Focus: Doctrine of Eternal
Judgment Part 2
Greetings Sons of God:
Now for someone this may touch home, but I have to visit
this to prove the point. I had a friend
years ago whose brother was murdered 2 weeks before Christmas and I can never
get the image of a crying mother saying “My son is dead” out of my head. But when it came time for the trial and the
verdict, it was a hung jury. In other
words the 12 jurors could not come to a conclusion to whether the accused
committed murder. After the first
verdict to see the anger and disbelief on their faces hurt even more. And all the family wanted was JUSTICE for
their lost family member. So after a
second trial the verdict was guilty and the man was sentenced to 25 to life in
prison. Now the judgment in the family’s
favor provided some relief and some closure.
However there are many trials where innocent people are imprisoned and
even executed. And when something is not right in the justice system we make
laws and rules to make judgments for those situations. Now of course this is a
faulty system of judgment but it is what we have today. But let me give you an
illustration of how it is faulty.
In our world and our worldly governments judgments and laws
are made based on yesterday’s actions for today to prevent further actions for
the future. So there is a linear thought
process to judgments. But where the flaw
is, it is ever changing and hardly consistent in an ever-changing world. Take for example the fight for gay marriage
in the United States. Marriage is an
institution between a man and woman and now the gay rights activist believe
they should receive the same rights as a married couple (man and woman). Now of course we as Kingdom citizens are
totally opposed to this because it is anti-Christ behavior. But based on the
past and where we are today, judges are making judgments based on the change in
times but the Kingdom Judgment is eternal and is not linear. Let me give you a
great example.
When we look at movies, we are the audience and all we want
to know is the end of the story. But
then there is the director (God) who knows the beginning to end and the end
from the beginning and His judgments are just because He knows whether you are
guilty or not and do not have to consult anybody else.
This is what makes eternal judgment just and perfect. Before we think about retaliating because of
injustice in man’s system, think that you have an advocate and a judge who will
judge every man according to their deeds and what they have done in their body.
Just because someone has wronged you, do not worry because
there is a judge in Heaven who will deliver true justice and no wrong deed will
go unpunished.
In the last message on eternal
judgment I want to look in the Scriptures and clear up some myths.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
