What The Final Judgment Will Look Like...

What The Final Judgment Will Look Like…

There was this spiritual experience I believe God gave me, and it had a profound effect upon my soul. I want to tell you about this experience where the imagination of my mind was taken to the heavenly scene of the Great White Throne Judgment. But before I take you along with me to this heavenly scene, there’s some background information that needs to be preloaded into your brain for this explanation to work and for it to have its intended and maximal effect.

First, it may probably be necessary for you to have read the whole book from this point, as much of the foundational understanding for this view of the throne of God, is dependent upon believing and receiving the things that have been explained about Conditional Immortality, God’s character, and Biblical imagery. If you’ve just opened to this article here but haven’t read the rest of the book, go back and read everything from the beginning. Then come to this chapter. Below, we will also be entering into the book of Daniel for a little bit and it’s going to go really deep. But not to worry, you don’t need to track along perfectly for that. As long as you grasp the main concepts, you’re good, and you will have the necessary program information loaded into your mind.

Second, it’s important to understand that the book of Revelation is highly symbolic, and to believe that the lake of fire is symbolic too. So, when Revelation says that people are thrown into the lake of fire, it doesn’t necessarily mean that people are literally tossed or that there is literal fire. The book of Daniel is one of the keys to understanding this. I have explained one outlook on this previously relating to poetic justice, and allusions to King Nebuchadnezzar’s furnace of fire, and the ironic twist that God does with this background knowledge to bring judgment. But here, we will go over a Daniel 7 perspective and imagery a little differently with the additional help of other related Bible verses.

Daniel’s Heavenly Scene Synthesized

Let me take you on a journey through Daniel 7 and all the way up to the final battle of Gog and Magog. There is a story to be told here which is a progression of events and will also require our imaginative minds to see it happening. Also, make sure you have your Bible open to Daniel 7 so you can track with me.

In Daniel 7, there is a heavenly scene of the Ancient of Days sitting on His throne, and out from that throne came a river of fire. His throne was also ablaze with flames all around. Countless people and angels were around His throne, and as they were standing before Him, “the court sat, and the books were opened.” It says, that “the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.”

This is how the Father does judgement, and its eerily similar to the account we have in Revelation 20. Though in Daniel’s account it is a river of fire, while in Revelation’s account, it is a lake of fire. As I said before, it will be a lake at the end because the end destination of rivers are lakes. This is to communicate the finality of the judgement.

But notice what happens next, “As for the rest of the beasts, their dominion was taken away, but an extension of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time.”

This is the battle of Armageddon when the kings of the earth come up to war against God. Then at the end of that battle, the beast is destroyed and given over to the burning fire (Dan 7:11; Rev 19:20).

This is the fire of God’s presence that surrounds His throne and flows out from Him.

The dominion of the other beasts that was taken away, represents the kingdoms of the world that will lose the fight at the battle of Armageddon.

Their extension of life represents the Millenium, the thousand years spoken of in Revelation 20.

They won’t have dominion during this time because their power will be broken while Christ comes down to earth to reign on the throne of David for a thousand years (Ezek 37:24-27). At this time, Satan and all the demons will be bound so that they can no longer deceive anyone as Isaiah 24:21-22 indicates:

So it will happen in that day,
That the Lord will punish the host of heaven on high,
And the kings of the earth on earth.
22 They will be gathered together
Like prisoners in the dungeon,
And will be confined in prison;
And after many days they will be punished.

Then when the thousand years are complete, the Dragon, who is the devil, will come up out of the abyss where he was held prisoner, he and all his rebellious angels will come out of the abyss to make war with God again a second time for the final battle of Gog and Magog (Ezek 38). They will go out into all the earth to deceive the nations and convince them to fight against God.

They will be as numerous as the sand on the seashore and will surround God’s people, enveloping them like a cloud. But not a single soul of God’s people will die, because God’s presence will shake the entire earth with a great earthquake. He will strike the armies with a plague of madness to turn on each other and kill each other in war. God will judge them with pestilence, blood, and with a torrential rain of hailstones, fire, and brimstone (Ezek 38).

Revelation 20:9 describes it this way:

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them

Zephaniah 1:18 describes it this way:

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Back in Daniel 7:12, the “appointed period of time” for the kingdoms of the world is the extension of life for the beasts during the Millennial kingdom of Christ up until their appointment for death came when they lost the final battle of Gog and Magog against the Lord.

