/ 1 And after these things I heard Isaiah 25:1-9 O Lord, thou art Luke 21:22 For these be the days of "Alleluia": "Praise ye Jah", this / a great voice of much people in my God; I will exalt thee, I vengeance, that all things which praise appears only at the time of / heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, will praise thy name; for thou are written may be fulfilled. rejoicing as the final victory is / and glory, and honour, and power, hast done wonderful things; II Timothy 2:10...salvation which is in progress. The great government / unto the Lord our God: thy counsels of old are faith- in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. and religious systems that has marty / 2 For true and righteous are his fulness and truth. Luke 18:7-8 And shall not God avenge -red many saints have been destroyed / judgments; for he hath judged the For thou hast made of a city his own elect, which cry day and by angels and now the long awaited / great whore, which did corrupt the a heap; of a defensed city a night unto him, though he bear return of Christ for the final / earth with her fornication, and ruin: a palace of strangers to long with them? victory is eminent. This is the / hath avenged the blood of his be no city; it shall never be I tell you that he will avenge source of the greatest sense of joy / servants at her hand. built. them speedily. Neverless, when the that can ever be experienced. This / 3 And again they said, Alleluia. Therefore shall the strong Son of man cometh, shall he find is the end of suffering of the / And her smoke rose up for ever people glorify thee, the city faith on the earth? saints on earth for ever. / and ever. of the terible nations shall / 4 And the four and twenty elders fear thee. Matthew 22:2-3&8-9&12-14 The kingdom "Marriage of the Lamb": Christ has / and the four beasts fell down and For thou hast been a strength of heaven is like unto a certain finally completed the preparation of / worshipped God that sat on the to the poor, a strength to the king, which made a marriage for heaven for the receipt of all the / throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia. needy in his distress, a refuge his son, saints and they have been called up / 5 And a voice came out of the from the storm, a shadow from And sent forth his servants to to participate with Christ in the / throne, saying, Praise our God, the heat, when the blast of the call them that were bidden to the final victory and judgment. We do / all ye his servants, and ye that terrible ones is as a storm wedding: and they would not come. not know what mysterious plan or / fear him, both small and great. against the wall. Then saith he to his servants, occurance has reached completion / 6 And I heard as it were the Thou shalt bring down the the wedding is ready, but they thst triggers the beginning of this / voice of a great multitude, and noise of strangers, as the heat which were bidden were not worthy. final victory, we only know that / as the voice of many waters, and in a dry place; even the heat Go ye therefore into the high- Gods plans are that the maximum num- / as the voice of mighty thunder- with the shadow of a cloud: the ways, and as many as ye find, bid ber of people should partake in this / ings, saying, Alleluia: for the branch of the terrible ones to the marriage. great celebration and victory, for / Lord god omnipotent reigneth. shall be brought low. ...he saw there a man which had he desires that none should be lost. / 7 Let us be glad and rejoice, And in this mountain shall the not on a wedding garment: The ecclesia is finally fully prepa- / and give honour to him: for the Lord of hosts make unto all And he saith unto him, Friend, red for his coming. It is time for / marriage of the Lamb is come, and people a feast of fat things; a how camest thou in hither not all suffering of the saints on earth / his wife hath made herself ready. feast of wines on the lees, of having a wedding garment? And to come to an end. ALLELUIA!! / 8 And to her was granted that she fat things full of marrow, of he was speechless. / should be arrayed in fine linen, wines on the lees well refined. Then said the king to the Rider on the white horse: "Faithful and / clean and white: for the fine linen And he will destroy in this servants, Bind him hand and foot, True, and in righteousness he doth / is the righteousness of saints. mountain the face of the and take him away, and cast him judge and make war","eyes as a flame / 9 And he saith unto me, Write, covering cast over all people, into outer darkness; there shall "a of fire","on his head many crowns / Blessed are they which are called and the veil that is spread be weeping and gnashing of teeth. ", name written, that no man knew", / unto the marriage supper of the over all nations. For many are called, but few are "vesture dipped in blood","out of / Lamb. And he saith unto me, These He will swallow up death in chosen. his mouth goeth a sharp sword", / are the true sayings of God. victory; and the Lord God will II Corinthians 11-2 For I am jealous "a rod of iron", " he treadeth the / 10 And I fell at his feet to wipe away tears off all faces; over you with godly jealousy: for winepress of the fierceness and / worship him. And