I think I see that terrible day! The bell of time has tolled the last day. Now comes the funeral of damned souls. Your body has just started up from the grave, and you unwind your shroud, and you look up.
What is that I see? O! what is that I hear? I hear one dread, tremendous blast, that shakes the pillars of heaven, and makes the firmament reel with affright. The trump, the trump, the trump of the arch-angel shakes creation's utmost bound!
You look and wonder. Suddenly a voice is heard, and shrieks from some, and songs from others. He comes! He comes! He comes! and every eye must see him!
There he is! The throne is set upon a cloud, which is white as alabaster. There he sits! It's Him, the Man that died on Calvary! I see his pierced hands but ah, how changed! No thorn,crown now. He once stood at Pilate's bar, but now the whole earth must stand at his bar.
But hark! the trumpet sounds again the Judge opens the book, there is silence in heaven, a solemn silence, the universe is still. Swiftly they are gathered. As with a lightning flash, the angel's wing divides the crowd. Here are the righteous all in-gathered.
But sinner, there you are on the left hand, left out, left to abide the burning sentence of eternal wrath!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
Luke 17:24 ... For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
Mark 1:27 ... And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Matthew 25:46 ... And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.❤
