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Last Judgment

At the end of the age, Christ returns to judge the living and the dead

Christians confess that at the close of history Christ will return to judge all humanity. Drawing on Jesus' parable of the sheep and the goats and the vision of the great white throne in Revelation, the creeds affirm that he will come to judge the living and the dead. This final reckoning gathers every person before Christ and brings God's justice and mercy to their ultimate completion.

How it traveled

  1. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. 2 Thessalonians
    Corinth · 67
    explains
  3. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
    explains
  4. Luke
    Rome · 84
    explains
  5. Acts
    Rome · 84
    explains
  6. Revelation
    Patmos · 100
    explains
  7. John
    Ephesus · 100
    explains
  8. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    · 220
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  9. The Instructions of Commodianus.
    · 220
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  10. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    · 303
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  11. Aphrahat: Select Demonstrations
    Mosul · 345
    explains
  12. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
    explains
  13. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  14. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  15. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  19. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  20. The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  21. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  22. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
    explains
  23. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  24. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  28. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
    explains
  29. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  30. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
    explains
  31. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  32. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  33. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  34. Heaven
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. The Final Judgment
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. Five Sermons. On Different Occasions
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. Seven Sermons. On Important Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. The great christian doctrine of original sin defended
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. The End of the Wicked Contemplated by the Righteous
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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Key passages(20)

THE GENERAL JUDGEMENT Thus I have shown how the success of Christ’s redemption has been accomplished during the continuance of the christian church under the means of grace. We have seen what great r

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3. Fearfulness will surprise them at the last judgment. “When Christ shall appear in the clouds of heaven, and the last trumpet shall sound, then will the hearts of wicked men be surprised with fearfu

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That there is a time coming when God will, in the most public and solemn manner, judge the whole world of mankind. The doctrine of a general judgment is not sufficiently discoverable by the light of

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4. When the day of judgment comes they shall rise to the resurrection of damnation.’ When that day comes, all mankind that have died from off the face of the earth shall arise; not only the righteous,

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The souls of the righteous shall descend from heaven together with Christ and his angels: 1 Thess. iv. 14. ?Them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” They also shall be re-united to the

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2 Corinthians · Paul the Apostle

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For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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But with respect to the saints, it shall be a joyful and most glorious sight to them: for this sight will at once deliver them from all fear of their enemies, who were before compassing them about, ju

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And then also the work of redemption will be finished in another respect, viz. that then the church shall all be gathered together. They all belonged to one society before, but yet were greatly separa

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Chapter 24.—Passages from the Psalms of David Which Predict the End of the World and the Last Judgment. There are many allusions to the last judgment in the Psalms, but for the most part only casual

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Chapter 4.—That Proofs of the Last Judgment Will Be Adduced, First from the New Testament, and Then from the Old. The proofs, then, of this last judgment of God which I propose to adduce shall be dra

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Chapter 30.—That in the Books of the Old Testament, Where It is Said that God Shall Judge the World, the Person of Christ is Not Explicitly Indicated, But It Plainly Appears from Some Passages in Whic

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Chapter 5.—The Passages in Which the Saviour Declares that There Shall Be a Divine Judgment in the End of the World. The Saviour Himself, while reproving the cities in which He had done great works,

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Chapter 21.—Utterances of the Prophet Isaiah Regarding the Resurrection of the Dead and the Retributive Judgment. The prophet Isaiah says, “The dead shall rise again, and all who were in the graves s

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Homilies on Second Corinthians · John Chrysostom

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That which is greater than all he has put last, for to be with Christ is better, than receiving an incorruptible [body.] But what he means is this: ‘He quencheth not our life that warreth against and

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Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John · Augustine of Hippo

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18. “All shall hear His voice, and shall come forth.” And where is judgment, if all shall hear and all shall come forth? It is as if all were confusion; I see no distinguishing. Certainly Thou hast re

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Chapter XVII.—The Flesh Will Be Associated with the Soul in Enduring the Penal Sentences of the Final Judgment. “Every uneducatedfinal judgment even on this account, because otherwise the soul would

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Revelation · John the Apostle

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I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were writte

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14. Speaking then of the future resurrection of the body, and not leaving us thus, He saith, “He hath given Him power to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man. Marvel not at this, for th

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5. Then must they appear before their Judge to give up their account. They will find no mountains or rocks to fall upon them, that can cover them, and hide them from the wrath of the Lamb; Many of the

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But how does the practice of the greater part of them consist with their profession, when they live in direct opposition to his commands; when they live as though there were no God that had the care a

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