Even the Unsaved Will Praise God's Judgments
Between Revelation 5:11-14, Romans 14:10-12, and Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, it's clear that eventually everyone will be satisfied with God's judgments. Everyone will acknowledge the love of God and the righteousness of Christ - even those who don't receive salvation. How could that be?
God's judgments are true and righteous; basically, they are correct and when all the evidence brought forward in the judgment will be laid open before all, it will be indisputable.
What is God correct about? Well, among other things, His determination of whether someone is righteous or not.
But will the lost confess that God is just if they can see that God has judged according to a legal fiction? Will they be convinced that God's judgments are true if people who continued to sin in their actual lives were declared to be righteous by God simply because they accepted a legal action that is pretty much a copy and paste of Jesus' record to their file?
We encourage you to take your next opportunity to read all of 1 John. We think you'll see that the passages we've read from 1 John in this study mean just what they seem to mean - that God intends for us to have a righteousness that isn't a legal fiction, but that is a real, practical, lived-out righteousness.
Sabbath School Q2 2023: Three Cosmic Messages - Week 5, " The Good News of the Judgment "
A Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist perspective on the Sabbath School lesson.
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