When you hear the words “Judgment Day,” what kind of scene does that conjure up in your mind? Many people imagine tens of billions of souls being brought one by one before the throne of God. Before the throne, judgment is pronounced on each individual. Some will be rewarded with heavenly bliss, while others will be condemned and suffer eternal torment. The Bible, however, gives a very different account of this period of time known as Judgment Day.
The Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ and His Co-Priests
The Word of God does not portray this period as a time of horror, but rather as a time of hope and restoration. Yahuwah God is the ultimate judge of mankind, but He allows others to do the actual adjudication. In Acts 17:31, the apostle Paul says that God “has appointed a day in which he will judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by one whom he has appointed” (Acts 17:31). This God-appointed judge is the resurrected Jesus Christ. (John 5:22). How long will it last?
The Book of Revelation indicates that the Day of Judgment will begin after the battle of Armageddon, that is, after Satan's regime on earth has been destroyed. (Rev. 16:14, 16; 19:19-20:3) After Armageddon, Satan and his demons will be trapped in the depths of the unfathomable for 1,000 years. During that period, Jesus' co-heirs, the martyred Christians of the heavenly class, will judge and rule “as kings with Christ for a thousand years” (Rev. 14:1-3; 20:1-4; Rom. 8:17)
The Day of Judgment is not a mere 24-hour day in which things happen in a hurry; it lasts for 1,000 years.
During those 1,000 years, Jesus Christ will “judge the living and the dead” (2 Timothy 4:1). (2 Timothy 4:1) 2 Peter 3:18 also says, “A thousand years are like a day,” and the 1,000-year reign seems to refer to the very day of judgment, the seventh thousandth year.
Fair judgment for believers and unbelievers equally.
The “living ones” are the “great multitude” who will pass through Armageddon alive. (Rev. 7:9-17) And the apostle John saw “the dead standing before the ......[judgment] throne.” As Jesus promised, through the resurrection “all who are in the memorial grave will hear [Christ's] voice and come forth.” (John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15) On what basis, then, will all men be judged?
According to the vision that the apostle John saw, “many scrolls will be opened” and “those who have died will be judged according to their deeds according to what is written on those scrolls”. Are these scrolls a record of people's past deeds? In some cases, no.
It is not what people did before they died that will be the focus of attention at the time of judgment. How can this be so? Because, as the Bible says, “He who has died has been absolved from his sins” (Romans 6:7). (Romans 6:7) Therefore, those who are resurrected come back to life with a clean slate, so to speak.
Those who have been destroyed by God's judgment since ancient times, such as Achan and his family, the rebellious Korah, the sanctified Sodom and Gomorrah, the Canaanites, Ananias and Sapphira, and other “unrighteous” people, are expected to be resurrected. As for the souls who perished in Noah's flood, I personally don't think it can be said that there will be no complete resurrection.
Only God knows that. They have died in judgment for their sins, and they have been rewarded and absolved from their sins. Eternity in hell is not burning now, that is a falsehood propagated by Satanic Catholics. Ananias and Sappila were judged by euthanasia, and they have already paid the wages for their sins.
Even sinners are still subject to extenuating circumstances, and those who have appealed for mercy who died while alive from unreasonable treatment or who have been directly judged by God and put to sleep in death will be resurrected. (1 Corinthians 5:5; 6:8; 11:30-32; 1 Peter 4:6) The Corinthians, according to 1 Corinthians 6:8, had repeated multiple aberrant behaviors that were not even among pagans, such as immorality with parents-in-law, extortion, fraud, civil suits, etc., and in some cases they suffered judgment or fell asleep in death It is expressed that “he delivered him over to Satan that his flesh might be destroyed. It is expressed “that his spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord” and “that he might not be condemned with the world by it".
God's children who have been rewarded early enough to die out at the discretion of God's judgment may be resurrected as righteous men. David the righteous also committed murder and adultery, but was judged and forgiven each time. There are cases in which people are judged and forgiven during their lifetime, which may fall under the resurrection of the righteous. In 2 Corinthians 2:8-11, the Corinthians who died can be said to be resurrected, as they are admonished to forgive those who committed lewdness.
From Ezekiel 16:53, we read that the captives of Sodom and Samaria will prosper as before. As expected, I assume that the bizarre criminals who tried to rape the angels who visited Lot will not be resurrected, but there are those who surrendered themselves to consensual sexual immorality and pleasure who need to know Jesus. It may be those who, though sinners by the time God brought direct destruction on Sodom, were still better people and died as victims of others.
Matthew 11:20 and onward say that if Tyre and Sidon had known Jesus, they would have repented long ago, and that Sodom and Gomorrah would have been better off, which means that there are sinners who will be judged by God and die out, but there are extenuating circumstances. 12:42 describes the resurrection of the Queen of the South.
Romans 6:7 The wages sin pays is death. But the gift God gives is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord!
1 Corinthians 11:32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.
Kind people who die without knowing Christ come back to life without exception. (Kind Pagan Samaritans in Luke 10)
Judgment for the diabolical, cruel, inhumane, and ruthless unbelievers who defy conscience.