Then after that battle and the destruction of the armies, kings, and kingdoms of this world, and all the last rebels not loyal to God are all physically destroyed, then comes verse 13; a second vision that is after this appointed time.

The Son of Man comes upon the clouds of heaven, and He comes up before the Ancient of Days to receive all authority, dominion, and power, so that people from every nation, tribe, and language might serve Him forever. His kingdom and dominion will be everlasting and will never be destroyed or overcome.

An angel revealed to Daniel the interpretation of the vision that had many symbolic elements (Dan 7:15-28). I won’t go over all of them because that is beyond the scope of this study. But I do need to explain enough to carry on with the timeline and to properly understand the symbolic elements.

The time when the saints take possession of the kingdom in verse 22, is when the beast is destroyed and thrown into the fire at the battle of Armageddon. This has to be the interpretation because of the beast’s existence to make war against the saints and to overcome them. This is a continuing condition and reality “until” the court sits for judgment and the beast’s power is taken away, so that they are no longer overcome and the beast no longer wars against them. Since the beast, representing the kingdoms of this world, then goes out of the picture, the saints can take possession of the kingdom, unchallenged. This is referring to the Millennium where Satan and his demons are in prison so that they cannot deceive the nations during that time.

The fourth beast, which is both connected and also not connected to the ten horns, will be destroyed at Armageddon. That is, the ten horns with the little horn will be destroyed at that time. At this time:

The court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever. 27 Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.
(Daniel 7:26-27)

This begins the Millennium and correlates back to the saints taking possession of the kingdom in verse 22 because the beast with the little horn was judged by the heavenly court that sat for judgement against him. This also correlates back to verses 10-11 where the beast is slain and its body destroyed and given to the burning fire of God’s presence.

The interpretation we are given of what the symbolic fire of God’s presence does to the beast who is thrown into it, is what I just quoted, it means for the beast’s power to be taken away, destroyed, annihilated, forever! If that wasn’t clear enough language, verse 7 says “the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and given to the burning fire.”

Seems to me that the prophetic imagery of fire judgement in the Bible means to permanently bring something to an end. That is also implied in verse 12 of the other beasts who were only given an extension of life for an appointed period of time. Meaning, when that time us up, there is no more extension of life! They’re done! They’re finished! And that is exactly what the battle of Gog and Magog brings about when their extension of life comes to an end. They all die from natural/supernatural judgements like the earthquake, madness, hail, fire and brimstone (Ezek 38:21-22), of which, Revelation 20:9 describes the same event as fire coming down from heaven to devour them. In a similar way that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed, so also, they will be. Except, they will have more plagues.

(If you want to study more on the fire and brimstone theme as it relates here, then compare: Ezek 38:22; Rev 20:9; Gen 19:24; Jude 7, Deut 29:23; Lam 4:6; Isa 34:9-10).

So then, with all of this knowledge so far, what is Hell in Revelation 19:20?

And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.

Interpreting Scripture with Scripture, it means for their dominion/power to be taken away.

It means for the heavenly court to sit for judgment in the throne room of God to condemn the beast to death, to be slain, to bring an end to the life of the beast forever.

Daniel’s fire imagery of judgement means annihilation.

Which, if anyone interprets part of the beast as being the little horn, the Antichrist, then that would mean that this human ‘man of lawlessness’ will be annihilated too, which I also believe to be the case. He is, in fact, part of the beast, and he will be destroyed at the Second Coming of Christ, in which he will be slain, as 2 Thessalonians 2:8 says, “whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming” (cf. Dan 11:45).

We have also additionally established that the prophetic imagery of being ‘thrown into’ or ‘given’ over to the fire, means to be destroyed by the fire of God’s holy presence, as that is what will happen to the beast at Armageddon (Rev 19:20), which is also described in Daniel 7:9-11.

God’s presence is a “consuming fire” (Heb 12:29), which imagines back to Exodus 24:17 where “to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the mountain top,” and Deuteronomy 9:3,

Know therefore today that it is the Lord your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the Lord has spoken to you.

Isaiah says that “His tongue is like a consuming fire” (Isa 30:27).

Isaiah 30:33 continues to say that the Lord will fight against His enemies, the Assyrians at Topheth:

For Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

This is what Hell is! This is Gehenna, the valley of Hinnom (Jer 7:31-32; Mark 9:43-48). Gehenna is the Greek form of Hinnom. This is the place where people committed great rebellion against God in all their idolatry to other gods and idols. It’s where they sacrificed their children in the fire to Molech by burning them alive in the fire.

