Isn't there a specific judgment of the individual
believer's sins, on the cross, through the blood of Jesus?
Ephesians 2:16 And that he might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having
slain the enmity thereby:
Colossians 1:14 In whom we have
redemption through his blood, even the
forgiveness of sins:
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in
his blood, to declare his righteousness for the
remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance
of God;
Romans 5:9 Much more then, being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him.
Isn't there then also a specific judgment of the
individual believer's works, for reward or loss?
II Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of
Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body,
according to that he hath done, whether it
be good or bad.
I Corinthians 3:12
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold,
silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
13
Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day
shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by
fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what
sort it is.
14 If
any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he
shall receive a reward.
15 If
any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss:
but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Isn't there then a specific judgment of the
individual lost people, who never were saved, and are
still in their sins?
Revelation 20:11 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.
12 And
I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and
the books were opened: and another book was opened,
which is the book of life: and the
dead were judged out of those things which were
written in the books, according to their works.
13 And
the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death
and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and
they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This
is the second death.
15 And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life
was cast into the lake of fire.
However, isn't there also a specific judgment
of the nations, not individuals?
Isn't this a judgment of nations, as nations,
not as individuals, at the second advent of Jesus?
Are these nations, that survive the
tribulation, then judged by how they treated the Jews and
those who believe on Jesus?
Is it possible that this then may be focusing
on how those nations treated them during the tribulation?
Matthew 25:31 When the Son of man
shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with
him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:
32 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:
33 And he shall set the sheep
on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Otherwise, as the catholics teach from the
subsequent lines,
wouldn't
it look like that people are saved or lost, solely by
how they treat others?
That way, would the cross, the blood of Jesus,
or believing on Jesus have nothing to do with salvation?
Then would Jesus have never needed to suffer and
die, if all people need to do is to treat the hungry,
thirsty, and naked well?
We are to live like that, and to treat people
well,
however
doesn't John 3:16 indicate that everlasting life depends
upon believing on Jesus?
Also, otherwise, nations will not be
accountable, as nations, but won't those nations be
accountable?
Even the nations that survive this judgment,
are they not yet still accountable, on into the thousand
year kingdom?
Zechariah 14:2 For I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be
taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished;
and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and
the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the
city.
3 Then shall the LORD go forth,
and fight against those nations,
as when he fought in the day of battle.
16 And it shall come to
pass, that every one that is left of
all the nations which
came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to
year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep
the feast of tabernacles.
17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even
upon them shall be no rain.
18 And if the family of Egypt
go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague,
wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not
up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19 This shall be the punishment
of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep
the feast of tabernacles.