The Five Judgments, Part #5 of 5

JUDGMENT NO. 5

1. Subjects-- The WICKED DEAD.

2. Tune-- During the Renovation of the Earth by Fire.

3. Place-- Before "The Great White Throne."

4. Basis of Judgment-- Their "Works."

5. Result-- Cast Into the "Lake of Fire."

This judgment is FUTURE.

The account of it is given in Re 20:11-15. It will take place at the close of the Millennium a 1000 years after the judgment of the Nations, and before the "Great White Throne." The "Great White Throne" will not be on the earth, for the "Great White Throne Judgment" will take place during the renovation of the earth by fire, for the "renovation" of this Earth is reserved or kept until the time of that judgment, which Peter calls "The Day of Judgment and Perdition of Ungodly Men" (2Pe 3:7), because the judgment of the "Great White Throne" is the judgment of the wicked dead.

All the Righteous dead will arise at the First Resurrection. If any Righteous die between the First Resurrection and the Resurrection of the "wicked" or Second Resurrection, they will rise with the wicked dead at that Resurrection. The words-- "Whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life" (vs. 15), imply that there will be "some," probably very few, Righteous at the Second Resurrection.

At the close of the Millennium and just before the renovation of the earth by fire, the living Righteous will probably be translated, and the living Wicked or Ungodly will be destroyed in the flames that will consume the earth's atmosphere and exterior surface.

The Wicked or Ungodly will not be judged to see whether they are entitled to Eternal Life, but to ascertain the "degree" of their punishment. The sad feature of this judgment will be that there will be many kind and lovable people there who were not saved, and who will be classed among the "ungodly" because they rejected Christ as a Savior. The "Books" will be opened in which the "Recording Angel" has kept a record of every person's life, and they will be judged every man according to his "works." Some will be sentenced to a more severe punishment than others, but none will escape. The worst of all is, that those who were not so bad must spend eternity with the ungodly, and that in the "Lake of Fire." Their punishment includes the second death, which means that they shall lose their resurrection bodies, in which they were judged, and become "disembodied spirits" again, and so exist in the "Lake of Fire" FOREVER.

The "Fallen Angels" (not the Devil's angels), who are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness," will be judged at this time, which Jude calls the judgment of the "Great Day." Jude 1:6.

When I first presented this study on the Five Judgements I was ridiculed and looked upon as if I was trying to change the Bible.  The idea of the Five Judgments is nothing new, they were first written about in “Rightly Dividing the Word”, by Clarence Larkin, in  1920 and other in-depth studies that followed.

It is easy to present the “Judgment Day is coming” concept because it requires little study.  When questions or complications arises it is easy to shed them off by saying there is much about the Word of God that we don’t understand.  The use of such phrases as, “it is right because the Bible says it is right or it’s right because I got the word of God in my mouth”, has allowed the gate to stand open, wolves have came in and the Gospel is being perverted.

By allowing the Bible to speak rather than trying to explain what was meant to be said allows one to grasp a deeper understanding of God word.  If I try to combine the incidents of judgment or those that are judged, I would end up with a homogenized form of the Gospel that was unbelievable to many and could only be sustained thru hypnosis and conjectures, tainted by denominational or personal belief. 

Understanding the Word of God is no more complicated than understanding Algebra or or any other subject of study.  To excel in any field requires constant study.  Paul stated in 2 Timothy 2:15  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  Modern high-tech society is based upon questions and answers.  As each question is answered another follows  

Another point of study.  In this study there is use of the  word  Millennium that reference a thousand years. Now all judgments take place in the presence of God.  In 2 Peter 3:8 he attempted to put things in the proper perspective when he said, "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
 

A common cliché is, “ there are things within the Bible that we will never understand.”  If this is true then why did the Word of God tell us about them?  Is that just an excuse for our inability to study?  If there is something we don’t understand, shouldn’t we find someone that can help us understand?    

Tell me about the Kingdom of Heaven, Matthew 25:1  Then shall the Kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.  Thru extrapolation we can conclude that the journey was not easy, we know it was long and into the dangerous night.  Traveling by night was a dangerous undertaking  in cities without light.  There was a certain amount of fear because they took their lamps, not for others to see but for their own use.  The fool was not prepared for the journey.  They all suffered the but the message of Jesus in the book of Revelation 2:10  “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.”

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