3835 - Destroyed Without Judgment by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 20, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 32.

3835 — Destroyed Without Judgment

By Editor

Please explain Obadiah 16. Do the heathen pass into eternity without a day of judgment? W. B. R.

We must understand this text in connection with others which declare the day of judgment for all. "We shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ," we read in Rom. 14:10. And the same truth is expressed in John 5, that all shall come forth to the resurrection of judgment, or the resurrection of life. The prophecy in Obadiah is a prophecy of the nations. "For as ye have drunk" — that is, Edom — "upon My holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually. Yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as tho they had not been." When our Lord comes the first time it will be the destruction of the nations of earth, and when He comes at the end of the thousand years it will be the destruction of all those who have identified themselves with sin as individuals.

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