OPERATION WRATH OF GOD, Chapter 17

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All Bible quotations, unless otherwise stated or referenced, are taken from the online World English Bible (WEB), which is in the public domain. It is available at the following link: https://ebible.org/eng-web/index.htm. Sometimes I paraphrase the Bible and when I do so, I reference the chapter and verse. Direct quotations from the WEB are indicated by quotation marks. English language Bibles are translated from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. I am no linguist, and I don’t know any linguists, so I have had to rely on others’ translations and romanizations of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Occasionally, I have examined the original Hebrew and Greek of the Bible, zeroing in on key words where the received English translation is debatable or misses the full meaning of the original. To clarify, the WEB refers to the Antichrist, the beasts, and the False Prophet, but makes no reference to any ‘Khan’ or ‘Lavani’, which are names for the Antichrist and the False Prophet given for the purposes of this book.

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Chapter 17: The Sheep and the Goats

When the sky cleared, and the sun rose on a new day, it shone seven times brighter than it was on the day of darkness (Isaiah 30:26). The body of the Antichrist was left to rot (Isaiah 14:18–20) in the accursed valley, for all of the children of Israel to see as they were regathered a second time from the islands of the sea and the ends of the earth (Isaiah 11:11). As they passed, they marvelled that one who was worshipped as a god could be so small, frail and obviously mortal.

The return of the Jewish diaspora was facilitated by many Gentiles (Isaiah 14:2), particularly those from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Armenia and Georgia. These Gentile Christians provided aid, food, water, shelter and transportation for those making the long journey across a shattered planet. The presence of Christ on earth made some of them raise their game. Ships came from the west bearing tribute (Isaiah 60:9) and Jewish returnees.

The angels and saints went forth and brought serious offenders to judgement. And Christian Gentiles came voluntarily to Zion for judgement (Isaiah 2:2–3), in the hopes of receiving healing and aid from the saints. Many (but not exclusively) evil people were killed in the tribulation. Unlike the tribulation martyrs, these were not resurrected for the millennium. All who arrived in Jerusalem were marshalled by the saints and the angels and assessed by Jesus and his twelve apostles, who sat on white thrones (Revelation 20:4) set up in the Valley of Kidron (Joel 3:2), before the new Zion and the ruins of the old Jerusalem.

The Gentiles came before the Lord Jesus, and the Jews were presented before the twelve apostles, everyone according to his or her tribe. Thus the scripture was fulfilled: ‘you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the son of man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.’ (Matthew 19:28). This did not apply to Judas, because in the end, Judas did not truly follow Jesus. Many Jews were admitted to the kingdom, and some were excluded. Some Gentile immigrants were admitted to the kingdom (Ezekiel 47:22), and some were excluded. Entry was permitted to all who were God’s children, who had his blood in them and did his work, regardless of their racial background. This did however encompass many Jews, so that God’s covenant promises to Abraham, Jacob, Israel, and the Gentile Christians, were fulfilled.[i]

While the judgement was underway, many of the 144,000 alongside a contingent of angels were sent out to the nations to secure their fealty to the king. They assisted with the regathering of the diaspora. Some leaders who were friendly with the beast were deposed and replaced by the saints. Others were permitted to remain in place, though their law codes would be revised in alignment with the law of God. No more nations opposed Jesus’ reign, and none doubted him, for they had all seen the footage of his coming, and spoken with his glorious emissaries, and all were desperate for his aid, because the earthquake and floods had brought them to their knees and decimated their populations.

John was appointed to judge the Tribe of Judah, the largest of the twelve tribes, and the one to which his father belonged (Revelation 5:5; Matthew 1; 1 Chronicles 28:4; Hebrews 7:14). Many came before him who knew themselves to be Jews. Many who had lived in Israel of late, and many from America, and all nations, some of whom did not even know of their partial Jewish descent. John’s job was actually pretty straightforward, because of the mark, and because he had asked for and received the ability to see whether someone had taken and retained the Spirit of the Lord within themselves. The mark separated the goats just as the spirit distinguished the sheep.

Another group of glorified saints was working with the angels to gather all of the guns, bombs and blades in a giant heap to be melted down and turned into farming equipment (Isaiah 2:4). This task was to go on for seven years (Ezekiel 39:9). Among the weapons were some long, evil looking missiles, tipped with red nosecones containing nuclear warheads.

Other members of the elect were assigned to rebuild Jerusalem and directed the foreign labourers (Isaiah 60:10) and volunteers from the remnant in this task. The core of the old city was rebuilt, but the work was ongoing. The Promised Land was divided into twelve tribal allotments (Ezekiel 47;48), ruled over by the twelve apostles. On the Zion plateau lay the holy portion for the priests and for Jesus himself in the temple precinct (Ezekiel 45:1–5), as well as the rebuilt Jerusalem itself (Ezekiel 40:2).

