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Judgment Day

Sam: Lyn, I’ve been thinking. Have you been trying to tell me that everyone goes to heaven?

Lyn: I wish. The reality is that there also has to be a day of reckoning for the wicked. Do you really think that Joseph Stalin and a three-year-old toddler should both finish up in the same place? That would be unfair. And unjust. The Psalmist Asaph discovered this. ‘You have set them in slippery places,’ he said to God about the wicked, ‘and they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors’ (Psalm 73:18, 19).

Sam: Mm, I’ve never thought of it like before. 

Lyn: If you believe in justice, Sam, you have to see the big picture. In Western society today, we have this kind of saccharine belief that after death there is some nice place where everyone goes regardless.

Sam: Yes, I’ve seen that myself. Someone can be a drunk driver who has a serious accident at two o’clock in the morning, but at the funeral, he becomes a really good neighbor and a great family man. Someone else can be a rogue and a villain, but after they die, suddenly they become fine upstanding citizens. 

Lyn: Well, that’s putting it rather bluntly. But my point is that if there is no reckoning, then there is no justice, and that leaves us in a state of bleakness and despair. Because deep down we all know that there is a difference between good and bad, between wrong and right, and that it must be addressed. Our only hope is that there is a God who is both fair and just

Psalm 73:17-19, Habakkuk 2:6-20

What next? Which verse or verses really stand out to you from these passages?