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Words are either representations of symbols, direct descriptions of reality itself.....or both.

Some reviling blasphemers would promptly dismiss the words of the New-Testament book of Revelation as bizarre religious-connotation hallucinations of either a drunk or someone besieged with solitary-confinement-exacerbated temporary insanity.

Some would insinuate and infer that the words and phrases within Revelation are a hard-to-differentiate mixture of references to perhaps previous history combined with observational descriptions of natural entities and phenomena seamlessly integrated into imaginary and fanciful parables, metaphors, euphemisms, and allegories.

Take for example the Revelation reference to the "1000 years." MUST that millennium be exact down to the last second (i.e. 1000.000 years precisely) .....or could it be instead taken to mean 998, 1200, or 75 years? Is that number to be taken literally?

ARE the entities, events, and timing specified in Genesis chapter one to be taken literally or instead figuratively? Is what is intended to merely prove some vague theological premise, despite the details?

Notable and vital it is that the Inspired human author of Revelation was directed by the LORD to state an ominous and frightening, Spirit-enforced, do-NOT-change-NOR-omit-NOR-add-ANY-words Copyright Warning in the last chapter of Revelation.

Revelation 22:18 I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,
Revelation 22:19 and if any one takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

So much for anyone pseudo-believably presuming that one religious-text revision is as good as the next, and for vital words the English language has changed, continues to change, and is anyone's guess what meanings are supposed to be construed as presently associated with whatever words.

It's not unusual for prejudiced bigots to misthink and misconstrue contents of any part of sacred Scripture. In our present modern age of sliding through stopsigns, doublespeak, loaded statements and loaded questions based upon false premises in the first place, people saying what they do not mean and not meaning what they say, such misrepresentation is expected (but, of course, is non-acceptable).

To wit, does a 35-mph road sign with two orange flags or an orange bar on it merely mean "don't go too fast" or "don't go too slow?" And what exactly is "too fast" or "too slow?" Is such to be taken literally.....or instead symbolically, figuratively, allegorically, metaphorically, contextually, interpretatively? Could such a specific speed-sign number be instead taken to mean 50 or 70 or 10?

The experimentational literally discover -- by the presence or absence of flashing red-and-blue squad-car lights behind them!

Even more:

Does it really matter WHAT exact letters-and-numbers combination computer BIOS passcodes are (not to mention what precise order and sequence they are typed in)? Can we instead have a whatever! or doesn't matter! attitude and resultant action in attempting computer entry? Isn't the OVERALL figurative, metaphorical, allegorical, contextual, interpretative POINT merely to get into the computer - regardless of the purportedly "nitpicky" details of the code? Try it, if you are so inclined.....and frustrate yourself into utterly ludicrous self-imposed madness!

Spirit-convinced faith and religious acceptance of already-stated given facts from The Ultimate known and respected Source of both Genesis and Revelation is easy, safe, and non-confusing.....in stark contrast to the embarrassing, rebellious, anti-Biblical, Bible-ignoring, Scripture-disregarding, Bible-questioning, anti-scientific, non-provable blatter of the deliberately?-ignorant, non-thinking, prejudicial presumptuousness of anti-specific-creationism and anti-specific-prophecy whackjob nutcases?

What genuine AUTHORITY (based upon non-falsifiable information and knowledge) do close-minded hopelessly-and-relentlessly-biased disbelievers have to arrogantly dispute or question Biblical creationism or prophecy....and instead substitute in their own or others' connived concoctions and changeable contradictions OBVIOUSLY contrary to scientifically-searched-for-and-verifiably-present evidence of closely-observed and measured, honestly-evaluated-and-described fossils, geologic-strata layering and composition, volcanic-emissions analysis, radiometric-dating techniques and precise measurement, magnetic-fluctuation differentiation, celestial-mechanics analysis, genetic-reproduction microbiology, paleontological anthropological research, and so forth?