he said unto me, and the rebuke of his people I espoused you to one husband, wrath", "KING of KINGS, and LORD of / See thou do it not: I am thy fellow shall he take away from off all that I may present you as a chaste LORD" are the descriptive names used. / servant, and of thy brethren that the earth: for the Lord hath virgin to Christ. Many of the false prophets of today / have the testimony of Jesus: spoken it. Luke 14:15 And when one of them that will completely over look this / worship God: for the testimony of And it shall be said in that sat at meat with him heard these aspect of the Lord, wanting to fool / Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. day, Lo, this is our God; we things, he said unto him, Blessed the people into thinking that no / have waited for him, and he is he that shall eat bread in the God of love could cause any harm / will save us: this is the Lord: kingdom of God. to the people on earth, but we / we have waited for him, we will II Timothy 4:1...the Lord Jesus Christ, definitely have seen otherwise. / be glad and rejoice in his who shall judge the quick and the Judgment is a fact and a very / salvation. dead at his appearing ... important part of the character of / 11 And I saw heaven opened, and Isaiah 11:4-5 But with righteous- Mark 13:24-27 But in those days, the Lord. Many will try to say that / behold a white horse; and he that ness shall he judge the poor, after that tribulation, the sun the God of wrath is the God of the / sat upon him was called Faithful and reprove with equity for shall be darkened, and the moon old covenant and not of the new / and True, and in righteousness he the meek of the earth: and he shall not give her light, covenant, how can they study the / doth judge and make war. shall smite the earth with the And the stars of heaven shall Bible and teach such things? Also / 12 His eyes were as a flame of rod of his mouth, and with the fall, and the powers that are in the saints join Him on their own / fire, and on his head were many breath of his lips shall he heaven shall be shaken. white horses as they also are given / crowns; and he had a name written, slay the wicked. And then shall they see the Son power to participate in this great / that no man knew, but he himself. And righteousness shall be of man coming in the clouds with victory. We know from our study / 13 And he was clothed with vesture the girdle of his loins, and great power and glory. that among the slain will be many / dipped in blood: and his name is faithfulness the girdle of his And then shall he send his angels, "good" and "religious" people who / called The Word of God. reins. and shall gather together his elect have taken on the mark of the / 14 And the armies which were in Isaiah 66:15-16 For, behold, the from the four winds, from the beast and people that are greatly / heaven followed him upon white Lord will come with fire, and uttermost part of the earth to the admire by those of the world. But / horses, clothed in fine linen, with his chariots like a whirl- uttermost part of heaven. this does not change the fact that / white and clean. wind, to render his anger with John 1:1&14 In the beginning was the they have willfully disobeyed the / 15 And out of his mouth goeth a fury, and his rebuke with Word, and the Word was with God, Lord and have followed the leader- / sharp sword, that with it he flames of fire. and the Word was God. ship of the false prophets as they / should smite the nations: and he For by fire and by his sword And the Word was made flesh, and spoke words that seemed good to / shall rule them with a rod of iron: will the Lord plead with all dwelt among us, .... man. Man will say, what of those / and he treadeth the winepress of flesh: and the slain of the II Thessalonians 2:8-9 And then shall that have never heard of the name / the fierceness and wrath of Lord shall be many. that Wicked be revealed, whom the of Jesus Christ and what about the / Almighty God. Isaiah 63:6 And I will tread down Lord shall consume with the spirit innocent child? For that reason we / the people in mine anger, and of his mouth, and shall destroy are always reminded that the judg- / make them drunk in my fury, with the brightness of his coming: ments of Christ, His angels and His / and I will bring down their Even him, whose coming is after saints are righteous and just. We / strength to the earth. the working of Satan with all may not fully understand all the / 16 And he hath on his vesture and Daniel 2:47 ..Of truth it is, that power and signs and lying wonders, details but we should constantly / on his thigh a name written, KING your God is a God of gods, and II Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the remind all of that fact. / OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. a Lord of kings,.... earth, which are now, by the same / 17 And I saw an angel standing in Ezekiel 39:17-20 ...thus saith the word are kept in store, reserved "The supper of the great God": This is / the sun; and he cried with a loud Lord God; Speak unto every unto fire against the day of not a supper of great joy as is the / voice, saying to all the fowls that feathered foul, and to every judgment and perdition of ungodly supper of the Lamb, instead it is