These are the words written by one of the disciples of Jesus who was given a revelation of things to come by the Lord Jesus himself. John, who was the last living apostle - one of the 12 who had been with him from the beginning and whom he had chosen to be apostles - had been exiled to the Greek Island of Patmos by the Roman authorities. This is much the same words as Jesus said when he told John and the other followers that he would return with the clouds, and that his return would be like lightning, that flashes from the east to the west and is seen of everyone. Only in this case it will be witnessed by the whole world at the same time. As John's word says, even those who pierced him, meaning the Israeli nation, who were represented in the Jews of the first century AD who went to Pilate the Roman to have Jesus crucified. And the Italians. (Romans who did the actual execution and who represent the gentiles - that is everyone who is not Jewish.) They will all morn because they have rejected Jesus as the only way to God. Indeed, Jesus was known in the 1st century AD as the Way and His followers were known as followers of the Way. Jesus said of himself, "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." (John 14:6 KJV)
In the future - indeed possibly in the very near future, Jesus will return like a flash of lightning that will be visible to the entire population of the world at the same time - everyone will see him without exception - and then there will be many that will morn. But his followers will rejoice! "Dear friends, we are already God's children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. (1 John 3:2 NLT)"
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