Concerning radioactive dating, who knows how much starting isotopes were present in fossilizing specimens, how much addition or subtraction and mixing occurred in those samples, and with what non-arbitrary initializing-point standard to use in calibrating time-measurement equipment -- particularly in presuming Big-Bang baloney with increasing mega-millions/billion time-period conjecture...rejecting the logical Genesis-indicated mere 8000-years age of both Earth and universe?

The pseudo-"science" of arrogantly-froward obstinent belligerance and mindless babbling of bigoted bullyboys and bullygirls simply does not cut it!

When cornered by superior-reasoning confrontation, disbelievers hem and haw, quickly divert off on tangents to not-on-the-specific-topic-at-hand cultic conjectures and different-opinions controversies, then continue to irrationally convince themselves that their own (and/or someone else's) deliberately or ignorantly-misinformational presumptions are infallible truth and unquestionable fact.

If, then when, they are shown more and more natural evidence (of fossils, radiometric dating, harmful-mutational genetic-nonreproductive occurrences, Job 11:12 of a donkey's colt not being born a man, etc.) they frequently try to cover their deceptively lying and dishonest irrationalizations by opting out with the inexcusable excuse that they "don't know for sure" but continue to beller out and rant on with pseudo-authority speaking for everyone else with a "no one else knows for sure either" mindless escapism.

And, worst of all, they really do NOT want to actually find out, nor do what it takes to discover!

Great. And that shameful and despicable declaration of uncertainty plus lack of provable information and knowledge is supposed to qualify them as purported and alleged "scientists," "scholars," and "experts" - as if they know everything (contradicting their previous claim to ignorance) and disdain anyone else who claims opposing omnicience.

God save us from such stupid know-nothing pseudo-"scientists!"

Proud, belligerant, worldly-minded sophisticates...devoid of the Spirit...pooh-pooh the non-technical wording of Genesis to Revelation (while they themselves mouth the myth of presumed million/billion-year evolution following their "Big Bang" without ever defining nor describing in detail what banged (and doesn't that "Big-Bang"-baloney phrase itself sound ridiculously childish and non-scientific? One could preferably instead hear refreshingly intelligent speech from a TWO-year-old)!

Again, it does not matter if either evolutionists or creationists get artificially techical, either mathematically or semantically. Scientific FACT is Scientific FACT (as in Genesis OR Revelation).....whether put in simple terms or instead techno-complexity. Both evolutionary brainwashing propagandists and Biblio-scientific creationists can talk technical in Latin and with polynomial equations, but such is sometimes unnecessary, because truth is truth, credible science is credible science.....no matter how simply expressed and non-complex the descriptions.

Can one dogmatically assert proof for a "Big Bang" of whatever banged instead of the Genesis historical record of Earth existing alone with the heavens at "the beginning?"

Should one, with adament dogmatic certainty, presume a non-documented, preposterous, and anti-Scripturally-speculated "Big Bang" theory of some gargantuan flashing-fire fireball existing for no reason and without cause from non-identified source or sources, somehow temporarily held together magically by means unknown before exploding outward with resultant random formations of complex solar systems and even more complex lifeforms haphazardly assembling themselves from cooling "Big Bang" Fireball materials which had - against the obvious laws of physics - unscientifically condensed together in which the much-more-powerful-than-weak-gravitational-force expanding gases shooting out into space mysteriously and magically contracted gravitationally (again, contrary to the laws of physical properties of powerful expanding gases and inertia keeping them going out into space), allegedly culminating in lava forming (instead of water) covering Earth's surface from the start, and magically continuing for presumed "millions/billions" of years of ridiculously-random gradual change from "species" to "species" (one complex part here finally connected to another complex part then all mysteriously connected for no cause or reason all of a sudden into other larger complex parts, then suddenly integrating and working as a functioning whole all at once by mere non-intelligence-directed who-knows-where-is-came-from randomness)?