All of the demons were gathered by the angels and placed on the left-hand side of Christ’s throne.

All of those who had taken the mark of the beast were sent to the left-hand side of the Lord, where the saints took them and bound them in chains, to be killed (Revelation 19:21)[ii] or used as penal labour, as they had benefited from Egyptian and Israeli forced labour (Isaiah 14:2)[iii] during the tribulation. They assisted with the rebuilding of the cities, in a similar manner to the Nazis forced to work for the Allies after World War Two. The higher-ranking members of Khan’s alliance, the murderers and war criminals, were automatically scheduled for execution.

All with the Spirit of God were God’s sheep and were directed to Jesus’ right hand side.

Everyone who arrived, or was gathered there by the angels, was sorted in this way, according to their deeds and their choice of the true Messiah, or the false.

Those without the mark, and without the spirit, were the hardest of all to judge. John could either sentence them to be executed, and condemned to Sheol, give them some form of ‘community service’, or simply bar them from entering the Promised Land. If he was too severe, he may risk contravening the commandment to ‘love your enemies’ (Matthew 5:44). If he was too merciful, he risked letting a snake enter the garden. In the end, John took his ego out of the equation and prayed to Christ to ensure that he knew what was right and judged justly, as he had prayed when he was Solomon (1 Kings 3:6–15). After decades of being rejected by the gatekeepers of a dying culture, John found himself a gatekeeper, and it was his job to separate the weeds from the wheat. It was a duty he took very seriously.

There was only one time he was tempted during the judgement, and that was when he encountered Mark Anderson, one of his schoolyard bullies, who had delighted in humiliating him, beating him and slandering and mocking him at every opportunity for ten long years.

Anderson came before John’s throne and began to plead his case.

‘Alright mate,’ he said.

John glowered back at him, as serious as sin.

Mark dropped the act, though he did not yet recognise John in his glory.

‘Please, spare me, your honour. I have four kids. I raised them, I put a roof over their head and food on their table, I worked hard for them. It’s not a great job, being a plumber, you deal with a lot of, um, toilets and that. Put up with a lot of shit, you might say. I got covered in shit for my wife and my kids. Surely that qualifies me for this kingdom – free food is there?’ he said, trying to peek past John and see what the saints were doing up on the holy mountain, Zion.

‘Don’t you recognise me? It’s John. John Burrows.’

‘Who?’ Mark stopped looking past John and started seeing him.

‘Fat John, from Wycliffe Memorial School.’

Mark was speechless. He was utterly horrified that the glorified being before him, shining with light from an angelic throne, was once the kid whose head he had flushed in the toilet. Mark couldn’t think of a single word to say. He didn’t apologise. He had never dreamed that pudgy weak little John would one day sit on a throne in judgement of him as a son of God, an apostle of Christ, the Prince of Israel.

‘You never know what people will do once they graduate,’ John said, blithely.

He considered being merciful. Jesus liked it when he forgave his enemies, prayed for them and did good deeds on their behalf. But this was different. This was a practical matter of assessing threats to peace and security in the kingdom. Paradise would not be paradise if it was filled with sinners.

By the power Jesus had delegated to all of his subordinate judges, John immediately saw that Mark had cheated on his wife and abused his children and mocked his workmates as he had mocked his schoolmates, and that everything he did and said was poison fruit of an evil tree. The swirlies were by the by. John had forgiven all of that, but the fact was, this man could not be trusted with the children of God.

‘Your silence speaks volumes of underestimation that shall never be written. His portion is with the goats,’ John said, dispassionately, and the saints dragged Mark away.

John was granted a brief break from his judgement seat to be reunited with his sons, and Helen, whom he directed towards Berry. Flight Lieutenant Piggott was over by Saint Paul’s throne, as he belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin (Philippians 3:5). John was very glad that Paul had been among those partaking in the first resurrection; the saint was a dynamo of activity, and there was much to be done.

When Peter asked why all these people were stood in two groups, John had explained the concept of the sheep and the goats (Matthew 25:31–46) to his sons. James indicated the goats and asked him, ‘Daddy, why is God punishing all those people?’

‘A long time ago, your grandfather gave me the answer to that question. ‘“This is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.’” (John 3:19).

‘What does that mean?’

‘It means that the condemned rejected Christ because they prefer to sin and don’t want to give up sinning or even admit that they have sinned. Nor do they desire to undergo the difficult work of changing their ways. Everything else is just an excuse.’

