This is the Second Coming of Jesus when he destroys His enemies with the brightness of His coming.
I have come to that same understanding. For many of us Christians, because of the way we read the Revelation, we only see Jesus as the Son of Man, clothed in humility, laying down his life. And indeed, we cannot come to the Father except by way of the Cross and this vision of Jesus. But we mustn't stop there. In the Revelation we are shown a vision of Jesus as is he now ... Ascended and seated at the right hand of God, given all power and all authority, in heaven and in earth, a Living, Triumphant, Glorified Christ in whose presence the darkness melts away like faint shadows before the blazing sun. Why, even the one man who knew Jesus better than any man on earth, when he saw Jesus as he is, fell at Jesus' feet in a dead faint!
When Jesus returns the 2nd time to set foot on this earth, it won't be in the humility that he came the first time, he will return in all His glory ... it won't be to serve and lay down his life as he did the first time, it will be to destroy evil and reward all those who love his appearing ... it will be the end of the world as we know it, and the beginning of a new heavens and new earth.
10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
This occurrs after the Second coming when Satan no longer has any place in the plans of God.
Again, that is what the Scriptures actually say. The 2nd Coming of Jesus will be the end of this present heavens and earth, and the beginning of the new, and in that new there will be no more sin, or sickness, no more pain or weeping, no more suffering or death. Everything will be made new.
The release of Satan is the only prophetic event that we are watching for in our day. When you see an international persecution of the people of God then you know the time is near and it appears to be soon.
We may have already witnessed it. But this last, great struggle may be more of a spiritual struggle than a physical assault. Christians have been persecuted since the beginning of the faith and yet the spilling of all that blood has only made the church stronger! It's in the spiritual arena that the powers of darkness are most effective, and it may be that this is where the final battle will be fought. It's not just the "camp of the saints" (the Old Testament type of the church in the wilderness of this world) that will be assaulted, it's also the "Beloved City," (the New Jerusalem, the New Covenant) that will be under attack, and that is happening right now especially in Western Evangelical Christianity, turning away from those things which our very faith rests on ... the doctrines of salvation, all for the latest prophecy interpretation straight from the news headlines.
In Christ,
Pilgrimer