Let’s
look at some more verses that deal with judging the wicked. In this verse God is condemning Israel for
their lack of love toward their brethren, particularly the poor.
Jeremiah
5:28
They are waxen fat,
they shine:
yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked:
When they overpass
(don’t deal with) the deeds of the wicked, the wicked prosper. It sounds like our country, doesn’t it?
they judge not the
cause,
the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper;
They don’t righteously stand up for the poor, the needy, the
fatherless, the weak of society; and so the wicked prosper.
and
the right of the needy do they not judge.
See the issue of judging? He is not talking about ruling; he is talking
about condemning the wicked and supporting the righteous in the land. That is the same judgment of 1
Corinthians 6:2-3 and the great
white throne judgment (GWTJ) of Revelation
20 where God will deal with the wicked.
Paul quotes David in the book of
Romans:
Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let
God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified
in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
At the GWTJ, these lost people are
going to accuse God of being unrighteous.
By putting their works on display when the books are opened at the GWTJ,
God will show how he dealt with them in longsuffering and how time after time
they hardened their hearts against him.
He will give them what they want.
They want to do it their way and they will do it their way in the lake
of fire. But when they stand in judgment
against God and accuse him of unrighteousness, he will prove his innocence.
Matthew
25:41
Then shall he say also
unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
God prepared hell (a temporary
holding place) for the devil and his angels and ultimately they will end up in
the lake of fire after they are judged by Christ and by us, his body.
2 Peter
2:4
For if God spared not the
angels that sinned [before man came on the scene], but cast them down to
hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto
judgment;
This could also be referring
specifically to the angels who sinned and procreated with the daughters of men;
they were trying to destroy the seed line of Messiah (Gen 6). There were angels that sinned pre-Adam and
post-Adam.
Jude 1:6
And the angels which
kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in
everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
These are the angels we are going to
judge at the GWTJ.
Hopefully this helps!
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