"Then shall He sit upon the seat of His Majesty," (St. Matt. XXV. 31) and "render to every man according to his works." (chap. XVI. 27). Then "the heavens shall pass away with great violence, and the elements shall be melted with heat, and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up." (2 Pet. III. 10). And all these events are to take place "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye!" (1 Cor. XV. 52). With the vivid words of Scripture before us, it is not difficult to make a picture of the scene--the sign of the Cross where all can see it; the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of God heralding the approach of the Judge; the Son of Man, coming in the clouds with all His Angels and thousands of His Saints (all those from Heaven and Purgatory); the cries of those to whom His coming is as that of "a thief in the night" (1 Thess. V. 2); the shouts of joy of "the children of light" (verse 5); the opening of the graves, the sea giving up its dead and the reunion of each soul, whether from Heaven, Purgatory or hell, with its body; the changing of the bodies of those who are living on the earth into Resurrection bodies; then the great multitude of the elect clothed in their bodies of immortality rising to meet their Lord in the air; then "the great white throne" set up and He who is "appointed by God to be Judge" (Acts X. 42) taking His seat upon it, "His garment ... white as snow ... His throne like flames of fire ... thousands of thousands" ministering to Him (Dan. VII. 9, 10); the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne (Apoc. XX. 12), "ten thousand times a hundred thousand" standing before Him. (Dan. VII. 10). POINT III. THE JUDGMENT. (1) _The Separation._ Quickly the Angels separate that vast multitude into two companies--those on His right Hand and those on His left, the sheep and the goats, those who are to enter into life everlasting and those who are to enter into everlasting punishment (St. Matt. XXV. 46); those who have been faithful over the few things entrusted to them and those who have hidden their Lord's talent; those whose lamps are burning and those whose lamps are going out. There is fixed a great chaos between the two companies, so that they who would pass from one side to the other _cannot_, it is too late. (St. Luke XVI. 26).