God's Day of Judgment - Its Joyous Outcome!

 Vision 15 - REVELATION 20:11-21:8

Subject:The general resurrection, Judgment Day, and blelssings of new heavens and a new earth

Time of fulfillment:  The Thousand Year Reign 

AS HUMANS, we were created to live forever. If Adam and Eve had obeyed God's commands, they would never have died.  (Genesis 1:28' 2:28, 16, 17; Ecclesiastes 3:10, 11) But when they sinned, they lost perfection and life both for themselves and for their offspring, and death came to reign over mankind as a relentless enemy.  (Romans 5:12, 14; 1 Corinthians 15:26)  Nevertheless, God's purpose to have perfect humans  live forever in a paradise earth did not change.  Out of his great love for mankind, he sent to earth his only-begotten Son, Jesus, who gave his perfect life as a ransom for "many" of Adam's offspring.  (Matthew 20:28; John 3:16)   Jesus can now use this legal merit of his sacrifice to restore unbelieving humans to life in perfection on paradise earth. (1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 2:2) What grand reason for mankind to b"be joyful and rejoice. - ISAIAH 25:8, 9.

With Satan confined in the abyss, Jesus' glorious Thousand Year Reign begins.  Is it now the "day" in which God  "purposes  to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man who he has appointed." (Acts  17:31; 2 Peter 3:8)  John declares:  "And I saw a great white throne and the one seated on it. From before him the earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them."  (Revelation 20:11)  What is thisi "great white throne"?  It can be none other than the judgment seat of "God the Judge of all." (Hebrews12:23) Now he will judge mankind as to who wil benefit from Jesus' ransom sacrifice. - MARK 10:45.

God's throne is "great," emphasizing Jehovah's grandeur as Sovereig Lord, and it is "white," calling attention to his flawless righteousness.  He is the ultimate judge of mankind.  (Psalm 19:11; Isaiah 33:22; 51:5, 8)  He has, however, delegated  the work of judging to Christ:  "The Father judges no one at all, but he has committed all the judging to the Son." (John 5:22)  With Jesus are his 144,000 associates, to whom the " of the  power of judging was given . . . for a thousand years." (Revelaiton 20:4)  Even so, it is Jehovah's standard that decide what will happen to each individual during Judgment Day. 

How is it that "the earth and the heaven fled away"?  This is the same heaven that departed as a scroll at the opening of the sixth seal-the human ruling powers that are "stored up for fire and being reserved to the day of judgment and destruction fo the ungodly men." (Revelation 6:14; 2 Peter 3:7) The earthis the organized system of things that exists under this rulership.  (Revelation 8:7) The destruction of the wild beast and the kings of the earthand their armies, along with those who receive the mark of the wild beast  adn those who render worship to its image, marks the fleeing away of this heaven and earth.  (Revelation 19:19-21) Judgment having been executed on Satan's earth and heaven, the Great Judge decrees another Day of Judgment.

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