‘Why do they love to sin?’

‘It’s who they are. It is their nature.’

‘Why did God create so many sinners?’

‘Because God’s name Yahweh means “I AM WHO I AM”[iv]. Before the creation, God was faced with a dilemma. To be or not to be?[v] He chose to be, because he is existence – I AM – and life. That’s his nature. God saw that it was better to create flawed creatures than to not make them, even though that meant a lot of suffering. If he had not done so, we would not exist. God also saw that some of those flawed beings would eventually change and become like him, through the help and sacrifice of his Son. That is why God is called the Father.’

James went quiet as he thought about that. He nodded with a newfound solemnity.

‘The boy will make a theologian yet,’ said Penny.

Then the judgement resumed, John’s family moved aside, and Amir came before his throne. He was surprised; he had no idea he had Jewish ancestry. His Iraqi uniform was covered in blood and dust. Before he could speak in his own defence, John said: ‘Your mark is a counterfeit. Interesting.’

‘I am a US special forces operator. I came here on a mission to kill Malik Khan. That mission failed, but my teammate and I were able to save some civilians and Stump fighters, kill some of the enemy, create confusion among their ranks, and sabotage their war efforts to a significant degree,’ he said, stiffening himself in his fake uniform, as if standing before a court martial.

John smiled.

‘At ease, sailor. I know exactly who you are and what you have done. I know you killed some civilians, to maintain your cover. I know you felt it was for the greater good of removing Khan from the world, though if you had understood the Bible, you would have known the mission was doomed to failure. I know that overall, your efforts have tended to help us more than they have hindered us. But what really concerns me is, why did you not receive the Spirit of the Lord? You are a Christian, are you not?’

‘Yes, I converted after the prophecies were fulfilled—’

‘Then why did you not fulfil the prophecy, “I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door I will come into him and dine with him, and he with me”’?[vi]

Amir was crestfallen. He didn’t know what to say.

‘Fear not. You will have plenty of time to learn the ways of God in the coming era. You will live to a ripe old age. But not here. Not in the Promised Land. Return in peace to the land you have killed for, and help to disarm it, as all nations must be disarmed. That shall be your penance.’

‘Thank you, sir,’ Amir said, solemnly. Then he saluted John, who saluted back.

Amir was taken by the angels to stand with the goats. There were many like him, nominal Christians who had not done the one thing needful, who had not truly obeyed the Lord. Jesus personally dealt with many of these. To them he said: ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’’ (Matthew 7:23). Unlike Amir, many of them were sentenced to death, and a thousand years in Sheol.

Joel stood waiting to be judged. His wounds had been healed by a saint. Through the crowd, he saw his brother Aaron functioning as a bailiff, leading people to the judgement seat of Christ. But he was different. Changed, somehow. Aaron was glowing.

‘Hey, Aaron!’ Joel cried, pushing past the other sheep.

‘Joel!’

Joel slammed into his brother with enough force to fell a normal man. But Aaron held his ground, easily. He was no longer a normal man. They embraced.

‘You came back?’

‘I was resurrected. I came to, caked in dust in the old town of Jerusalem, wondering if this was heaven.’

Joel saw the bullet hole in Aaron’s neck. There was no blood, but the mark remained, like the hole the spear left in Jesus’ side (John 20:27). Joel broke down sobbing. Aaron kissed his brother’s head.

Joel came before Paul, prince of the Tribe of Benjamin, and was permitted to enter the kingdom with his brother and their father.

John’s second cousin came before his throne. Elizabeth. She was a nice person, and guilty of no great evil. But she was extremely materialistic and had been utterly dismissive of Christ, when John had preached the gospel to her. She worked as a professor at a university, and to believe in Christ amidst such a sceptical environment would jeopardise her standing with her peers and possibly even her livelihood. That is why she rejected the gospel, he knew.

‘John? Is that you?’ Liz said, squinting at him.

‘It is I.’

Again, she was absolutely stunned. ‘Please, for nan’s sake, put me with the sheep.’

John sighed. ‘That I cannot do. I have a sacred duty to carry out, and I must not err. The stakes are too high for nepotism, or any kind of favouritism. You have taken the mark of the adversary.’

‘Everyone at the university was doing it!’

‘To enter God’s kingdom, you must be the one sheep that leaves the herd and is found by the good shepherd. For the herd was lost. The herd was always lost, without the shepherd.’

‘But, we’re family! Aren’t you Christians supposed to love thy neighbour – and especially thy family!’

‘Don’t think that I came to send peace to the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at odds against his father, a daughter against her mother and a daughter in law against a mother in law,’ was John’s verbatim answer from Matthew 10:34–35.

