The 4 Coming Judgments
What? When? Who? Where? Why?
May 7, 2025
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Dr. Carl Broggi
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 5/7/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer:
Hello and welcome to this Wednesday Stand in the Gap Today program and it’s also our monthly emphasis on Israel, the Middle East and biblical prophecy. Today joining me and co-host Pastor Matt Recker from Manhattan, New York City is returning guest Dr. Carl Broggi, senior pastor of Community Bible Church located in Beaufort, South Carolina, and he is also the host of his own radio program entitled Search the Scriptures, which can be found@searchthescriptures.org. Now, while there are many major events unfolding in the Middle East, specifically regarding Israel, and I’m going to say major end times alignment of gentile nations, and you need to be observing this, it’s incredible to behold, but it’s exactly just as foretold and biblical prophecy, and we could spend an entire program on that today, but our emphasis is not going to be that, although I’m going to say it will be related but slightly different in focus.
Our focus for today revolves around an aspect of biblical prophecy that does affect since all prophecy does involve Israel, but the entire world and all people born since the creation of Adam and Eve, those alive today and those yet to be born during the seven year tribulation period just ahead and the coming 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ to follow the second coming. Now, it’s likely that a great majority, and many of you at least anyways, listening to me right now, have heard of pieces of what we’ll talk about today, but likely not in context and not in application to today since Bible prophecy is sadly little preached today when it should be preached the most perhaps. And our theme today, well, it’s nearly totally ignored, and that’s the theme of judgment and that accompanying it is reward and punishment for these things that Jesus as the great judge, one of his functions in scripture, he will oversee the title I’ve chosen to frame our focus today is this, the For Coming judgements, what, when, who, where, and Why, and we’ll deal with all of those as we engage this subject today. Dr. Carl Broggi, thank you so much for being back with us today.
Carl Broggi:
Sam, great to be with you along with Pastor Matt. This is such an important topic. It’s my honor to be with you and to discuss it with you guys
Sam Rohrer:
And Carl, you spent weeks and weeks, you spent entire sermons on each of these judgements, so this is going to be in fact a challenge, but let’s see what we can do. The Bible speaks Carl, I mean I know you know this and I’m saying for our listeners benefit that the Bible speaks about God’s justice, his love, his plan of redemption following the fall. He talked about sin coming into the world and even the cursing of all current creation. The rest is his story. We call it his story. And that entire story is contained in his written word, the past, the present, the future we call prophecy, that the future is, it’s what we need to know embedded within the very word of God. And the part we want to focus on today is the theme of God’s judgment, which of course ties into his justice, his plan of redemption, and all of those things connects to his very nature. So here’s what I’d like you to do if you could here in this first segment, create an overview, build and tie together if you could, the essential elements of biblical truth and prophecy that relate to the theme of judgment.
Carl Broggi:
Well, the next great event on God’s prophetic calendar, of course, is a rapture of the church when Christ will come back for his bride will be snatched up. It’s the Harpazo, so the catching up of the church and after we have been brought to heaven, there is a seven year plus period known as the great tribulation, the time of Jacob’s trouble that unfolds while we’re in heaven. There’s a judgment. There are four coming judgments that the Bible speaks of one in heaven, two on earth and one between heaven and earth. The one in heaven we call the judgment seat of Christ. It’s there that God will evaluate the works of the believers. We’ll be in our resurrected bodies and he’ll assess how we served him. It’s not a judgment for sin, it’s a judgment for service. It’s not a judgment to determine salvation that’s settled the moment we believe on Christ, but it is a judgment to determine whether or not and how many rewards God will give us.
At the end of that seven year period, Jesus physically, literally actually comes back to the earth. He plants his feet on the Mount of olives and before he can unfold his thousand year kingdom, he has to separate believing people from unbelieving people. And this is called two judgments, the judgment of the Jews and the judgment of the Gentiles. Not every single Jew, contrary to popular opinion will be a believer at Christ’s second coming collectively, all Israel will be saved, but Israel’s defined by Paul and Romans is those who have Jewish people who have had circumcision of the heart. And so there’s a separation described in a general sense like Noah’s day where someone has left someone, has taken, has nothing to do with the rapture. Noah and his family was left to enter a new world. The rest were taken away in judgment. Even so at the second coming there will be people who will left to reign with Messiah and those who will be taken away in judgment.
