And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather his elect together from the four winds, from utmost heaven to utmost earth.

For the Lord himself with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God will descend from heaven. Then the dead in Christ will rise first.

Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to meet him, I entreat you, brothers,

My saints

Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try such trifling cases?

And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.

It was to these, too, that Enoch, the "seventh in descent from Adam," prophesied, saying, "Lo! the Lord is come with myriads of his saints,

Made

"Drink from it, all of you; for this is my blood of the Covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

since they consist only in meats and drinks and various ablutions, carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of reformation.

to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to his sprinkled Blood whose message cries louder than that of Abel.

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of an eternal covenant,

General references

"The Father indeed does not judge any one, but has given all judgment to the Son,