28:13). At a Thanksgiving dinner, each person eats a different amount, but each is satisfied. 19:28; 24:45-47; 25:21, 23; Lk. Following are those six judgments: The judgment of the cross Jesus said in John 12:31-33, "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. Please note that the clause he shall suffer loss would be better rendered it (the reward) shall be forfeited.. 2:12). God has resolved that problem through the person of Jesus Christ. The Bible declares, we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory (the perfect holiness) of God. In other words, our sin separates us from God who is perfect holiness (righteousness and justice) and who must therefore judge sinful man (Rom. You are now one of Gods children by faith in the Savior. 12; 14). Because this is a completely different matter. (4) The Great Day, the one of their wrath (Rev. 1:15, 18; Rev. This is evident from 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and Revelation 4:2 and 19:8. (See Appendix A for an explanation of how to become a Christian.). Rom. As a child of God, you are, however, a babe in Christ and you need to grow and be spiritually nourished and built up in the things of Christ. Note that the text says and the books (plural) were opened, and another book (singular) was opened, which is the Book of Life. We have two sets, the books and the book which is mentioned again in verse 15a. When God put Adam and Eve in the garden, He furnished them with every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food (Gen. 2:9). 6:18-19; Tit. (5) The Crown of Righteousness (2 Tim. (6) Israel is the earthly kingdom and will undoubtedly have authority over portions and sections of the millennial kingdom and the eternal kingdom as emphasized in Matt. 65:17). (4) That dispensing of rewards is in view is also evident from the Greek words in 2 Corinthians 5:10 translated good (agathosvaluable like good fruit) and bad (phaulosunacceptable like rotten or spoiled fruit). To underdo the sorrow aspect is to make faithfulness inconsequential.18. But Israel is first gathered at the borders, outside the land of Israel, called in Ezekiel 20:35 the wilderness of the peoples, for judgment, face to face, one by one as sheep pass under the shepherds rod. Not only did Christ die for our sin as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), but He died to break the reign of sin in the lives of those who put their trust in Him as their Savior. Remember that all of our crowns will be cast at the feet of Christ, for only He is worthy (Rev. 2:5). The negative effects involve the following: (1) The loss suffered in 1 Corinthians 3:15 refers to the loss of rewards, not salvation as the verse goes on to make clear. 13:12; Eph. was a 1966 graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary and a former pastor of 28 years. 24:41). 6:20; 1 Pet. Therefore you have no excuse, everyone of you who passes judgment, for in that which you judge another, you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things. 18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. Ezek. 12:5-11). Matthew 24-25 set the chronology and thus the time. 9 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Major Bible Themes: 52 Vital Doctrines of the Scripture Simplified and Explained, rev. But, to stress that Christ is King of Kings, this word is also used of the many diadems the Lord will wear at His return (Rev. WebAs it will be shown below, though it is tremendously serious with eternal ramifications, the judgment seat of Christ is not a place and time when the Lord will mete out punishment for sins committed by the child of God. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one. 9:24-25). 4:13-18). It is called great because of the awesome intensity and the degree of its importance. 12:1-3 with Rev. Compare Isaiah 13:6-22 = judgment; but 14:1-3 the result which is peace, Israel regathered and in blessing (Joel 1:15f 2:1f, 12-18f; 3:1f). Because Christ alone is worthy and because we can only be fruitful when we abide in Him allowing His life to fills ours, we will all cast our crowns before Him in recognition that all we have done is by His grace. Charles Lee Feingberg [Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1968], p. 29). The next prophetic event in Gods timetable will be the rapture or the catching up of the body of Christ, the church, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. 1:18-3:9, 23). For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son. Revelation 20:11-15 And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. Knowing and having the hope of the resurrection and all that this means to the Christian, the Apostle spoke of his commitment to maintain a clear conscience, one cleared by confession and the forsaking of all known sin (1 John 1:9; Prov. I believe Jesus Christ died for me and rose from the grave. (4) The Promises to Overcomers. 2:15). For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The verb used is komizo and means to carry off safe, to carry off as booty. In the middle voice as here, it meant to bear for oneself,16 or to receive back what is ones own.17 Compare Matthew 25:27 and Ephesians 6:8. The Christian will not face the final judgment because Christ was judged for us, but all believers will face a judgment called the Judgment Seat of Christ, the nature of which will be covered in the material to follow. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. How much more matters of this life? Is it only for rewards or their loss? (8) It is a time of utter negative volition and rebellion (2 Thess. 30 For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep. They, therefore, have no righteousness and cannot be accepted before God, but must be cast into the eternal Lake of Fire. Deeds is the Greek word, ergon, which refers to anything that is done, a deed, action, or work. It is used of good deeds (Matt. (3) The resurrection (rapture) and Bema of the church concludes this parenthesis, the church age, but Old Testament saints (the righteous dead) are not resurrected and rewarded until after the seventieth week when God concludes His program with Israel as far as the seventy weeks of Daniel are concerned. If so, how do we reconcile this with passages like Revelation 7:17, God shall wipe away every tear from their eye, and Revelation 21:4, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away, or with Isaiah 65:17, For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind? 4:34f). The result is the one world system of the Beast as described in Revelation. Specifically, this is the dead of the second resurrection, the resurrection of the unjust, the resurrection unto the second death mentioned in Revelation 20:5-6, 12-14, and John 5:29b. Because of His love, grace and mercy He has not left us without hope and a solution. Some crucial questions are: Why are we brought before the Bema? According to Romans 1:18-32, when men turn away from the knowledge of God revealed so vividly in creation, God, as an expression of His holy wrath, turns men over to their own devices and foolish imaginations. It is great because it is the final judgment and puts an end to all judgment for all time. 11:1f; 13:1f; 2 Thess. 