Do you see the irony here? The twist of fate? God pours out on them what they poured out on others. Their own sin comes back at them to fall on their own heads. It’s about receiving the punishment for their sin in equal measure. What they sow, they also reap. That is why God’s judgment is described in Revelation 19:20 as throwing the beast and the false prophet “alive” into the lake of fire. The “alive” is not about a continually ongoing state of consciousness—it’s about justice, which means equal payment. If they were cruel in causing the death of others, so also their death will be tormenting.

But just in case all of that is not clear enough… to describe the reality of what Hell is, Jeremiah 19:6 says, “behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.”

And what does “slaughter” mean? That should be obvious, shouldn’t it? The Lord continues speaking, “I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth” (v. 7). That’s what Revelation 19:17 talks about, right? It is “the great supper of God.”

This word that Jesus uses for Hell means “the valley of Slaughter.” So then what happens in that valley? It says, “And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh” (Rev 19:21).

The punishment of Hell means to die by God’s judgment.

Back to Isaiah 30:33. Read it again. Hell is a place where judgment happens, but it is not a physical or spiritual place of continued existence. Hell is described as “a pyre of fire.” It’s a kindling heap of wood.

And who is the kindling? The wicked.

What sets them ablaze? “The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.”

This is the sword which comes from the mouth of the Lord. And the fire which comes down to devour them (Rev 20:9). And where does that devouring happen? “on the broad plain” (Rev 20:9), which is a valley. You know, Hinnom, the Valley of Slaughter.

Are you beginning to see the picture now? And if you have doubts about if that really kills them, the Bible continues the imagery to say that the birds and beasts of the earth will eat and devour up all their flesh until there is nothing left. Then Ezekiel 39:12 tells us that, “For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.” They even do a search for every last bone so that they can bury it! This is the complete undoing of life that the word Hell is describing. This is what it means for the fire to not be quenched and for the worms to not die. The symbolic imagery is that every piece of flesh will be devoured by the worms. And what is left of the bones, the fire will turn to ash. There’s not a scrap of them left!

The Final Judgment is the complete undoing of life. Anyone who is thrown or yielded up to the fire of God’s presence and judgment, will be consumed. All the prophets agree. And the testimony stands true in the laws of nature as well—when you put something into the fire, it burns up.

And to conclude this progression of thought, Malachi 4:1-3 does it quite well,

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.” 2 “But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings; and you will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall. 3 You will tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord of hosts.

That is the prophetic imagery of what Hell means and what the lake of fire means.

However, the battle of Armageddon and the battle of Gog and Magog are not yet the end. After the final battle, there is a period of cleansing the earth. Then everyone who had died during the Millennium, and all the unrighteous who had died ages ago, will be brought up from their graves to be judged at the Great White Throne, to then die a second time (Rev 20:11-15; Jn 5:28-29; Dan 12:2; Acts 24:15; Mt 10:28).

Why is this necessary? Because they need to have a proper trial. They need to know why they are being judged and why they will pass away forever, and they must receive the proper punishment according to the deeds that they had done.

The Righteous Condemnation of God Through a Prophet

Before I share with you how I imagine the Final Judgment, we need to take one more tour through the Bible. This time, into the book of Jeremiah…

In Jeremiah chapter 5, God instructs Jeremiah to roam throughout the streets of Jerusalem to investigate and seek out just one person or anyone who acts justly and pursues faithfulness. If Jeremiah found someone with that description, then God would forgive Jerusalem of her sins and would not bring judgement to her gates. Jeremiah came across many people with hard hearts who “felt no pain” in God’s discipline. Though God had crushed them, their faces were as stern and emotionless as rocks as they continued in their rebellion. Jeremiah then thought that these people that he spoke to were just poor people who are foolish and ignorant and so that’s why they don’t understand the way of the Lord and the justice of their God. So Jeremiah went to the powerful people in society and spoke to them, surely they were well educated and informed about the ways of the Lord. But even they had thrown off God’s yoke and broken their connection (chain) to God. So since Jeremiah couldn’t find one righteous person in the city, God’s judgement would come to Jerusalem. Israel and Judah were not faithful to God. Though God had abundantly blessed them with all things, they took the blessings for granted, became complacent, pursued all their pleasures, and trusted in their own wealth and fortified walls to protect them. So God declared judgement on them that the sword would come to destroy their fortified cities in which they trust (5:17). Because the false prophets had spoken lies, God said to Jeremiah “I am going to make my words become fire in your mouth. These people are the wood, and the fire will consume them” (5:14).

