All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name - King’s Heralds There’s a Great Day Coming - King’s Heralds

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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

There Is A Judgment

O hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall.

Bring forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord of all.

Ye chosen seed of Israel's race, Ye ransomed of the fall, ye ransomed of the fall, hail him who saves you by his grace, and crown him, crown him, Lord of all.

The service today is 1 that we hope will bring encouragement and strength to you and your family.

The Bible has a lot to say about Judgment Day, and my father, HMS Richards, now is presenting the subject, there is a judgment.

A certain lawyer had a caged starling in his office.

This bird had learned to answer when he was called.

1 morning, just as a boy named Charlie came into the office, the lawyer was called out for a few minutes.

When he came back, the door of the birdcage was open, the bird was gone.

"'But that bird is in the cage and I left.

Where is he gone?' Charlie repeated that he didn't know.

Possibly the door had come open and the bird just flew away.

Then the lawyer called, Starling, where are you?

Here I am, came the answer, and the voice came from the boy's pocket.

He had stolen the bird, hidden it in his pocket.

Then to hide his guilt, he had lied twice.

Now this voice from his pocket betrayed him and he could deny or evade no longer.

There was the Starling, a living witness to his theft and falsehood.

So it will be with the world guilty of sinners in God's judgment.

They have tried to hide their sins from God.

They have committed 1 sin to cover up another, told 1 lie to give semblance of truth to another.

Now they are before God's judgment bar, where every mouth will be stopped and they will be found guilty before God.

In Revelation 20, verse 4, we read that during the thousand years between the first and second resurrections, the righteous will sit upon thrones of judgment.

God will take His people with Him in this work of judgment.

Motives as well as deeds will be considered.

All will see that the judgment of God is just and right.

In Ecclesiastes 3.17 we are told that God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

But there is a third class brought to view.

First Corinthians 6.2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?

The answer is found in 2 New Testament texts.

The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

These are the fallen angels who were cast out from heaven with Satan.

They had been invested with great authority in God's government, but they were expelled from heaven because of sin.

The Apostle Peter speaks of them in 2 Peter 2.4.

God spared not the angels that sinned, cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment.

But before God's people can act as judges, they themselves must be judged.

They receive their reward at the resurrection of the righteous.

They must be judged before they receive their reward.

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead.

Notice, they are accounted or judged worthy before they are raised from the dead.

We might call this a judgment of investigation or the investigative judgment.

Note the language used, They are resurrected from the dead, literally, out from among the dead ones, showing that the wicked remain silent in the tomb after the resurrection of the righteous.

The wicked do not live again for a thousand years as we read in Revelation 20, verse 5.

Our Savior as Holy Mediator upon the Throne of Grace, pronounces us free from guilt and justifies all who repent and are converted.

Then He will declare, He that is unjust, let him be unjust still.

He which is filthy, let him be filthy still, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still.

And he that is holy, let him be holy still.

And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

This scripture shows clearly that the destiny of every 1 of us will be forever settled when Jesus comes.

The whole trend of events in the world today shows that a mighty change is imminent.

The signs of the times declare Christ's advent near.

When he comes, it will be too late for any of us to change our attitude toward God.

In view of the day in which we live, how can anyone neglect his great salvation?

In Time magazine, December 15, 1952, a report appeared of the teenage thief who snatched a purse from Mrs.

Gardner received an envelope by mail enclosing $9, 780 in an odd note which said, I never expected to get so much.

How will those people feel who have esteemed the things of this world as more important than Christ and the promised riches of God's heaven?

Someday they will come to the conclusion that, had they known the awful judgment facing them, they would not have made such a choice.

But worst of all, they will not be able to salve their conscience by mailing something back.

This investigative judgment is pictured, we believe, in Revelation 14, 6 and 7.

Here we read of a worldwide message that goes to the nations declaring that the hour of God's judgment has come.

This is not the day of judgment when the wicked are sentenced, but it is more like a grand jury of the universe.

Suppose 5 men have been accused of robbing a village bank.

Well, they're summoned before the grand jury.

This jury doesn't sentence them, it investigates them.

1 of the men proves that he was out of town the entire night of the robbery.

Another proves he was taking care of a sick man from sunset that night until sunrise the next morning.

The remaining 3 had been seen together and, on arrest, some of the stolen money was found on their persons.

These men are bound over to the district court for trial.

This illustrates the investigation of all those who are candidates for eternal life.

All have sinned and all are summoned to appear before the Heavenly Bar.

In the investigative judgment, the hour of God's judgment, those who have been received into the imputed righteousness of Christ by grace through faith, are pronounced free from guilt and are subject to the first resurrection or to translation at the second coming of the Lord.

The rest of the dead do not live again until a thousand years are completed.

Then they come up in the resurrection of judgment.

In the meantime, their cases have been considered by the Saints who sit on thrones of judgment in heaven above.

The records of men's lives are kept in the books of heaven.

We read in Revelation 20, verse 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.

Books is plural, at least 2, and another, the Book of Life.

Other Bible writers speak of these books of records.

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There Is A Judgment

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