Is it not much simpler and sensibly logical to espouse and adhere to the Genesis record, plainly and forthrightly informing the curious that a plethoria of myriad intelligently-purposed-and-designed living creatures were formed by The Creator out of inanimate ground (NOT "sea slime struck by lightning"), within the 24-hour periods of the days of Creation Week in accord with the Hebrew word for day (i.e. each 24-hour-time-period yom, qualified by being preceded by an ordinal number plus followed with the Hebraic idiomatic phrase and there was evening and there was morning).....reproducing (as the Genesis Text states) not from destructive and sterile mutational aberrations but only according to their own kinds (acknowledging continuously-occurring variations and adaptations within kinds of lifeforms due to selective breeding and environmental factors)?

Much has been and continues to be in the media (both sacred and even secular) about the return of Jesus Christ.

Much controversy exists regarding (or instead concerning - depending upon your point of view!) the Rapture.

The not-specifically-found-in-Scripture word 'Rapture' is a euphemistic word for both:

Questions abound as to when and for whom that will occur.

Pertaining to who will be 'raptured' alive, the saintly yet alive are the ones snatched up according to Biblical prophecy specialists. Those raised from the dead are considered those who are resurrected.....though neither 'caught up' nor 'snatched up' alive, in contrast to those raptured who never died at all.

Biblical PRE-millennialist POST-Tribulationists assume (not presume) that The First Resurrection (but not massive living-saints Rapture) will occur at the end of the forty-two month Great-Tribution period referred to in Revelation chapters 13 through 19...being that (according to Revelation chapter 14) elect saints go through parts or all of that 42-month Tribulation [being spared the 'hour-of-trial' described perhaps in part by Revelation 18:10,17,19.

Revelation chapter 13 indicates that some of those Tribulation Saints "will go into captivity," and others "will be slain by the sword."

Chapter 20 of Revelation reveals that some of those slain by the sword will be beheaded, who "will rest from their labors, for their works follow them (Rev. 14)....and they ALONE will be part of that First Resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:4.

So much for persecution-despising cowardly pre-trib-heresy escapism!

NONE of the yet-alive Christian saints experiencing the Second Coming of Jesus Christ at Armageddon to slay the Beast and False Prophet will be raptured alive up to Heaven at that time - again - at which time that First Resurrection occurs at the end of the 42-month Great-Tribulation period.

Those dead who are in that First Resurrection (NOT Rapture) occurring at the end of the 42-month tribulation are identified in Revelation chapter 20 verse 4.

As to any specific countdown the saints would perhaps be able to do to predict the the exact day and hour of Christ's return (being that "no one knows the day nor the hour except the Father only"), such cannot be done even by carefully considering the following timing prophecies of the Old-Testament book of Daniel, which -- although they give a beginning time -- do not state a specific ending time for the periods alluded to:

Daniel 12:11 And from the time that the continual burnt offering is taken away, and the abomination that makes desolate is set up [to WHAT???], there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
Daniel 12:12 Blessed is he who waits and comes to the thousand three hundred and thirty-five days [to WHAT??? What happens THEN?].

The saints throughout previous history who are not specified in Revelation chapter 20 verse 4 First Resurrection (most of whom will not have lived at nor during the time of the 666 Mark of the Beast mentioned in Revelation chapters 13-20) but whose souls have been, are now, and will at that time be in Paradise will neither be resurrected at the Armageddon return of Christ (mentioned in Revelation chapter 19) to receive their glorified bodies NOR bodily reign with Christ on Earth at the beginning of nor during the Millennium.

They instead will be raised up (even snatched up) resurrected from the dead for the Second (and Final) Resurrection after The Millennium at The Last Day, joining any yet-alive-at-that-time finally-raptured saints in the air, when the Father's Great White Throne descends from Heaven after the Earth has been incinerated (which incineration is alluded to in the Second Epistle of St. Peter).....in which Last Judgment the King will separate [good] 'sheep' from [wicked] 'goats' (Matthew chapter 25).

For the sake of dissipating and dissolving confusion, there is no Scriptural basis for presuming that there will be a 'fly-by' snatching-away rapture of "church" (whatever they mean and do not mean by that!) living saints anytime before the beginning of, nor during, nor at the end of the 42-month Great Tribulation!

Regarding both resurrections and regarding rapture, Revelation does not distinguish nor differentiate between "gentile" "church" saints compared to "Jew" "church" saints.

