for the lost at Christ's return.

1. The age of grace will end. At the rapture, the door of grace will be shut (Luke 13:23-28; Matt. 25:1-13).

2. The awful rule of the Antichrist will begin. This is made clear in 2 Thess. 2:7,8 and Revelation 13 adds gruesome details to the picture of the most terrible time this world has ever known (Matt. 24:21).

3. Satan will be personally on the earth. In the middle of the tribulation, Satan is cast down to dwell in person on earth, and he will have "great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Rev. 12:7-12).

4. There will be suffering beyond description and death unprecedented. From the going forth of the rider on the red horse (Rev. 6:4) until the death throes of Armageddon, Revelation 6-19 is filled with God's catalog of the suffering and anguish that lie ahead for the Christ-rejector.

5. Resurrection of the body unto the Great White Throne Judgment. The lost are physically resurrected at the close of Christ's 1,000-year reign (Rev. 20:5, 11-15) to stand before the Great White Throne. This is called the "resurrection of damnation" (John 5:29).

6. The Lake of Fire. This is the final destination of the lost, and is called the "second death" (Rev. 20:14).

7. Eternity: without God, without Christ, without hope. Probably the worst punishment for the unbeliever will be his eternal separation "from the presence of the Lord" (2 Thess. 1:7-9), with no hope of ever coming to Him (Luke 16:26).