of / fly in the midst of heaven, Come beast of the field, Assemble men. the carniverous animals of the earth / and gather yourselves together unto yourselves, and come;... II Thessalonians 1:6-10 Seeing it is as they clean up the gory remains / the supper of the great God; Ye shall eat the flesh of the a righteous thing with God to of the destruction. It would appear / 18 That ye may eat the flesh of mighty, and drink the blood of recompense tribulation to them that this final destruction would / kings, and the flesh of captains, the princes of the earth, ... that trouble you; be a great relief for the evil / and the flesh of mighty men, and Thus ye shall be filled at my And to you who are troubled rest people as they are finally free from / the flesh of horses, and of them table with horses and chariots, with us, when the Lord Jesus shall the great suffering of the many / that sit on them, and the flesh of with mighty men, and with all be revealed from heaven with his plagues that we have studied about. / all men, both free and bond, both men of war, saith the Lord God. mighty angels, All that remain are finally slain to / small and great. Daniel 7:21-22 I beheld, and the In flaming fire taking vengeance remain dead for a lond period. How- / 19 And I saw the beast, and the same horn made war with the on them that know not God, and ever for the beast and the false / kings of the earth, and their saints, and prevailed against that obey not the gospel of our prophet is reserved the special / armies, gathered together to make them; Lord Jesus Christ: privledge of being cast directly / war against him that sat on the Until the Ancient of days Who shall be punished with ever- into the "lake of fire" while still / horse, and against his army. came, and the judgment was lasting destruction from the alive. We have no reason to believe / 20 And the beast was taken, and given to the saints of the presence of the Lord, and from the other than that this final destruct- / with him the false prophet that Most High; glory of his power; ion is an actual physical destruct- / wrought miracles before him, with Daniel 7:11 I beheld then, because When he shall come to be ion that is necessary to prepare the / which he deceived them that had of the voice of the great words glorified in his saints, and to be earth for the reign of Christ on / received the mark of the beast, which the horn spake: I beheld admired in all them that believe earth with his saints. It would / and them that worshipped his even till the beast was slain, ... please many to believe that this is / image. These both were cast alive and his body destroyed, and Hebrews 4:12-13 For the word of God a symbolic spirtual war, but we have / into a lake of fire burning with given to the burning flame. is quick, and powerful, and no Bibilical teachings that would / brimstone. sharper than any two-edged sword, lead us to believe so. The pain / 21 And the remnant were slain with Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go piercing even to the dividing and suffering of the martyrs on this / the sword of him that sat upon the forth, and look upon the asunder of soul and spirit, and earth is all to real to believe that / horse, which sword proceeded out of carcasses of the men that have of the joints and marrow, and is the Lord could limit the final suff- / his mouth: and all the fowls were transgressed against me: for a discerner of the thoughts and ering and destruction of the evil / filled with their flesh. their worm shall not die, intents of the heart. person to that of a spirtual and / neither shall their fire be Neither is there any creature symbolic war. / quenched; and they shall be that is not manifest in his sight: / an abhorring unto all flesh. but all things are naked and / opened unto the eyes of him with / whom we have to do. / / / 1 And I saw an angel come down Daniel 12:1-3 And at that time II Peter 2:2-4 And many shall follow Satan bound: Finally satan is no / from heaven, having the key of the shall Michael stand up, the their pernicious ways; by reason longer able to lead men into evil. / bottomless pit and a great chain great prince which standeth of whom the way of truth shall be His new home in the "bottomless / in his hand. for the children of thy people: evil spoken of. Pit" seems to be different from / 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, and there shall be a time of And through covetousness shall the new home of the beast and the / that old serpent, which is the trouble, such as never was they with feigned words make merch- false prophet in the "lake of fire". / Devil, and Satan, and bound him a since there was a nation even andise of you: whose judgment now The "lake of fire" seems to be the / thousand years, to that same time: and at that of a long time lingereth not, and final resting place for those of / 3 And cast him into the bottomless time thy people shall be their damnation slumbereth not. evil since we hear no more concern- / pit, and shut him up, and set a delivered, every one that shall For if God spared not the angels ing the beast and the false prophet, / seal upon him, that he should be found written in the book. that sinned, but cast them down to but satan will be released