So there will be Jews who are separated believing Jews from unbelieving Jews and then there’ll be Gentiles who are separated. Joel three, Matthew 25. The sheep goat judgment describes the great separation of believing and unbelieving gentiles. And it’s an interesting picture that Jesus gives largely demonstrated by their attitude and their view towards Israel is seen during the great tribulation period and then the final judgment. It doesn’t take place on earth, but God at the end of the thousand year reign takes this current planet and he destroys it. He burns it with fire. It’s obliterated. He’s not going to give it a facelift. He’s going to create brand new heavens, brand new earth in which righteousness dwells in which sin has never stained in between heaven and earth. There’s this great white throne judgment where the lost of all time are arraigned before the throne of the Lord Jesus who’s sitting there and again, he evaluates them. All that are lost will be there. It’s known as the second resurrection. So there’s two resurrection programs, the first and the second. It doesn’t mean that the first resurrection happens once. Crisis race, handful of Old Testament saints, the church is raised and raptured. Old Testament saints are raised at the end of the tribulation. They’re all part of the first resurrection program, but those who are in the second resurrection program are all lost people and God will judge them and ultimately send them to a place called the Lake of Fire.
Sam Rohrer:
Carl, I was thinking, well, I could ask you a number of different questions, but you brought us perfectly right up until this break, and so ladies and gentlemen, if you’re just tuning into us, we’re just starting the program today. One, I think from a thematic perspective is one that every believer, if you’re listening and you’re not a believer, I think you’re also interested in listening to this today. The title is this, the For Coming Judgements of which Dr. Carl Broggi special guest today just gave a very quick overview, but we’re going to break those out now going into the next segment, these four judgements yet to come, and we’re going to deal with these questions. What are they called? When will they occur? Who is involved? Where will they take place? Perhaps the most important reason why we’re going to deal with those key questions as we walk through the balance of the program.
So stay with us. We’ll be back in just a moment. Scripture records God’s choice of the essence of the nearly 6,000 years of human history since creation, and he foretells the coming humming 1000 year millennial kingdom not probably far off. He gives us the history of creation, the fall redemption, past, present, and future. He provides the prophetic details of the rise in the fall of human gentile nations. His covenant promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Jews in the nation of Israel. He tells us of his first coming and his second coming and the new Jerusalem and new earth. He tells us of his love and his mercy and his judgment of people, those who faith trusted in Jesus Christ and those who rejected Jesus as the very son of God. He tells us all of these things, the how, the when, the where and the why of all these key events and how they will come about.
It tells us how, when, and why God in Firey judgment will finally destroy the current creation which he chose to create first in six days and then creates in a moment a new heaven and a new earth that will exist forever. Carl, I just gave that just a little bit of an overview to augment what you had laid out as the overview in the first segment because this theme of judgments fit within this larger picture and you just can’t take and pick and choose. So let’s get right into this. In previous programs you and I have covered in detail God’s prophetical sequence of events going all the way back and we took it all the way up to the events that will happen, some of which we’ll talk about today. And you just mentioned the next event on the calendar, God’s calendar is the rapture of the church, which includes then the first of the four judgments of God yet to come, which you mentioned. So let’s now go into further detail here. Would you describe now this first judgment, the what and the when and the who will be involved?
Carl Broggi:
Well, the apostle Paul Sam in two Corinthians five says, for we must all appear before the judgment seed of Christ so that each one may be recompense or rewarded. Some translations say for his deeds, his works in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. So a judgment seed of Betos could be negative or positive in the first century. Jesus, for instance, stood before the judgment seat of Pilate, and of course it was negative from a human perspective. It was positive for us in that it bought our redemption, sent him to the cross. But a judgment seat was also positively used like in the Isan games, when a judge stood on a Betos a raise platform and he would evaluate two people running in a race, a person who lost wasn’t beaten up and stoned, he just didn’t receive a wreath.
And that’s what’s in view here. Paul will includes himself for we meaning all believers to whom he is writing in Romans 1412 and other central passage he’ll say, so then each one of us will give an account of himself to God. And then there’s an extended description of it in one Corinthians three, he’s dealing with believers who are following after this guy and that guy and Paul says, listen, what’s important is Christ and the Lord who gives the growth. And so he says in one Corinthians three 10, according to the grace of God, which was given to me like a wise master builder, I laid a foundation, Paul established the church in Corinth, others came in built upon it. So then he warns each person must be careful how he builds on it, for no one can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Christ.
