And He will send forth His angels, with the sound of a great trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

because the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven, with a shout, with a voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

Now we request you, brethren, regarding the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to Him,

My saints

Or know ye not that the saints will judge the world? And, if the world is judged by you, are ye unworthy of the smallest tribunals?

to the end that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.

And to these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, "Behold, the Lord came with His holy myriads,

Made

for this is My blood of the covenant, which is shed in behalf of many for remission of sins.

being only (with meats and drinks and various immersions) ordinances of the flesh, imposed until a time of reformation.

and to Jesus, the Mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel.

Now the God of peace, Who brought up from the dead the Great Shepherd of the sheep, in virtue of the blood of an eternal covenant, even our Lord Jesus,

General references

For neither doth the Father judge any one, but all judgment He hath given to the Son;