She was crestfallen as the saints carried her away to judgement. He wasn’t looking forward to explaining that one to his mother.

There had been geographical changes to the Valley of Hinnom as a result of the two most recent earthquakes. A lake of fire had formed there, vast, hissing, bubbling molten lava dredged up from the earth’s mantle.

The final sentences for both groups, the sheep and then the goats, were pronounced by Jesus, as it is written in the Gospel of Matthew, Chapter 25.

At the beginning of the punishment, the Antichrist and the False Prophet were resurrected and thrown living into the lake of fire (Revelation 19:20). Their screams echoed throughout the whole valley, and their demise was witnessed by all the damned.

‘Behold, the fate awaiting those who rejected the Lord,’ Christ announced from his throne.

Satan was cast living into Sheol by the two archangels; they carried him down the chasm that had opened up in the valley. There he would be bound for one thousand years (Revelation 20:1–3). As soon as he passed from view, and was put under angelic lock and key, all of the mortals who had not taken the mark felt much lighter, as if a terrible burden had been lifted from everyone’s shoulders. They blinked like myopic newborns seeing the light for the first time. The part of them that wanted to sin, to lust, to fear, to become sick – that was the deceiver. It was not eliminated, but it was shackled. Kept within bounds.

Then the sentences were carried out upon the goats, according to their deeds (Revelation 20:12) and where they stood in the valley of decision. Some were executed by the swords of the angels (Revelation 19:21), some were taken or kept on as labourers (Isaiah 14:2), and others still were spared, yet denied entry to God’s kingdom.

Coxwell was there. He could not look John in the eye and was executed. John watched as a Gentile woman who had once maliciously gaslighted and rejected him was led off to be executed. Seeing him, and recognising him, she was surprised, but she did not cry out for mercy. Looking at his grim face, she knew she would not find it. Like Mark Anderson, John forgave her, but letting her into the kingdom, to be among God’s children, was a totally different matter. She remained stiff-necked and unrepentant to the end, cursing God and complaining of his injustice even as the sword descended on her neck. Her decapitated head, framed by thick blonde locks, continued to stare disdainfully at John. He simply shook his head.

At the end of the judgement, Jesus himself, with John and the Levites under him, oversaw the construction of his temple, the Fourth Temple, according to the plan of Ezekiel (40–48). It was raised and built in three days. It was made of wood and stone. Jesus was a carpenter-mason, after all, the stone the builders rejected who died on the wood of the cross and was buried in the tomb sealed by a stone. The blocks of stone were levitated into place by Jesus and the saints, to fulfil the scripture, “Destroy this temple and I will raise it up in three days.’ (John 2:19).When all of these things were accomplished, the gates of the kingdom were opened to the sheep. The period from the Second Coming to the inauguration of the kingdom was 45 days in total, as the prophet Daniel (12:11–12) foretold.

John entered his personal allotment, on either side of the holy portion and Jerusalem (Ezekiel 45:7), with Penny and his children (Ezekiel 46:16). The land itself had been regenerated (Isaiah 35:1; Joel 2) by the grace and presence of God. Other than the ruins of the cities, and the desolate wastes of Babylon (Isaiah 13:20) and Edom (Ezekiel 35:3), it was lush, verdant, and untamed. A veritable Garden of Eden.

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[i] Christians are heirs to Abraham and inheritors of the Promised Land through the blood of Christ, himself a descendant of Abraham via Isaac’s line. That is what Paul meant when he wrote: ‘if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring [or, seed] and heirs according to promise’ (Galatians 3:29). Moreover, John the Baptist said to some Pharisees and Sadducees seeking baptism: ‘Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’, for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.’ (Matthew 3:9–10). This means that Jewish people cannot be complacent about inheriting the Promised Land via genealogy, because entry into God’s kingdom depends (partly) on deeds, and God was able to raise up new children of Abraham (Gentile Christians) by unconventional means. Jesus is the stone the builders rejected (Psalm 118:22; Luke 20:17) from whom God raised new children of Abraham. In one sense, he is the ‘offspring’ of Abraham that was prophesied to inherit the Promised Land. The Promised Land is thus better understood as the land promised to Jesus although many Jews will live there, and God will also fulfil his promises to the remnant of Israel, as passages such as Deuteronomy 30:20 and Genesis 28:13–15 make plain, so that both interpretations of ‘offspring’ ­– as Jesus and the Jews – are in some way correct.

[ii] Revelation 19:21: ‘The rest were killed.’

[iii] ‘They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.’

[iv] Exodus 3:14.

[v] Shakespeare, W. Hamlet. Act 3, scene 1.

[vi] Revelation 3:20.