How many Judgements are they?

Question

Is everyone going to be there on Judgement day?

Are believer going straight to heaven when they die?

What is the Judgement Day for if we go to heaven right when we die?

I want some bible verses.

I have learned people have to view on this and the Rapture.

If you name is in the book of the Lamb, do you go straight to heaven and are not at Judgement day or our we there with Jesus on Judgement day watching the un just?

Is it in the bible that we will just the Angels?

Answer 1

1...

Unlike the premillenial view which has 2.

2Pe 3:5 Long ago, God’s word brought the heavens into being. His word separated the earth from the waters. And the waters surrounded it. But those people forget things like that on purpose.
2Pe 3:6 The waters also flooded the world of that time. It was destroyed.
2Pe 3:7 By God’s word the heavens and earth of today are being reserved for fire. They are being kept for the day when God will judge. Then ungodly people will be destroyed.
2Pe 3:8 Dear friends, here is one thing you must not forget. With the Lord a day is like a thousand years. And a thousand years are like a day.
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slow to keep his promise. He is not slow in the way some people understand it. He is patient with you. He doesn’t want anyone to be destroyed. Instead, he wants all people to turn away from their sins.
2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar. Fire will destroy everything in them. God will judge the earth and everything in it.
2Pe 3:11 So everything will be destroyed. And what kind of people should you be? You should lead holy and godly lives.
2Pe 3:12 Live like that as you look forward to the day of God. It will make the day come more quickly. On that day fire will destroy the heavens. Its heat will melt everything in them.
2Pe 3:13 But we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth. Godliness will make its home there. All of this is in keeping with God’s promise.

Time is only a factor in the physical realm. The spirit realm has no need for time.

Answer 2

The bible says it is appointed for man once to die, and then the judgment.

Also, to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So yes, I believe a believer in Christ goes immediately into His presence at death.

In the bible Jesus speaks of a rich man who died and was in torment. That shows at least that people don't hang around in some sort of "limbo" until the final judgment.

There are two judgments: there is the white throne judgment, for all those who reject Jesus. There will be only one pronouncement for these people: lost.

There is the judgment seat of Christ, only for born again believers, who will receive rewards for what they have done in this life, in His name.

P.S. Yes the bible says that "we" (believers) will judge angels. I cannot fathom how...but that's what it says! With regard to "watching" other judgments (did you mean other people?), I don't know.

Answer 3

One judgment for each individual physical body you attain. The judgment is the life review of your current physical body in which you judge yourself. (http://www.near-death.com/storm.html , http://www.near-death.com/randolph.html , http://www.neardeath.com/experiences/evidence11.html)
Matthew 7:1-2 1Judge not, that you be not judged. 2For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
Than there is the second coming of Christ in which He affects us directly from the spirit world or is in the physical world but not an incarnation. When this happens, we may go all at once (the people living currently in this physical realm) or we may go as usual, one by one or few by few with old age, accidents, sickness, etc.

Matthew 24;23-25 23"Then if anyone say to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There!' do not believe it. 24"For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. 25"See, I have told you beforehand."

Answer 4

I actually made a deal with God to live forevor. Don't worry about death and heaven and hell.....You might have to haggle a little bit, but you can get a great deal like me!

Answer 5

Good question!

Please, you may start reading the following article: http://en.bibleinfo.com/topics/topic.html?id=159

There are two Judgments --one prior Jesus' second advent, and the second one after the millennium (after the one-thousand years in Heaven, Jesus returns a third time along with the saved to settle the New Jerusalem on earth. The wicked are resurrected and judged).

Then, are christians going to be judged too? If you got a Bible, please read Matthew 7:21-23; Hebrews 10:30; Romans 14:10; 1 Peter 4:17. If you read these bible verses, you saw that christians are going to be judged too.

"And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be" (Revelation 22:12). "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works" (Matthew 16:27). These bible texts also make it implicit that there's a judgment before Jesus' second coming. Think about it, when a person receives a reward for what he/she has done, isn't it always a previous judgment? Even on the earthly judgments, people are judged before a sentence is given --whether they're innocent or guilty. After all, everybody is judged before a sentence; that's what is just. If Jesus comes to reward everyone for what they deserve, then there must have been a judgment before that to determine the reward. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad" (2 Corinthians 5:10). This Bible verse also makes us assume that "there's an evaluation before the final punishment or the reward, so 'every one may receive the things done in his body'" (1). Also, read Daniel 12:1 and Revelation 20:12

Another question might rise up now: Doesn't God know everything? Why would He want to make a judgment if He already knows what everybody deserves? The Judgment is not for God to know who will be saved, but for the angels and the whole universe. God knows everything, the angels don't. The whole universe wants to know what kind of people are going to Heaven. Let's remember that sin started in Heaven through one angel (Lucifer), and if a sinner goes up there, Heaven would be at risk again. Everybody wants to make sure that the people who are going to Heaven have been transformed by the Holy Spirit, so sin shall not raise up again. Also, the Judgment is for us to know why we're saved or condemned.

