Explanation

What is the Apocalypse? Click here. Go To: Dutch Version

2. Scheme of History and Future according to the Revelation of John
Go to: The keywords of the Apocalypse of John

How will you end according to the Apocalypse of John (the last book of the Bible)? This depends on what you are. President Bush of the United States is used to give you a choice out of two alternatives ("Good" en "Evil"). John has three for you: You can opt for becoming:
Sinner Servant of God Martyr of God .

Whatever you choose, you will always catch fire. Your choice is between now a little fire (because as a servant, and certainly as a martyr of God, you should not be afraid to acquire some scalding), or later a lot.
Let me start to explain the meanings of the different colors in the scheme above:

White means: nothing to do about this
Yellow: your deeds in this period will be the subject of Gods judgment
Grey: you do not know where you will end (this will depend upon the last judgment)	You will end well (you have exemption from the last judgment)
Orange: you do not know where you will end, but tension is rising (it will depend upon the last judgement)

You are lost (last judgment negative)

You end well

If you belong to the martyrs (the extreme right column in the scheme), then you will have green light for the new Jerusalem even before the last judgment (exemption from the last judgment). If you're not a martyr, you'd better be a servant of God, because this will, in the supplementary heat of the last judgment, secure your place in the green division of mankind.
If you are neither a martyr nor a servant of God, you are a sinner, and you will be thrown in the red of the pool of fire.
The points in this competition can only be scored in what is called life, that is in period 2 of the scheme above, running from birth to your FIRST DEATH. Your behaviour in this period determines your fate, though after this period you may stay uncertain about it for a long time: until the day of the last judgment.

How to become a martyr? Thank God, In John's time christians were still heavily persecuted, not by muslems, who, thank God, did not yet exist, but by the Romans. Emperor Nero. He had ordered to summon everyone suspected of christian beliefs and require from them an oath denying their belief in the God of Jesus. Refusal was to be punished with a stigma burned in the forehead, and it was forbidden to trade with wearers of such a stigma. An antique variant of the oil for food programme so to say.
Especially for those who resignedly let themselves be branded as christians by the officials of Nero on their foreheads, a kind of divine pre-judgement revealed itself to John. Stigmatized christians would get a green light for the new Jerusalem at their start of period 3 (first death). Their souls would be stored in a special place, under the altar, and they would not have to wait, like everybody else, in anxiety for the day of the last judgment, that is the start of period 6. .