After death, we all know we meet Jesus whatsoever. But have any of you imagined how would a judgment look like? Is it different for each for us or same process for all? Personally, I imagined Jesus sitting on a throne looking rather angry for the sins I've made, as unsaved and saved both. (I have no idea why lol)
So, how do you guys imagine it? God gave us creativity and imagination, I'd like to see people's views and opinions
We are to live on the renewed Earth after the judgement, but the judgement itself I have often wondered about too.
God says that all men are 'rendered according to our deeds' at the judgement, and he will 'bring out of darkness the hidden purposes of the heart'. Whether believer or non-believer, Jew, Gentile or Woman or Man,, 'all will stand before God's judgement seat'. We shall all be there for the 'ageless judgement'. And Paul says we all rise immortal in the blink of an eye when God calls the last trumpet, at the time that we rise from amidst death, to be judged. So we all have judgement to look forward to. But what does it entail exactly? I can only put forward educated guesses.
The Jews believed that those who lived bad lives and have many impurities must be cleansed in 'Gehinom', our modern translations call it 'hell'. It is the place where the 'Great God sits like a purifier of Gold and silver'. But first a blood sacrifice must be paid for sins. And the sacrifice is the Messiah.
Christians believe Jesus is that Messiah.
It is a touchy subject but i trust that Jesus would have known it the same way as the Jews did, not like our modern, Christian view on it.
It depends on the person, but I imagine for the self-righteous who think they are without sin, it will be the undoing of self-righteousness and the realization of the truth. And for the prideful, it will be bringing low of pride. For the heartbroken, it will be a love that knows no bounds. For the hateful, it will be the undoing of their hate. In all of it, there is a level of, as Paul says, 'knowing in full, just as I am known (by God)'.
I imagine for the people who thought God to be foolishness, there will be the realization that God is not foolishness. And for the 'unsaved' and the 'sinners' it will go something like the adulterous woman or the sorrowful thief on the cross.
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What shall we say, then? Shall we persist in sins knowing God's grace shall abound? Never may that idea come about!. We who decay from sin, how further will we live in it? Or don’t you know as many as were baptized unto Jesus, unto the death of him we were baptized? We are buried therefore with him, on account of the rite unto death, so that in the same way as Jesus was raised up from amidst death, by the glory of the Father we too should walk in renewal of life.
If we have become united in the likeness of the death of him, then we will be the same with the resurrection. Knowing this, the old man of us is crucified together with him so that the body of sin will be destroyed, and thereafter we will shall serve sin no longer. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Moreover, if we die like Christ, then also we trust that we will live again like him.For we know that Jesus, having been raised from amidst death, cannot die again; death no longer rules over him. Indeed, he died to sins once for all; next he lives, he lives for God. So also, you, consider yourselves to be dead indeed, to sin, alive moreover to God, the same as Jesus. Therefore, then don't let sin reign in the mortal body of you so that you obey the lusts of it, Neither allow any part of you to be used as an instrument of injustness, to sin, but come up to stand by God as though you are already alive from after death, and let all parts of you be as instruments of justness for God.
Also, hebrews; And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their relatives, saying, ‘You should know the Lord.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will know me already.