In this, God was alluding to the physical judgements of famine, sword, and plagues that He would bring to Israel as well as the words themselves which were a declaration of that judgement that was sure to come. The prophetic words of condemnation from Jeremiah’s mouth brought about God’s fire that consumed the rebellious house of Israel.

The words of fire when spoken from a true prophet filled with God’s breathe, will have a deep penetrating power to thrust through the soul of those who listen.

The words of fire are a purging fire—a refiner’s fire to those who let the fire refine them. The fire is a light to expose sin, and a sword to pierce through the heart and convict. The greater the light of the fire and the darker the heart has become, the more painful the experience of that cleansing fire will be. The prophet Isaiah knew the feeling quite well when his eyes beheld the light of God’s glory, and when the burning coal touched his unclean lips (Isa 6:5). Here is a loose paraphrase of what he said, “Woe is me, for my eyes have beheld the beauty of God’s presence. I am ruined and undone. My heart and body have become unraveled before the presence of the Lord! God’s holy love is so much more beautiful than I had thought of Him. I am a prophet that speaks the very words of God to His people, but in comparison to His perfect love and goodness, my mouth is filthy, and I fall so far short of His beauty.” This is the refining fire of God’s presence, and it has the power for the heart to become undone by the weight of sin and God’s glory.

However, some people have hardened their hearts so deeply in their rebellion against God that the words that comes from a prophet’s mouth like Jeremiah do not become a refiner’s fire; but rather, a consuming fire. In the severest cases of rebellion, the heart becomes hardened beyond remedy. What happens then is a consuming fire of judgement that will undo them completely. The sword will thrust through and they will drop dead.

Here is how Jeremiah describes those who refused the words of fire coming from his mouth:

Jeremiah 6:10 (NLT)

To whom can I give warning?
Who will listen when I speak?
Their ears are closed,
and they cannot hear.
They scorn the word of the Lord.
They don’t want to listen at all.

Despite the constant warnings from God through the mouth of Jeremiah, Israel would not listen. God then asks Jeremiah to be an assayer—a tester and refiner of metals, to see if there is anyone left who can be purified and refined.

Jeremiah 7:27-30 (CSB)

I have appointed you to be an assayer among my people—
a refiner—
so you may know and assay their way of life.
28 All are stubborn rebels
spreading slander.
They are bronze and iron;
all of them are corrupt.
29 The bellows blow,
blasting the lead with fire.
The refining is completely in vain;
the evil ones are not separated out.
30 They are called rejected silver,
for the Lord has rejected them.

At this point, God’s assessment of Israel’s condition had proven true. They did not want to listen. They did not want to repent. They hardened their own hearts in rebellion despite the warnings of coming judgement, and despite all the time God had given them. They had obstinately chosen their path of destruction so that God could say, “they are rejected silver—precious metal that can no longer be refined.” They had strayed too far from God to come back. Yet despite this, God was still gracious and continued giving warning after warning and motivation after motivation for His people to return to Him for any single person that might listen. How insane could their self-hardened state of sin be that not even the perfect words of knowledge and wisdom that God gave Jeremiah to speak could lead Israel back to Him?

If back in Jeremiah’s day, people didn’t even listen to the prophets who spoke directly from God, then we shouldn’t be discouraged in our day when we preach the gospel and people don’t listen. Words of fire do not always move people to action.

But here Israel was at this point where God called them “rejected silver” because the Lord had rejected them. The reason for their rejection was that they could not be refined anymore. They could not be refined because they resisted the refining fire. They resisted the sufferings that were supposed to turn them to the Lord and they resisted the prophetic words of fire through Jeremiah that came from the Lord. Therefore, instead of the fire refining them, it consumed them. The Lord speaks through Ezekiel about Israel’s condition by using a parable about a boiling pot. As you read this, imagine it in your mind step by step as if it is playing like a video:

Ezekiel 24:9-14 (CSB)

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

Woe to the city of bloodshed!
I myself will make the pile of kindling large.
10 Pile on the logs and kindle the fire!
Cook the meat well
and mix in the spices!
Let the bones be burned!
11 Set the empty pot on its coals
so that it becomes hot and its copper glows.
Then its impurity will melt inside it;
its corrosion will be consumed.
12 It has frustrated every effort;
its thick corrosion will not come off.
Into the fire with its corrosion!
13 Because of the depravity of your uncleanness—
since I tried to purify you,
but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—
you will not be pure again
until I have satisfied my wrath on you.
14 I, the Lord, have spoken.
It is coming, and I will do it!
I will not refrain, I will not show pity,
and I will not relent.
I will judge you
according to your ways and deeds.

