The Power of Children in the Last Times

second coming; thus He will appear without sin to those who wait for Him for their salvation (Hebrews 9:28) and deliver them all from all their enemies. Specifically, at the time of the seventh and last trumpets, He shall kill the Antichrist—as the man of sin and the son of perdition—and destroy those who have destroyed the earth (Revelation 11:18). These are they who do not wait for Him for salvation, but shall instead find Him to be a stern judge. This is explicitly taught in the present text, for it says (1) that it shall then come to pass when
the great and terrible day of the LORD Hebrew: yom YHVH ha-gadol ve-ha-nora
shall come. What kind of day that shall be is explained in the same chapter, verses 1, 2, and 3, where the Lord says: "Behold! A day is coming that shall burn like an oven; then all the despisers and the godless shall be as stubble, and the coming day shall set them ablaze," says the Lord of Hosts, "and shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness shall arise, and healing shall be under His wings; and you shall go in and out, and grow fat like calves in the stall. You shall tread down the godless, for they shall be as ashes under your feet on the day that I shall make," says the Lord of Hosts. Everyone can see that such a great and astonishing day of the Lord cannot be understood as the first appearance of Christ, when He, as a patient Lamb

Lamb, allowed Himself to be slaughtered for the sins of the whole world. For at that time, all the proud Hebrew: kol-zerim, literally "all strangers" or "foreigners," here interpreted as the arrogant enemies of God.—or as the LXX The Septuagint, the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. renders it, all foreigners Greek: pantes allophyloi, namely all haughty and godless mystical Philistines The author uses "Philistines" metaphorically to describe the enemies of the true spiritual church.—nor all who do wickedness Hebrew: kol-oseh rish'ah as lawless ones, were not then executed or cleared out of the way so that neither root nor branch remained. Rather, there was a great multitude of such godless people who remained in their wickedness and brought the Lord JESUS to the cross at His first coming. Likewise, it did not happen at that time—as is written in verse 3—that the pious who feared the name of the Lord trod the godless under their feet like one treads on ashes (into which they would have been turned by the fire-burning wrath of GOD and His day). On the contrary, one had to experience how the faithful disciples and Apostles of the Lord, and other Christians, were trodden underfoot by the godless and unbelieving Jews and Heathens during the ten successive persecutions. However, at the day of the second coming of the Lord, the leaf shall turn; and that which is threatened against the godless despisers here in the text shall be fulfilled. At that time, the Lamb shall be angry and shall roar like a lion, so that heaven and earth shall tremble; and the saints shall judge the world and shall shepherd the heathens with a rod of iron (1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation).