WHAT WILL day of judgment? *********************************** This article raises questions that may arise with you. After reading it, youll find the answers right in your Bible. Jehovahs Witnesses will be happy to discuss them with you. 1. What is Judgment Day? --------------------------------- The illustration to the right you can see how many imagine the day of judgment billions of souls appear before the throne of God and will be judged on their past cases, then one will be granted heavenly bliss, and others will be tormented in hell. However, according to the Bible, at Judgment Day is quite different purpose - to bring people freedom from injustice (before Jehovah. Because he came, came to judge the earth. He will judge the earth in righteousness. And the nations - with loyalty .... Psalm 96:13) . God has appointed Jesus Christ the Judge who will restore justice to humanity. (Read: Escape out of the stump of Jesse, and a process extending from its roots, will be fruitful. On it is Jehovahs spirit, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah, and he will find joy in fear before Jehovah. He will not only judge by what his eyes see, and fix only on the basis of what his ears hear. He will judge the poor, and reprove justly for the benefit of the meek of the earth. He would beat the ground rod of his mouth, and will kill the wicked spirit of his lips. He will be girded with righteousness and faithfulness the belt will be on his hips ... Isaiah 11: 1-5; Acts 17:31.) 2. As in the day of judgment will be restored justice? -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Deliberately rebelled against God, the first man, Adam, his descendants conquered sin and condemned them to suffering and death (Romans 5:12). To correct this injustice, Jesus will return billions of people to life, resurrecting them. The book of Revelation shows that this happens during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ. (Read: And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them. They were given authority to judge. I saw the souls of those executed with an ax, for what they testified about Jesus and talked about God - those who have not worshiped the beast and his image, and not received a sign on the forehead and on the hand. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years ... Then I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it. from his face fled the earth and the sky, and there was no place for them. I also saw the dead , great and small, standing before the throne, and saw the scrolls were opened. and another was uncovered scroll it - the scroll of life. and the dead were judged according to their works written in the scrolls according to ... Revelation 20: 4, 11, 12.) The basis for the court will not past sins, and those cases that resurrected commit in the future, once acquainted with the content of scrolls mentioned in the 20th chapter of Revelation (For deceased freed from sin ... Romans 6: 7). The apostle Paul said that among those who have come back to life and have the opportunity to learn about God, will be as righteous and the unrighteous. (Read: I have hope toward God, which they themselves feed that will be a resurrection of the dead, the righteous and the unrighteous ... Acts 24:15.) 3. What will be achieved in the day of judgment? -------------------------------------------------- - Those who died without knowing about Jehovah God and not having to be his servant, to be given the opportunity to change and begin a life of righteousness. If they stand on Gods side, their resurrection will be the resurrection of life. However, some of the resurrected will not want to learn the ways of Jehovah. Their resurrection is the resurrection of judgment. (Read: Do not marvel at this, because nastaёt hour in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, who have done good - for the resurrection of life, and who acted perversely - to the resurrection of condemnation ... John 5:28, 29 ; Even if the show favor to the wicked, he will not learn righteousness. he will act unjustly in the land of honest and will not see the greatness of Jehovah ... There will not be any more of an infant, who lived only a few days, nor an old man who has not lived fully his days, but people die young men, even if he is a hundred years old, and the sinner, even a hundred years, will curse ... Isaiah 26:10; 65:20). By the end of the thousand-year Judgment Day, Jehovah will lead obedient mankind to perfection, thus fulfilling its original purpose (then - the end, when he finished with all government and all authority and powers, give the kingdom to his God and Father. He must reign until God not put under his feet all the enemies. The last enemy that will be done, - death. God hath put all things under his feet. But when he says that all the conquered, it is clear that except one who has conquered everything to him. when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will submit to the One who subjected everything to him, that God may be all things to all ... 1 Corinthians 15: 24-28). Just imagine what life will come when all the righteous people! At the end of a thousand years to be the final test, in which God will free from the abyss Satan the Devil. Satan will again try to turn people away from Jehovah. Those who resist will live forever on earth. (Read: He will swallow up death forever, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from all faces. He will remove the disgrace of his people from all over the earth, because it is said to Jehovah ... Isaiah 25: 8; when the thousand years, Satan will be released from prison. He will go out to deceive the nations which are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war. There are many, as the sand of the sea. They came across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them ... Revelation 20: 7-9.) 4. What other day of judgment will bring blessings to all mankind? -------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- In the Bible, the day of judgment is also called an event that put an end to the present system of things. That day will come as suddenly as the Flood of Noahs day, to destroy all the evil people. Imminent death of the wicked will pave the way for the foundation of a new society in which righteousness is to dwell. (Read: whereby the then existing world was ruined when it flooded the water. But the heavens and the earth by the same word are stored in store for the fire on the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men ... But we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness ... 2 Peter 3: 6, 7, 13.)
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