In this article I am going to be going over the topic of our Judge, Christ our Lord. I will give you a fare warning that there will be many examples of evidence before I get to showing you the verses where the Holy Scriptures give Christ the title of Judge. There might possibly be some passages I missed in showing you God is the Judge, but even then the fact there is so many verses that call the Judge God and I missed them shows how Christ is God the Judge of all nations.
36 For Jehovah will judge his people, And he will feel pity for his servants When he sees that their strength has waned, And that only helpless and weak remain.
27 I have not sinned against you, but you are wrong to attack me. Let Jehovah the Judge be judge today between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.'"
33 At the same time let the trees of the forest shout joyfully before Jehovah, For he is coming to judge the earth.
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, When He is the one who judges even the highest ones?
8 Jehovah will pass sentence on the peoples. Judge me, O Jehovah, according to my righteousness And according to my integrity.
11 God is a righteous Judge, and God proclaims his judgments every day.
4 For you defend my just cause; You sit on your throne judging with righteousness.
7 But Jehovah is enthroned forever; he has firmly established his throne for justice. 8 He will judge the inhabited earth in righteousness; He will render righteous legal decisions for the nations.
24 Judge me according to your righteousness, O Jehovah my God; Do not let them gloat over me.
4 He summons the heavens above and the earth, So as to judge his people: 5 "Gather to me loyal ones, Those making a covenant with me over sacrifice." 6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness, For God himself is Judge.
10 The righteous one will rejoice because he has seen the vengeance; His feet will be drenched with the blood of the wicked. 11 Then men will say: "Surely there is a reward for the righteous. There is indeed a God who judges in the earth.
7 For God is Judge. He puts one man down and exalts another.
8 Rise up, O God, and judge the earth, For all the nations belong to you.
1 O God of vengeance, Jehovah, O God of vengeance, shine forth! 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay to the haughty what they deserve.
13 Before Jehovah, for he is coming, He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the inhabited earth with righteousness And the peoples with his faithfulness.
17 So I said in my heart: "The true God will judge both the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every activity and every action."
13 The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard, is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole obligation of man. 14 For the true God will judge every deed, including every hidden thing, as to whether it is good or bad.
22 For Jehovah is our Judge, Jehovah is our King; He is the One who will save us.
22 There is One who dwells above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. He is stretching out the heavens like a fine gauze, And he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. 23 He reduces high officials to nothing And makes the judges of the earth an unreality.
Here is some New Testament passages before we get into the passages that point to Christ as the God who will judge.
5 But according to your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath and of the revealing of God's righteous judgment. 6 And he will pay back to each one according to his works:
6 By no means! How, otherwise, will God judge the world?
10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written: "'As surely as I live,' says Jehovah, 'to me every knee will bend, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God.'"
30 For we know the One who said: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again: "Jehovah will judge his people."
12 There is only who is the Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you, who are you to be judging your neighbor? 5 But these people will render an account to the one who is ready to judge those living and those dead. 14 Yes, the seventh one in line from Adam, Enoch, also prophesied about them when he said: “Look! Jehovah came with his holy myriads 15 to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly concerning all their ungodly deeds that they did in an ungodly way, and concerning all the shocking things that ungodly sinners spoke against him.” 11 And I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. From before him the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. The dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the Grave gave up the dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds.
From these many verses we can gather that God who is the Judge based on this Point system:Is the King
Is the Lawgiver
Has commandments
Sits on the throne
Dwells above the earth
Summons the heavens and stretches them out
Owns all nations
Has myriads of angels
Takes vengeance
Is Righteous
Is Feared
Is going to save His people
Has feet drenched in blood of the wicked
Coming to Judge the earth
Will Judge every righteous and unrighteous person based on every single deed
Will Judge the living and the dead
Will exalt some men and put other men down
Will make earthly governments nothing compared to Him
Will make every knee bow to Him
Will make every tongue acknowledge Himself
Now let's see what the Hebrew/Aramaic Scriptures says about Christ.
A twig will grow out of the stump of Jesse, And a sprout from his roots will bear fruit. 2 And the spirit of Jehovah will settle upon him, The spirit of wisdom and of understanding, The spirit of counsel and of mightiness, The spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And he will find delight in the fear of Jehovah. He will not judge by what appears to his eyes, Nor reprove simply according to what his ears hear. 5 Then a throne will be firmly established in loyal love. The one who sits on it in the tent of David will be faithful; He will judge fairly and will swiftly execute righteousness.”
