Eternal Judgment Happening Now

Let us consider God’s eternal judgment, beginning with the elementary principles of Christ in Hebrews 6 — the last of which is eternal judgment.

…let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Hebrews 6:1-2 (NKJV)

Not a superficial doctrine

These elementary principles are not meant to be things we are only superficially acquainted with. They are meant to do a work within our hearts, so that we can be God’s representatives in the earth — His prophetic people, His voice. God is using the body of Christ in the world today. It would be one thing if we all got saved and went straight to heaven, but God wants us to know about His eternal judgment, both for our own lives and for helping others.

We can bury our heads in the sand and say it does not exist; we can get in the flesh and think, “I’ll just live as I want and put it out of my mind.” This message is greatly resisted by the spirit of this age — you do not hear it on the news or on television. For the most part people are not talking about God’s eternal judgment as they should. One thing the church must be careful of is making excuses for this world. God is not making excuses for this world. He wants His Word to grip us:

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Matthew 4:4 (NKJV)

God has given mankind His Word, and He expects us to believe it and put it into practice — including this truth of eternal judgment.

“Is being revealed” — present tense

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

Romans 1:18 (NKJV)

Notice the tense — it does not say the wrath of God was revealed, or only will be revealed. It says is revealed. We need to see this even when life seems ordinary and it looks as if little is happening. People are dying; they are passing either into heaven or into the revealing of God’s wrath. And it is happening in the earth even now. Sin always brings a detrimental place into our lives; it always brings destruction:

Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

Galatians 6:7-8 (NKJV)

This is why the Holy Spirit’s conviction is so serious. Even as an unbeliever, I knew when something was wrong — my conscience said so — yet I did it anyway. That is how God works out His judgments, through the conviction of the truth that men suppress.

The open door of grace

And yet, in the midst of judgment, the door of grace still stands open:

…being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith.

Romans 3:24-25 (NKJV)

That word propitiation speaks of appeasing God’s wrath. How thankful we can be that there is still this day of grace, in which people can come in and be justified freely. So as you go through day by day, do not imagine that nothing is really happening. At this very moment, God’s wrath is being revealed against the ungodly who have rejected the Lord Jesus Christ — and at the same moment, His grace is calling. We ourselves must continue on in the faith, and we must compel those around us who do not know God to come in, because the day of judgment is not only coming — in a real sense, it is going on now.

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