Such differentiation of "the" "church" neither occurred in early New-Testament history, nor will it occur at the end of human history...even though the 144,000 mentioned in Revelation definite are genetic blood descendants of not merely Abraham but both Isaac and Jacob (according to Revelation 7:5-8).

That is not to infer that "jews" and "gentiles" cannot be differentiated, but as to who comprises "the" "church," refer back to the book of Acts as to who that included, who was and who was not persecuted according to that record.

Being that no one knows the day nor the hour (Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32, and Luke 12:40), when Jesus Christ will bodily return, is quite a question.

The Old-Testament prophet Daniel gave us some numerical figures of "2,300 evenings and mornings" (Daniel 8:14), "1,290 days" (Daniel 12:12), and "1,335 days" (Daniel 12:13)......without specifying exactly from what to what.

However, the inspirational Holy Spirit dictated such to that Hebrew/Jewish Scriptural author Daniel for the sake of modern-day wise prophets of bloodline and other spiritual Israel to contemplate and benefit by (Daniel 12:9-10).

"The day of Christ" is a phrase from Second Thessalonians 2:1-8 which apparently is of simultaneous occurrence with the additional phrase that follows in that passage: "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" along with the phrase following that which reads: our assembling to meet Him."

That Event clearly occurs at the Second Coming of Christ at the end of the 42-month Great Tribulation period.

A completely-different Event occurs after the Millennium, which is known as The Last Judgment or The Last Day.

Of THAT Event, we, in First Corinthians 15:51, read that "We shall not all sleep, but we shall ALL be changed....at The LAST Trumpet...the dead will be raised imperishable." The Great Judgment event occurring at that time is found in Matthew chapter 25 describing The King separating the euphemistic blessed "sheep" from the euphemistic accursed (or damned) "goats."

That event is the same as mentioned in Daniel 12:2 ("...some shall awake to shame and everlasting contempt") which is the same Last-Judgment event recorded in Revelation 20:11-15 in which ALL the wicked plus those righteous dead not raised in The First Resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:4-6....are resurrected to be separated as [wicked] "goats" in the same Judgment from [righteous] "sheep" (refer to Matthew 25:31-46) immediately after the Earth and heavens have "fled away" (Revelation 20:11) being "dissolved with a loud noise" and "fervent heat" (Zephaniah 3:8 and II Peter 3:7-12) because of the (Gr. epiphanaous/parousea/apocalypsus) brightness/presence/terrifying coming of the Awesome Judge on His Great White Throne (Revelation 20:11-15).

So, Scripture refers to two separate different-occurrence bodily "comings of Christ" for judgment (one against the beast and false prophet, and the other on The Last Day).

[Note that I prefer to use the clarifying word "judgments " in the plural instead of the confusing buzzwords: "Christ's comings" and "Christ's returns."

Interestingly, both the righteous "sheep" and the wicked "goats" will have incorruptible bodies given to them at the Last Judgment at the Great White Throne scene after the Millennium.

The righteous will experience no pain, no death, no tears, but blissful joy with the new bodies, but the wicked will experience with their new bodies what is described in the following passages of Scripture:

Matthew 8:12 But the sons of the kingdom shall be thrown out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants, "Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness." There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:30 And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 16:22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'
25 But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'

Second Thessalonians 1:9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power ...

Jude 1:7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who in his presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
Revelation 20:10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night to the ages of the ages.
ages. Revelation 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
Revelation 20:15 and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Some Biblical prophecies contain multiple applications, and refer to more than one event.

Case in point are the Two Separate Battles coming in the future -- ONE of which will occur at the BEGINNING of the Millennium (which beginning occurs after the 42 months of Great Tribulation)....and the OTHER which will occur at the END of the Millennium.

(1) the First will occur near "Jerusalem" at Armaggedon (Revelation 16:16) prior to The Thousand-Year Millennium of Christ's earthly "rule with a rod of iron" (Revelation 19:15), and

(2)the Second, and Last will occur near "The Beloved City" (Revelation 20:9) after the thousand-year millennium of Christ's earthly "rule with a rod of iron."

