The Seven Judgments of God

By Linda T. Legg

The God of the Bible is a God of Love. But He is also a God of judgment. If this were not true, there would be no difference between right and wrong, good and bad.

He is also a God of sevens: seven days in a week, seven seals, seven vials, seven bowls, seven sevens in prophecy, and so on.

Many Christians believe that there is only one judgment, but Scripture speaks of seven judgments and each of these involves a distinct group and occurs at a different time.

This book explores each of those judgments, establishing as closely as possible a timeline for their occurrences, as well as a description of who is being judged and the criteria and consequences of that judgment. Scriptural references are provided throughout to support the author's description of each judgment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781642584622

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The Seven Judgments of God

Linda T. Legg

Copyright © 2018 by Linda T. Legg

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my pastor, Shannon Stepp, for her support, prayer and friendship after the death of my husband. This book would not have been possible without her reviews, advice, and encouragement.

Preface

The modern liberal thinker believes that he has the right to decide right and wrong, that no one else should be able to judge him for his actions. He should be free to do as he chooses without answering to any authority. Each individual has the right to decide good and bad for himself. Their attitude is, that if I want to take my pleasures with a pig, that is my business and no one should judge me for it.

These modern thinkers may believe that there is a God, but He is all loving and accepts every individual unconditionally in his love. Therefore, God cannot possibly be judgmental but must be all accepting.

This position leads us to a world where there is no right or wrong. Each individual chooses for himself. In this world, Auschwitz was just the result of some individuals with anger issues, but we shouldn’t judge them.

Christians believe that they were created in the image of God and that He is their ultimate authority. This was evidenced by the Ten Commandments, which became the foundation of our laws. God has certain expectations of the humanity, which He created. There is a definite right and wrong and we each will one day stand before our maker to be judged.

The Bible teaches that those individuals who do not believe in a judgment, nevertheless, will also one day stand before God.

Many Christians prefer to think of God as a Grandfatherly gentleman who winks at the antics of his children, amused at their misdeeds and tolerant of their misbehavior. Therefore, they need not concern themselves about God’s judgments. That stuff is just too heavy, and besides, their loving, doting, grandfatherly God would never bring His Judgment upon His children.

However, the Scripture plainly states that God is a righteous judge, who must judge the transgression of His law.

…Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of saints, to execute judgment… (Jude 1:14–15)

…he shall judge the world in righteousness. (Ps. 9:8)

…God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. (Eccles. 12:14)

…It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Heb. 9:27)

For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. (Acts 17:31)

Is God a God of Judgment? What do the Scriptures say?

The scriptures clearly teach that God is a god of justice. How could He demonstrate this attribute without judging the actions of all human beings? The very nature of God, His righteousness, demands that He bring all of His creation into Judgment.

Many Christians hold the popular belief that there will be one big, final judgment in which all humanity will stand before God to be judged for their deeds. But this is not what the Bible teaches. The Bible clearly enumerates seven distinct judgments to occur at various times and for various groups.

Some may be thinking, Why should we be concerned about these judgments? Surely, these judgments do not involve Christians. Didn’t God forgive my sins when I asked? Why would I be subjected to judgment?

Why Should Believers be Concerned About the Judgments?

God loves us and He wants us to know about the things He is going to do. He wants His people to be informed so that they will be better equipped to tell unbelievers about the events which will soon unfold.

Surely God will do nothing but he revealeth his secrets unto his servants, the prophets. (Amos 3:7)

God does not want His people to be ignorant. Rather, He wants us to study to show ourselves approved (2 Tim. 2:15). He wants us to know what He is going to do before He does it. Just as He informed Abraham of His intent to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He wants us to come to an understanding of the Judgments that will come in the days ahead, confident in our relationship with Him.

If you are informed about the seven judgments, then you will also have a good grasp of end-time events and the order in which they will occur. You will be a better witness to the unsaved, and better prepared to confront what God is about to do on this Earth as the end-times approach.

The purpose of this book is to explore what the Scripture teaches us about these seven judgments, determining for each one, who is being judged, when and where the judgment will take place, and the consequence of the judgment.

Why Do So Many Believe that God is Not a God of Judgment?

The modern thinker likes to believe that God is all loving and desires only good for the human species. It’s popular to think of the Bible as a book of Myths and to reduce God to a life force of some kind. Yet, the people who strip God of personality and think of Him as some sort of energy field, continue to pray to God. I would ask, how can an energy field or a ball of light understand and respond to human prayer? If God is as un-personal as electricity, how is it possible to relate to Him?

Is it not ridiculous to pray to a stone, or an idol, or an energy field? Yet, the popular view of God is an image created by Man. And the modern thinker who has abandoned the Bible as Myth has nothing on which to found his beliefs except theories (Myths) constructed by the human mind.

These same people may refuse to believe that God is a God of Judgment because they create an image of God which confines Him to a fluffy little box. God would never do that, they say. Or God can’t possibly do this. Or, Our God certainly would not ever consider doing the things associated with the judgmental wrath depicted of the God in the Bible. Our God is Good and kind and always loving, and God is thereby confined by what they think of Him. In effect, they have chipped away at God and created Him in their own image, and put Him inside a socially acceptable box, which is, I believe, the height of arrogance.

Likewise, if they do not understand something in the Scriptures, then they dismiss it as being untrue. This approach makes the Scriptures of God subject to the understanding of Man for validity. Those things which are improbable to occur in the natural realm are dismissed as myth. Jonah being swallowed by the whale is an example of this approach. The Modernists believe that this story is untrue, because it couldn’t possibly happen in reality. It doesn’t fit with their understanding of nature and its laws. Therefore, this story must be a myth and we cannot accept it as truth.

But our ways are not His ways, nor are our thoughts, His thoughts.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isa. 55:8–9)

In view of these teachings, how is it then that they can dismiss what they do not understand as being false? If I don’t understand something in the Bible, it means that I don’t understand it. I cannot conclude on the basis of my lack of understanding that the Scripture is false. I can only conclude that my understanding is limited.

Imagine a goldfish in a glass bowl, sitting on a pedestal. The fish will swim up to the side of its glass bowl and try to see what is beyond the bowl, to look into the room which contains the bowl. However, all that it can see is its own reflection in the side of the bowl. The fish is incapable of perceiving anything beyond the boundaries of the bowl. Based on the fish’s perceptions then, would it be valid to conclude that nothing exists beyond the bowl? Of course not! Nor is it valid to conclude that the story of Jonah and the whale is a myth simply because it is improbable according in our understanding of the natural world.

We are three-dimensional beings living in a multidimensional universe. We perceive three extensions in space. We see width, height, and depth. Three dimensions—that’s it. If you want to add time (which I define as simply motion through space), you have four dimensions. Whoopy! But the science guys have deduced that there are many more dimensions which we, in our limited condition, cannot perceive. How is it then, that so many are saying that there is no room in the Universe for God? We need to realize how limited we really are.

What Causes God to Judge?

Disobedience is one of the causes of God’s judgment. This is particularly true in regard to the Judgment of the Nation of Israel. God says in 2 Chronicles 7:19–22:

But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples.

And though this