1JD Acts 17:31. The judgment is at an appointed time.
2JD Rev. 14:6,7. The hour of God's judgment begins in heaven and proceeds with
its eternal decisions while men are going about their ordinary pursuits here upon the earth.
This angel of Rev. 14:6,7, preaching to all nations and people to fear God, because the hour
of His judgment is come, is a symbol of a special message which God will send to the world
in the closing age, just before the appearing of Christ at the last day as described in
Rev. 14:14.
3JD Dan. 7:9-11. This prophecy of Daniel, in harmony with Rev. 14:6,7, shows
that the judgment will be set in heaven, and will be carried forward during the closing era
of this present age. This scripture also shows that in the judgment, certain books will be
used--records will be investigated. There are two divisions to the work of judgment in human
courts; first, an investigative phase, when the evidence is examined before a judge or jury,
which ends in a verdict; second, an executive phase, when the decision is executed. There
are these same two phases to God's judgment.
4JD Eccl. 3:17. There are three great classes to be judged, the righteous, the
wicked and the evil angels, who rebelled against God. Judges 6.
5JD 1 Peter 4:17. The judgment will begin with the righteous who are the house of
God. When Christ appears, every truly righteous person in the grave will rise from the dead
with an immortal body, while the rest of the dead will not rise until 1,000 years later.
Rev. 20:5. When Christ appears, every truly righteous person among the living will be
changed instantly from mortality to immortality, to live forever, while the rest of the
living at that time will be slain by the presence of the Lord. This proves that before Christ
appears at the last day, the decisions will have been made as to just who among the billions
of dead are entitled to be raised to immortality at His coming, and just who among the
millions of living are entitled to immortality at His appearing. Hence the judgment, in
the cases of the righteous, is past when Jesus appears at the last day.
6JD Lev. 23:26-30. The Day of Atonement, on which the earthly sanctuary was
cleansed, was a day of judgment on Israel as the professed people of God.
7JD Dan. 8:14. According to the type, the time set for the cleansing of the
heavenly sanctuary, from 1844 to the end, must be the time for the judgment of the
professedly righteous. The cleansing of the sanctuary, beginning in 1844, and mentioned
in Dan. 8:14, is equivalent to the hour of God's judgment as set forth in Rev. 14:7.
8JD Rev. 11:18,19. The time for the dead to be judged is the time beginning
in 1844 when the ministration was opened in the second apartment of the heavenly temple,
where the ark of God's testament is seen and when the sanctuary is cleansed. The work of
God's judgment may be grouped under four heads:
1. The hour of His judgment during the closing era of human
history, between 1844 and the end, when the cases of the professedly righteous will be decided.
2. The executive judgment of the righteous at the appearing of
Christ, when these decisions of the judgment hour for immortality will be carried out.
3. The great day of judgment during the 1,000 years that
follow the second coming of Christ, when the amount of punishment due each of the wicked
will be decided.
4. The executive judgment of the wicked at the end of the
1,000 years when they appear before Christ's judgment seat to receive their punishment.
9JD James 2:11,12. In the judgment men will be judged by the Ten Commandments.
10JD Eccl. 12:13,14. It behooves us now to square our lives by these
Ten Commandments, through the grace of the Lord Jesus, that we may pass the judgment for
eternal life and have an everlasting home with the Lord in His kingdom.
The Judgment Has Set
The judgment has set, the books have been opened;
How shall we stand in that great day,
When every thought, and word, and action,
God, the righteous Judge, shall weigh?
Refrain
How shall we stand in that great day?
How shall we stand in that great day?
Shall we be found before Him wanting?
Or with our sins all washed away?
The work is begun with those who are sleeping,
Soon will the living here be tried,
Out of the books of God's remembrance,
His decision to abide.
Refrain
How shall we stand in that great day?
How shall we stand in that great day?
Shall we be found before Him wanting?
Or with our sins all washed away?
O, how shall we stand that moment of searching,
When all our sins those books reveal?
When from that court, each case decided,
Shall be granted no appeal?
Refrain
How shall we stand in that great day?
How shall we stand in that great day?
Shall we be found before Him wanting?
Or with our sins all washed away?
--Franklin Edson Belden
The Judgment Has Set Midi
I Dreamed That the Great Judgment Morning Midi