again. / deceive the nations no more, till And many of them that sleep hell, and delivered them into We wonder why this event has been / the thousand years should be ful- in the dust of the earth shall chains of darkness, to be reserved delayed so long, but again we must / filled: and after that he must be awake, some to everlasting unto judgment; conclude that this delay has allowed / loosed a little season. life, and some to shame and the maximum number of people to / 4 And I saw thrones, and they sat everlasting contempt. I Corinthians 15:21-27 For since by join Him in victory as difficult as / upon them, and judgment was given And they that be wise shall man came death, by man came also this may be for us to understand. / unto them: and I saw souls of them shine as the brightness of the the resurrection of the dead. (II Peter 3:9 "is long-suffering / that were beheaded for the witness firmament; and they that turn For as in Adam all die, even so to us-ward, not willing that any / of Jesus, and for the word of God, many to righteousness, as the in Christ shall all be made alive. should perish, but that all / and which had not worshipped the stars for ever and ever. But every man in his own order: should come to repentance.") / beast, neither his image, neither Daniel 7:26-27 But the judgment Christ the firstfruits; afterward / had received his mark upon their shall sit, and they shall take they that are Christ's at his The millennium: A thousand years of / foreheads, or in their hands; and away his dominion, to consume coming. reign on earth which some scholars / they lived and reigned with Christ and to destroy it unto the end. Then cometh the end, when he shall believe to be symbolic of an indef- / a thousand years. And the kingdom and dominion, have delivered up the kingdom to inite time (II Peter 3:8 "be not / 5 But the rest of the dead lived and the greatness of the God, even the Father; when he shall ignorant of this one thing, that one / not again until the thousand years kingdom under the whole heaven, have put down all rule, and all day is with the Lord as a thousand / were finished. This is the first shall be given to the people of authority and power. years, and a thousand years as one / resurrection. the saints of the Most High, For he must reign, till he hath day") or possibly 360,000 years / whose kingdom is an everlasting put all enemies under his feet. according to the year for a day / kingdom and all dominions shall The last enemy that shall be hypothesis. / serve and obey him. destroyed is death. / 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath Isaiah 61:6 But ye shall be named For he hath put all things under "The first resurrection": The true / part in the first resurrection: on the priests of the Lord: men his feet. believers are given life at this / such the second death hath no shall call you The ministers I Peter 2:9 But ye are a chosen time to reign and judge with Christ. / power, but they shall be priests of of our God: generation, a royal priesthood, The next resurection is for the non- / God and of Christ, and shall reign Luke 14:15 ... Blessed is he that believers following the millennium: / with him a thousand years. Ezekiel 38:15-16 And thou shalt shall eat bread in the kingdom The nonbelievers must suffer a / 7 And when the thousand years are come from thy place out of the of God. second death after their final / expired, Satan shall be loosed out north parts, thou, and many Hebrews 10:30 ...Vengeance belongeth judgment, the final sentence to / of his prison, people with thee, all of them unto me, I will recompense, saith the "lake of fire" from which there / 8 And shall go out to deceive the riding upon horses, a great the Lord. And again, the Lord seems to be no hope of return. / nations which are in the four company, and a mighty army: shall judge his people. "This is the second Death" which is / quarters of the earth, Gog and And thou shalt come up against John 5:29 And shall come forth; they for an eternity of torment. Why / Magog, to gather them together to my people of Israel, as a cloud that have done good, unto the resu- then are so many people living / battle: the number of whom is as to cover the land; it shall be rrection of life; and they that their life in a manner that is / the sand of the sea. in the later days, and I will have done evil, unto...damnation. guaranteed to lead to this end and / 9 And they went up on the breadth bring thee against my land, II Peter 3:7 But the heavens and even some people will boastfully / of the earth, and compassed the that the heathen may know me, earth, which are now, by the same announce that they want to go to / camp of the saints about, and the when I shall santified in thee, word are kept in store, reserved hell? Satan seems to be gather- / beloved city: and fire came down O Gog, before their eyes. unto fire against the day of ing more followers all the time, / from God out of heaven, and Psalms 55:21-22 The words of his judgment and perdition of un- in a time when the Word is avail- / devoured them. mouth were smoother than godly men. to all who are willing to seek it. / butter, but war was in his II Thessalonians 1:8-10 In flaming / heart: his words were softer fire taking vengeance