A similar judgment will occur for resurrected Old Testament and Tribulation saints, but probably not until after the Tribulation (cf. (4) Loss of Opportunities. It is discipline designed to train and bring believers back to a walk with God. But these were not the only consequences of failing to judge sin in their lives. This is further confirmed by the message of the book of Romans where the Apostle shows Israels problem to be one of seeking to establish her own righteousness by keeping the Law rather than accept Gods righteousness by faith in Christ (Rom. 1:10; Rev. the word - 2:19; Phil. God banished the first couple from the Garden of Eden for violating His clear command not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged. 5:9-10; 1 John 2:28; Rev. 5:4). Appears refers to the rapture which leads quickly into the Bema. In the first stage, we are all judged from the books according to our works. Isaiah 38:17 Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness; It is Thou who hast kept my soul from the pit of nothingness, For Thou hast cast all my sins behind Thy back. Rather, it is a place where rewards will be given or lost depending on how one has used his or her life for the Lord. But we shall rejoice also as we realize that the rewards given will be another example of the grace of our Lord; for at best we are unprofitable servants (E. Schuyler English, The Church At the Tribunal, in Prophetic Truth Unfolding Today, ed. The believer will forfeit rewards which he could have received, but he will not be punished in the judicial sense of paying for his sins. (2) Christs Judgment Unto Sins Reign; the Judgment of the Believers Sin Nature. Romans 5:19 For as through the one mans disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. 25:31-46). In all of these passages, Paul was picturing the believer as a competitor in a spiritual contest. In Revelation 20, John mentions a place called the Lake of Fire. How can a person possess or have the Son of God? While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, Have nothing to do with that righteous Man; for last night I suffered greatly in a dream because of Him.. 32:3-4). He would just be delighted to be there and do what he was doing. (9) It is a time of internationalism: religiously (Rev. The subject receives the action, that is, he is made to feel shame. Throughout history God has revealed Himself in creation (Rom. 2:1-3:23). In Scripture, the Day of the Lord is often associated with this time of great judgment which God will pour out on earth against Israel and the nations, but it is also associated with the time of millennial blessings which follow when the Lord will rule on earth. The Bible describes one judgment that takes place at the return of Jesus and two judgments Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? 19:28; 24:45-47; 25:21, 23; Lk. (2) Diadem. (11) It is a time of unprecedented apostasy and blasphemy against God (Rev. May the reality of this judgment cause us to carefully reflect on the serious consequences of this passage on a Christ-rejecting world. IV: Ecclesiology-Eschatology, Dallas Seminary Press, Dallas, TX, 1948, p. 406. John 12:48 is very pertinent here: He who rejects Me, and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day. Regarding the coming of the Spirit and His ministry in the world after the resurrection and ascension to Gods right hand, Christ made the following promise: John 16:8-11 And He, when He comes, will convict the world concerning sin, and righteousness, and judgment; 9 concerning sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 and concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you no longer behold Me; 11 and concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 19:12). Some go even further by stating that Christians must experience some sort of suffering for their sins at the time of this examination. This time he calls it simply, the day of Christ. 5 Dwight Pentecost, Things to Come, Dunham Publishing Co., Findlay, OH, 1958, p. 411. 5 One man regards one day above another, another regards every day alike. What follows below is a fuller explanation of both terms. This is clear from both the context of 5:4-8 and by the fact he changed the words he used for sleep. Because this is a completely different matter. 6:14f; 9:20; 11:10, 18). 16 G. Abott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, T & T Clark, Edinburgh, 1937, p. 252. Will any punishment be meted out? They often see any future tribulation as merely the Devils wrath poured out against Christians. There the laurel wreath was placed on his head as a symbol of victory (cf. 30:7; Dan. 24:41). The next prophetic event in Gods timetable will be the rapture or the catching up of the body of Christ, the church, as described in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. 