The first future judgment derives its name from two passages where the term “Judgment Seat of Christ” appears:įor we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ (Romans 14:10).įor we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ (2 Corinthians 5:10). No believer will be judged at that day as the final judgment is reserved for all who rejected the Lord Jesus Christ on earth. After the casting of Satan into Hell, the wicked dead will be raised to receive the final sentence of condemnation (Revelation 20:12-15). This is called the Great White Throne Judgment. At that time we shall see the final fulfillment of that great prophecy in Genesis 3:15.ĥ.
“And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6). Immediately after the one thousand years of the Kingdom Age, Satan and his hosts will meet their doom. This is the final judgment against Satan and other fallen angels who will be judged with him. “For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land” (Joel 3:1-2).Ĥ. This judgment will not be against individuals but against nations for their treatment of the Jewish people. At the end of the Tribulation Period, after Israel has been judged, the nations of earth will be judged by Christ and His Church. During the Tribulation Period and after the close of the present Age of Grace, Israel will pay for her sins, being afflicted with unprecedented misery and woe.ģ. In Daniel 12:1 this judgment is called “The Time of Jacob’s Trouble.” It will be the punishment of the Jews for their disobedience to God and their rejection of Jesus Christ. But first, we shall outline the four future judgments that will follow the judgment of the believer’s works.Ģ. The first of these will be the judgment of the believer’s works, called “The Judgment Seat of Christ.” It is this judgment to which we shall give consideration in this chapter. Not all men will be judged at the same time and place. Those who were dead, those who have died since or will have died, and the living must give account to Jesus Christ who is ready to judge all men. Later, in his First Epistle, Peter wrote that the saints “shall give account to Him that is ready to judge the quick (the living) and the dead” (1 Peter 4:5). The Apostle Peter, in his great sermon in the house of Cornelius, said “that it is He which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead” (Acts 10:42). Yet the Bible teaches clearly that all men, both living and dead, saved and unsaved, must give an account to Christ. All Men and Fallen Angels are to be Judged Our souls rest forever upon these eternal words of our God.
To this the Apostle Paul adds: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (Romans 8:1). Our Lord reassures us by His own word: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death unto life” (John 5:24). When Jesus comes again He will have in His body the marks of crucifixion, and this will prove that the penalty for sin has been paid in full. For every Christian this judgment is already past. When the graves are opened and the dead in Christ shall rise first and the living saints shall be caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air, it will be a time such as attends the meeting of a bride with her bridegroom.īelievers never need fear a condemnatory judgment for sin. The coming of Christ will be an occasion of jubilation for all saints.
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