: 29), which, in contrast, delivers their bodies to Satan and painfulness during the Trumpet Plagues so that their spirit can be saved in THE DAY OF THE LORD Yahshua. If we would judge ourselves now, we would not need to be judged then (1 Cor. 1 1:31).
But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned [Gr. katakrino means to render an adverse decision] with the world. That "thumbs down" decision is initially given to those in Sardis and Laodicean spiritual conditions, who are not deemed worthy of the calling on High, but must remain below with the earth dwellers. [The contrast between these two types is a major theme of the book of Revelation (12:12; 6:10; 3:10; 13:6,8; 11:10; 17:8)]
It is during this second life, at the end of the Age, that the punishment Yahshua spoke of in Luke 12:47 befalls those who have ignored the will of Yahweh. In this passage we see how dangerous it is to say, "My lord delays His coming," (whilst in this first life) and to begin to beat your servants, and to eat, drink and be drunk. Vs. 46 says:
"the lord of that servant will come in a day when he looks not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him off, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers [whose portion is to endure the plagues described in Revelation].
"And that servant, who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to His will, shall be beaten with many stripes."
Question: When? When will negligent servants be beaten with many stripes? The context clearly indicates at the time subsequent to the Lord's return. This interpretation is sealed by the following verses 49-50, where He speaks of fire [a symbol of judgment and Of THE DAY OF YAHWEH] engulfing the earth. A Hebrew scholar's (Roy Blizzard) reconstruction of Christ's original Hebrew in vs. 49 follows:
"My purpose and intention is to cast fire upon the earth [thus commencing THE DAY OF YAHWEH (see Rev. 8:5, where an angel takes a golden censer and fills it with fire from the heavenly altar, and casts it into the earth. This takes place at the start of the Trumpet Plagues)]. But how could I wish it (the earth) were already burned up.
"I have a baptism to baptize [the earth] with [as John the Baptist said: the Coming one will baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire (Matt. 3:1 1)], and how distressed I am until it is over!" (Luke 12:50)
Now I'd like to return to the passage in II Peter.2 quoted at the heading of this paper. V. 3 speaks of the judgment of the heretics of Peter's day as lingering a long time until the time when Yahweh is about to judge the earth:
"for if Elohim spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to the gloomy caverns of Tartarus [probably synonymous with the bottomless pit of Rev. 9], delivered them into chains to be reserved [kept in store for future use] FOR JUDGMENT." [The Concordant Literal N.T. has--"gives them [the sinning angels] up to be kept for chastening judging."]
Those heinous, foul spirits are unleashed at the first woe, ie. the 5th Trumpet Plague (see Rev. 8:13 and 9:12). Verse 9 of II Peter.2 is even more clear:
"The Lord is acquainted with the rescue of the devout out of trial, yet is keeping the unjust for chastening in the day of judging..." (CLNT)
"[Yahweh] knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations [like He did righteous Lot, whose family was seized and transported by angels], and to reserve the unjust unto THE DAY OF JUDGMENT to be punished."
In other words, Yahweh is saving their punishment until the end of the age, til it is time for the book of Revelation to be fulfilled. 11 Pe. 3:7 says that:
"the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the Word of Elohim, are kept in store, reserved unto fire against THE DAY OF JUDGMENT and perdition of ungodly men." [Concordant Literal says "the heavens & the earth now are stored, fire being kept for the day of the judging & destruction of irreverent men."]
Just the ungodly men alive at the end of the age? NO! But EVERYONE from EVERY generation whom Yahweh deems worthy of experiencing the plagues of the Apocalypse. This justice and punishing can only be brought about by the general resurrection of the wicked at the 2nd Coming.
In Rev. 9:1, at the sounding of the 5th Trumpet, John sees a star [already] fallen from heaven (Satan), and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit. Rev. 9:7 goes on to describe the macabre shape of the supernatural locusts which come up out of the pit. E.W. Bullinger points out in his Commentary on Revelation that these creatures are grotesque and demonic, and can be linked to ,the angels which kept not their first estate, who are reserved in age lasting chains under darkness unto The Judgment of the Great Day. II(Jude 6) They represent the worst of Lucifer's minions.
