The Panorama of God’s Judgment at its Best ©Jiří Moskala, Th. D. , Ph. D. Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Theology Andrews University Old Testament Department
Divine Judgment and the Gospel The Second Vital Issue In the heart of the Sanctuary Doctrine is the teaching about the Pre-Advent Judgment. How to expect God’s Judgment without going Crazy? Only by knowing personally the Judge, understanding the nature of His judgment, and connecting judgment together with the rest of the Gospel!!!
How to put together God’s Judgment and the Gospel?
God’s Universal Judgment How is usually presented/explained divine eschatological judgment?
God’s Universal Judgment: Traditional View It is explained as eschatological judgment in three phases/stages: Which ones?
1. Pre-advent Judgment
1. Pre-advent Judgment 2. Judgment during Millennium
1. Pre-advent Judgment 2. Judgment during Millennium 3. The Final Judgment Am I Right?
Vital Question Is this view correct? Is this understanding in harmony with ALL biblical data? YES or NO? ? ?
Yes and No! It is right as for the events and dates! BUT WRONG for the starting point!
It is right as for the events (three judgments mentioned above) and dates (like 1844), BUT WRONG for the starting point, because in the year 1844 did not begin God’s eschatological judgment! Let me explain.
Pre-advent Judgment: Where does the problem lie? Correct biblical teaching about preadvent judgment and the date of 1844, but the event is isolated from the most crucial point―the CROSS of Jesus or Christ as a Person! HE is not at the CENTER!
The Central Place of the Cross • NOT ENOUGH!!! • The Cross of Christ, Jesus Himself must be the starting point of all our discourses on the divine Judgment! • The year AD 31 and not 1844 has to be the foundational and beginning reference point of God’s eschatological judgment!
No Dichotomy • There is no dichotomy between AD 31 and 1844. You do not need to choose between them. It is not a question of either – or. • They need to be put together in the proper relationship and perspective! • The starting point of God’s judgment is AD 31!
It is a better way how to preach about God’s judgment • It is crucial to connect divine judgment with the Cross of Jesus! • This is and must be the CENTRAL event for all our doctrines!!!
Vital Question: When Do the Last Days Begin? - The last days? - The end of the ages?
Traditional answer: In AD 1798 (1755) or 1844. Right or Wrong?
WRONG!!! • Let me prove it from the Bible! • Our faith must be always built on “It is written!” Question: What is written?
The Beginning of the Eschatological Time 1. Hebrews 1: 1 -2 “In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. ” 2. Acts 2: 17; Heb 9: 26; 1 Cor 10: 11; 1 Pet 1: 20; 4: 7; 2 Pet 3: 3; 1 Tim 4: 1; 1 Thes 4: 16 -17.
Acts 2: 17 “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dreams. ”
Hebrews 9: 26 “Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. ”
Is There a Difference Between the Last Days and the Time of the End? The phrase “the time of the end” #qe t[e is a specific exegetical idiomatic expression used only in the book of Daniel referring to 1798 or 1844 (Daniel 8: 17; 11: 35, 40; 12: 4, 9). It’s the time of cutting, the time of decision, the prophetic apocalyptic time of the end.
The time of the eschatological Resurrection Once is used the expression “the end of the days” !ymi. Y"h; #qe (Daniel 12: 13).
Crucial Difference But Complementary General eschatological time was inaugurated from the first coming of Christ (the last days, the end of the ages began, the end time). Specific prophetic/apocalyptic eschatological time of the end: from 1798 and/or 1844 (Daniel 7 -9, 12).
Difference but not Contradictory • The Last days, the End of the Ages, [the End of Time or the End Time] – from the Cross • The Time of the End – from 1798/1844
Crucial Difference But Complementary General eschatological time (the last days; the end of time) Specific prophetic/apocalyptic eschatological time (the time of the end) from 1798/1844 on
The Centrality of the Cross Eschatological Time (biblical teaching) – the end time, the last days arrived with the CROSS (the first coming of Christ)!
