The Last Hour - Three Classes of People  

In April of 2002 these Meditations opened to consider the promise of Jesus to "reward those not ashamed of the Son of Man as He comes in glory.” Matt.16:27-28; Mark 8:38; Mark 9:1. Some of those appointed to taste death will do so for no more than 3 days after the Two Prophets are killed. Some in the Church will not die until the days Trump 7 is "about to sound that God's wrath has come"! 

I close these Meditations realizing millions will perish during the Hour of Trial on the Lastday. Hundreds of millions who “fear God, both great and small,” also suddenly change their minds about Jesus and will worship Him as God.

The Apostles represent the servants of God until the End of the Age because the words of Jesus apply to all Believers. In answering their questions about the End and signs of  the nearness of His coming, Jesus indicated the time will arrive when we “know the End  is Near.” Matt.24:33. For Scripture, specially Revelation, reveals more on knowing how  near it is ... even when the Hour of Trial is very imminent!

We will know the End is Near when Endtime Signs appear. Gabriel equated  Daniel’s End of Time with 1290 days. Michael begins the last 3½ years by casting Satan  from heaven. Dan.12:1,11; Rev.12:7-9. Those days will be “cut short” to 1260 days. Rev.12:6,14. The Two Prophets finish demonstrating God’s kingdom power. Rev.12:10. The Beast kills these two Lampstands on day #1260. Rev.11:3-7.

When they die, no one can know which of the next two or three days will be the Day of the Lord's presence. However, the Lastday must occur during the day/night of a full moon. Rev.6:12 (NIV; NASB). That Day will begin with one word, coming out of the Temple from the Throne: "It is Done." Rev.16:17. With that word, gegonen, the flow of the text reverts from Rev.16:12-17 to Rev.6:12-17 to launch the Day of the Lord.

With the last Martyr having died, the Two Lampstands unite the Two Olive Trees as One. The Lastday begins with Seal 6 “in the days after great tribulation---when time is no longer.” Mark 13:24, Matt.24:29, Rev.10:6-7. The G&W sign reveals the Plagues must first “complete God’s anger.” Rev.15:1. Plague 7 empties in midair and a voice out of the Temple, from the Throne, launches the Outer Path of 40 verses. Rev.16:16-17; Rev.6:12-17; Rev.7:1-8; Rev.14:1 to Rev.15:5. (Rev.15:5 transitions to Rev.7:9 for the Middle Path and the fulfillment of Rev.14:20 and 16:15 are part of the Inner Path, both occurring on the Lastday).

The Outer Path of 40 verses ends with all the Martyrs, including the Two Prophets about to be resurrected, and a rescued 144,000 Firstfruit of living Saints, singing songs of Moses and the Lamb while standing before God on a river/sea of fire. Rev.15:1-4.

The Two Prophets start the 22 verses of the Middle Path by rising up before Seal 7 to witness in the Temple Drama. Rev.11:12-14, Rev.7:9 to Rev.8:5, Rev.11:15-19. They ascend after joining the Martyrs in singing the Song of Moses. The 144,000 also sing their "new" song.

They rise up in the “same hour” as the great quake. This *hour* includes the great quake of Seal 6 that launched the Outer Path at the voice out of the Temple, from the Throne, saying: “It is Done.” Rev.6:12-14. This hour also includes a great quake that kills 7000 VIPs and attends the launching of the Middle Path. Survivors tremble but glorify God. The last Martyr will have been killed at last! Rev.6:11, Rev.11:12-14.

The Middle Path of 22 verses gives us the Three-Act Temple Drama. All of heaven’s hosts praise God and the Lamb. Seal 7 opens the Scroll to convict and sentence the wicked and Trump 7 reveals the Hour of Wrath has come. The Verdict of the Angel of Fire in Seal 7 and the trumpeting of the 7^th Angel climaxes the Middle Path. A Theophany launches the Inner Path with “flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder, the great quake and great hail.” History’s greatest quake liquidates Babylon, the City, and the global System. God’s holy wrath has come at last! Rev.11:18,19; Rev.16:18,19.

The Middle Path does not include the “Hour of Trial on all inhabitants over all the face of all the earth.” Believers are kept from that hour during which the tribes of earth “beg to escape all these things and to be able to stand before the Son of Man" as He appears with all the Saints. Rev.3:10, Luke 21:35-36. Jesus “gathers the Elect above from earth to heaven” and the Son of Man comes with them to give the world’s kingdoms to the people of the Saints. Mark 13:24-27,  Dan.7:24-27.

