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The Millennial Judgment, November 23
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that
pertain to this life?
1 Corinthians 6:3
.
During the thousand years between the first and the second resurrection
the judgment of the wicked takes place. The apostle Paul points to this
judgment as an event that follows the second advent. “Judge nothing before
the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden
things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts.”
1
Corinthians 4:5
. Daniel declares that when the Ancient of Days came,
“judgment was given to the saints of the most High.”
Daniel 7:22
. At
this time the righteous reign as kings and priests unto God. John in the
Revelation says: “I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was
given unto them.” “They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall
reign with him a thousand years.”
Revelation 20:4, 6
. It is at this time that,
as foretold by Paul, “the saints shall judge the world.”
1 Corinthians 6:2
.
In union with Christ they judge the wicked, comparing their acts with the
statute book, the Bible, and deciding every case according to the deeds done
in the body. Then the portion which the wicked must suffer is meted out,
according to their works; and it is recorded against their names in the book
of death.
Satan also and evil angels are judged by Christ and His people. Says
Paul: “Know ye not that we shall judge angels?”
Verse 3
. And Jude declares
that “the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of
the great day.”
Jude 6
.
At the close of the thousand years the second resurrection will take
place. Then the wicked will be raised from the dead and appear before
God for the execution of “the judgment written.” Thus the revelator, after
describing the resurrection of the righteous, says: “The rest of the dead lived
not again until the thousand years were finished.”
Revelation 20:5
. And
Isaiah declares, concerning the wicked: “They shall be gathered together,
as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and
after many days shall they be visited.”
;
Isaiah 24:22
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