THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

174 The Hope of ^Israel: What Is It?
lutely excludes the possibility of the salvation after
His coming of any who have rejected the gospel
previously.
2 Peter 3:1-10. The apostle Peter speaks plainly in
this passage concerning the scoffers of the last days
who deride the warnings of judgment to come ;
and he
declares that the day of wrath will come suddenly,
when the earth, and the works therein shall be burned
up. Moreover, what he says about the reason for God's
long delay (v. 9) precludes the idea of there being any
opportunity for repentance after that day begins. This
important passage will be considered more in detail
in a subsequent chapter.
Revelation 6:12-17. This vision clearly depicts the
great day of the wrath of the Lamb. It has no place in
it for the salvation of any racial or other group. Moreover,
the captains of industry, the magnates and other
great ones of the earth are under no illusions whatever
as to the doom that is about to overwhelm them.
Revelation 19:11-21.
This passage describes a vision
of the things that are to happen at the second coming
of Christ. John says
: "And I saw heaven opened, and
behold, a white horse; and He that sat upon him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He
doth judge and make war." The vision shows what
Christ will do from the moment He issues forth from
the opened heaven down to the complete overthrow
of all His enemies, the casting of the beast and the
false prophet into the lake of fire, the binding of Satan
in the bottomless pit, and the setting up of the thrones
of His everlasting Kingdom. He comes to "judge and
make war." And in keeping with this purpose, His
eyes are as a flame of fire, and out of His mouth goeth