For the end of Jerusalem only, the little earth was troubled; but for
this universal ending, Heaven itself is convulsed. In the great sudden
blackness only the roaring of water will be heard, and screams of
terror. It is the Day of the Lord, the day of God’s wrath described in
their times by Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah and Joel. “The day of the Lord
is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. A day
of darkness and of gloominess! The land is as the garden of Eden before
them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. The people shall be much
pained: all faces shall gather blackness. Therefore shall all hands be
faint and every man’s heart shall melt. And they shall be afraid: pangs
and sorrow shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman
that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another. Behold the day of
the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the
stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their
light: the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their
host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a
falling fig from the fig tree.”
This is the day of the Father, day of blackness in the Heavens and of
terror on earth. But the day of the Son follows immediately after.
He does not appear this time hidden in a stable, but on high in Heaven,
no longer poor and wretched, but in power and splendor of glory. “And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall
gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to
the other.” And when the celestial trumpets shall have awakened all
those sleeping in the tombs, the irrevocable division shall be made.
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels
with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
“And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate
them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from, the goats:
“And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his
left.
“Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed
of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world:
“For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave
me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
“Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
“Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an
hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?
“When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed
thee?
“Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you,
Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren,
ye have done it unto me.
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