The church is built on the Lord Jesus, not on some figure or Pope or anyone else. And then he warns if any man builds on the foundation and he uses two categories of material, gold, silver, precious, stone, wood, hay and straw, each man’s work will become evident for the day. He’s talking about the judgment seat of Christ. For believers only will show it because it is to be revealed with fire and the fire will test the quality of every man’s work. So there’s coming a time of evaluation where God will test the quality of what we did and why we did it. He’ll look at what we did, he’ll look at what we attempted to do. And I’ll also look at as one Corinthians four or five indicates why we did what we did, what was our motive? And it will be a just judgment for believers, again not to deal out retribution.
Christ satisfied the wrath of the father on the cross, but to give rewards. And so he says, if any man’s work which is built upon it, the foundation remains, he’ll receive a reward. Well, what if the opposite? Well, if any man’s work is burned up, he’ll suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved yet so is through fire. So this is not some Christian purgatory and this is a purgatory passage for our Roman Catholic friends, this and a T in second Maccabees. But this is not dealing with heaven or hell. It takes place in heaven and it is for believers only and it deals with our reward.
Matt Recker:
Thank you, Carl. It’s really great to get an overview of these various judgments that you’re able to really succinctly describe. And it’s interesting too how Paul, he’s not using imagery unfamiliar to his readers. I remember when I went to Corinth, I stood before the bema seat judgment there in Corinth, and so we will be before the judgment seat of Christ. So you’ve talked about when this is going to take place and who is going to be judged. You’ve also really have talked a little bit about why, but could you describe where this judgment seat will occur and maybe also give a little more information about why this judgment will take place for believers?
Carl Broggi:
Yeah, well definitely it takes place in heaven and there are many passages that directly state that just before he says, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. He has just made the statement to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Therefore, we have as our ambition to please Christ because we’re all someday in heaven when we’re present with the Lord going to stand and give an account. Jesus in Luke 14 relates to heaven. He speaks of a resurrection of the righteous and how God will reward the believer for their faithful service. In Revelation 19, right before Jesus returns with his bride, it was given to her the bride of Christ to clothe herself and fine linen, bright and clean. And then he says, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. So there’s two kinds of righteousness.
There’s the imputed righteousness that we can’t earn. And so Paul says, I want to be found in him not where the righteousness of my own drive by works, but that which comes through faith in Christ. And then there’s the righteousnesses. It’s actually plural. Some translations say the righteous acts of the saints and he rewards us and it’s somehow exemplified even in the linen that we will wear when we come back with Christ. And so the rewards come in a lot of different ways. Number one, they come with crowns. And so there are five crowns that are spoken of in scripture, the imperishable crown for the believer who dies to self when he lives a disciplined life. Paul describes himself, I don’t beat as without aim beating the air. He’s focused and he’d been a believer 25 years when he said that there is a crown of rejoicing or exaltation that’s given to believers who want to win people to Jesus.
And that would make sense. The son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost. And believers who are obedient to that call, God’s going to reward him. There’s the crown of righteousness that Paul speaks of and he says in the future. So again, it puts it back up in heaven. There was laid up for me the crown of righteousness that won’t be given just to me but to all who love is appearing. There’s people listening today. They’re listening because they love the appearing of Christ. And why would that elicit a reward? Because when you live with your eye on Jesus’ return, you want to obey him, you want to please him. And then there’s the crown of life that is given to those who endure trials. James speaks of that, the revelation and one of the messages to the churches.
And then there’s the crown of glory given to in the context of one Peter five, those who shepherd the church well. And so some pastors are delinquent in how they shepherd. Others are very faithful. But again, I think even there are women say, who teach a woman’s Bible study or are raising and training children in their home and there’s many aspects of how these crowns might come, but ultimately there’s eternal implications for these coming rewards. John speaks of receiving a full reward and with it our great implications when we meet the Lord and we take the crowns that he gives us and we don’t wear ’em on our head, we cast them at his feet. And it appears from the nature of the verb that when we worship the Lord Jesus, it’s not just a once and for all act over and over and over again.
