judgment of the righteous
The judgment of the righteous I have always interpretted as the rapture for the Bible says we are not appointed unto wrath. For those left behind, there is clearly going to be a lot of wrath happening.
But there is obviously persecution that happens before the rapture resulting in the death of many saints, if there aren't two resurrections for the righteous, when God takes the righteous, he has already quicken those who are dead in Christ so that we will not precede those gone on before and will meet the Lord in the air.
Now I don't mind if I am wrong, but I am not wrong on this point, there is only one who saves and that is Jesus and my faith is in Him.
But if two are doing anything and one is taken that is 50%, unless of course there were other instances where these examples do not hold true. My point is that we have a lot of work to do before the Lord comes, so being busy winning souls is wisdom, so the scripture says: "He who winneth souls is wise." And as if God weren't merciful, He didn't have to save anyone, that He is good and kind, that he included the Gentiles in His Bride, is MERCY. That He intends to save as many as will receive Him, I do believe. He isn't willing that any should perish, mind you, but that all would come to a saving knowledge of Jesus.
Yes, the end times are periless. But whenever times get tougher, God gives us more grace to cope with it.
He heals, He can raise the dead, if we don't believe that the dead are raised, we can't believe in the rapture, because that happens first.
He has raised the dead from the accounts of things which have happened in Africa. I know he can multiply food, that miracle has happened and I was present, I was amazed. Everyone else as well.
So there are those who are within every faith right now who will come to the Lord.
The testimony of many former Muslims was that Jesus had been appearing in dreams to them. He is the Alpha and Omega and I don't think He would make that example for nothing. God isn't just good, He is exceedingly good, not that we should get cocky, but that He can do more than we can even believe for.