Purposes of the 2nd Advent – 1

Take vengeance on rebels –

2 Thessalonians 1:7-10

and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

Judge Living Nations –

Psalm 67:4

Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
 For You shall judge the people righteously,
 And govern the nations on earth.

Psalm 96:10-13

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;
 The world also is firmly established,
 It shall not be moved;
 He shall judge the peoples righteously.”
  Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
 Let the sea roar, and all its fullness;
  Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it.
 Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice before the Lord.
  For He is coming, for He is coming to judge the earth.
 He shall judge the world with righteousness,
 And the peoples with His truth.

Psalm 98:9

For He is coming to judge the earth.
 With righteousness He shall judge the world,
 And the peoples with equity.

[Message No: 5927]