Q88. What shall immediately follow after the resurrection?

Scripture proofs

1. [1]
   2 Peter 2:4

   For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

   Jude 1:6-7

   And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

   Jude 1:14-15

   And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.

   Matthew 25:46

   And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

2. [2]
   Matthew 24:36

   But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

   Matthew 24:42

   Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

   Matthew 24:44

   Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

   Luke 21:35-36

   For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.