12:7). At the other end of the spectrum another group, which holds to the same eschatological chronology, views this event as an awards ceremony. While the following is not exhaustive, it demonstrates that sin in the life of a believer is not a small issue. (1) Daniel, who wrote concerning the termination of Gods program for Israel in chapter 9, places the resurrection of the righteous in Israel as occurring after a time of distress such as never occurred Clearly this is the Tribulation, Daniels Seventieth Week, or the time of Jacobs Distress mentioned by Jeremiah (Jer. The question of sin in regard to Gods justice has been forever satisfied in the mind of God by the all-sufficient sacrifice of His Son. One of the prominent doctrines of the New Testament is the Doctrine of Rewards and the Judgment Seat of Christ. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds. Furthermore, we are called upon to make judgments in the sense of evaluations when it comes to selecting elders and deacons, or in dealing with those who have fallen into sin (1 Tim. also 1 John 5:16-17). 9:6). But how? 11 Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not pronounce 1 Cor. It is called great because of the awesome intensity and the degree of its importance. This means we must each come to God the same wayas a sinner who recognizes his sinfulness, repudiates any form of human works for salvation, and relies totally on Christ alone by faith alone for our salvation. (1) Stephanos. If It Is During The Millennium How Will There Not Be Pain And Tears When The Devil Is Released To Deceive The Nations? Such a concept (punishment for sin) erroneously disparages the all-sufficiency of Christs death on the cross.13 Christ paid the penalty for the believers pre- and post-conversion sins. (14) It is a time of unprecedented evangelism (Rev. Mary is a virgin in the accounts of Matthew (1:16; 18-25) and Luke (1:26-38). Awards are handed out to every Christian. This condition is the expression of Gods wrath (vs. 18) and twice we have the statement that this moral breakdown occurs because God gave them over (vss. 29 For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. So Christians need to examine their hearts and actions for sin according to the Scripture and then judge the sin they find as sin and confess it to the Lord. 3:9). We may rule over galaxies, celestial bodies, the heavens, and definitely over angels, and the world (cf. But, to stress that Christ is King of Kings, this word is also used of the many diadems the Lord will wear at His return (Rev. 6:23; Eph. Although this burning lake is only mentioned in the last book of the Bible, it is a significant place that Christians need to know about since it reminds us of the consequences of sinfulness, Jesus sacrifice to save us from everlasting punishment, and the need to tell the gospel. He did not whip the losers.8 We might add, neither did he sentence them to hard labor. For God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil. So it is necessary for believers to judge their own sins in the light of Scripture.2. It is an awesome and solemn scene and one which should cause everyone to stop and think about the eternal implications of this future event. The dead, great and small emphasizes that no one is exempt. The Principle. 1 Peter 2:24 and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed. 15 If any mans work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire. Some will reign with Him, but, because of loss of rewards, evidently some will not. If you prayed this prayer and truly trusted in the person of Jesus Christ and His death for your sin, then you have been born anew into the family of God. As the Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep, Jesus said, I have come that they (all mankind) may have life, and have it abundantly, a life with meaning and purpose. In the King James versionthe word - judgment - appears 294 timesthe word - The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here. 24:9, 21, 29; Mark 13:19, 24; Rev. Unconfessed sin stands as a barrier to fellowship with the Lord and His control over ones life. 32 But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord in order that we may not be condemned along with the world. While, for Gods own purposes, Satan has been allowed to continue his nefarious schemes, Scripture speaks of three sure events regarding the activity of Satan and his demonic forces: his binding during the millennium, his short release, and his final incarceration in the Lake of Fire. So that points us to the purpose, the return of the Savior and what it will mean. 9:24-25). Not only did Christ die for our sin as the Lamb of God (John 1:29), but He died to break the reign of sin in the lives of those who put their trust in Him as their Savior. Note that the text says and the books (plural) were opened, and another book (singular) was opened, which is the Book of Life. We have two sets, the books and the book which is mentioned again in verse 15a. The message of scripture was that Jesus Christ was both God and man. The Bible teaches us that God loves all people and wants to bring them into a harmonious relationship with Himself. Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. 14 If any mans work which he has built upon it remains, he shall receive a reward. New American Standard Bible Copyright 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. 3:11-12. 12:3-4). 19:2, 5). 12:1-3 with Rev. Behold, the days are coming when I will break your strength and the strength of your fathers house so that there will not be an old man in your house. He said to the judges, Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the, but a terrifying expectation of judgment and, the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. (NIV). This is his term of endearment for his readers as born again people. While many would place the resurrection and reward of Old Testament saints with that of the church at the rapture, a number of factors favor this at the conclusion of the tribulation at the same time as the resurrection and reward of tribulation saints mentioned in Revelation 20:4. You are now one of Gods children by faith in the Savior. This latter realization will be the source of boundless joy. Though, in this passage the Apostle does not say he would receive a crown, this is suggested, if not here certainly in other passages. Though ones primary focus might be on the future judgments, this study will also cover the judgments of the past and the present because they are related and form a part of the total picture revealed in Scripture. Sin always has its consequences and the Doctrine of the Judgments calls our attention to both the reality and nature of the consequences of sin. Bring to light is photizo, to bring to light, make visible. Disclose is phaneroo, to manifest, reveal. The issue should be extremely clear from these two verses: The Lord will evaluate the quality and nature of every persons work. These and only these are accepted by God and will spend eternity with Him (cf. Heaven and earth are seen fleeing from the face of Him who sits on this throne (20:11). This seems to be used as a symbol of victory, authority, and responsibility. Instead, it should be defined as the pursuit of our self-interest in our own way, rather than in Gods way. Is Divorce And Remarriage After Abuse, Neglect, Financial, Or Emotional Issues Okay? 1) Judgment seat of Christ = believers only. 1:13a). Key Scriptures: Isaiah 24:1; Joel 1:15; Zeph. 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Now, the word "judge" in its various forms (judgeth, judging, judgment, judges, 5:1; 8:1; 1 Cor. He used the Greek katheudo in 5:10 rather than koimao, the word he used metaphorically in 4:13-14 of physical death. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. Though salvation is by grace and through faith, the saved who come out of the Great Tribulation will be identified by their works in befriending their Jewish brothers. (12) It is a time of martyrdom of believers (Rev. The victor of a given event, who had participated according to the rules, was led by the judge to the platform called the Bema. 28:11-19; Rev. It occurs 107 times in the Old Testament, but 93 times in the book of Ezekiel. The judgment of the Nation of Israel (Matt. 1 James M. Stifler, The Epistle To The Romans, Moody Press, Chicago, 1960, p. 31. This was the royal crown, the crown of a king. Some Bible teachers view the judgment seat as a place of intense sorrow, a place of terror, and a place where Christ display all the believers sins (or at least those unconfessed) before the entire resurrected and raptured church. Sin requires a penalty, the penalty of death as Gods holy judgment on sin. 14:4), but Ezekiel 20:34-35 shows God brings Israel out from the nations where she has been scattered throughout the times of the Gentiles (gathers her to the last person, Ezek. 12:5f and 1 Cor. They may include galaxies of the universe. It contrasts our crowns with the temporal and temporary treasure of this life. 20:34-35a). 1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 106 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. 12:4-11; John 15:1-7). 2 Corinthians 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. 12:11). The judgments of this time will grow in intensity and conclude with an awesome display of Gods wrath against a Christ-rejecting world. The judge is the Lord Jesus Christ (John 5:22-23, 27). It was not a time of punishment where believers are judged for their sins. (3) The Promise of Accolades or Commendations. Elimination of the curse, pain and death will also remove sorrow, tears and crying (Rev. (8) The Many Crowns or Diadems (Rev. Jesus Christ, the sinless and perfect Son of God, the only one who could qualify as our substitute, died to satisfy the demands of Gods absolute holiness. 14:12-14; Ezek. The visible return of Jesus Christ (Matt. 