In both cases, Jesus comes "with the clouds" to:

(a) save those eagerly waiting for Him, and
(b) destroy impenitent hordes destined to be damned to never-ending torment in the black flames of Outer Darkness.

In the first case, those targeted before the Millennium are the Antichrist Duo comprised of "The Beast" along with "The False Prophet" (described in Daniel 7:7-12, 24-26, 8:9-14, 23-25, 9:27, 11:21-45, II Thessalonians 2:3-12 and Revelation chapters 13-19).

In the last case, after The Millennium, Satan [a.k.a. The Devil himself] will be the final villain who is then thrown into the Lake of Fire and brimstone where the Beast and The False Prophet were already being tormented, and all three will then be tormented day and night 'to the ages of the ages' (i.e. eternally).

To put it another way, the Dragon (i.e. Ancient Serpent) will then finally be forever confined in the solitary-confinement/torture-chamber-like 'Outer-Darkness' "Lake of Fire" (Luke 16:23 & 28, Revelation 14:10-11 and 20:10, Matthew 8:12, 22:13 and 25:30).

To repeat, between the TWO Appearance-of-Christ Judgments, there will be a period of 1000 literal years during which this planet Earth will continue to exist somewhat normally (see Genesis 8:22) but as defined in:

Isaiah 11:8 The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

Isaiah 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

During that time, Christ Jesus will be BODILY present in His marvelous appears-here-then-appears-there indestructible post-resurrection body during which He will "rule with a rod of iron" (Revelation 2:27) while "the Lord will be King over all the earth, and water will flow from the eastern sea to the western sea out of Jerusalem" (Zechariah 14:1-21).

There will soon come a couple of human dictators having a satanic spirit of antichrist far worse than previous antichrists of decades and centuries past.

This demonic duo and chiefly "the man of lawlessness," described in Second Thessalonians 2:3-12 and Revelation chapters 13-19 will persuade the immoral-majority blasphemous (whether democrats, republicans, union workers, plus feminist-sexist and homogay and abortionist and evolutionist and atheistic and porno-exhibitionist groups along with their direct and indirect supporters plus military, corporate and small-business scientists, technicians, and engineers) to construct a super-graven-image soul-less speaking-and-breathing, FAR-more robotic wonder which (NOT "who") few (if any) will be able to differentiate from a real live human being -- the epitome of raised-3rd-finger thumbing-the-nose rebellious disobedience against the first two of the Ten Commandments prohibiting building and worshipping a graven-image idol.

This morality-free Thing not subject to any human court nor laws of criminal accountability will give the Demonic Duo total global control for 42 months, which is also described as "a time, two times, and half a time" (that is: a year, another year, plus half a year per Daniel 7:23-27, 9:26-27, 12:6-12, Revelation 11:2 and 13:5).

That 42-month span of worse-than-Nazi-holocaust is called The Great Tribulation (Daniel 12:1, Matthew 24:9-31, Mark 13:9-27, and Revelation 7:14) during which will be a time of Christians being grossly misconstrued and misrepresented as the bad guys and illegalized as such with all law-enforcement permission, authorization, and aggressive assault, involving libel and slander, vandalism, looting, lawsuit constrictions, jail captivity and decapitation described in Revelation 13:7 & 10, 14:13 and 20:4.

Contrary to pre-Tribulation-rapture heretics with their worldly-hyped religious false-prophet authors, before that Great Tribulation occurs there will be NO [cowardly-escapist] Pre-Trib snatching up (of all nor any dead saints) nor of all nor any yet-alive saints) at any time before Christ Jesus returns bodily for the Battle of Armageddon.

[However, there will be a special First Resurrection of 'The Two Witnesses' murdered by the Antichrist prior to Christ's bodily return at Armageddon per Revelation 11:3-13].

As Revelation 20:4-5 clearly and plainly indicates, not all Christian-Church saints will be resurrected in that First Resurrection.