10 Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Vol. Some will reign with Him, but, because of loss of rewards, evidently some will not. This crown is a reward promised to Elders for faithfulness in the discharge of their responsibilities in shepherding the people. Rom. (2) In Revelation 19:8, when the Lord returns with His bride at the end of the tribulation, she is seen already rewarded. He said to the judges, Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and, the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. 3:14-15). When Jesus returns, there will be a judgment dividing sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25:31-46) At this judgment those who survived the Tribulation will be separated into two groups. Therefore it should be each believers impelling desire to be well-pleasing to the Lord in all things. This is Gods judgment to cast Satan down from his position in heaven as the anointed cherub with all those angels who followed him to this earth and its atmosphere as the primary abode of their operations (cf. (2) The believer who fails to abide experiences shame by the revelatory nature of Christs presence at the Bema. Soon, however, 144,000 will come to Christ from the nation of Israel and will evidently become the evangelists of the world who lead people to Christ from every tongue, tribe, and nation (Rev. Instead, it should be defined as the pursuit of our self-interest in our own way, rather than in Gods way. Because of this, He cannot have fellowship with anyone who does not have perfect righteousness (Hab. 11:29-30; 1 John 5:16-17; Prov. (2) The second book will be the book of works or deeds. (6) It is a day of extreme deception and delusion (2 Thess. (2) It is part of the training process by which Gods children are brought into the experience of Gods holiness (Heb. Her reward is described as fine linen, the righteous acts of the saintsundoubtedly the result of rewards. While the Bema is going on in heaven (with the church in the Lords presence) a series of terrible judgments will begin to unfold on the earth for a period of seven years to be culminated by the return and manifestation of Christ to earth as the Great White Horse Rider of Revelation 19. (c) There are two views: (1) The believer who fails to abide is made to feel shame by the Lord, i.e., the Lord puts him to shame. 20:10). The Scripture teaches that before Messiah can begin to reign, there must be a judgment to determine who will enter into Messiahs kingdom since they are not all Israel (spiritually regenerated believers who put their trust in Jesus Christ as their Messiah) who are Israel (physical descendants only) (Rom. Joy will indeed be the predominant emotion of life with the Lord; but I suspect that, when our works are made manifest at the tribunal, some grief will be mixed with the joy, and we shall know shame as we suffer loss. Such would be inconsistent with the finished work of Christ on the Cross because He totally paid the penalty for our sins. 2:2). 1:13a). In these passages we read such things as give account of himself, suffer loss, shrink away from Him in shame, and recompense for his deeds whether good or bad.. 9:20-21; 2 Thess. (8) The Many Crowns or Diadems (Rev. Obviously, most see that the immoral person deserves the wrath of God, as the Apostle describes in Romans 1:18-32. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26 for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Actually an evaluation is going on every day by the Lord (cf. What follows below is a fuller explanation of both terms. Bring to light is photizo, to bring to light, make visible. Disclose is phaneroo, to manifest, reveal. The issue should be extremely clear from these two verses: The Lord will evaluate the quality and nature of every persons work. Matthew 25:1-30 shows that God will judge living Israel to separate the saved from the unsaved. The Lords return and what this means not only to the world but to us individually is a very prominent subject of the New Testament. 26:10; Mark 14:6; Rom. Q. 2:14-16), and the revelation of God-consciousness in creation so that they are without excuse (Rom. Rev. 6:17). 2:10). 11:31-32; Ps. The victor of a given event who participated according to the rules was led by the judge to the platform called the Bema. WebLuke 16:19-31 ESV / 91 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. Why? WebThe Archangel* Gabriel is mentioned in the Holy Bible at least four explicit and possibly two implicit times: Daniel 8:1527. Rom. Two important questions must be asked and answered: According to Romans 5:8, God demonstrated His love for us through the death of His Son. It occurs 107 times in the Old Testament, but 93 times in the book of Ezekiel. The Book of Life contains the names of believers, those justified by faith and who have a righteousness from God imputed to their account. 7:6). 3:11-12. The judgment of Genesis 3 included the loss of the perfect Edenic conditions and in its place, the curse of the earth with its often extreme weather conditions, disease, thorns, and the warfare with Satan and his hosts (cf. This may indicate something of our authority. 3 Let not him who eats regard with contempt him who does not eat, and let not him who does not eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. 9:24-25). So the order of events will be (a) the rapture which includes our glorification or resurrection bodies, (b) exaltation into the heavens with the Lord, (c) examination before the Bema, and (d) compensation or rewards. 8:24f). After our glorification, there will be no sinful nature to produce envy, or jealousy, or resentment, or feelings of dissatisfaction. 19:17-19; 22:29-30; Rev. And not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming (presence). Please note several things here. This judgment affected all of creation (Genesis 3:1718; Romans 8:2022). John 1:12: But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, {even} to those who believe in His name. It is so important to note the emphasis here. 14:4), but Ezekiel 20:34-35 shows God brings Israel out from the nations where she has been scattered throughout the times of the Gentiles (gathers her to the last person, Ezek. It will occur somewhere in the heavenlies in the presence of the Lord. When the Bible speaks of the last judgment, it is not similar to taking a final test to see whether we pass or fail. That type of judgment has already taken place. This last judgment is the public recognition of decisions long-since made. The last judgment is also known as the Great White Throne judgment. This indication is also clear that it does occur in the new heavens and earth which are not created until after this event (cf. Some of the Christians at Corinth were being externally religious. 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