From and To the Cross • “The Lamb that was slain from the creation of the world. ” Rev 13: 8
The Centrality of the Cross in all our Doctrines “The Sacrifice of Christ as an atonement for sin is the great truth around which all other truths cluster. In order to be rightly understood and appreciated, every truth in the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, must be studied in the light that streams from the Cross of Calvary. I present before you the great, grand monument of mercy and regeneration, Salvation and redemption—the Son of God uplifted on the cross. This is to be the foundation of every discourse given by our ministers. ” Gospel Workers, 315
The Centrality of the Cross “Of all professing Christians, Seventh-day Adventists should be foremost in uplifting Christ before the world. ” Gospel Workers, 156
Toward a Biblical Theology of God’s Judgment: A Celebration of the Cross in Seven Phases of Divine Universal Judgment (An Overview Of a Theocentric-Christocentric Approach) (For more details, see my article in Journal of Adventist Theological Society - Spring 2004).
www. atsjats. or g click on my name: Jiri Moskala
Divine Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: Celebration of the Cross of Jesus Pre-Cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
Specific Nature of This Study 1. Time of Judgment: Pre-eschatological or Eschatological 2. Nature of Judgment 3. Place: Heaven or Earth 4. Direct Beneficiaries (For the Sake of) 5. Key Biblical References 6. Description and Content
Divine Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: Pre-Cross Typological Judgment Pre-Cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
1. Pre-Eschatological Judgment 1. Time: Pre-Eschatological/ Pre-Cross Judgments 2. Nature: Typological or Pedagogical Judgment (“Example Judgments”) 3. Place: Earth 4. Direct Beneficiaries: Survivors (Human Beings) 5. Key Biblical References and Content: Genesis 3, 4, 11 -12, 19, Exodus 7 -12, 13 -14.
When does God’s judgment occur for the first time in the Bible? In the Garden of Eden! Why did not Adam and Eve die when God said that in the day they will eat from the forbidden fruit they will surely die? !
• God’s GRACE was applied to them which was streaming from the Cross of Jesus!
Other Judgments Upon Cain 1. Flood 2. Tower of Babel 3. Sodom and Gomorrah 4. 10 plagues in Egypt etc.
Summary of the First Judgment • Preliminary, Typological, and Pedagogical • Usually mixed with mercy • Lessons for the Survivors • Redemptive and Punitive • God’s Surgical action as a wall against the rising tide of Evil
Divine Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: Judgment on the Cross - God’s Smile for us Pre-Cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
Phase Number Two 1. Time: Eschatological Judgment or Judgment on the Cross 2. Nature: CENTRAL-COSMIC JUDGMENT 3. Place: Earth 4. Direct Beneficiaries: The Whole Universe Including Humanity 5. Key Biblical References: John 12: 31 -32, Isa 53: 3 -8, Dan 9: 24 -27, John 16: 11, Rom 8: 3, Rev 13: 8, Rev 12: 7 -12, Eph 1: 4, I Pet 1: 20; Heb 2: 14.
Who was judged on the Cross? • Satan
John 12: 31 -32 “Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself. ”
John 16: 8 -11 “Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. ”
Who was judged on the Cross? • Satan • Sin, evil
Romans 8: 3 “For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh. ”
Who was judged on the Cross? • Satan • Sin, evil • All humanity (we were judged)
Isa 53: 4 -6 Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
1 Cor 15: 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.
Who was judged on the Cross? • • Satan Sin, evil All humanity (we were judged) God was “judged” and proven to be God of love, justice, truth, order, and freedom – it was a revelation of the true character of God
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: Judgment during our lifetime Pre-cross Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 Judgments 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
Phase Number Three 1. Time: Post-Cross / Judgment During Our Lifetime 2. Nature: Decisive Judgment 3. Place: Earth 4. Direct Beneficiaries: Individual Human Persons 5. Key Biblical References: John 5: 22 -24, 3: 1618, 36, 14: 6, 16: 8 -11, Rom 5: 1 -2, 8: 1 -4, 8: 31 -39, Eph 2: 4 -10, 1 John 2: 28, 4: 17, Isa 53: 11 -12.
Everything depends on our relationship to God • Jesus Christ, His sacrificial substitutionary death on our behalf is the center, magnet, steering wheel, anchor, and turning point of the plan of salvation. • On the acceptance of His death for us depends our eternity!
