Revelation's End-Time Judgement

There are three facts about end-time judgment as revealed in the book of Revelation.

1.God’s final judgment reveals God’s justice and mercy

The final judgment says something about God’s love and the law. It speaks of His grace to save and His power to deliver. It reveals to a waiting world and a watching universe His provisions to save all humanity.

The judgment is part of God’s ultimate solution in the great controversy between good and evil in the universe. It answers the charges of Satan that God is unfair and unjust. When our names appear in the judgment before God, Jesus will as the entire universe, “Could I have done anything more to save this individual?”

Heaven’s infinite, exact, minute, detailed records will be opened, and it will be shown once and for all time that there was nothing more Jesus could have done to save us. The father and the son have done everything possible to save this fallen planet. If we are lost, it is because of our deliberate choices to reject the love that longs for us to be saved eternally.

The entire universe and the unfallen worlds will see the countless times that God sends His Holy Spirit to our hearts. They will see the numberless times Jesus drew us to Him. They will then clearly understand how He sent angels to beat back the forces of Satan from our lives.

They will also realize how He arranged the circumstances in our lives so that we could get to know Him and how He revealed His majesty in the natural world to impress us with His goodness. He took our place on the cross so we could share His throne in heaven.

2. God’s final judgment establishes Christ’s throne forever

Throughout history, God allowed sin to go on for only so long before His judgment fell. Although He has created us with a freedom of choice, He is sovereign. Our choices can never supersede His overall plan for this world. Sin and rebellion have their limits.

In the days just before the flood, God appealed to humans through Noah for 120 years. Every [person on earth had an opportunity to accept or reject Noah’s message of warning. Once all were given an opportunity to accept or reject heaven’s message, the judgment of God fell as the rains came.

-When was the last time you were confronted by something in the word of God?

-When was the last time that the word of God disturbed your security?

-When was the last time the Holy Spirit convicted you of some sin in your life so dramatically that you knew you had to make a change?

Babylon was a thrill-jaded, pleasure-centered society worshipping the idols of their own making and turned away from the true God. Its immorality and drunkenness dominated its culture. It worshipped the gods of its invention and exalted its so-called wisdom above God’s divine revelation.

God is merciful. He always sends a message of warning and repentance before His judgment falls. Before His final judgment, He sends the message of the everlasting gospel to the ends of the earth. Every person on the planet will have his or her final opportunity to accept the truths of His word and prepare for His soon return.

Our choices will determine our final destiny. God has done everything possible to save us. Soon the judgments of God will fall upon this earth, and the wicked forces of evil will be destroyed forever as Jesus Christ establishes an everlasting throne

3. God’s final judgment reveals the saving righteousness of Jesus and His triumph over Satan and the powers of hell

The description of judgment in Revelation 4 and 5 is wonderful. The apostle John writes: “After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the … voice which I heard was … saying, ‘Come up here, and I will show you things which must take place after this’” (Revelation 4:1). Jesu invites us to look through the open door into heaven's sanctuary to view eternal scenes in the great controversy between good and evil.

What sense captures the attention of the entire heavenly host? We see a throne set in heaven (verse 2). God sits upon His throne as the rightful ruler of the universe. The scene is one of the enthronement of Christ after His resurrection and ascension to heaven. The rainbow around the throne reveals God’s justice and mercy. His love and His law.

We need not fear. Jesus stands for us in the judgment, and the powers of hell are defeated. Through the ceaseless ages of eternity, we sing the praises and glory of Jesus. He redeemed us. He shed His blood for us. He sacrificed His life for us. He is our savior and redeemer. We need not fear judgment _it is good news.