Chapter Forty-One/God's Day of Judgment -It's Joyful Outcome - The Thousand-Year Judgment Day - Conclusion

 John, however, observes a throng far more numerous than the surviving great crowd. It will number into the thousands of millions! "And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened." (Revelation 20:12a) "The great and the small" embraces the prominent as well as the less prominent ones of humans that have lived and died on this earth during the past 6,000 years. In the Gospel that the apostle John wrote shortly after Revelation, Jesus said of the Father: "He has given him [Jesus] authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out." (John 5:27-29) What a stupendous project-the undoing of the deaths and burials throughout all history! No doubt those countless millions in God's memory will be brought forth gradually so that the great crowd-so few by comparison-will be ablet to handle problems that may arise because resurrected ones may tend at first to follow their old life-style, with its fleshly weaknesses and attitudes. 

Next time: Chapter Forty-One/God's Day of Judgment-It's Joyful Outcome - Who Are Raised and Judged? 

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