• John 5: 24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. ” (NKJV) “I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. ” (NIV)
Everyone Judged 2 Cor 5: 10 “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. ”
John 3: 17 -18 “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. ”
No Condemnation Rom 8: 1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. ”
Illustration • Paper (representing me―a sinner). • Bible (representing Jesus Christ). • I am attracted to the loving, gracious, forgiving, caring, holy, just God. • I openly, honestly, sincerely confess my sins. • He accepts me for 100%. • I am hidden in Him. • His righteousness is my righteousness; His perfection is my perfection; His purity is my purity; His character is my character. • Amazing grace will gradually transform me to His image. • When Heavenly Father looks upon me, He sees His beloved Son Jesus Christ!
Steps to Christ, 62 • “If you give yourself to Him, and accept Him as your personal Saviour, then, sinful as your life may have been, for His sake you are accounted righteous. Christ’s character stands in place of your character, and you are accepted before God as just as if you had not sinned. ”
Ephesians 2: 1 -10 1 “As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. 4 But …
Ephesians 2: 1 -10 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-- it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-- 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. ”
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Ephesians 1: 20 “Which he [the Father] exerted in Christ when he raised him [Jesus Christ] from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms. ”
Summary of the Third Phase • • • Decision is personal and private. Response to the message of the Gospel. Occurs when humans are justified (forgiven). After death nothing can be changed (sealed, no second chance). Real issues involved in this Judgment: a. What shall I do with Jesus? b. Whom shall I trust? c. What is my reaction to the Gospel? Decisions are done in lifetime for all eternity: savedunsaved, faithful-unfaithful, good-evil. Nothing, nobody can reverse this judgment (free will).
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: The Pre-Advent Judgment Pre-cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
Fourth Phase of Judgment 1. Time: Pre-Advent Judgment. What is its NATURE? Known as the INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT. Can be a misleading term. Who need to investigate? - God? - Believers in Christ? - Angels?
God knows who are His! 2 Tim 2: 19 Nevertheless, God's solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: "The Lord knows those who are his, " and, "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness. "
New terminology • Terms are very important • Truth, concepts, ideas are conveyed through words • We need to choose the best!
Fourth Phase of Judgment Affirmative Judgment (or Demonstrative or Revelatory Judgment)
Fourth Phase of Judgment 1. 2. 3. 4. Time: Pre-Advent Judgment. Nature: Affirmative Judgment. Place: Heaven. Direct Beneficiaries: Angels / Whole Universe. 5. Key Biblical Texts: Dan 7 -8, Rev 14: 7, Rev 19: 2, Matt 22: 1 -14.
Facts About this Judgment • • Also known as the “Investigative Judgment. ” Bible prophecy points to it starting in 1844. This is “Investigative” only from the viewpoint of angels. It is the affirmative or confirmatory judgment from the viewpoint of GOD and human beings. • It is God’s demonstrative or revelatory judgment: He openly demonstrate to the whole universe our relationship to Him. • Salvation of God’s people―“Judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High. ” • Condemnation―the “Little Horn” is judged.
Facts Continued. • A revelation of God’s grace and power, rather than a display of our sins. • A demonstration of how God worked for us, in us, and through us. • Nothing mysterious or hidden activity―it is a legal admission to Heaven in front of the whole Universe. • Plainly and openly revealed who accepted God as their Creator and Savior. • God is proven just, because sinners are transformed by God’s grace, Word, and Spirit. • God’s love and justice are demonstrated when He accepts into the heavenly family those who repented and followed Him.
What’s missing? • • Pictures are very impersonal. Very sad (sober) faces. Distance between justified sinner and Jesus. Usually, Jesus or the Cross is not at the center of the picture but sinner.
Three possible ways of improvement: - Repentant sinner on the pierced palm of Jesus.
Three possible ways of improvement: - Repentant sinner on the pierced palm of Jesus. - Being in the heart of Jesus.
Three possible ways of improvement: - Repentant sinner on the pierced palm of Jesus. - Being in the heart of Jesus. - Jesus embraces repentant sinner.
Personal View • • With one hand Jesus embraces me With another shows my real life Not only the display of my sins Jesus as my true Witness demonstrate to the whole universe what is my attitude toward Him, what is my attitude toward sin and salvation Especially the demonstration of God’s working GRACE in me My orientation for Jesus and life is revealed My attitudes and directions of life are demonstrated My priorities
Jesus Christ: “My grace is sufficient for the repentant sinner Moskala. ”
Joy in Heaven • Everyone will jump out of their seats and applaud. • They will applaud, of course, not me, but Jesus, His powerful grace in my life. • Remember - God’s amazing grace is always transforming grace. • They will proclaim: “We want that Moskala lives with us! He fits and belong here to be part of our family!” • Jesus is legally securing my place in heaven for the whole eternity in front of the universe.
