No
Judgment Until The Judgment
Genesis
8:22
“As
long as the earth endures,
seedtime
and harvest,
cold
and heat,
summer
and winter,
day and
night
will
never cease.”
God
set the world in motion and He doesn't need to keep maintaining it.
Matthew
7:22
Many
will say to me on that day,
‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name
drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’
Matthew 10:15
Truly I
tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on
the day of judgment than for that town.
Matthew
11:22
But I
tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on
the day of judgment than for you.
Matthew
11:24
But I
tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on
the day of judgment than for you.”
Matthew
12:36
But I
tell you that everyone will have to give account on
the day of judgment for every empty word
they have spoken.
Matthew
12:41
The men
of Nineveh will stand up at
the judgment with this generation and
condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now
something greater than Jonah is here.
Luke
10:12
I tell
you, it will be more bearable on
that day for Sodom than for that town.
Luke
10:14
But it
will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at
the judgment than for you.
Luke
11:32
The men
of Nineveh will stand up at
the judgment with this generation and
condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and now
something greater than Jonah is here.
John
5:22-23
"The
Father judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son, so that
all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does
not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him."
God
judges no one but has given that responsibility to Jesus.
John 12:47-50
“As
for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not
judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it.
There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my
words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at
the last day. For I did not speak of my
own accord, but the Father who sent me commanded me what to say and
how to say it. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So
whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.”
Jesus
says that He does not judge the person who hears His words but does
not keep them. He says that the person will be condemned by the very
words He spoke on the last day.
John
8:14-16
Jesus
answered, “Even if I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is
valid, for I know where I came from and where I am going. But you
have no idea where I come from or where I am going. You judge by
human standards; I pass judgment on no one. But if I do judge, my
decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father,
who sent me.
Acts
24:25
As Paul
talked about righteousness, self-control and the
judgment to come, Felix was afraid and
said, “That’s enough for now! You may leave. When I find it
convenient, I will send for you.”
Paul
witnessed to Felix, and told him about the judgment to come. That
means that the judgment is not here yet.
Romans
2:5
But
because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are
storing up wrath against yourself for the
day of God’s wrath, when his righteous
judgment will be revealed.
People
who are stubborn and unrepentant are storing up wrath against
themselves for the day of God's wrath when His judgment will be
revealed. So no one is being judged by God right now. They will be
judged on the day judgment will be revealed.
Romans
2:16
This
will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through
Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
Romans
14:10
You,
then, why do you judge your brother or sister ? Or why do you treat
them with contempt? For we will
all stand before God’s judgment seat.
We
are not currently standing before God's judgment seat. It says that
we will stand
meaning that is in the future some time.
1
Corinthians 1:7-9
Therefore
you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord
Jesus Christ to be revealed. He will also keep you firm to the end,
so that you will be blameless on the
day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is
faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord.
1
Corinthians 3:13-15
his
work will be shown for what it is, because the
Day will bring it to light. It will be
revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man’s
work. If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. If
it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but
only as one escaping through the flames.
1
Corinthians 5:4-5
So when
you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our
Lord Jesus is present, hand this man over to Satan for the
destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved on the
day of the Lord.
2
Corinthians 5:10
For we
must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ, so that each of
us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body,
whether good or bad.
2
Thessalonians 1:6-7
God is
just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give
relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This
will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven
in blazing fire with his powerful angels.
Hebrews
10:26-31
If we
deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful
expectation of judgment and of raging fire
that will consume the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected the law of
Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished
who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an
unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who
has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “It is
mine to avenge; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge
his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the
living God.
Many
people use the last verse to say that as God's children we are being judged by God and receive punishment. But we have a covenant
with Jesus. That means that we have already received forgiveness when we asked God
for it because Jesus paid for it.
James
2:12-13
Speak
and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives
freedom, because judgment
without mercy will be shown to anyone who
has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
2
Timothy 4:8
Now
there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous Judge, will award to me on
that day—and not only to me, but also to
all who have longed for his appearing.
1 Peter
2:12
Live
such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of
doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on
the day he visits us.
2 Peter
2:2-10
Many
will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth
into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with
fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over
them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. For if God did not
spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in
chains of darkness to be held for
judgment; if he did not spare the ancient
world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected
Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made
them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he
rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved
conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day
after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds
he saw and heard)—if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue
the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on
the day of judgment.
This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the
flesh and despise authority.
2 Peter
3:9-12
The
Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.
Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but
everyone to come to repentance. But the
day of the Lord will come like a thief.
The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be
destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be
laid bare. Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind
of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives as
you look forward to the day
of God and speed its coming. That
day will bring about the destruction of
the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat.
A
lot of Christians spend their time studying and discussing the end
times. Why? Jesus never told us to focus on the end times. He told us
to be busy doing God's work so that He'll find us faithful when He
returns. This verse mentions that we can speed Jesus' return if we
are "doing" the Word: Living holy and godly lives.
Phillipians
1:4-6
In all
my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your
partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being
confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it
on to completion until the
day of Christ Jesus.
Phillipians
2:14-16
Do
everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become
blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and
crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in
the sky as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be
able to boast on the day of
Christ that I did not run or labor in
vain.
2
Timothy 1:18
May the
Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on
that day! You know very well in how many
ways he helped me in Ephesus.
2
Timothy 4:8
Now
there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord,
the righteous Judge, will award to me on
that day —and not only to me, but also
to all who have longed for his appearing.
1 John
4:17
This is
how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on
the day of judgment:
In this world we are like Jesus.
Jude
1:6
And the
angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned
their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with
everlasting chains for judgment on the
great Day.
As long
as time endures day and night will never cease. God put the world in
motion and it will cease when Jesus returns. At that time He will
judge all creatures for what they have done. That being said, natural
disasters cannot be the judgment of God. They are simply the laws of
nature at work. That is why the Word says that all creation groans in
eager expectation for the sons of God to be made manifest. We are
supposed to calm the storms like Jesus did. Jesus said we would do
the same things as He and even greater works.
Jesus
says that we judge by human standards but He judges no one. Stubborn
and unrepentant people are saving up wrath for themselves for the day
of judgment. But if they repent they can avoid judgment. Even
people's secrets will be judged when we all stand before God's
judgment seat. Everyone's work will be shown for what it is on that
day.
The
Father has given all judgment to the Son, and Jesus says that He
didn't come to judge but to save the lost. Jesus said that He does
not judge anyone but that His Words will judge them on "that
day." Jesus also says that the Father judges no one, but has
given that responsibility to the Son.
You see
in 1 Cor 5 that the destruction of the flesh is attributed to satan,
not God. And in that instance it was for handing the immoral brother
over to satan so that his spirit would be saved.
The day
of judgment MUST come because God is just. He can't let everyone get
away with sin forever. But He sent His Son so that He could treat us
the way He has always wanted to treat His people.
“The
Lord will judge his people.” It is a dreadful thing to fall into
the hands of the living God. That verse is constantly misused. People
use it to say that we are being judged by God at the present time.
But that is not what the Word says.
God is
not being slack in bringing judgment but He is being patient so that
more will be saved. We can speed the coming of the Lord by living
holy and godly lives.
There
is a crown of righteousness in store for all who look forward to the
Lord's return. In order to have confidence in the day of the Lord, we
are to be like Jesus while we are here on earth.
