Scripture Verse

I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened. Revelation 20:12

Introduction

Words: From A Com­pi­la­tion of Ge­nu­ine Church Mu­sic, by Jo­seph Funk, fourth edi­tion, 1847.

Music: Fi­nal De­ci­sion, from A Com­pi­la­tion of Ge­nu­ine Church Mu­sic, by Jo­seph Funk, fourth ed­it­ion, 1847 (🔊 pdf nwc).

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Lyrics

That great, tre­men­dous day’s ap­proach­ing,
That aw­ful scene is draw­ing nigh,
Which was fore­told by an­cient pro­phets,
Decreed from all eter­ni­ty.
Prepare my soul, re­flect and won­der,
That aw­ful scene in draw­ing near,
When you shall see the great trans­ac­tion,
When Christ in judg­ment shall ap­pear.

See na­ture stand­ing in amaze­ment,
To hear the last loud trum­pet sound;
Arise, ye dead, and come to judg­ment,
Ye na­tions of this world around:
The orb­èd lamps all veiled in sack­cloth,
No more their shin­ing cir­cuit run,
The wheel of time now stopped for­ev­er,
Eternal things are now be­gun.

Green grave­yards, and the tombs of mar­ble,
Give up their dead, both small and great;
And the whole world, both saint and sin­ner,
Are coming to the judg­ment seat;
See Je­sus on the throne of jus­tice,
In clouds des­cend­ing from the sky,
With count­less hosts of shin­ing an­gels,
With hal­le­lujahs shout for joy.