REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!//Chapter Twenty - In Heaven or on Earth? -Continue

 Additionally, we read: "When the Son of man arrives in his glory . . . all the nations will gathered before him." The whole human race is not in heaven when this prophecy is fulfilled.  Certainly, those who "depart into everlasting cutting- off " are not in heaven.  (Matthew 25:31-33, 41, 46)  Instead, mankind stands on the earth in Jesus' view, and he turns his attention to judging them.  Similarly, the great crowd is "before the throne and before the Lamb" in that it stands in the view of Jehovah and his King, Christ Jesus, from whom it receives a favorable judgment. 

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