If the now-dead-for-two-millenia original-eyewitness Twelve Apostles, the Virgin Mary, Timothy and Barnabas and Dorcas, then later on Augustine and Jerome, Erasmus, Luther and Wesley and Knox, Stephanus and Beza and Scrivener, Barnhouse and Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody, etc. (to name a tiny few of the many applicable) qualify as true saints.....such will have to wait through the entire Millennium of Revelation 20 before receiving their resurrected glorified bodies at the Great White Throne General Resurrection of All Remaining (Revelation 6:9-10).

When Sword-Issuing-From-His-Mouth Jesus the Conqueror (Revelation 19:15) descends with saints in or out of their bodies at Armageddon, He will decisively overpower The Beast and False Prophet, besides exterminate their useless [laser-guided? computerized? rocket-launcher? nuclear-arsenal?] armies (Revelation 19:11-21).

Promptly thereafter will begin the literally-timed 1000 year rod-and-iron-"reich" (rule) of true and real justice worldwide with Jesus Christ and His disciples the head of any NATO, EU, United Nations or whatever - actually and decisively weeding out and eliminating evils of all sort everywhere and enforcing every aspect of Biblically-legitimate human behavior and activity, as the Lord suddenly appears wherever and whenever He wants with His post-Easter-like body as will appear His select group of similarly-glorified-body supernaturally-armed saints... devoid of endless defense-attorney appeals, paroles, and criminal! judiciaries].

At the end of that literal 1000-year reign of true and lasting peace and lawfulness, and immediately after the destruction occurring at The Second Judgment battle, the LORD - in His Divine Father/Son/Spirit Trinitarian majesty - will incinerate everything in the entire universe and commence that heralded-by-The-Last-Trumpet Final Judgment on The Last Day......when The King shall indeed separate the proverbial 'sheep' away from the 'goats' (Matthew 25:31-46) in indescribably-embarrassing but exhilarating sacred fairness and frankness, impeccable accuracy, plus perfect holy honesty.

Second Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come [non-expectantly and shockingly] 'like a thief,' and then 'the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.'
Second Peter 3:11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
Second Peter 3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!

Being that no one knows the day nor the hour (Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32, and Luke 12:40), when Jesus Christ will bodily return is quite a question.

"The day of Christ" is a phrase from II Thessalonians 2:1-8 which apparently is of simultaneous occurrence with the additional phrase that follows in that passage: "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" along with the phrase following that which reads: "our assembling to meet Him."

In I Corinthians 15:51, we read that "We shall not all sleep, but we shall ALL be changed....at The LAST Trumpet...the dead will be raised imperishable." The Great Judgment event occurring at that time is found in Matthew chapter 25 describing The King separating the euphemistic blessed "sheep" from the euphemistic accursed (or damned) "goats."

That event is the same as mentioned in Daniel 12:2 ("...some shall awake to shame and everlasting contempt") which is the same Last-Judgment event recorded in Revelation 20:11-15 in which ALL the wicked plus those righteous dead not raised in The First Resurrection spoken of in Revelation 20:4-6....are resurrected to be separated as [wicked] "goats in the same Judgment from [righteous] "sheep" (refer to Matthew 25:31-46) immediately after the Earth and heavens have "fled away" (Revelation 20:11) being "dissolved with a loud noise" and "fervent heat" (Zephaniah 3:8 and II Peter 3:7-12) because of the (Gr. epiphanaous/parousea/apocalypsus) brightness/presence/terrifying coming of the Awesome Judge on His Great White Throne (Revelation 20:11-15).

Scripture refers to two separate different-occurrence bodily "comings of Christ" for judgment (one against the beast and false prophet, and the other on The Last Day).

[Note that I prefer to use the clarifying word "judgments " in the plural instead of the confusing buzzwords: "Christ's comingS" and "Christ's returnS."

First Thessalonians 4:13 (KJ21) But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
15 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first;
17 then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.

