IT was Thomas Carlyle who wrote: “What a sublime thought is that of a last judgment; a righting of all the wrongs of the ages.” And Solomon declared that God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil.
The believer in the Lord Jesus Christ need have no fear of that judgment day, for “There is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.” To these the Lord has promised they “shall not come into condemnation [or judgment],” for they have passed already out of death into life.
But the Christless may well dread that awful hour when all the wicked dead will stand before the Great White Throne to be judged according to their works. That judgment will be unbiased. It will be according to truth, Each case will be dealt with individually, and every one rewarded according to his deeds. Each will be dealt with in absolute righteousness. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”
“That day of wrath, that dreadful day
When heaven and earth shall pass away:
What power shall be the sinner’s stay?
How shall we meet that dreadful day?
Oh, on that day, that wrathful day,
When man to judgment wakes from clay,
Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner’s stay,
Though heaven and earth shall pass away.”
—Walter Scott.