67. JUDGEMENT
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It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God (Heb.10:31).
1. God judges the whole World according to how they treat His children.
2. Who are we, as weak mortals, to question the judgements of an almighty God?
3. This is God's usual pattern: Revival, Reaping, Persecution, Escape, & Judgement!
4. Earthquakes express God's displeasure! The Lord lets the Devil loose to shake people up to get them praying & seeking Him!
5. When God gets to the point that He laughs at His enemies, they're pretty close to the end--their end--& those who have opposed God's children & work have always come to their end.
6. God calls the wicked His sword to afflict His Own people for their sins.
7. Whenever throughout history His people stopped listening & stopped preaching, God stopped talking & leading!
8. God does not like to talk to either deaf, unbelieving, or unheeding ears. So He just shuts up.
9. God's wheels of judgement grind exceeding slow, but they grind exceeding fine.
10. "Damned" doesn't necessarily mean you're going to Hell, it means you're going to be judged!--Punished!
11. God often delayed His judgements which He had predicted by the prophets until it looked like it wasn't going to happen & the prophet was made to look like a fool, so that the sheep would be divided from the goats, the believers from the scoffers.
12. The Lord can't really finish His job on the wicked until we've finished ours on the righteous!
13. We've been praying, "Stop, the World, we want to get off!" The Lord says, "Get off!--& I'll stop it!"
14. I believe in the justice of God as well as His love & mercy, & I don't think He lets anybody suffer more than they're able to bear or deserve.
15. God always judges His Own children more severely than He does the stupid idiotic dumb ignorant World, because His Own are the most enlightened, have had the most truth & the most Gospel & they are held the most responsible.
16. Lord, in a way You're really kind of waiting on us! So help us to do the job & get it done as soon as possible so You can wind things up.
17. Eight things there be a comet brings
When on high it doth horrid range:
Wind, famine, plague & death to kings,
War, earthquake, floods & direful change!
18. There is only one solution: The judgements of God upon the superpowers who are defiling, wasting, polluting & destroying the earth!
19. God moves kind of slowly, but He moves very thoroughly.
20. Watch out when God runs out of Words: He's about to swing a big stick!
21. The only time God ever really moves fast is in judgement! He gets fed up & then He cracks down & boom, He usually makes it fast & sudden!
22. I believe Russia & Communism are God's judgements on a wicked World!
23. God will judge you by your words! They are your message, your communication, the expression of your thoughts & conviction & will either save you or damn you, one or the other! (Mat.12:36,37)
24. There must be something wrong with the country that's not getting rain. That's a sign of the withdrawal of the blessing of God.--His judgements on the people.
25. God's judgements & justice are always totally righteous & absolutely justified & are given with the utmost perfection & always even tempered with mercy.
26. God is not only a God of love & mercy, kindness & patience & salvation, He's also a consuming fire! He's also a God of justice & destruction & doom for the wicked who do not repent.
27. He who laughs last, laughs best, & God will laugh last, when He heaps His Own judgements on this unrighteous, scornful & Christ-hating generation for their rejection of us & our message.
28. The Lord is shaking up the World through us now spiritually, & some day He is also going to do it literally!
29. God always punishes His Own children first, then He turns around & slaughters their enemies! He sends their enemies in on them to punish them, & then He turns around & punishes the enemies after His kids have had enough.
30. God can't give people the judgement they deserve until He gives them the warning they deserve, & you have the warning. If you don't give the warning, you're holding up history, because God has to postpone the judgement.
31. I don't believe in these theories of "natural disasters," that they're just caused by scientific means. They happen too often in just the right places at the right times to the right people. If thousands of people die, they must have been ripe for judgement or salvation somehow.
32. God usually deals more strictly with His Own children than He does with the World & the Godless, He deals more stringently with those that know better.
33. God deals more with the good people & the best people, the truly good people. He deals with them more strictly & chastises them more as His children than He does with the totally Godless anti-God wicked. They're not His sons, He doesn't even care for them. He doesn't have to destroy them, they destroy themselves.
34. When God allows some terrible disaster, He is either punishing the wicked or He's releasing & relieving the righteous out of this evil life, or both: To some as a punishment, to some as a reward, & it's a reward whether it's good or evil.
35. There comes a time when even good has to use force & violence against evil, & this is certainly clear throughout the Bible, because force & violence is almost the only thing that evil understands.
36. If worse comes to worst & there is no other way to stop your parents but for you to turn around & ask God to curse them so they'll stop bothering you, you'll have to do it.
37. Some of us must survive to be final witnesses to the wicked World in the days of some of its last judgements in the hopes that we may turn many to righteousness as they are stripped of their false security & the deceitfulness of riches & have nowhere to hide but in God! To these we shall be ministers of salvation, but to others we shall be ministers of damnation, only able to remind them why they are being judged & that we told them so & warned them of it long ago.
(See also No.120, 160, 162, 188, 269, 278, 280, 283, 295, 577, 610, 612, 613, 798, 801, 955, 959, 1191, 1192, 1193, 1194, 1195.)
38. 1SA.26:9b For who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord's anointed, and be guiltless?
39. PSA.7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.
40. JER.51:20,21 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider.
41. MAT.10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
42. JOH.3:18 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.
43. JOH.12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the World.
44. ACT.17:31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
45. 1CO.5:5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
46. HEB.9:27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
47. HEB.10:31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
48. REV.20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
(See also DEU.21:18-21; DEU.28:14-68; ISA.1:5-7.)
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