Differentiating "the Day of Christ" mentioned in Second Thessalonians 2:1-4 (at Armaggedon to capture beast and false prophet) in contrast to "the Day of the Lord" mentioned in First Thessalonians 4:13-17 (at the Great White Throne after the Millennium) is apparent by the text (no thanks to an anti-Day-of-Christ mistranslation of the RSV):

Second Thessalonians 2:1 (RSV) Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling to meet him, we beg you, brethren,
2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or excited, either by spirit or by word, or by letter purporting to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
3 Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Second Thessalonians 2:1 (KJ21) Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him,
2 that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if from us that the Day of Christ is at hand.
3 Let no man deceive you by any means, for that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,
4 who opposeth God and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth as God in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.

It is apparent that the Second Thessalonians 2:1-4 passage only refers to Christ's Second Coming at Armageddon...NOT His coming as One with the Father descending upon His Great White Throne from above after the Millennium when heavens and earth dissolve with fire.

First Corinthians 15:39 (KJ21) All flesh is not the same flesh; but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead: It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption.
43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
45 And so it is written: "The first man Adam was made a living soul." The last Adam was made a quickening Spirit.
46 However that which is spiritual was not first, but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second Man is the Lord from Heaven.
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy; and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I show you a mystery: We shall not all sleep; but we shall all be changed
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

Revelation 1:7 (KJ21) Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him, and they also who pierced Him; and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of Him. Even so. Amen.

Interestingly, both the righteous "sheep" and the wicked "goats" will have incorruptible bodies given to them at the Last Judgment at the Great White Throne scene after the Millennium.

The righteous will experience no pain, no death, no tears, but blissful joy with the new bodies, but the wicked will experience with their new bodies what is described in the following passages of Scripture:

Matthew 8:12 But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 25:30 And throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 16:22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried;
23 and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 And he called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy upon me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.'
25 But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.'

Second Thessalonians 1:9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power...

Jude 1:7 even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who in his presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur.
Revelation 20:10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night to the ages of the ages.
ages. Revelation 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire;
Revelation 20:15 and if any one's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

(1) the First will occur near "Jerusalem" at Armaggedon (Revelation 16:16) prior to The Thousand-Year Millennium of Christ's earthly "rule with a rod of iron" (Revelation 19:15), and

(2)the ,Second, and Last will occur near "The Beloved City" (Revelation 20:9) after the thousand-year millennium of Christ's earthly "rule with a rod of iron."

In both cases, Jesus comes "with the clouds" to (a) save those eagerly waiting for Him, and (B) destroy impenitent hordes destined to be damned to never-ending torment in the black flames of Outer Darkness.

In the first case, those targeted before the Millennium are the Antichrist Duo comprised of "The Beast" along with "The False Prophet" (described in Daniel 7:7-12, 24-26, 8:9-14, 23-25, 9:27, 11:21-45, II Thessalonians 2:3-12 and Revelation chapters 13-19).

In the last case, after the Millennium, Satan [a.k.a. The Devil himself] will be the final antichrist who is then thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and The false prophet were already beingtormented, and all three will then be tormented day and night "to the ages of the ages" (i.e. eternally).

To put it another way, the Dragon (i.e. Ancient Serpent) will then finally be forever confined in the solitary-confinement/torture-chamber-like "Outer-Darkness" "Lake of Fire" (Luke 16:23 & 28, Revelation 14:10-11 and 20:10, Matthew 8:12, 22:13 and 25:30).

To repeat, between the TWOAppearance-of-Christ Judgments, there will be a period of 1000 literal years during which this planet Earth will continue to exist somewhat normally (see Genesis 8:22) but as defined in:

Isaiah 11:8 The sucking child shall play over the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

Isaiah 65:20 No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

During that time, Christ Jesus will be BODILY present in His marvelous appears-here-then-appears-there indestructible post-resurrection body during which He will "rule with a rod of iron" (Revelation 2:27) while "the Lord will be King over all the earth, and water will flow from the eastern sea to the western sea out of Jerusalem" (Zechariah 14:1-21).