on them that Satan loosed: And we have a mystery as / 10 And the devil that deceived them than oil, yet were they drawn know not God, and that obey not to why this is necessary since it / was cast into the lake of fire and swords. the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: seems to be a setting loose into / brimstone, where the beast and the Cast thy burden upon the Who shall be punished with ever- futility. But we note that satan / false prophet are, and shall be Lord, and he shall sustain lasting destruction from the pre- will again be able to gather follow- / tormented day and night for ever thee: he shall never suffer sence of the Lord, and from the ers for this final futile battle. / and ever. the righteous to be moved. glory of his power; What is the source of this final / But thou, O God, shalt bring When he shall come to be glorified army of followers? We like to / them down into the pit of in his saints, ... think that it is only people of the / of destruction: bloody and II Thessalonians 2:11-12 And for this second resurrection, but the wording / deceitful men shall not live cause God send them strong delusion, leads us to believe that even during / out half their days;... that they should believe a lie: Christ's presence on earth there / Psalms 69:27-28 Add iniquity unto That they all might be damned will again be those who will not / their iniquity: and let them who believed not the truth, but accept His authority. And once more / not come into thy righteous- had pleasure in urighteousness. it will be necessary for Him to / ness. I Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant; demonstrate His destructive power. / 11 And I saw a great white throne, Let them be blotted out of the because your adversary the devil, / and him that sat on it, from whose book of the living, and not be as a roaring lion, walketh about, The "great white throne" judgment: We / face the earth and the heaven fled written with the righteous. seeking whom he may devour; can express a sigh of relief for the / away; and there was found no place But I am poor and sorrowful: Hebrews 9:27 ...it is appointed unto final judgment has at last arrived! / for them. let thy salvation, O God set me once to die, but after this the Every person must be judged for his / 12 And I saw the dead, small and up on high. judgment. works, even the believer as Paul said. / great, stand before God; and the Malachi 4:16 Then they that feared Philippians 4:3 ...labourers, whose II Corinthians 5:10 "For we must all / books were opened: and another the Lord spake often one to names are in the book of life. appear before the judgment seat of / book was opened, which is the book another: and the Lord hearkened, Romans 2:5-11 But, after thy hardness Christ; that every one may receive / of life: and the dead were judged and heard it, and a book of rem- and impenitent heart, treasurest the things done in his body, according / out of those things which were embrance was written before him up unto thyself wrath against the to that he hath done, whether it be / written in the books, according to for him that feared the Lord... day of wrath and revelation of good or bad." Romans 10-11 " for we / their works. Jeremiah 17:10 I the Lord search the righteous judgment of God; shall all stand before the judgment / 13 And the sea gave up the dead the heart, I try the reins, Who will render to every man seat of Christ. ... every knee shall / which was in it; and death and hell even to give every man accord- according to his deeds: bow to me, every tongue shall confess" / delivered up the dead which were ing his ways, and according to To them who by patient contin- The reward of the nonbeliever is the / in them: and they were judged the fruit of his doings. uance in well doing seek for "lake of fire". Salvation does not / every man according to their works. Isaiah 5:14-15 Therefore hell hath glory and honour and immortality, result from good works, but (James / 14 And death and hell were cast enlarged herself, and opened eternal life: 2:17) "Even so faith, if it hath not / into the lake of fire. This is the her mouth without measure: and But unto them that are content- works, is dead". Also the believer, / second death. their glory, and their ious, and do not obey the truth, even though the joy of being in the / 15 And whosoever was not found multitude, and their pomp, and but obey unrighteousness, indig- presence of the Lord will not be / written in the book of life was he that rejoiceth, shall nation and wrath, diminished, will be rewarded according / cast into the lake of fire. descend into it. Tribulation and anguish, upon to his works, both on earth and in / And the mean man shall be every soul of man that doeth the presence of the Lord. It is far / brought down, and the mighty evil; of the Jew first, and also better to be in the presence of the / man shall be humbled, and the of the Gentile: Lord for ever, even without any / eyes of the lofty shall be But glory, honour, and peace, to heavenly rewards than to receive the / humbled. every man that worketh good; to second death. But how much better / But the Lord of hosts shall the Jew first, and also to the to receive heavenly rewards for good / be exalted in judgment, and Gentile: works!! / God that is holy shall be For there is no respect of / sanctified in righteousness. persons with God. / / / / Matters of Contention: There has been much discussion of the two "1000 years" Scholars also love to provide conjecture about the / resurrections separated by 1000 years to which we are introduced. 