Lesson 13 · September 28, 1901
The Execution of the Judgment
- 1.Into whose hands will the judgment of the wicked be given? ; .
- 2.What experiences will have fitted them for this work? ; . Note 1.
- 3.Who will be judged by them? .
- 4.What will enable the righteous to judge understandingly? ; . Note 2.
- 5.What takes place at the close of the investigative judgment of the wicked? ; . Note 3.
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- 6.For what purpose do Christ and His saints come at this time? , 15.
- 7.What weapons are used in their punishment? ; .
- 8.What is this sharp two-edged sword? .
- 9.To what is God's Word further compared? .
- 10.What is God Himself said to be? ; .
- 11.What also do the righteous become? .
- 12.Where do the wicked go, and for what purpose, which brings them in contact with this fire? . Note 4.
- 13.How does the fire of the Lord's presence affect the earth? ; .
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- 14.Why can not the earth bear the glory of the presence of the Lord? ; .
- 15.Will it ever recover from the curse thus placed upon it? ; . Note 5.
- 16.By what will this little earth then be honored? .
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1. Those only who have "followed" Christ, and who have "continued with" Him in His temptations, are to sit on thrones of judgment. Every temptation we have was Christ's temptation before it could be ours, or He could not give a victory already gained. But how often, instead of "continuing with Him" in the temptation, we deny him, as Peter did. "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation." Only those who have been "saviours" can be judges.
2. "As the features of the countenance are reproduced with unerring accuracy on the polished plate of the artist, so the character is faithfully delineated in the books above."—. When these books are opened to the righteous, and the counsels of the heart are made manifest, then the saints can judge the world, but not before.
3. The wicked dead being raised at the end of the one thousand years, and the righteous returning to this earth, fully looses Satan.
4. "This [the destruction of the wicked] is not an act of arbitrary power on the part of God. The rejectors of His mercy reap that which they have sown. . . . By a life of rebellion, Satan and all who unite with him place themselves so out of harmony with God that His very presence is to them a consuming fire. The glory of Him who is love will destroy them."—. "At the second advent of Christ the wicked shall be consumed with the 'spirit of His mouth,' and destroyed 'with the brightness of His coming.' The light of the glory of God, which imparts life to the righteous, will slay the wicked." "To sin, wherever found, our God is a consuming fire. In all who submit to His power, the Spirit of God will consume sin. But if men cling to sin, they become identified with it. Then the glory of God, which destroys sin, must destroy them." Id. pp. 107, 108. And so with the Word of God. To those who obey it, it is food and life, but to the disobedient, a sword of destruction.
5. Christ, in wearing the crown of thorns, bore the curse of the earth, that He might redeem it. "The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly." . It is only "waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God," ere her wilderness will burst forth "like Eden," and her desert like the "garden of the Lord."
Bible texts in this lesson
Daniel 7:22 · Revelation 20:4 · Matthew 19:28 · Luke 22:28-30 · 1 Corinthians 6:2 · 1 Corinthians 6:3 · 1 Corinthians 4:5 · Revelation 20:12 · Zechariah 14:4 · Zechariah 14:5 · Revelation 21:2 · Revelation 20:5 · Revelation 20:7 · Revelation 20:8 · Jude 1:14 · Psalms 149:5-9 · Revelation 19:13-15 · Hebrews 4:12 · Jeremiah 23:29 · Hebrews 12:29 · Exodus 24:17 · Obadiah 1:18 · Revelation 20:9 · Psalms 97:3-5 · Micah 1:3 · Micah 1:4 · Nahum 1:5 · Isaiah 24:5 · Isaiah 24:6 · Micah 1:5 · Romans 8:19-23 · 2 Peter 3:13 · Revelation 22:3 · Revelation 22:4 · Revelation 21:3 · Romans 8:18-23
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