The 7^th Trumpet closes the Middle Path with “God’s Wrath and the appointed time having come to judge and reward prophets and saints and all those who fear God!” Rev.11:18. It seems the judgment awakens the tribes of earth who fear God, both small and great. They will mourn and beg to escape as the Son of Man appears with all the Saints! Rev.1:7; Matt.24:30; Zech.12:10; Luke 21:36. At His presence Jesus is concerned with a different class of people by the millions who fear God; who suddenly realize they must worship the Son of Man as the only true God! They will constitute the "nations that come to worship God" and whom Christ and the Saints will "rule with an iron rod." Zec.14:16; Rev.15:4; Rev.2:25-27; Dan.7:25-27; Rev.19:15.

I believe Jesus had *three* living classes of people in mind at the sign of His coming. One: “All who endure to the End will be saved.” Two: “They (the wicked) will all be taken away.”  Three: “Those who are willing to die will be kept alive.” Matt.24:13,39; Luke 17:33. Only Church “Overcomers endure to the End.” Rev.2:26. Jesus promised to be with us to the End, not just with 144,000 Jews, to spread the Gospel until the End. Matt.28:19-20. But the Hour of Trial envisions millions of earth's tribes begging to escape all that happens during the events of 100 verses in Revelation on that day! See Centerpiece.

Jesus taught that the wicked will perish. These “sons of Satan are first reaped and destined for Hell in the harvest at the End of the Age.” Matt.13:30,39,40,49; Rev.14:9-11. In the Outer Path's 40 verses, those who refuse to repent of worshiping the Beast and his image, and for wearing his mark, must drink the wine of God’s anger mixed in the Cup of Wrath and poured out in the aftershocks of history’s greatest quake. Revelation is consistent with the wicked being reaped first and collected by the Angels in the Outer Path before Christ comes in glory during the Inner Path. Rev.14:14-19; Matt.13:30-42.

How misleading that the first “Left Behind Book” asserts a quarter of mankind are killed in Seal 4 and that God’s wrath in Seal 6 occur 21 months prior to the 1260-day Endtime of Great Tribulation. Book One, P.311-312. Jesus put Seal 6 *after* the great tribulation. Armies of Trump 6 kill a third of mankind over a quarter of the earth’s area, in the second "woe," just before the Two Prophets ascend to heaven! Rev.6:8; Rev.9:15; Rev.11:14.

A third of Israel will survive. Zech.13:8-9. If a third of the Tribes of Ishmael survive among four billion people, the multitudes of people who are left may include 400 million Muslims “confessing Jesus as Lord to the glory of God with multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision.” Millions to whom Joel, Zechariah and Jesus refer will beg to escape, being “left behind but kept alive” to constitute the nations coming to worship God. Joel 3:14; Zech.14:16; Luke 17:33; Rev.15:4.

The Martyrs’ song of Moses reveals that “all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship God.” Trib-Martyrs will serve God “day and night as pillars in heaven's Temple,” but there will be no night for them in heaven. They reign with Christ and He is their Shepherd. Rev.3:12; Rev. 7:15-17; Rev.20:4-5. Israel will lead the nations as Church Overcomers sit on thrones ruling with Christ over the nations. Zech.8:20-23; Rev.2:25-27.

The tribes who mourn are invited to the Lamb’s wedding supper, not being part of the Bride. Rev.19:9. So the earthly Kingdom given at the end of the Millennium is for the sheep to inherit while goat nations are sent to Hell. How they treat the sheep during the Millennium segregates the goats from the sheep. The Son of Man will separate them at the end of the Millennium.

Only the Lamb’s Bride inhabits the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven. Sheep nations inherit the New Earth with its “kingdom prepared for them from the world’s foundation. Matt.25:34. They bring the glory of nations into New Jerusalem where the servants of God bear his name, serve Him and behold His face forever.” Matt.25:32-41; Rev.21:2,22-26; Rev.22:2-3.

With this Meditation, I wish to wait until we see more Pre-Endtime signs than that of the White Horseman's victories over Terrorism. The next sign should be that of Mystery Babylon the Great. Please click on "Updates" for monthly postings starting in May of 2004.  [Edit 4/19/2008] www.lastday.net.  Mel Miller