1000 year reign of Christ and the saints. In fact not all scholars / Other passages mention the two resurrections but do not indicate agree that the reign will be on a physical earth and provide the / the great time separation between the two, such as that of John belief that the earth will be so destroyed that physical life on / 5:29. The word resurrection is found only in two instances in the earth will not be possible. But other Scholars point to the many / book we are studying. We are told that the just lived to reign prophecies that are yet unfulfilled which require a utopia type / for the 1000 years and the unjust live not again until the final of existance for the remnant of Israel. Isaiah 11:9 " They shall / judgment after the 1000 years. Obviously not all scholars agree not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall / that it is a literal 1000 years. But what of those that are alive be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." / at this time, are their any just and what is their fate? We then This many say will be accomplished only during the millennium. / look at I Thessalonians 4:16-18 & 5:1-2 "For the Lord himself shall Many say that we have further descriptions of the millennium in the / descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, writings of the prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel and Zechariah. But it is / and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: only here that the time length of 1000 years is associated with / Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with a period of reign of the Lord and the saints. Many have pondered / them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we concerning the reign with such questions as: Will there be birth / ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these and death during this reign. Will their be unbelievers alive? / words. But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that They assume there must be unbelievers or how else would satan / I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the gather his army for one final attack on the "beloved city". / Lord so cometh as a thief in the night." But have we not just Will unbelievers be given an opportunity for salvation during / compounded our problems? We have resorted to a passage of this period if they are alive. Many see portions of chapter / scripture that many scholars interpret to pertain to the rapture 21 to be concerning the millennium since they seem to correspond / (taking away) of the church prior to the great tribulation and the to portions of scripture from writings of Daniel, Isaiah and / great and terrible day of the Lord. They point to the sequencing Ezekiel which many see as being about the millennium. The authors / of the words to indicate that this event happens before the would like to propose that there will be many similarities between / tribulation. Also this is a different event since the coming of the millennium reign and the new heavens and earth of eternity. / the Lord as described in chapter 19 since the trumpet did not As we have been informed that the tabernacle, the temple on earth / announce the coming. Also following the resurrection is described and the ancient ceremonies associated with them were representative / a judgement in which we see two groups, those setting on thrones of things in heaven and things of the future. In like manner we / performing judgment and the martryrs from the tribulation. From believe that the things of the millennium will be precursors / I Corinthians 6:2 "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the of the eternal kingdom. So much speculation and conjecture! It is / world?" we know that the judges are saints. Have they also been a blessing to read and understand the Revelation (1:3), but it is / resurrected or were they from the earlier rapture? As we have best to not be too dogmatic and to be totally occupied with this / studied this book we have carefully looked for the time of the study lest one forget the many other requirements and commandments / rapture. We have seen a number of groups in heaven but we are that are provided in the scriptures for study and enjoyment. / never told directly that they have been raptured. In fact / the time of the rapture and any details of the rapture are not / directly mentioned in the Revelation, they can only be inferred. / Now back to our original question, what of the just that are on / earth when the lord comes? Again we are not directly told, some / scholars infer that no just remain on the earth, other think that / they will remain alive on earth and their body will be changed into / a resurrection body, others feel that they will first be caught up / as in the rapture and then return with the multitude that follow / the Lord. One of many matters of dicussion for scholars. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /