| t26 seriousness of the gospel. The whiteness of the throne symbolizes God’s own purity and the righteousness with which he judges. https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-believers-will-be-judged It leaves us wondering: Will anything ever be done to bring to justice those who have perpetrated such wickedness? Whereas premillennialists believe that the Great White Throne Judgment will occur after a 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth, amillennialists believe it will happen at the close of this present church age, immediately preceding the inauguration of the eternal state and the coming of the new heavens and new earth. 20:7-10). Here will stand the king and servant, the rich and poor, the high and low. The first fact to notice about the Great White Throne Judgment is that no righteous people from among the dead will be there. This is confirmed in v. 13 (see also John 5:28). The point of all this is that the first creation, the creation that was subjected to a curse because of man’s sin, is now fleeing away never to be seen again, and soon to be replaced by the second and final creation, the new heavens and the new earth (Revelation 21-22). (1) What we have in Revelation 20:11-15 is a more detailed and graphic portrayal of the judgment that was first mentioned back in Revelation 11:18 – “The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” Simply put, the time of God’s patience and longsuffering and mercy are over. Powered by Church Plant Media, (2) You’ve probably heard people speak of the final judgment as, (4) God’s presence on the throne of judgment is so overwhelmingly powerful that “earth and sky fled away.” This is simply another way of describing the. There we were told that the names in it were written down “from the foundation of the world”. The unsaved will be punished, as guilty criminals being sent to prison. t23 plucking unripe fruits. Required fields are marked *. Hell, or Hades, which will be the abode of the souls of sinners up to the time of the Judgment will be emptied of all that are therein, … God will bring justice to bear upon them in perfect harmony with the deeds they have committed. (3) This final judgment will occur at the time of Christ’s Second Coming, immediately following the release of Satan from the abyss and his last and futile attempt to destroy the church (Rev. On several occasions in Revelation John spoke of great earthquakes and mountains and islands being ripped out of place and cast aside, the darkening of sun and moon and stars falling to the earth. (1) What we have in Revelation 20:11-15 is a more detailed and graphic portrayal of the judgment that was first mentioned back in Revelation 11:18 – “The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” Simply put, the time of God’s patience and longsuffering and mercy are over. Will anything ever be done to reward those who are righteous? 8:12). t19 Fear of God. Death and Hades are thrown into the lake of fire just as the Beast and False Prophet are. July 9, 2018 t14 Object of worship. We need never fear facing the “second death” for Jesus himself said in Revelation 2:11, “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The evil, selfish, sensual, godless, lifestyle of unbelieving mankind will stand as witnesses against them. It is all too easy to become discouraged and disheartened by the rampant presence of evil and injustice in our world today. The Foreword to my book on Spiritual Warfare by Dr. Clint Arnold, We Cannot Overestimate Heaven, or Lessons on Happiness from Jonathan Edwards. t9 Jealous God. The whiteness of the throne symbolizes God’s own purity and the righteousness with which he judges. It is all too easy to become discouraged and disheartened by the rampant presence of evil and injustice in our world today. The only hope for acquittal is the blood of Jesus Christ which they have spurned and rejected throughout their lives on earth. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. Only those whose names were written down in the Lamb’s book of life before the foundation of the world will escape the judgment of the lake of fire (v. 15).