There's another proof for a Judgment before Jesus' second coming. When we read Daniel 8, we see how the rise and fall of kingdoms as Medo Persia and Greece were foretold. Then, there's a power who rises after Greece and attacks the Sanctuary, and even stood up "against the Prince of princes" (verse 25). Well, in Daniel 8:13-14 we read: "Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed".

Daniel understood the vision because an angel explained it to him; but he didn't understand what these two verses meant (13 and 14) because nobody explained to him at that time (read verse 27). It wasn't until about 12 or 13 years later, that the angel Gabriel came back to explain the vision, which is written in Daniel 9:24-27. It explains that 70 weeks would be cut off from the prophecy of 2,300 days from Daniel 8:14 to determined for Israel as God's chosen people, and it would start on the day the commandment to restore Jersualem and the temple is given. This was on 457 b.C. The prophecy continues on "Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks" (verse 25). Seven weeks, that is 490 days. If we know that days in prophecy mean years (Ezekiel 4:6; Numbers 14:34), then these 490 days are actually 490 years. From the year Jerusalem was rebuilt (457 b.C.) to the Messiah there will be 483 years. Substract 457 from 483 (remember to eliminate the year "0"), and you'll get 27. This means that the Messiah would start His ministry on the year 27 a.C. History tells us that Jesus was baptized on 27 a.C. Up to know we have 69 weeks out the 70 weeks of the prophecy. If we add 7 years to 27, we'll get 34. But, in the middle of that last week (between those 7 years), "shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself". On the year 31 a.C., Jesus was crucified to save humanity. On the year 34 a.C., Esteban was stoned, and the Gospel is preached to the gentiles (non-Jews).

The 70 weeks prophecy was fulfilled perfectly, but let's remember that this 70 weeks (or 490 years) are sbstracted from 2,300 years. So we still have 1810 left to fulfilled the prophecy of the 2,300 days. If you add 1810 to 34 (the year the 70-week- prophecy ended), you'll get 1844. Daniel 8:14 says "then shall the sanctuary be cleansed", at the year 1844. How was the Sanctuary cleanse? Read Leviticus 16. What Sanctuary would be cleanse according to Daniel 8:14, if there was not Sanctuary on earth by the year of 1844? Let's remember that the last Temple building on earth was destroyed by the romans on 70 a.C. But, Hebrews 8 tells us that there's a Heavently Sanctuary "not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building" (Hebrews 9:11). The earthly Sanctuary was a copy of that original Sanctuary in Heaven. So it was the Heavenly Sanctuary which was going to be cleanse on 1844. When the earthly Sanctuary was purified once a year (see Leviticus 16), the judgment was focused on God's people (Israelites at that time). So it is when the Heavenly Sanctuary is purified. It's a time for judgment for God's people. Right now, we're being judged since 1844.

According to 1 Peter 4:17 --"For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?"-- why must judgment "begin at the house of God"? Because as 1 John 5:12 says: " He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life". And John 3:18 says, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God". The judgment begins with christians because they claim to believe in Jesus. The ones who do not believe in Christ are already condemned (of course, if they accept Jesus as their Saviour they pass from death to life). "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved" (John 3:17). "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent" (John 17:3). "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son" (1 John 5:11).

However, among christians "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven" (Matthew 7:21) And God's will is revealed in His Word. Faith without works is dead. We obey God because we love Him. "If ye love me, keep my commandments" (John 14:15). "By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous" (1 John 5:2-3). "And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him" (1 John 2:3-4).

You know everybody will be judged according to their works; and, because we are Law transgressors, we would be found guitly. However, that's why Jesus died: to pay man's penalty on behalf of all those who want to accept His sacrifice. When we accept Him as our Saviour, His righteousness substitutes our wickedness, and we're found as though we had never sinned. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16).

Read this article named "Rapture: What does the Bible teach about the secret rapture?": http://en.bibleinfo.com/questions/question.html?id=757

For the state of the death, "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 9:5-6).


May God bless you, my friend!