We get to praise him and glorify him and ultimately he’s the source of all these rewards because it’s him working in and through us. So it’s not like God saves us by grace and then he puts us on this standard of pressure to lay up treasure in heaven. No, he saves us by grace and then we live by grace. And what he does is if the believer is yielded to the Holy Spirit who’s filling him and empowering him in eternity, God gives us the reward for that availability. So we often say as pastors, God’s not looking for people of great ability but great availability and that will certainly be seen at the judgment seat of Christ.
Sam Rohrer:
Carl, we’re not going to be able to complete this, but this is in heaven after the rapture and the crowns that we get are the reward and we cast them at the feet of Jesus is going to be able to touch on this. Maybe we carry it over briefly, but the marriage supper of the lamb, we got to mention that because that’s also going to heaven. That’s for the church. Just quickly describe that and make a connection.
Carl Broggi:
So there is some debate in terms of the marriage of the lamb and the marriage supper of the lamb. I take it that the marriage of the lamb takes place in heaven and then when he comes to the earth, the marriage supper happens on the earth. Walford said it happened only on the earth. Pentecost said it started in heaven and ended on earth because you do have some statements by Jesus where he calls the Old Testament saints together and we sit down at a table and I think that’s imagery of the whole people of God, old and New Testament saints enjoying it together.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay ladies and gentlemen, I told you, you will have heard about probably bits and pieces of what we’re talking about but not in context. And even like that question there, we could spend an entire program on it, but we’re going to continue to move through, stay with us when we come back, we’re going to consider judgment number two and judgment number three that will be coming following that one there, the bema seed. Well, if you’ve just joined us right now, we’re in the middle of a program, the four coming judgments and dealing with these aspects of them. What, when, who, where, and why special guest is Dr. Carl Broggi with me every month and one of our favorite guests according to all of you who are listening that I hear from. And this theme we’re dealing with today is so very important. Stay with us.
We’ll go into yet judgment number two and three in this segment and number four in the final segment. But just one very quick comment in that break that you just heard, you would’ve heard a new spot we’re calling verses to remember. And we’re going to begin every week identifying a verse with an emphasis like that. There is a purpose for which we memorize scripture. It brings many benefits. So we must memorize, we must meditate on scripture. There will be a benefit mentioned. There will be a verse. And what we’re doing is we’re playing it about once a day, once a program, we’ll do it for a week and then we’re going to give another verse. But the idea is that we together though you listening along with us, learn these verses. So that’s what that’s for. If you are listening and haven’t heard that before this week, you would’ve got that it was new and it was different. It was different and it’s for that reason. So I just share that briefly, Carl. Now before we go into identifying the second and third judgments of God, as I mentioned in this segment, I’d like you to again underneath of it just a little bit, explain why judgment is necessary. What aspect, for instance of the character and the nature of God, for instance, demands an accounting, a judgment that brings with it either reward degrees of reward or judgment and degrees of judgment. Why is that a part of God’s plan?
Carl Broggi:
Well, the Old Testament and the New Testament both affirm that were made in the image and likeness of God because of that. Paul will say in Romans two that the law of God has been written in our hearts such that our conscience defends or accuses us when we do what’s right or wrong. And so inwardly people have a sense of what’s right, what’s wrong, what’s just what’s unjust because they’re made in the image of God. And so God’s character, he’s loving, he’s gracious, he’s merciful, but he is just. And so you see his justice concerning the believer. You’ve got two kinds of Christians, one who comes to the local assembly, they serve, they dig in, they push through complaints and criticism from people who are on the sidelines and doing nothing. And then you have Christian B who comes, he sits soaks and sours complaints, gripes.
