◄ What Does Revelation 20:11 Mean? ►

From beginning to end, the Bible gives clear, systematic teaching that man is a sinner and under the eternal wrath of God. But God in His grace formulated a perfect plan of redemption for all mankind by sending His only begotten Son to become a Man, so that His perfect life and sacrificial death would satisfy God's righteous anger against all sin, including my sin and including yours.

Only those who believe on His death, burial, and Resurrection for the remission of sins are exempt from God's wrath. Only those who are saved by grace through faith in His sacrificial death and glorious Resurrection are no longer under God's condemnation. For Christ received the full force of God's anger against sin on our behalf at Calvary; He was punished in our place, and in Him our redemption price was paid in full at Calvary. This is the clear systematic message of salvation in the Word of God.

Those who believe on Him are not condemned and have already passed from death to life, but those that do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed on God's only begotten Son, and will one day stand before the Great White Throne of judgement, which is seen in Revelation 20. They will bow before the awesome splendour of Jesus Christ the Son of God and Son of Man Whose presence and majesty will cause the earth and heaven to flee away.

All judgement of the saved and unsaved has been placed by God into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, and at the end of His millennial rule on earth this Great White Throne of judgement will be set up in the midst of heaven and Christ will pass judgement on the unsaved of all ages. Those that rejected God in this life, will have to face Him after death. They will all stand before the Great White Throne of God. How terrible to fall into the hands of a just and righteous God without having received salvation by grace through faith in His Son, Whose sacrificial death paid the price for our sins.

It is not believers who will stand before this Great White Throne of judgement. Their sin was judged at the Cross of Christ. However, the good works which they carried out in life will be judged at the Bema judgement seat of Christ, where rewards for righteous works that were done to the praise and glory of God will be given and where works of the flesh will be burned up as wood, hay and stubble.

Only the lost, the unbeliever, the unsaved will stand before the Great White Throne. Only the unregenerate; those that rejected His free offer of salvation and remain under God's wrath, will stand before this awesome White Throne in judgement, when heaven and earth will flee from His presence leaving the condemned sinner nowhere to hide. And all will be judged according to that which is written in the books: "And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books...Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire."

Let us share the good news of the glorious gospel of grace to a lost and dying world while there is still time, so that by God's grace some may be plucked from the gaping jaws of eternal separation from God which is the recompense of all the unsaved who are judged and condemned at the Great White Throne, because they have not believed in the only begotten Son of God.

Heavenly Father, Your goodness and grace toward the children of men is staggering, for we have all sinned and should all receive the wages of our sin, which is death. And yet by grace, Christ died for the sins of the whole world and took the punishment on our account. And anyone who trusts in Him will receive the gift of God which is eternal life. Thank You that by grace, I will not be standing before the Great White Judgement Throne of God. I pray for many more to come to a knowledge of the truth and a saving faith in Christ. In Jesus' name, AMEN.