BELIEVERS AT THE LAST JUDGMENT

As with any aspect of eschatology, we are not privy to all of the details and do not need to be. But, below are scriptures I found that appear to deal with the Last Judgment and believers' part in it. If you digest them all, they seem to give a consistent picture in which everyone, believers or not, will appear before the Judgment Throne. However, believers have no need to fear the final outcome of the trial, unlike unbelievers. There will be one type of trial scene that all will undergo, but the final verdict will be quite different for each group. However, even for the believers it may be an unpleasant experience to go through and some will escape, but only as through fire. Christian teachers will be subjected to more scrutiny at this time than other believers.

This understanding is at odds with the various dispensational teachings on the subject which posit up to seven separate “last” judgments. This doctrine arises mainly from a mistaken view of the Book of Revelation as a strictly chronological account of future events.

Matthew 12:36-37

Matthew 25 parables of judgment

John 5:24-29

Acts 17:31

Romans 2:5-16

Romans 5:9

Romans 14:10-12

Romans 20:11-15

I Corinthians 1:8

I Corinthians 5:5

II Corinthians 5:10

Philippians 1:10

Philippians 3:11-12

I Thessalonians 5:23

Hebrews 4:13

Hebrews 9:27-28

Hebrews 10:30

James 2:12

James 3:1

I Peter 4:17-18

I John 2:28

I John 4:17

Jude 14-15

Revelation 11:18