Page 12 - 21 The Judgment of the Wicked

THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

resurrection.” When Christ appears on the

white cloud, “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.” Paul saw the

same scene, and thus describes it: “The Lord

Himself shall descend from heaven with a

shout, with the voice of the archangel, and

with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ

shall rise first: then we which are alive and

remain shall be caught up together with them

in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and

so shall we ever be with the Lord.” This is the

first resurrection, when the righteous dead

will come forth at the sound of the voice of

Christ, and with the living righteous, meet the

Lord in the air. “Blessed and holy is he that