Our paradise home; the earth made new and the restoration of all things . /THE JUDGM. XIV WE are informed (Rev. 20:4) that during the thousandyears the righteous sit upon thrones of j udgment; thatthey are to participate in the judgment. The generalbelief is that when the Day of Judgment shall arrive, all man-kind shall be summoned before the bar of God. and the Judgeshall consign the righteous to life unending, and the wicked toeternal condemnation. This can not be true, from the fact thatsuch a course on the part of our heavenly P^ather would not be ajudgment in fact, but simply a pronouncin
Our paradise home; the earth made new and the restoration of all things . /THE JUDGM. XIV WE are informed (Rev. 20:4) that during the thousandyears the righteous sit upon thrones of j udgment; thatthey are to participate in the judgment. The generalbelief is that when the Day of Judgment shall arrive, all man-kind shall be summoned before the bar of God. and the Judgeshall consign the righteous to life unending, and the wicked toeternal condemnation. This can not be true, from the fact thatsuch a course on the part of our heavenly P^ather would not be ajudgment in fact, but simply a pronouncing of sentence withoutinvestigation. In the judgment of the great day, not only willactions be considered and passed upon, but the motives thatprompted those actions will be investigated. The above conclusion is sustained by a declaration recordedin Eccl. 3 : 16, 17: And moreover, I saw under the sun the placeof judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of right-eousness, that iniquity was there. I said in mine heart, God shalljudge the righteous and the wicked: for there
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