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: The Realization Judgment Pre-cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
The Fifth Phase of Judgment 1. Time: Eschatological Judgment, Post. Cross, Judgment at the Second Coming of Christ 2. Nature: Realization Judgment 3. Place: Earth 4. Direct Beneficiaries: Redeemed People. 5. Key Biblical Texts: Rev 19: 17 -21, Matt 25: 31 -46, John 5: 28 -29, 1 Cor 4: 4 -5, Dan 12: 2, 13
John 14: 1 -3 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. ”
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: Judgment during Millennium Pre-cross Judgments Eschatological/Post-Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
The Sixth Phase of Judgment 1. Time: Eschatological, Post-Cross Judgment, Judgment during Millennium 2. Nature: Attestation Judgment 3. Place: Heaven 4. Direct Beneficiaries: Redeemed 5. Key Biblical Texts: Rev 20: 4 -6, 1 Cor 6: 2 -3, Matt 19: 28
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: The Final Judgment Pre-cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
The Final Phase/7 th Phase of Judgment 1. 2. 3. 4. Time: The Last Judgment. Nature: Executive Judgment. Place: Earth. Direct Beneficiaries: Whole Universe including Redeemed. 5. Key Biblical Texts: Rev 20: 7 -15, John 12: 48, Acts 17: 31.
There Is • God with His people there. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ’” Rev 21: 1 -3 (NIV)
This is the Gospel according to God’s Judgment! Glory, Hallelujah to the Lord!
The Gospel according to God’s Judgment: • It is a perfect Gospel, because our God is perfect in all His actions! • He is God of LOVE! • He is our beautiful Judge!
• Revelation 20: 1 -5 : “Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. ”
Different Function/Role • God wants that we are happy in heaven and happy throughout the whole eternity even in the case (or in spite of the fact) that our beloved ones or close relatives would not be with us there (hypothetical illustration: my father who lead me to Christ), or if we could meet there our enemies or those who according to our understanding were enemies of Christ and His people (hypothetical examples―Nero, Hitler, Stalin, etc. ) • Time for receiving clearer insights and deeper understanding of reality.
Another Function Time for reconciliation, healing emotional wounds, restoration of broken relationships, and growth.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 • The King Manasseh. • Who was he?
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 - The worst king in Judah (like Ahab in the North). - Symbol of evil.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 - Yet was 55 years on the throne.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 - Practiced idolatry. - Offered his sons to foreign gods.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 - Exercised magic and spiritism.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 Murdered Isaiah and many other prophets and people.
Illustration― 2 Kings 21 According to the pseudepigraphic writing, The Ascension of Isaiah, Isaiah was sawed in half during the reign of Manasseh. Terrible!!! What can be worse?
BUT― According to 2 Chronicles 33 • The King Manasseh repented – Sent to the Assyrian captivity – Sincerely asked God for mercy – Returned back – Revival and Reformation Good News?
Rejoice – God saves! Good News! God saves sinners!!! Manasseh will be in heaven!!! Glory to God for His amazing transforming grace who could save man like Manasseh!
Good News Isaiah and Manasseh will meet in heaven! Will they pretend that nothing happened? Will they ignore each other? Don’t you think that it is now time for Manasseh to say “I am deeply sorry” to Isaiah? Then they will embrace each other …
Another examples • David and Uriah (2 Sa 11).
Another examples • David and Uriah (2 Sa 11). • Apostle Paul before his conversion put to death many Christians who knew him only as an enemy of the church.
Another examples • David and Uriah (2 Sa 11). • Apostle Paul before his conversion put to death many Christians who knew him only as an enemy of the church. • Paul was the main witness of (and responsible for) the death of Stephen, the deacon (Acts 7: 54 -8: 3; 9: 1 -6).
Facts about the Judgment during Millennium • Confirmatory, revelatory, negative (shows condemnation). • Endorses God’s previous judgment. • God wants that all redeemed are happy through whole eternity. • Revelation of God’s love, justice while not forgiving those who rejected His saving grace. • All redeemed attest to God’s goodness and justice in not admitting into Heaven those who refused His saving activity for them and continued in destructive behavior. • Judgment of evil angels and Satan.