There will soon come a couple of human dictators having a satanic spirit of antichrist far worse than previous antichrists of decades and centuries past. This demonic duo and chiefly "the man of lawlessness" described in II Thessalonians 2:3-12 and Revelation chapters 13-19 will persuade the immoral-majority blasphemous (whether democrats, republicans, union workers, feminist-sexist/homogay/abortionist/evolutionist/atheist/porno-exhibitionist groups along with their direct and indirect supporters plus military, corporate and small-business scientists, technicians, and engineers) to construct a super-graven-image soul-less speaking-and-breathing, FAR-more robotic wonder which (NOT "who") few (if any) will be able to differentiate from a real live human being -- the epitome of raised-3rd-finger thumbing-the-nose rebellious disobedience against the first two of the Ten Commandments prohibiting building and worshipping a graven-image idol.

This morality-free Thing not subject to any human court nor laws of criminal accountability will give the Demonic Duo total global control for 42 months, which is also described as "a time, two times, and half a time" (that is: a year, another year, plus half a year per Daniel 7:23-27, 9:26-27, 12:6-12, Revelation 11:2 and 13:5). That 42-month span of worse-than-Nazi-holocaust is called The Great Tribulation (Daniel 12:1, Matthew 24:9-31, Mark 13:9-27, and Revelation 7:14) during which will be a time of Christians being grossly misconstrued and misrepresented as the bad guys and illegalized as such with all law-enforcement permission, authorization, and aggressive assault, involving libel and slander, vandalism, looting, lawsuit constrictions, jail captivity and decapitation described in Revelation 13:7 and 10, 14:13 and 20:4.

Contrary to pre-Tribulation-rapture heretics with their worldly-hyped religious false-prophet authors, before that Great Tribulation occurs there will be NO [cowardly-escapist] Pre-Trib snatching up (of all nor any dead saints) nor of all nor any yet-alive saints) at any time before Christ Jesus returns bodily for the Battle of Armageddon.

[However, there will be a special resurrection of The Two Witnesses murdered by the Antichrist prior to Christ's bodily return at Armageddon per Revelation 11:3-13].

As Revelation 20:4-5 clearly and plainly indicates, not all Christian-Church saints will be resurrected in The First Resurrection.

If the now-dead-for-two-millenia original-eyewitness Twelve Apostles, the Virgin Mary, Timothy and Barnabas and Dorcas, then later on Augustine and Jerome, Erasmus, Luther and Wesley and Knox, Stephanus and Beza and Scrivener, Barnhouse and Billy Sunday and Dwight Moody, etc. (to name a tiny few of the many applicable) qualify as true saints.....such will have to wait through the entire Millennium of Revelation 20 before receiving their resurrected glorified bodies at the Great White Throne General Resurrection of All Remaining (Revelation 6:9-10).

When Sword-Issuing-From-His-Mouth Jesus the Conqueror (Revelation 19:15) descends with saints in or out of their bodies at Armageddon, He will decisively overpower The Beast and False Prophet, besides exterminate their useless [laser-guided? computerized? rocket-launcher? nuclear-arsenal?] armies (Revelation 19:11-21). Promptly thereafter will begin the literally-timed 1000 year rod-and-iron-"reich" (rule) of true and real justice worldwide with Jesus Christ and his disciples the head of any NATO, EU, United Nations or whatever - actually and decisively weeding out and eliminating evils of all sort everywhere and enforcing every aspect of Biblically-legitimate human behavior and activity, as the Lord suddenly appears wherever and whenever He wants with His post-Easter-like body as will appear His select group of similarly-glorified-body supernaturally-armed saints...devoid of endless defense-attorney appeals, paroles, and criminal! judiciaries].

At the end of that literal 1000-year reign of true peace and lawfulness, and immediately after the destruction occurring at The Second Judgment battle, the LORD - in His Divine Father/Son/Spirit Trinitarian majesty - will incinerate everything in the entire universe and commence that heralded-by-The-Last-Trumpet Final Judgment on The Last Day......when The King shall indeed separate the proverbial "sheep" away from the "goats" (Matthew 25:31-46) in indescribably-embarrassing but exhilarating sacred fairness and frankness, impeccable accuracy, plus perfect holy honesty.

Second Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up.
Second Peter 3:11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
Second Peter 3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be kindled and dissolved, and the elements will melt with fire!