The Highest Adventuredestruction from the overload of negative karma.
Then, once again, an upward climb ensues. But
there is never any final resolution. (Incidentally,
all the primary Eastern religions – Buddhism,
Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and Taoism –
embrace a cyclical view concerning the future of
the universe, yet the details in each worldview
vary drastically.)
Jesus prophesied something quite different,
that one day He will return, not gradually and
spiritually, but bodily and visibly, accompanied
by “all His holy angels” (Matthew 25:31). All
will “see the Son of man coming on the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory,” as He
descends to fully establish His Kingdom in this
world (Matthew 24:30).
This spectacular return of the Lord will happen
in “a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” at the
end of this age (1 Corinthians 15:52). When this
transpires, we will be ushered into “the Millennial
Kingdom”: a thousand years of heaven-on-earth
conditions. (See Revelation 20.) Then, at the close
of this phase, something even more intense will
transpire: the final renovation of all things.