They are reserved or kept there unto (Gr.=eis="for" or "into") The Judgment of the Great Day. This last phrase is linked by language and thought to 11 Pe. 2:4 quoted above. Both address the same topic. Therefore, as Bullinger brings out, these fallen angels will be instruments "for" inflicting judgment, not just recipients of judgment. {The 6th via] in Rev. 16:13, in like vein, mentions, the use of unclean spirits for the purpose of gathering the kings of the earth for the battle of THAT GREAT DAY OF EL SHADDAI (which is at the tale end of THE DAY OF WRATHS)}
The demonic locusts of Rev. 9:4 torment only those men which do not have the seal of Elohim in the their foreheads. The torment lasts for 5 months. One might ask the question--Are only those people living at the end of this age worthy of such judgments? As I think back over what I have read in history--of man's inhumanity, cruelty and oppression of his fellow man--the answer has to be "No!". The Catholic inquisitors and Protestant clerics of the Middle Ages and Renaissance {who tortured innocent, Bible-believing Christians merely for being true to their consciences and convictions}, and millions of others who have ignored the warning contained in this book, will be brought forth to endure these Trumpet Plagues.
Now let us look at John 5:28:
"Marvel not at this, for coming is the hour [note the singular] in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and those who do good shall go out into a resurrection of life, yet those who commit bad things, into a resurrection of judging."(Concordant Literal NT)
Taking the literal meaning of the Greek word translated "resurrection" (anastasis), the above tells us the wicked will stand to be punished, as 11 Pe. 2:9 goes on to explain.
Though there is a resurrection to judgment spoken of in Rev. 20:5, which occurs after the Millennium,(not to be confused with the year 2000) it is not to automatically throw the "rest of the dead" into the lake of fire, as almost all churches teach. Rather it is to open the books of the Bible to their understanding, and give them an opportunity to live and prove themselves under the utopian conditions then existing on the earth due to the Messiah's reign.
I believe it is the same resurrection pictured so graphically and poignantly in Ezek. 37, in which the Holy Spirit is given for the first time to millions of Israelites [Ezekiel sees the entire House of Israel and House of Judah (presumably from all generations) lying before him in "the valley of dry bones", ready to be revived by the life-giving power of Yahweh] who lived prior to the New Covenant, and perhaps those blinded and cast away by Yahweh in this dispensation until the fullness of the Gentiles could come in. This helps us explain why the ratio of Gentiles to Israelites is so high in Rev. 7: 4-9.
But the main point we are making is that those who have done evil are brought forth from their grave at the same time as the righteous--at the 2nd Coming. The verses in John 5 plainly state there is a singular hour (time) coming when ALL, both good and evil, will hear Yahshua's voice, and will live again. The good receive spirit-substance bodies (1 Cor. 15:44) and life into the [Millennial Age, and get caught up to Elohim and His throne (Rev. 12:5), while blind, sleeping, complacent, hypocritical, worldly Laodiceans flee into the wilderness (Rev. 12: 6). But the evil who were in the graves receive physical bodies which are delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that their spirits might be saved in THE DAY OF YAHWEH, which follows the 2nd coming.
The definitive resurrection text in the Hebrew scriptures (ie. Old Testament) is found in Daniel 12:1-2:
"in that era shall Michael stand up, the great chief, standing over the sons of your people. And there comes to be a time of distress and trouble such as has not occurred since there came to be a nation on the earth, till that time. Now in that era your people shall escape--all those found written in the scroll (no doubt the same scroll of life spoken of by John in Rev. 10:2, 8-10; 13: 8; 17: 8; 20:12, 15). Among those sleeping in the dust of the ground many shall awake, some to life into the [Messianic] Age, and some to reproach and abhorrence into the Age." [Concordant Literal Transi. of Daniel]
As with Christ's teaching in John 5:28-29 just examined, it is clear that Daniel speaks of the resurrections of the unjust and the just as being synchronous. Even A. E. Knoch, on page 424 of Concordant Studies in the book of Daniel, says this:
"Daniel speaks of the resurrection of life as if it took place at the same time as the resurrection of judging (John 5:29)."
Therefore, it behoves the Church to consider and give heed to an end-time scenario such as the one we have attempted to develop here, one based on the probable notion that Christ and Daniel meant precisely what they said, ie. that the righteous and wicked stand again, to live again in one singular hour (the 2nd Coming). The former receive glorified bodies similar to Christ's glorious body. The latter receive physical bodies in order to suffer physical pain in recompense for their former wickedness (Pr.11:31), to live through the horrifying scenes forecast in John's Apocalypse.
Pain and superior power are the only things the carnal Gentile mind appreciates when it comes to repenting and respecting Yahweh's claim on his life. "He that suffers in the flesh ceases from sinning" (1 Pe. 4:1), and by no means still to spend the rest of his lifetime in the flesh in human desires, but in the will of Elohim. Psalm 73 and experience will show that most wicked individuals don't really suffer much in this life. Rather than face up to its true colours and admit of evil, human nature takes the easy way out--like Hitler did when he ended his life with a cyanide pill as the Allies surrounded Berlin. To be continued.
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