Just before His death and resurrection—before His departure from the Mount of Olives
almost 2,000 years ago—Jesus Christ promised, “I will come again” (John 14:3).1
What Christ Will Do When He Returns
8And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants
the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great;
and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
17And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like blind men,
because they have sinned against the Lord: and their blood shall be poured out
as dust, and their flesh as the dung.
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Isaiah 34:8 (KJV)
For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance,
and [the year] of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 61:2 (KJV)
To proclaim the acceptable [year] of the Lord,
and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
Isaiah 63:4 (KJV)
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart,
and [the year] of my redeemed is come.
Proverbs 6:34 (KJV)
For jealousy is the rage of a man:
therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Luke 21:22 (KJV)
For these be the days of vengeance,
that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
Deuteronomy 32:35 (KJV)
To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide
in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things
that shall come upon them make haste.
Jeremiah 46:10 (KJV)
For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance,
that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord God
of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
The Prophet Zephaniah says this time is hastening greatly, or exceedingly!
The great day of the Lord is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice
of the day of the Lord: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly” (Zephaniah 1:13-14).
“The voice” precedes the arrival of the Day of the Lord,
which is now speeding toward us as fast as a rocket launching into space.
that there should be time no longer”
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil,
the Great Tribulation
—2½ years of Satan’s wrath
—1 year of the day of the Lord
the world will suffer for 3½ years.
the Great Tribulation begins: “For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter
and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess
the dwellingplaces that are not theirs” (Habakkuk 1:6).
“Weapons of mass destruction are proliferating rapidly; terrorist groups are arming
for religious war; the nations of Israel are collapsing morally, and will soon collapse
economically, politically and militarily.
Europe is quickly moving toward a full-scale resurrection of its imperial past.
The Middle East is ready to explode and drag the whole world into the deadly mess.
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That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars
of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies;
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the
curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations,
whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,
For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
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And God asks, ‘[W]hy will ye die, O house of Israel?’ (Ezekiel 33:11).
Nations are going to die if we don’t wake up and heed God’s warning!”