Will it make a difference if both are saved at the judgment seat of Christ? Yes, because God is just likewise you have unbelievers who are lost not because God wanted them to be lost. I believe Christ died for all men that anyone can be saved, that whosoever will may come, but the God who set the penalty provided a wave of escape, but they rejected it. But not all unbelievers are the same. And so the scripture speaks of degrees of judgment. Jesus in Matthew 10, when he sends the 12 out, he says, look, if they don’t receive you shake the dust off your feet. It’ll be more tolerable in that place for the land of Sodom than for that city that rejected you in the day of judgment. He’ll do the same with that evangelical triangle of Capernaum, Karis. And he says, look, if the miracles that were done in Sodom were done, they’ve that it were done in you, they would’ve repented and sackcloth and ashes. Jesus speaks of the hypocrites who have this outward show, the religious leaders and they devour widows houses and they have these long prayers to be seen by man and he says they’ll receive greater condemnation in Romans two. He speaks of the stubborn and unrepentant person who is storing up wrath. It’s the same word when Jesus says treasure put, lay up treasure in heaven. They’re treasuring treasure of wrath. So God in his perfect justice is not mocked. He will allow men to reap according to what they have done.
Matt Recker:
Yes, thank you Carl. So we’re talking about these second and third judgments, the second judgment being of national Israel, and then the third judgment of gentile nations. And these come at the same window of time. So could you just kind of briefly identify each of these as well and then detail judgment number two of Israel, and of course it comes at the end of the tribulation, but would this be the judgment of all Israel, even Old Testament Israel or just tribulation saints? How do you differentiate that? And so if you could talk about the judgment of Israel, the what and when and who is involved and where it takes place and why is it a part of God’s prophetic plan?
Carl Broggi:
So it takes place on two levels. That’s a tremendous question, Matt. You’ve got those who at the second coming, Daniel 12, one to three, who are brought into a resurrected body. Daniel doesn’t elucidate the second half of those lost unbelieving Jews that it happens at the end of the millennium, but he’s giving two kinds of resurrection. So very often when the Bible speaks of the resurrection, it’s focusing on the kind of resurrection, not always the time of the resurrection. So Jesus speaks of a resurrection of the righteous and a resurrection of the lost. And so the resurrection of believing Jews happens at the second coming. They’re raised up. Those who survive the tribulation are comprised of two groups, Jews and Gentiles. And so there’s a judgment for Jewish people who lived through the great tribulation and their lives are going to be evaluated. Some people think, well, everyone at the second coming who’s Jewish will be saved.
They’ll look on him whom they have pierced and they’ll mourn for him with an only son. Actually, that prophecy from Zacharia is used in two places. One in John 19. It was fulfilled at the cross when they looked at him whom they’ve pierced. But the second looking will be very different at the second coming because these Jews who are converted during the tribulation will mourn. Their heart will be broken like they lost a firstborn son, which was precious of course to them. And so at the second coming, those who survive and two thirds of the Jews, well two thirds of the Jews have perished during the time of the great tribulation. But the one third that is remaining the majority collectively, Paul can say all Israel will be saved. And he’s defined Israel in Romans two of those who have had circumcision of the heart.
It’s not just outwardly I’m a Jew, but born again Jews during the time of the great tribulation. They’ve been born from above. They’ve had the new covenant applied to their heart, and those will enter into the millennial reign of Messiah because only believers can enter the kingdom of God. Unbelieving Jews, they’re separated out in the parable of the Virgins. And also in Ezekiel chapter 20, there’s a separation that takes place and appears it’s a small group of people because most by this point have perished, but still unbelieving Jews will not be allowed to enter the kingdom of God any more than unbelieving Gentiles will be allowed to enter the coming kingdom. I’m referring here to the literal thousand year kingdom as well.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, and with that, it obviously brings in the Gentiles. So balance that out. Now you’ve got the Jews, so there’s a judgment on the Jews you just described, but then there’s the judgment on Gentiles
Carl Broggi:
Because both of these judgments, according to Matthew 24 and 25 take place on the earth. So those who want to conflate this as one big general judgment, what they’re doing is they’re not literally applying the scripture and all the prophecies for the first coming were literally fulfilled. And why we should think differently and apply a Augustinian slash Calvinistic interpretation on future prophecy is to really abuse the scripture. And so you find this happens on the earth. The prophet Joel speaks of the judgment of the nations in the third chapter in the Valley of Jehosaphat, and most would take it myself included, is this newly created valley when God splits the amount of olives in half. It’s what we would call today, the Kidron Valley. And the description of the judgment is found in Matthew 25, 31 to 46, and there’s three groups of people. There are goats, there are sheep, and there are my brethren.
