No judgment until the Judgment

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.