Are you ready? 

     The 34 chapters of Deuteronomy conclude 40 years in the desert with their worldly "promised land" finally in sight. The people wanted kings, and they got them...good and bad. It didn't last. 

     A heavenly promised land awaits.   

     Prophets prophesied about it. In the New Testament, God reveals what is yet to come. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, Paul writes of the rapture, when the Lord comes near the earth, but not on it, to gather the believers of that age. Then chapter 5 predicts the "day of the Lord" when God's wrath covers the earth. 

     2 Timothy tells of godlessness in the last days (chapter 3). 

     Peter in his second letter also mentions the "day of the Lord." The millennium begins. Followed by fire, judgment, destruction...and the heavens and earth disappear. 

     These "authors" were descendants of Abraham.  

     Long ago I played a trumpet and owned a Triumph automobile. Well, there are many trumpets and triumphs in Revelation. The apostle John put revelations of Christ on paper. Victory for the faithful, judgment for others. In the new heaven and earth, there will be no Christians or Jews. All will be God's "bride of Christ" saved over many centuries. One King.  

     John quotes Jesus in Revelation 22:7, 12-16 and 20.    

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