'the fear of God' is 8:13; 1 Cor. The instinct to preserve our lives is the same. Whats the basis on which the Bema is conducted? So the order of events will be (a) the rapture which includes our glorification or resurrection bodies, (b) exaltation into the heavens with the Lord, (c) examination before the Bema, and (d) compensation or rewards. 20:1-3, 7-10; 2 Pet. 24 and 25). Emotion proceeds from the realization of facts in personal experience. Known sin in ones life causes a loss of intimate fellowship with the Lord with the consequent loss of His joy and peace (Ps. II, Abridged Edition, John F. Walvoord, Editor, Donald K. Campbell, Roy B. Zuck, Consulting Editors, Victor Books, Wheaton, 1988, p. 501. In Revelation 4:2 John beheld a throne set in heaven from which the Tribulation judgments proceeded. 17:22; 14:30). This judgment affected all of creation (Genesis 3:1718; Romans 8:2022). These passages: (2) God does not judge us for our sin in the sense of making us pay the penalty for that sin. Declare it is deloo which means to make evident, clear. Be revealed is apokalupto and means to unveil. Test is dokimazo and means to test for the sake of approval. The quality is hopoios, a correlative and qualitative pronoun meaning of what sort or kind.. Charles Lee Feingberg [Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1968], p. 29). Compare also Romans 16:20; Ephesians 1:20-21; Colossians 2:14-15; Hebrews 2:14-17. Note that these two things go together. 25:1-30). Because of His love, grace and mercy He has not left us without hope and a solution. The awesome fact is that salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 1:24f, moral degeneration and the gradual breakdown in the moral fiber of men when they turn away from God. Please note that the clause he shall suffer loss would be better rendered it (the reward) shall be forfeited.. They emphasize the importance and necessity of faithful living today but reject any thought of forensic punishment at the Bema. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 18); militarily (Joel 3:2, 9-14; Rev. (2) Resurrection is viewed in Scripture as an event that terminates one program and initiates another, and one would not expect Israels resurrection could come until God had finished the seventy years decreed for His people, the Jews, according to Daniel 9:24-27. In Romans 14:10 the Apostle called this examining time the Bema of God while in 2 Corinthians 5:10 he called it the Bema of Christ. (2) It is a time of Gods wrath or indignation and the vindication of Gods holinessZeph. The loss of salvation, and ultimately the one sin that separates a person from God and confines him to the eternal Lake of Fire, is because of failure to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ for forgiveness and a perfect righteous standing before God. Rom. Friend, have you put your trust in the person of Christ as the God-man Savior who died for your sin? These are: (1) The Promise of Crowns. Key Scriptures: Heb. (c) There are two views: (1) The believer who fails to abide is made to feel shame by the Lord, i.e., the Lord puts him to shame. To underdo the sorrow aspect is to make faithfulness inconsequential.18. The Rock! 17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him. 4:13-18). Added to this are the declarations of the following verses of Scripture: Ephesians 2:8-9: For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast. (b) The voice of the verb is passive. 2:7; 2:11, 17, 26. Soon, however, 144,000 will come to Christ from the nation of Israel and will evidently become the evangelists of the world who lead people to Christ from every tongue, tribe, and nation (Rev. We should not think of discipline as punishment. When Jesus returns, there will be a judgment dividing sheep from the goats. (Matthew 25:31-46) At this judgment those who survived the Tribulation will be separated into two groups. Rev. God is perfect righteousness. All judgment has been placed into His hands as the perfect Son of man, Son of God, the one qualified to judge by virtue of his sinless humanity and defeat of Satan and sin through the cross (Rev. Yes, Thou wilt cast all their sins Into the depths of the sea. 3:10-15 with 9:24-27). John F. Walvoord, editor, Zondervan, Grand Rapids, 1974, p. 282. The word throne is used more than 30 times in Revelation, but this throne, the great white one, is to be distinguished from all others as the most significant one of all. Reasons for this will be set forth and developed as we study the nature, purpose, and basis for the Bema. Because Christ alone is worthy and because we can only be fruitful when we abide in Him allowing His life to fills ours, we will all cast our crowns before Him in recognition that all we have done is by His grace. (8) The Day of the Lord (Joel 1:15; 2:1; 1 Thess. 