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The Last Plagues and the Judgment
At the general conference of believers in the present truth, held
at Sutton, Vermont, September, 1850, I was shown that the seven
last plagues will be poured out after Jesus leaves the sanctuary. Said
the angel, “It is the wrath of God and the Lamb that causes the
destruction or death of the wicked. At the voice of God the saints
will be mighty and terrible as an army with banners, but they will not
then execute the judgment written. The execution of the judgment
will be at the close of the one thousand years.”
After the saints are changed to immortality and caught up to-
gether with Jesus, after they receive their harps, their robes, and
their crowns, and enter the city, Jesus and the saints sit in judgment.
The books are opened—the book of life and the book of death. The
book of life contains the good deeds of the saints; and the book of
death contains the evil deeds of the wicked. These books are com-
pared with the statute book, the Bible, and according to that men are
judged. The saints, in unison with Jesus, pass their judgment upon
the wicked dead. “Behold ye,” said the angel, “the saints, in unison
with Jesus, sit in judgment, and mete out to the wicked according
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to the deeds done in the body, and that which they must receive at
the execution of the judgment is set off against their names.” This, I
saw, was the work of the saints with Jesus through the one thousand
years in the Holy City before it descends to the earth. Then at the
close of the one thousand years, Jesus, with the angels and all the
saints, leaves the Holy City, and while He is descending to the earth
with them, the wicked dead are raised, and then the very men that
“pierced Him,” being raised, will see Him afar off in all His glory,
the angels and saints with Him, and will wail because of Him. They
will see the prints of the nails in His hands and in His feet, and where
they thrust the spear into His side. The prints of the nails and the
spear will then be His glory. It is at the close of the one thousand
years that Jesus stands upon the Mount of Olives, and the mount
parts asunder and becomes a mighty plain. Those who flee at that
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