Bombs rain down like heaven’s tears
The Earth shall die and disappear
And today, we wish the skies were grey
For now they’re just black and empty

Ripped and turn from inside out
Things too dark to think about
No miracles
No bleeding hands
God has parted

Bombs rain down like heaven’s tears
The Earth shall die and disappear
And today, we wish the skies were grey
For now they’re just black and empty

And when the end, she comes
Rains down on everyone
Fire from the sky
And when the end, she rides
Breathing out
Life and death are one
And when the end, she comes
Rains down on everyone
Fire from the sky
And when the end, she rides
Breathing out
Life and death are one

As a flame burns to touch the sky
So it shall be with man’s cry
And this night all will pass away

And when the end, she comes
Rains down on everyone
Fire from the sky
And when the end, she rides
Breathing out
Life and death are one
And when the end, she comes
Rains down on everyone
Fire from the sky
And when the end, she rides
Breathing out
Life and death are one

–Zao, “The Rising End (The First Prophecy)”–

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(Long live!)

Receive my fate
Receive my fate
Receive my fate

Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost

Make your mistakes
No more
While other men try
No more

Long live the ghost
Long live the king

As we step right behind the beast
Hand in hand, love
Love is easier made than kept
We hide behind the dream

As we step right behind the beast
Hand in hand
Hand in hand
Love is easier made than kept
We hide behind the dream

Receive the burden
Receive the burden and it shows
Receive the burden
Receive the burden and it shows

Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost
Long live the ghost

Define
Define
Define
Define
Define
Define

–The Chariot, “Mrs. Montgomery Alabama III.”–

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Now, brethren, concerning the COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST and OUR GATHERING together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless THE FALLING AWAY COMES FROM FIRST, and THE MAN OF SIN is revealed, THE SON OF PERDITION, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
–2 THESSALONIANS 2:1-4 (NKJV)–

Dear children, THIS IS THE LAST HOUR; and as you have heard that THE ANTICHRIST IS COMING, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
–1 JOHN 2:18 (NIV)–

⁵ THE BEAST was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. ⁶ It OPENED ITS MOUTH TO BLASPHEME GOD, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. ⁷ IT WAS GIVEN POWER TO WAGE WAR AGAINST GOD’S HOLY PEOPLE AND TO CONQUER THEM. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. ⁸ ALL INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH WILL WORSHIP THE BEAST—all whose names have not been written in the Lamb’s book of life, the Lamb who was slain from the creation of the world.
–REVELATION 13:5-8 (NIV)–

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George Eldon Ladd, The Blessed Hope (Eerdmans, 1956).

Robert Gundry, The Church and the Tribulation (Zondervan, 1973).

David Bercot, ed. A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs (Hendrickson, 1998).