Posted on 04/18/2021 11:40:08 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools” (Proverbs 19:29).
Scorners are those that look down their noses at judgment, they scoff at it. Hell is a judgment that is prepared for a sinner, just as heaven is a place prepared for the believer. Sadly, Hell was prepared for the Devil and his angels, but by man’s own choice—they go to a place that was never intended for them. They reject God’s only provision for life, so He has no other choice but to remain eternally separated from them.
In Matthew 25, God has prepared a judgment for the nations that do wrong. God has prepared the Great White Throne as a place where the books will ultimately be opened, and the wicked will be found guilty. People do not grasp the fact that Hell is only the temporary abode of the damned. It is like a county jail where people are incarcerated while waiting for their day in court. The Great White Throne is their day in court, and when found guilty, just as the guilty prisoners are remanded to the penitentiary, the damned are cast into the Lake of Fire where they will be forever and ever.
God brought a watery judgment to the wicked of Noah’s day, and they all died in the universal flood. Then God brought a judgment to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah that scoffed at His standard of righteousness, and turned to homosexuality. God judged His own nation by turning them over first to Nebuchadnezzar, and then to Titus. He has another judgment planned for the nation in the seven-year “Time of Jacob’s Trouble” that is still future. “Judgments are prepared!” It is not “judgment” in the singular sense, but it is plural. There are more than one.
Scorners “shot out the lip” at Jesus Christ when He was being crucified. They made fun of Him. So, it is a true fact that they will go to Hell over the dead body of Jesus Christ Who did all that He could do to purchase their salvation. He told them that He was the Son of God, and in essence, He told them that they would regret the day that they rejected Him. He said that they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and a great than Jonah is here. He said that it would be worse in the day of judgment for them.
If you ever get an opportunity to read Josephus’ account of Titus’ invasion of Jerusalem, do it. Jerusalem was first invaded by Pompeii, Titus’ dad. Nero died in Rome and Pompeii was recalled to Rome to take over as Caesar. Before leaving, he gave the command of the army to his son, Titus. And Titus did the job. He besieged Jerusalem and leveled it. Judgment was brought upon a people that said, “We have no king but Caesar.”
“An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity”
“But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God” (Romans 2:5)
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