And so Jesus will say, whatever you’ve done to these, the least of my brethren, speaking of Jewish people, you’ve done to me, if you’re kind and passionate, that is an expression of a born again believer of a true follower because the Jewish hatred that is building will come to its full fruition during the time of the great tribulation. Revelation 19 teaches that as well as Zechariah 12 and Zacharia 14 we’re building towards that the stages being set like never before, far broader than since the Holocaust. And during this seven year period, if you’re a believer, you’ll care for the Jewish people. If you’re an unbeliever, you’ll participate in their destruction. And so the way you treat my brethren, it has nothing to do with jail ministry or feeding the poor or any of these things. The context is how people are treating Jewish people during the tribulation. And so believing gentiles, they’re called sheep, they will enter the tribulation with believing Jews, unbelieving gentiles. They will meet eternal condemnation along with unbelieving Jews.
Sam Rohrer:
Okay, Carl,
Carl Broggi:
So he’s clear.
Sam Rohrer:
You said that believing gentiles would enter tribulation, you meant the millennium
Carl Broggi:
Kingdom. It will enter the kingdom. Yeah, I apologize. But these who are saved out of the tribulation.
Sam Rohrer:
Yes. Yes. Okay. Wanted to make that clear for all of you’re listening. That was the separation, the judgment of the Jews and Gentiles you just heard explained at the second coming of Christ at the end of the tribulation is to determine ultimately a part of it who will remain alive and go into the millennial kingdom of which only believers can enter. There it is. So there you’ve got Gentiles and you’ve got Jews. So now once the millennial kingdom begins, it goes for a thousand years. And we’re not going to get all the detail on that, but there is at the end of that period of time, the fourth judgment yet to come. The great white throne judgment. Talk about that and why and the where for. Well, I know that if you’ve been listening to the program, Calvin caught a part of it. Only you will definitely want to go back and get all of it.
And even if you were with us from the beginning, I know because of the nature of the topic and the details of the verses that have been given, it’s been impossible. Unless you’re really a whole lot smarter than any of us on this program, we’re able to remember exactly everything that was said and write it down. So I encourage you to go to our website or our app, stand in the gap, and then listen to the program again. You can access the transcript of the program, walk through it. Again, this is almost like going to a college level class. It really is the information in this program. Try to keep it as simple as possible. But this information is really extraordinary in its comprehensiveness, in its conciseness. And it’s a very difficult thing to put it all into a program, but it is here. And listen to it again.
Walk through it again, learn, be edified by it, be encouraged by it, and then share it with a friend. So with that, I’ll just leave it at that. Let’s move into this now, one last final seat, the beam a seat. We talked about just a bit of review. Beam a seat. That judgment is in heaven. It has to deal with rewards. It is for the church aids saints only, and it happens upon the rapture of the church, which is the next event on the Prophetical calendar. Then following the seven year tribulation period, at the end, at the second coming of Christ, there is the judgment of the Jews. We talked about in the judgment of the Gentiles, sheep and goats to determine among other things, but primarily the believers who will enter in their human physical bodies into the millennial kingdom here on earth. Then there is the thousand year reign of Christ. Alright, not the conclusion of that. There’s one final judgment, Carl, explain the essential details if you would, of this final judgment, what’s called the great white throne judgment. You’ve talked about it. We’ve talked about it before. The when, who, where, and why. And also throw into that as well, this part of it. What about the people who are born during the millennial kingdom? Do they escape judgment altogether or where do they come into the mix? So anyways, put all that together.
Carl Broggi:
Well, the fact that people are born during the millennial kingdom highlights the fact that there are people who enter it in their natural bodies believing in unbelieving, believing Jews and believing gentiles. And during that time, a thousand plus years, the curse seemingly is lifted off the creation. People have a lot of children, not all of their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren will believe, which again argues for a pre tribulational rapture unless you just throw away the millennial kingdom. Because if we’re in a resurrected body at the end of the tribulation where we go up and then come back to the earth, then you can’t sin anymore. Much less have children. So the earth has repopulated. One of about 10 reasons for a pre tribulational rapture is only those in natural bodies will be able to have children. At the end of that thousand years, Satan who’s been bound will be loose and he will tempt those who have not come to faith during this thousand year reign.