2:26). The refusal to accept the truth destroys the power to discriminate between truth and error.1. The Lord Jesus is the victor, and our victory is really His victory which is appropriated by faith. (Emphasis mine.). Why? 9:24-25). The Scripture teaches that before Messiah can begin to reign, there must be a judgment to determine who will enter into Messiahs kingdom since they are not all Israel (spiritually regenerated believers who put their trust in Jesus Christ as their Messiah) who are Israel (physical descendants only) (Rom. 12:10). This will be followed by their examination before the Judgment Seat of Christ. (1) To evaluate the quality of every believers work whether it is good or bad, i.e., acceptable and thus worthy of rewards, or unacceptable, to be rejected and unworthy of rewards. We will each be enthralled with God and our glorified state. Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days and nights receiving Gods laws. Self-centeredness or selfishness is preoccupation with self at the expense of others and Gods will in ones life. 1:6; Col. 2:10; Heb. After the fall of Adam and Eve, and as a judgment for mankinds disobedience regarding the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:17), certain curses or judgments were placed upon Satan (the promise of his final doom), upon Adam and Eve, and upon the earth. Galatians 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe. Revelation 20:14 And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. But the fact still remains that the Bible promises us rewards. Confession means we agree with God concerning our sin and want to get back under Gods control. 21:4). To overdo the sorrow aspect of the judgment seat of Christ is to make heaven hell. The Point: Jesus who is God is our examiner and rewarder. The context suggests that Paul has in mind the return of Christ for the churchthe rapture (1 Thess. but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire which will consume the adversaries. Stresses their eternal value and security. (1) Though the Tribulation begins as a time of peace, it soon becomes a time of unprecedented troubleJoel 2:2; Matt. 5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from sin. Because Christ has born our judgment by being made a curse in our place: Romans 5:1 Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Though believers are under no condemnation in respect to their sins, having been justified by faith (John 3:18; 5:24; Rom. This crown is a reward given for faithfulness to use our gifts and opportunities in the service of the Lord and for loving His appearing. All believers will live in the millennium and in eternity with the Lord. The world seeks to find answers to its problems through the one world movement of the last days and apart from the true God as He has revealed Himself in Christ. Dan. Of course we should serve the Lord out of love and for Gods glory, and understanding the nature of rewards will help us do that. 3:10). At the Great White Throne Judgment the Book of Life is produced to show that the participants name was not found written in the Book of Life because of their rejection of Jesus Christ. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? Rather, the Judgment Seat of Christ is for the body of Christ, the church. 27:29; Mk. 4:10, 11). 19:17-19; 22:29-30; Rev. Since the events mentioned in Daniel 9:26 (the cutting off of Messiah and the destruction of city and sanctuary) had to occur after the 69 weeks of years had run their course but before the seventieth week begins, there has to be a space of time, the parenthesis of the church age, between the conclusion of the sixty-ninth week and the beginning of the seventieth. If so, how do we reconcile this with passages like Revelation 7:17, God shall wipe away every tear from their eye, and Revelation 21:4, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away, or with Isaiah 65:17, For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; And the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind? This was the victors crown, the wreath given to the victorious athlete before the judge at the Bema. (Rom 14:10 & 2 Cor 5:10) 2) White Throne Judgment = non-believers only. God is not only perfect holiness (whose holy character we can never attain to on our own or by our works of righteousness) but He is also perfect love and full of grace and mercy. 3:14-15). 6-19; Zech. Correct me, O Lord, but with justice;Not with Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing. 1 Cor. This word was taken from Isthmian games where the contestants would compete for the prize under the careful scrutiny of judges who would make sure that every rule of the contest was obeyed (cf. 1:13; Isa. A very interesting, enlightening, and important passage to this subject is 1 Corinthians 11:27-32 for in this passage we have a reference to both the self-judgment of the believer and the discipline judgment of God on believers. A few verses after Phil 1:6, Paul mentions the day of Jesus Christ again. (3) It is a day of utter darkness, gloom, and extreme cloudiness (Joel 2:2; Zeph. (6) The Crown of Glory (1 Pet. 5:10; 1 John 2:28). 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