This is the declaration of the Lord God.’”

This is a sad day for Jerusalem and for all of Israel. The time has finally arrived after all the years that this event has been prophesied. Judgement is here. Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem. God gives a parable about a boiling pot. Inside the pot is the choicest meats which represent Jerusalem and all who live in it. The boiling pot is God’s purging and refining. The intention was to make a delicious stew once it was thoroughly cooked but it never came out. There was corrosion in it. Blood and human bone were in there and ruined the whole dish. This was representative of all their sin. So then the fire was kindled larger and everything became thoroughly cooked. But no matter how much God tried to dress it up to fix it, it still would not come out and it was still unclean. So then, what do you do next? Let everything be burned within the pot and melt away! Maybe then all the impurities will be expelled. But no. Even with the pot glowing red from the flames, the corruption remained. And then God explains to this rebellious people, “Into the fire with its corrosion! Because of the depravity of your uncleanness—since I tried to purify you, but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—you will not be pure again until I have satisfied my wrath on you” (v. 12-13). God had to cleanse away all of the impurity of sin within Israel by using Babylon to purge away all their evil corruption so that all of Israel would not be lost to their evildoing. Only a remnant came out of this fire of purging. The rest were consumed in death. God had turned up the heat of this fire of purging but many were burned in the fire and were consumed through death.

For those who resisted the fire, they will ultimately perish through fire. For those who resisted the sufferings meant to bring them to repentance and those who resisted the words of fire spoken through the prophets, they will ultimately not escape the final judgement.

The Final Judgement may also be a judgement of fire that comes through the mouth of Jesus. We are told in the book of Revelation that out of the mouth of Jesus comes “a sharp two-edged sword” (1:16). What could this sword be except judgement by fire? What could condemnation be except the words spoken to condemn from the sword of fire? This Jesus who is the greater Prophet and the Greater Jeremiah, will speak out of His mouth words of fire and words that are as a hammer to smash rock and words that pierce through to divide both soul and spirit (Heb 4:12). In Jeremiah 23:29, God says, “Is not My word like fire? … and like a hammer which shatters a rock?”

It is with the word of the mouth that Jesus is said to make war against His enemies (Rev 2:16). Revelation 19:15 says, “From His mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it He may strike down the nations, and He will rule them with a rod of iron; and He treads the wine press of the fierce wrath of God, the Almighty.” And Revelation 19:21 says, “And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.”

For those who repent, it will be a sword to convict, purge, and transform them but to those who resist, the fire will consume and turn God’s enemies into ashes under the feet of the righteous. This will happen in the eschatological age on earth but what about at the final judgement where the souls of those who died will be judged from the throne of God?

I imagine that this scenario could be a possibility, and I am about to present that below. What I am suggesting is that the Final Judgement is not about people literally being thrown into a literal lake of fire. A thorough understanding of the symbolism of Revelation excludes that possibility. So then the next question we need to ask ourselves is that if it is not a literal lake of fire, then what does this final judgement actually look like? How do we image it? How might people receive punishment and how are they annihilated?

What I Think the Final Judgment Will Look like…

Not one will at last escape the fire that comes from the mouth. When those who are in Hades and in the grave become resurrected from the dead to face God on judgement day, they will stand trial by the Judge of all the earth, and books will be opened. The record of all their evil deeds are in those books, and they will be pronounced guilty in accordance to what they have done as they also give an account of their deeds and God speaks to them, informing them of their just sentence. And another book will be opened, the Lamb’s book of Life; but their name will not found there because they did not have faith in Jesus—they did not receive white robes that had been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they did not have the legal right to inherit immortality.

When God condemns them of their just sentence, the unrighteous will hear the words coming from the mouth of God as a double-edged sword and that sword of fire will cut them to pieces, and they will feel as utterly naked and become utterly undone from the words of fire from the mouth of the Lord.

Their bodies will drop dead from the heaviness of the words of fire in which their body and soul cannot stand in the presence of God Almighty. They will become overwhelmed and will combust from the inside out as their stony hearts shatter within them.

