The Lord himself will descend from heaven with a loud summons, when the archangel calls and the trumpet of God sounds; the dead in Christ will rise first;

With regard to the arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ and our muster before him, I beg you, brothers,

My saints

Do you not know the saints are to manage the world? If the world is to come under your jurisdiction, are you incompetent to adjudicate upon trifles?

so as to strengthen your hearts and make them blameless in holiness before our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones. [Amen.]

It was of these, too, that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, when he said, Behold the Lord comes with myriads of his holy ones,

Made

this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,

General references

Indeed the Father passes judgment on no one; he has committed the judgment which determines life or death entirely to the Son,