However, there are also passages of Scripture that seem to indicate that the cruel and inhumane people who crucified Christ, like the Pharisees, suffered eternal destruction, which is Gehenna. (Matthew 23:33)
So, we who live in the end times are not allowed to live as we please, and Jesus says that our time will be harder on the day of judgment than Sodom and Gomorrah, so we should not underestimate it.
Matthew 10:15 Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
I believe that Scripture says that the commentators who are fluffing around on entertainment TV every day with their smug faces and gossipy stories may be “worse” in terms of their state of mind than Sodom and Gomorrah.
Also, Romans below is ultimately saying that we all have a conscience, and if we continue to defy it, we will be judged.
Romans 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; 14 for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15 who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) 16 in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Those who repeatedly commit barbaric acts but escape arrest and spend their days in comfort, those who are involved with corrupt political organizations, religious groups, corrupt police, and prosecutorial organizations that accept bribes and create false accusations are in violation of their God-given conscience (in a sense, the law), and will not be given a period of redemption during the 1,000-year reign. They will be resurrected after the millennium and suffer a second death.
The biblical term “eternal” means that there is no fixed period of time, and it is expressed as “forever” because it is undetermined how long people who have committed atrocious sins will be judged by God. Those wicked people have always existed, but God's judgment will come.
In that part of the world, God will judge all of them (the Greek word chrysis means fair) by looking into their hearts.
Compassionate judgment for compassionate unbelievers
The merciful will eventually be shown mercy, but those who have walked in cruelty and ruthlessness will face the judgment they deserve.
Romans 2:10 but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 11 For there is no partiality with God. James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
The merciful will eventually be shown mercy, but those who have walked in cruelty and ruthlessness will be judged accordingly. Paul is saying to be assured that God, who justly judges both Christians and unbelievers, will resurrect them.
The scripture in Romans 2 states that good people, even Greeks, or pagans, will be mercifully judged.
It states that God will deal mercifully with even sincere unbelievers living in today's society, even if they should suddenly die.
Hebrews 9:27 says, “It is appointed unto men once to die, and after death to be judged,” which ultimately also means that they will be justly judged within the span of the Millennial Kingdom of Judgment Day, whether or not they will each enjoy the blessings of life and the redemption of Christ after the resurrection.
Re-education and last attempt by the Millennium
The scrolls must show what more God requires of us. Those who live through Armageddon and those who are resurrected must obey God's decrees in order to live forever. This includes all of Yahuwah's requirements as He reveals them during His 1,000 years. As such, each person will be judged on the basis of what he or she has done during the Day of Judgment.
Judgment Day will be the first opportunity for tens of billions of people to learn and live according to the will of God. This means that a great work of education will take place. Indeed, “those who dwell in the productive land will surely learn righteousness” (Isaiah 26:9). Yet, not everyone is willing to conform themselves to the will of God. Isaiah 26:10 states, “The wicked man may be shown grace, but he will not learn righteousness at all.
He does iniquities in the land of honesty and does not recognize the excellencies of Jehovah” (Isaiah 26:10). These wicked men will be condemned to death, and their death will be permanent, for they will demonstrate a propensity to pervert themselves and threaten the welfare of others, even though Satan is imprisoned and not tempting them during the Day of Judgment. -Isaiah 65:20.
After the millennial reign, there will be a final event. Satan will be released from prison and allowed one last time to deceive the ungodly who have not eaten of the fruit of the tree of life. It will be the final test to see if those who did not know the resurrected Christ and those souls born during the Millennial Reign who have not eaten of the fruit of the tree of life are worthy to live eternally, inspired by the Holy Spirit and able to build relationships of true love with their neighbors, or if they are not, driven by the temptation of the devil to selfishness that threatens the welfare of others.
Or in the 22nd chapter of Enoch, we read that the wicked who died in prosperity without judgment in their lifetime will be resurrected only to be judged on the Day of Judgment. And so those extenuating wicked will attack the perfected peoples of mankind as Gog and Magog from the end of the millennium. (Rev. 20:3, 7-10) The righteous who resist Satan will experience the full fulfillment of the biblical promise that “the righteous shall possess the earth and dwell therein forever.” (Ps. 37:29) Yes, the day of judgment will be a blessing to all the faithful.
The scripture that Jesus said, “Those who have done good go to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil go to the resurrection of judgment,” will be fulfilled in the span of the Day of Judgment, the Millennial Kingdom.
Those who survive will be “resurrected” as perfect human beings by the end of Judgment Day. (Rev. 20:5) Thus, on the Day of Judgment, humanity will be restored to its initial state of perfection. As this scripture states, the millennial reign is God's Sabbath, the day of judgment for the 1,000-year period during which God will allow Christ to rule the world and entrust it to His Son. During that period, humanity will be removed from imperfection, and Jesus will return dominion to God. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28)
I don't see that those who have died the first death continue to burn in hell at this time, as the general church says. They will be judged during or after the millennium after their future resurrection, which means during or after the Day of Judgment. Don't worry, those who died without knowing Christ will be given the opportunity to learn.
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