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Judgment Days
March 15, 2015
People speak of "the judgment day" as if they has only ever been one, and it is still in our future. The willingly ignore the fact that God has had many judgment days. Anytime that He weights a country, a king, or a people, and they are found wanting, it is a judgment day. There have been many in the history of the world. A major judgment day was the one that faced Jerusalem and Judah in AD 70, in which the disobedient Jews were weighed and punished for their unbelief and disobedience. - Bernie Parsons
Judgment
Days
by Bernie Parsons
Presented to Globe church of Christ on 03-15-2015
Presented to Load church of Christ on 04-19-2015
People like to talk about “The Judgment Day” as if
there were only one, and that it is future. The scriptures reveal to us
many days of judgment. God rendered His judgments against different
kings, nations and individuals due to their disobedience to His will.
Exodus 15:6 "Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy
right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them
that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed
them as stubble."
Psalms 79:6 "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known
thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name."
Daniel 2:20 "Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the
name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his:
21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he
removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise,
and knowledge to them that know understanding:"
This last was in reply to the vision in which it was
revealed to Daniel that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would lose his
empire.
Judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
Genesis 19:24 "Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon
Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain,
and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the
ground."
Judgment upon Babylon.
Daniel 5:25 "And this is the writing that was written,
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God
hath numbered thy kingdom,
and finished it.
27 TEKEL; Thou art
weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
28 PERES; Thy kingdom is
divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."
The kingdom of Belshazzar was to be taken from him
because he and his friends drank wine from vessels brought from the
temple, during which he honored false gods.
Isaiah 14:4 "That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of
Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the
rulers.
6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that
ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth."
Isaiah 14:11 "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of
thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how
art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
Judgment upon Egypt.
Ezekiel 31:1 "And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third
month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came
unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude;
Whom art thou like in thy greatness?"
Ezekiel 31:18 "To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness
among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees
of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst
of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD."
Judgment upon the
cities of Judah came in AD 66-70, culminating in the destruction of
Jerusalem.
Matthew 11:21 "Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if
the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
22 But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at
the day of judgment, than for you.
23 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought
down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had
been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of
Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee."
Matthew 23:37 "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets,
and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens
under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.
39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall
say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord."
We each will face our
own personal judgment, based upon our deeds in this life.
Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment:"
Hebrews 12:28 “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved,
let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence
and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire."
Matthew 12:36 "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall
speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
37 For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt
be condemned."
Romans 14:11 "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee
shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12 So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this
rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his
brother's way."
1 Peter 4:3 "For the time past of our life may suffice us to have
wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness,
lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable
idolatries:
4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same
excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the
dead.
6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead,
that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live
according to God in the spirit."
In the spiritual sense, it matters not when we die or how we die. What
matters is that we are prepared to face God’s judgment.
Hebrews 10:26 "For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the
knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation,
which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three
witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy,
who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood
of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath
done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will
recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."