And they’ll be lost, they’ll be judged. And so two Peter three speaks to the fact that when Jesus comes back at the end of the thousand years, he’s going to destroy the current heavens and earth. It’ll be burned with fire. In Revelation 21, 1, he says, then I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth has passed away. So that’s why we say that this judgment, the great white throne is between heaven and earth. And it’s found here in Revelation 2011 to 15. He said, I saw a great white throne in him who sat upon it. The hymn is Jesus, because all judgment has been given to the Son from whose presence earth in heaven fled away and no place was frowned for them. There’s no place for the unbeliever to hide. They can’t escape. They can’t get some fancy lawyer and get out of this judgment.
I saw the dead, the great and the small god’s, not a respecter of persons. The big shots and the little shots all there standing before the throne and the books were open and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life and the Dead. Were judge from the things which were written in the book. And so the person over the judgment is Jesus. The people at the judgment as it’s going to indicate in a moment are all the unbelievers of all time. God has waited for this final moment, even when a man dies like a Hugh Hefner, the influence of his wickedness continues to this day and God will take everything he did at all the influences that continued after he died. And it’s this final moment that God reigns all the lost of all time. And of course, the principle is that they’re judged according to their deeds.
Again, we’ve seen this through all these various judgments because we’re not saved our deeds, but if we are saved, we’re a new creation and our life changes such that you can know them by their fruits. And so the scripture then says, death in Hades were then thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. So right now, there’s a place that unbelievers go. It’s called Hades. It’s a place of torment. They’re given temporal bodies. But at the end of the thousand years, all the lost are raised. They’re given their final resurrected body and it’s designed for hell. No one is in the lake of fire right now. In fact, the very first two recipients of the Lake of Fire, revelation 19, tells me is the antichrist and his false prophet During the millennium, Satan is in the abyss.
When he’s loose, God will put down that rebellion and he’s thrown into the lake of fire assumingly with all of his fallen angels. And now the lost people of all time are thrown into the lake of fire forever and ever. Same word for eternal judgment, eternal life, eternal God. Iion is equal. You can’t say heaven is for a short time or hell is for a short time, or God is for a short time. They’re all eternal, such that when a man’s been there a hundred billion years, he won’t have 10 seconds left to spend and live there.
Matt Recker:
Great overview, Carl of these judgments. Just really enjoyed listening to you pouring out your heart to us and to the listeners. And I really enjoyed also your view and what you said about the judgment of the nations. In Matthew chapter 25, that passage that’s often just used for homeless outreach and rescue mission ministries. You hear it all the time visiting the or Prison ministries, you know what I’m saying? And although we can apply it to that, but it’s really applied to how Gentiles and the people will treat Israel during the tribulation time. So I really appreciate you breaking that down. So as we come to the close of the program, what should be then the concluding word about the knowledge of these judgments? What do they mean to the people listening to the believer and to the lost? And give a challenge as well to those who are not saved to come to Christ?
Carl Broggi:
Well, for the believer, our desire should be to be pleasing to him. He’s accepted us unconditionally. He loves us. Jesus said, as much as the Father loves the Son, you can’t improve the imputed righteousness that Christ has given us. And so we love him because he first loved us. And so we should grow in the grace and knowledge, not just be saved, but grow in grace so that we can serve the Lord passionately. And there’s a coming a time, as we’ve said, when the Lord will evaluate and we should care about treasure in heaven because he commanded us to lay up treasure in heaven and with any command of scripture, we love him because he first loved us. And this is the love of God that we keep his commandments for the believer hell is real. And if you die and go to hell, you’re trespassing because God didn’t make hell for you. He made hell for the devil in his angels. And God doesn’t want you to go to hell. And if you die and go to Hell, you’ll have no one to blame but yourself because a substitute has come who bore your full penalty and wrath so that you could be forgiven and have life eternal. And if you’ll call upon Jesus today, who didn’t die for some or most, but all in an instance, he will save you and give you the gift of eternal life.
Sam Rohrer:
Thank you so much, Dr. Carl Broggi, senior Pastor Community Bible Church, Beaufort, South Carolina, his website, search the scriptures.org. And Pastor Matt Recker from New York City, thank you for being here with me again today. Again, Carl. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being a part of the program. Go to our website, stand in the gap radio.com or our app, pick up this program again. Listen to it prayerfully, consider through it and let it speak to.
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