So the sprout from Jesse will have the spirit of Jehovah upon him, He is going to judge but not by what His eyes and ears perceive. The only left would be the soul and conscience at that point. So the Messiah can read the thoughts and deeds of man. He also sits on a throne[Point 4] and is faithful and will judge fairly and will be righteous[Point 10].
Now let us see what the New Testament says about Christ.
21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”
Here the Angel told the Blessed Virgin Mary that she will name her son Jesus because He will save His people[Point 12]
27 For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will repay each one according to his behavior.
Christ says that He is going to be coming[Point 14] with His angels[Point 8] and He will repay each person according to their behavior[Point 15]
30 Then the sign of the Son of man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will beat themselves in grief, and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his chosen ones together from the four winds, from one extremity of the heavens to their other extremity.
Christ says that He will appear in heaven[Point 5] and all nations will fear Him[Point 11] and that He will come on the clouds of heaven[Point 14] and Christ re-iterates that He has angels[Point 8].
31 “When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit down on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will put the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left. 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right: ‘Come, you who have been blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the founding of the world.
Christ re-iterates that He is coming(Point 14) and all His angels will come with Him[Point 8] And He will sit on His throne[Point 4] All nations will come before Him[Point 7, 15, 16, 17]
22 For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son, 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because he is the Son of man. 34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. 42 Also, he ordered us to preach to the people and to give a thorough witness that this is the one decreed by God to be judge of the living and the dead.
Christ tells us here that The Father, who btw according to Jehovah witnesses is Jehovah God alone, gave all authority to Christ to Judge[Point 14] and we hear Christ give a new commandment[Point 2] Then we are told Christ will judge the living and the dead[Point 16].
9 For to this end Christ died and came to life again, so that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living. 10 But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you also look down on your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God. 11 For it is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says Jehovah, ‘to me every knee will bend, and every tongue will make open acknowledgment to God.’” Saint Paul tells us that Christ died then came to life and is LORD over the living and dead[Point 16] and all people will stand before the judgement seat of God[Point15, 16] Then Paul quotes Isaiah 45 but remember, the divine name was never present so Paul just said that the Lord who spoke back in Isaiah was Christ who he had just called Lord back in verse 9 and says every knee will bow and every tongue will acknowledge Christ[Point 19, 20].
10 so that in the name of Jesus every knee should bend—of those in heaven and those on earth and those under the ground— 11 and every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Again we are told that EVERY knee will bow to Christ, everyone in Heaven, earth and under the ground, and every tongue will confess Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Meaning that confessing Christ is Lord is praising Christ's deity, also praises the Father. [Point 19,20]
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his manifestation and his Kingdom:
Here Saint Paul says God and Christ Jesus, He is making the difference between the Father and Christ but He just called Christ, God by saying it is Christ who will judge the living and dead[Point 16] and said that Christ has a Kingdom[Point 1]
11 I saw heaven opened, and look! a white horse. And the one seated on it is called Faithful and True, and he judges and carries on war in righteousness. 12 His eyes are a fiery flame, and on his head are many diadems. He has a name written that no one knows but he himself, 13 and he is clothed with an outer garment stained with blood, and he is called by the name The Word of God. 14 Also, the armies in heaven were following him on white horses, and they were clothed in white, clean, fine linen. 15 And out of his mouth protrudes a sharp, long sword with which to strike the nations, and he will shepherd them with a rod of iron. Moreover, he treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. 16 On his outer garment, yes, on his thigh, he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.
Here Saint John is seeing the Revelations of the End Days and he sees Christ who is called faithful and true. He judges[Point 14] and wages war in righteousness[Point 10] He is clothed with garments dipped in blood because He treads the winepress of wrath[Point 9, 13] The armies of heaven followed Christ down(Point 8) and Christ is called KING of kings[Point 1]
11 And I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. From before him the earth and the heaven fled away, and no place was found for them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. The dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the Grave gave up the dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds. 14 And death and the Grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. 15 Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire.
So here John sees a throne and One seated on it[Point 4] All the dead stood before the throne and were judged by all their deeds before the scroll of Life[Point 16] Then anyone who was not in the scroll of Life was hurled into the lake of fire by this One who judges all by their deeds. Christ.
I hope you have enjoyed this article and have found it very informative and interesting to read.
"The LORD bless you
and keep you;
the LORD make His face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the LORD turn His face toward you
and give you peace." ☦
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