THREE GREAT BIBLE JUDGMENTS

 

THREE GREAT BIBLE JUDGMENTS (Of 6)

Pastor Rick Jackson

We are studying the 6 Great Bible Judgments. We have covered  The Believer’s Sin and the Believer’s Service. Tonight, Lord willing, we will cover 3 of the other 4. The Judgment of Israel, the Judgment of Gentile Nations, and the Judgment of Angels.

 

I. THE NATION OF ISRAEL AT THE TRIBULATION TIME

1. A Time of Regathering [Jer. 30:1-11]

2. A Time of Purging [Ezek. 20:30-44]

3. A Time of Repentance [Ezek. 39:17-29, Zech. 14:2-4; 12:1-14]

II. THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH [REV. 19:11-16, MT. 25:31-34]

More aptly called “the judgment on the Gentiles.” This determines who, of the Gentiles, will enter the millennium in their natural bodies for 1000 years of peace on Earth.

1. The Judgment Time - after Israel’s Judgment & Before the Millennium [Joel 3:1-2, Mt. 25:34]

- For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead [like a lawyer pleading his case] with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

- Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

2. The Judgment Place - the valley of Jehoshaphat (Jehovah Judges) [Joel 3:2, Zech. 14:4]

And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

3. The Judgment Subjects [Mt. 25:32 nations= ethnos, a race, specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one --Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

4. The Judgment Basis & Results [Mt. 25:40, 45, Joel 3:2, Rev. 7:9-17]

- And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

-Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

- I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Saved or Lost by choice- what did they choose to do with Christ?  [Mt. 24:14-15, 25:46, 31-33]

Saved by Grace, Rewarded for Service [v. 41-46]

Lost by Choice, Condemned by Actions [v. 41-46]

III. THE JUDGEMENT OF FALLEN ANGELS [Rev. 20]

1. The Time - before the Great White Throne Judgment [Rev. 20:10-11]

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

2. The Subjects  [2 Pet. 2:4, Jude 6, 1 Cor. 6:3]

-For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

- 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.

NOTE: similar to Christians going “Home” early [1 Cor. 11:30-32]

-Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

3. The Basis & Result [Ez. 28:12-19, Rev. 12:3-4, 20:10]

- And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

- And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.