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[Alexandr Korol]

and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” – Matt. 24:29-30.”

Rapture of the Church: “Closely related to the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ is the doctrine of the Rapture (Ascension) of the Church, based on several passages from the New Testament (‘Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.’ – 1 Thess. 4:17, as well as 1 Cor. 15:51-52 and others). According to these passages, at the Second Coming, the Church will be taken up to heaven to meet Christ. In Christian theology, there are different views regarding the timing of the Rapture of the Church: whether it will occur simultaneously with the Second Coming or some time before it (either before or in the middle of the period of the Great Tribulation).
The Second Coming of Jesus Christ will be glorious: He will not appear as a humbled Son of Man, as in His first coming, but as the true Son of God, surrounded by angels who serve Him (Matt. 24:30; 16:27; Mark 8:38; 1 Thess. 4:16 and others).
Before the Second Coming, there will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the faithful who remain alive. In some Christian denominations (Baptists, Pentecostals, and others), it is believed that at this time, the Rapture of the Church will occur, and believers will meet Jesus Christ in the clouds (1 Thess. 4:16, 17; 1 Cor. 15:51-57; Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2).
After the Last Judgment, eternity will begin – blessed in communion with Jesus Christ for some and tormenting for others (John 5:29; Dan. 12:2 and others).”
And the conclusion of all this is what stuck with me – Big Alexander has told me more than once that I will come to some kind of glory, that there is grace, and then there is the final step – glory. If we read Wikipedia: “A Christian term of biblical origin, tracing back to the Jewish concept of Shekhinah, which in most cases denotes the form of the full presence of the Deity. This is precisely how the Apostle John uses this word when he says: ‘And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father.’ (John 1:14).