When believers are convicted from the Holy Spirit, it is painful enough as it is when God reveals to us just one thing that we have done wrong and need to get right with God over. But can you imagine how it will be like for those who don’t believe God when they face Him at the final judgement? Imagine a hundred or a million cuts all at once with no relief and no restraint. That fire will be hell. No one will be able to stand in that fire. Every knee will bow…

What is this fire? It is the fire of God’s perfect love, and every person will be faced with it and informed of all the evil deeds they have ever done and they shall be informed of and will see the goodness of God throughout all of it. When you lived your life on earth and encountered many difficulties and suffering, it wasn’t God’s fault. God was never the evil one. He was never the cause of your pain. He had been compassionate and good to you this whole time but you rejected Him. You misperceived Him as malevolent but He never did you wrong. And so you blamed Him, shook your fist at Him, and hardened your heart.

But when that day of judgement comes, that recognition of how wrong you were will hit you like a ton of bricks. The weight of God’s holy presence of love and light falling down on you will be too much to bear. The recognition of your fault and just condemnation will overwhelm you and everyone else who will be justly condemned. They will all be in agreement with their sentence. The darkness within you will be utterly exposed and you will be laid bare before the intense heat of God’s presence, and that feeling will be so intense and overwhelming that you will cease to be.

The darkness and corruption which they were, will be annihilated, since for their whole lives, they resisted God and they never repented from their evil deeds.

The holy love of God which are as rays of sun with no atmosphere to protect them, they will become totally undone and scorched by the intense heat of God’s love which is His holiness and very presence because light expels all darkness. Since their hearts will be closed and shielded off from this light from entering in, and the light is stronger than their hearts, it will break through the barrier and their entire being will be torn to pieces.

At the final judgement, I believe God’s wrath and justice will display itself as
(1) retributive justice, since the fire of judgement will come out from God’s mouth,
(2) consequential justice, since all darkness will be expelled by the light, and
(3) governmental justice, since no sin will be allowed into heaven in order to keep heaven pure and for God’s kingdom to reign forever and ever.

You may be wondering, how on earth did I come up with this conclusion about the sword of fire? Well, I had a vision or strong imagination when I was in a heightened spiritual state of the mind and what I saw was that there was fire coming out of God’s mouth as people were being judged and they were overwhelmed and undone by the great holiness of God’s fiery love. They sensed a great burning within their being of the conviction of their sin being too much for them to handle and the purity of God’s love being too good for them to take and as a result, they died from this.

Then I saw other people who did not die from fire but they died from wind. That is, some people were chosen by God to be consumed by the fire blowing out of God’s mouth, but others were chosen to be judged by God inhaling through His mouth, which sucked the life out of them. But the inhaling was not just sucking the life out of them, it was a removing of God’s love, peace, and joy so that the experience these individuals had was total dread and horror and torment. It was like a panic attack but so much worse because without God’s sustaining peace, there is a hell of torment within us left to ourselves.

Depending on people’s deeds and how they had treated others in this life, some experienced this torment for longer and some for shorter, whatever God’s standard of justice measured out deemed to be right. And then there were other people who, since God was so good and so merciful, and so pure of love—that their death was instant—and they did not suffer at all. This measure of justice and mercy may have been granted to those who had severely battled with emotional and mental illness on the earth and God took pity on them but yet because they had not believed Him within their lifetime and were morally aware enough to do so, they weren’t granted eternal life either.

At the Great Throne Judgement, the Father and the Son were judging together. The Father judged with fire and the Son judged with wind. Being the Prince of Peace who brought peace to the world, He was the perfect Judge to determine who was not worthy of peace. Through inhaling back their life-force/spirit into His mouth from the God who had originally given it to them, He took away peace to those who were not worthy of His peace because of their evil in taking away peace from others.

Both the Father and the Prince of Peace were both in agreement with each other and wholly entrusted themselves to one another in the measure in which they judged. The Father judged out of His infinite knowledge and wisdom from the heavens of eternity and through His knowledge of the law, and the Son of David judged out of His experiential knowledge and wisdom from the earth and the life that He had lived there.

The Father represented the scale of retributive justice

And the Son of David represented the other side of the scale which was mercy

With both justice and mercy…

their judgement together was wholly just and right

The scale of justice was perfectly balanced, and in this way, they judged the earth…

When I saw this vision and believed it and replayed the vision in my head for several days, God’s love was painful to me and I was continually overwhelmed by His holiness as I let the light of His love and goodness into my heart to cleanse me. Those were the things that I saw.

Test all things by the Word and by the Spirit.