The Last Plagues and the Judgment
At the general conference of believers in the present truth, held at
Sutton, (Vt.) 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 1000
years.
After the saints are changed to immortality, and are caught up
together, with Jesus, receive their harps, crowns, &c., 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 were compared with the Statute book, the
Bible, and according to that they were judged. The saints in unison
with Jesus pass their judgment upon the wicked dead. Behold ye! said
the angel, the saints sit in judgment, in unison with Jesus, and mete out
to each of the wicked, according to the deeds done in the body, and it
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is set off against their names, what they must receive at the execution
of the judgment. This, I saw, was the work of the saints with Jesus, in
the Holy City before it descends to the earth, through the 1000 years.
Then at the close of the 1000 years, Jesus, and the angels, and all the
saints with him, 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 1000 years that
Jesus stands upon the Mount of Olives, and the Mount parts asunder,
and it becomes a mighty plain, and those who flee at that time are the
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