God’s Universal Judgment in Seven Phases: The Final Judgment Pre-cross Judgments Eschatological/Post Cross Judgments 2 1 3 4 5 6 God’s Executive Judgment 7
The Final Phase/7 th Phase of Judgment 1. 2. 3. 4. Time: The Last Judgment. Nature: Executive Judgment. Place: Earth. Direct Beneficiaries: Whole Universe including Redeemed. 5. Key Biblical Texts: Rev 20: 7 -15, John 12: 48, Acts 17: 31.
• Revelation 20: 7 -15: “Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire. ”
• John 12: 48: “He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him -- the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day. ” • Acts 17: 31: “Because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead. ”
Facts About the Final Judgment • Condemnation, Executive, Annihilation • Negative • All Intelligent beings in the Universe will serve God faithfully out of Love and gratitude because they know the Goodness of the Lord • The Overall judgment has very positive results • God as the Surgeon eradicating the Problem of Sin once and for all, totally undoing the damage done by sin • Salvation and life secured for all eternity • Sin and Rebellion will never occur again.
The Last Judgment • “Above throne of God appears the cross of Jesus” (GC 666) • In the light of the cross the whole great controversy between God and Satan, light and darkness, truth and deceit is shown (the best multimedia presentation!). • Every individual will also see in the light of the cross what God did for him/her.
Every Knee Will Bow Down Before God • Not only all redeemed, good angels, and the heavenly beings, but also -The wicked people. -The evil angels. -Satan himself. Phil 2: 10 -11 “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ” Rev 15: 3 -4 “Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. . . For you alone are holy… your righteous acts have been revealed. ”
Satan’s Total Capitulation and Defeat • After crystal clear demonstration of God’s love and evidences of it, Satan admits that God is JUST. His claims are refuted. • But he is angry at himself that he testified to God’s justice, and he leads his followers to the final rebellion. • Because it was demonstrated to the whole universe what God had unselfishly done for sinners and that even the best information could not change the heart of the wicked (this is why they are condemned and outside of the New Jerusalem), the fire from heaven will fall down and destroy/annihilate evil and everyone who associates with it.
God’s Strange But Necessary Act: Annihilation of Unrepented Sinners, Evil Angels, and Satan God has no pleasure in destroying the wicked. Ezek 18: 32 “For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!” (see also Ezek 33: 11) Isaiah 28: 21 “The LORD will rise up as … to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task. ”
• God’s love and justice clearly demonstrated. • Nahum 1: 9 “Whatever they plot against the LORD he will bring to an end; trouble will not come a second time. ”
God’s Total Victory • It is the VICTORY of God’s - love. - truth. - justice. Victory of His moral power (not His force). He is the only Warrant of freedom, harmony, peace, and order.
In the New Earth There Is No More • Death
There Is No More • Death • Sickness, pain, disease
There Is No More • Death • Sickness, pain, disease • Wickedness, crime, evil
There Is No More • Death―no more need of cemeteries. • Sickness, pain, disease―no more hospitals. • Wickedness, crime, evil―no more prisons. No more sin, sinners, evil angels, Satan !!!
There Will Be There • • Love. Peace. Joy. Security. Creative work. Meaningful lasting relationships. Harmony. Traveling in the vast universe to another planets.
There Is • God with His people there. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ’” Rev 21: 1 -3 (NIV)
All Eternity With • God. • Angels. • Heavenly beings from all the different 120 billion galaxies. • Redeemed of all generations (from Adam to the Second Coming of Christ). The best fellowship ever! Never ending growth in the LORD!
This is the Gospel according to God’s Judgment! Glory, Hallelujah to the Lord! Amen!
Question: Theology of the Divine Judgment: What is it? A Demonstration of God’s Wrath Or A Celebration of the Cross?
Of course, it is A Celebration of the Cross, celebration of the Person – Jesus Christ!
The Gospel according to God’s Judgment: • It is a perfect Gospel, because our God is perfect in all His actions! • He is God of LOVE! • He is our beautiful Judge!
Toward a Biblical Theology of God’s Judgment: A Celebration of the Cross in Seven Phases of Divine Universal Judgment (An Overview Of a Theocentric-Christocentric Approach) (For more details, see my article in Journal of Adventist Theological Society - Spring 2004).
www. atsjats. or g click on my name: Jiri Moskala
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