Study 8: The Day of Judgement

(1) What Scriptural ground is there for belief in a Day of Judgment? Page 137, 1.

(2) What is the general view of the Day of Judgment? Page 137, par. 2.

(3) How long is the Day of Judgment generally supposed to be? Page 138, par. 1.

(4) What parable is used as the basis for these erroneous views, and how is it misapplied? Page 138, par. 2.

(5) What does the term judgment properly signify? Page 138, par. 3.

(6) How is the term day applied both in Scripture and in common usage? Page 138, par. 4.

(7) What does a consultation of any Bible Concordance reveal with respect to the character and amount of work to be done during the Day of Judgment? And what is the reasonable conclusion to be drawn therefrom? Page 139, par. 1.

(8) Do the Scriptures refer to more than one Judgment Day? Page 139, par. 2.

(9) Where and when did the first great judgment of the human race take place, and what was the verdict? Page 140, par. 1.

(10) What are the evidences that the divine penalty has been enforced? Page 140, par. 2, first 7 lines.

(11) Nevertheless, what gracious provision has God made for the condemned race? Page 140, par. 2, 8th to 22nd line.

(12) Does the fact that the church alone has “escaped the corruption that is in the world” signify that the rest of mankind will have no future hope of escape? Page 140, par. 2,   23rd line to end of par.

(13) Since the Scriptures declare that He “hath appointed a day” for the world’s judgment, does this signify that Jehovah has changed His mind? Page 141, par. 1.

(14) Who will be the Judge at the world’s individual trial? Page 142, par. 1.

(15) What does the character of the Judge guarantee for this judgment? Page 142, par. 2.

(16) What duties appertained to the office of a judge in Old Testament times, and how will Christ fulfill these in the world’s Judgment Day? Page 142, 3; page 143, par. 1.

(17) Upon what principles will the coming judgment be conducted?  Why will the  second trial be more favorable for mankind than the first? When the world has reached perfection, what will be required of all men? Page 143.

(18) What will be the experience of willful sinners? And how many years of trial are guaranteed to each individual? Page 144, par.

(19) What parable of our Lord’s and what other Scriptures describe the conclusion of the world’s Judgment Day? Page 144, par. 2.

(20) How does the coming trial affect each individual’s present responsibility? Pages 145, par. 1.

(21) How long a period intervenes between the first and second judgment days? And what has been the object of this interval? Page 145, par. 2.

(22) How are these two classes respectively designated by Paul? And will they come into judgment with the world? Page 145, par. 3.

(23) What was necessary before the members of these two classes could be placed on trial? Page 146, par. 1.

(24) Contrast the judgments of these special classes with the world’s Page 146, par. 2.

(25) How and by whom have the world and the nominal church been deceived respecting the true character of the future Judgment Day? Page 146, par. 3.

(26) How did the prophets and the apostles regard the promised Day of Judgment? Page 147, par. 1, 2.

(27) Explain how John 5:28, 29 has been mistranslated and Page 147, par. 3.

“I can see His coming judgments, as they circle all the earth,
The signs and groanings promised, to precede a second birth;
I read His righteous sentence, in the crumbling thrones of earth:
Our King is marching on.”