1. Is "Eternal Judgment" one of the six foundational doctrines of the New Testament Church? (Hebrews 6:1-2.)

Note: "eternal" means: "having infinite duration, everlasting, of or relating to eternity, continued without intermission, perpetual." It is hard for the human mind to conceive of anything without a beginning and without an end. We can consider eternity, but cannot comprehend it.

"Judgment" means: "a formal utterance of an authoritative opinion, a formal decision given by a court, an obligation (as a debt) created by the decree of a court, a divine sentence or decision; specifically: a calamity held to be sent by God."

2. Where does judgment begin? (1 Peter 4:17, 2 Corinthians 6:2.)

Note: The "house of God" is referring to converted Christians in the Church. God is now judging every believer who has been called at this time. (John 6:44, 65.) God's judgment of each individual begins when God opens his or her mind to understand God's way of life. With His love, grace and mercy, God gives each one who yields to His Holy Spirit the strength and the power to grow in love, faith and grace and to overcome human nature, the world and Satan the devil. God the Father holds each believer personally responsible to grow in the knowledge of His Word and in the spiritual stature and fullness of His Son Jesus Christ. As the believer loves God with all the heart and is living in faithful obedience to His Word, he or she has the righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to him or her as the gift of God. The believer is then judged as wholly righteous and blameless before God the Father. All who remain in this imputed righteousness of faith will be in the first resurrection and will receive eternal life at the return of Jesus Christ.

3. Will we stand before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ? (Romans 14:10-12.) Will even our secret thoughts be judged? (Romans 2:16, 1 Samuel 16:7.)

4. Will Jesus judge the nations? (Micah 4:1-4.) Will Jesus judge the living and the dead? (Acts 10:42.) Will Jesus judge the world in righteousness? (Acts 17:31.)

5. If we sin willfully should we be fearful in the expectation of judgment? (Hebrews 10:26-27.) Do we need to obey the "gospel of God?" (1 Peter 4:17.) Will Jesus reward us according to our works? (Matthew 16:27.) Will Jesus give a "crown of righteousness" to those who love His appearing? (2 Timothy 4:8.) When Jesus appears at the last trump will the saints be resurrected and meet Him in the clouds? (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.) At this first resurrection will the saints be changed in a twinkling of an eye to possess immortality and eternal life? (1 Corinthians 15:50-53, John 3:16.) Is this eternal life a gift from God? ( Romans 6:23.) Will the saints reign with Jesus Christ for a thousand years on this earth? (Revelation 20:5-6, 5:10.)

6. Is this the first resurrection? (Rev. 20:5-6.)

Note: Verses 5 and 6 says that this is a first resurrection, which indicates that there is other resurrections. In this same passage it says that "the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished."

Those individuals through the ages who have had no opportunity for salvation during their lifetime will be restored to physical life in the second resurrection, which will take place after the 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ and the saints. Everyone who is raised in the second resurrection will have the same opportunity for salvation as those who were in the first resurrection. Each one will be taught the way of salvation and will have the opportunity to repent and to accept the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the remission of his or her sins. Each will be granted the same period of time to choose God's way of salvation. This period, called the Great White Throne Judgment, will apparently last for 100 years. During this time, all who learn to live in accordance with God's will, growing in grace and in the knowledge and character of Jesus Christ, will receive eternal life. By the end of this period of judgment, all those who have chosen salvation will have entered into the kingdom of God as spirit sons of God. At that time, all who have rejected their opportunity for salvation will be sentenced to the second death--their eternal judgment. All the incorrigible wicked from past ages who have committed the unpardonable sin, and have willfully rejected the salvation of God, will be resurrected to physical life to join the living wicked in receiving the sentence of the second death as their eternal judgment. God will destroy all the incorrigible wicked at the same time in the lake of fire. This is the second death, from which there is no resurrection.

7. Is the period of the great white throne a time of judgment? (Revelation 20:11-14.) Are these dead people standing before God? (Verse 12.) Are the books opened and the dead judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books? (Verse 12.)

Note: These books that are opened are the sixty six books of the Bible, the same books of the Bible that the saints in the Church today are being judged from. (1 Peter 4:17.) Also notice in Verse 12 that the Book of Life was open. Why? So more names could be added and those in this second resurrection could attain immorality and eternal life. Notice in Verses 12 and 13 that the dead are judged according to their works.

Notice in Verse 14 that it mentions the second death from which there is no resurrection.

8. Does the second death have any power over a saint who overcomes? (Revelation 2:11, 20:6) Who will have their part in the second death which is the lake of fire? (Revelation 21:8)

In Conclusion: Eternal judgment is a formal decision made by your creator God when He informs you of His decision of what, where, and how you will be spending eternity whether you will be granted eternal life or eternal death.

The choice will be yours in you choosing your eternal judgment.

Scriptures

2.) (1 Peter 4:17 NKJV) For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

(2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV) For He says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, And in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

3.) (Romans 14:10-12 NKJV) But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you show contempt for your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. {11} For it is written: "As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God." {12} So then each of us shall give account of himself to God.

(Romans 2:16 NKJV) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.

(1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV) But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."

4.) (Micah 4:1-4 NKJV) Now it shall come to pass in the latter days That the mountain of the Lord's house Shall be established on the top of the mountains, And shall be exalted above the hills; And peoples shall flow to it. {2} Many nations shall come and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, And we shall walk in His paths." For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. {3} He shall judge between many peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war any more. {4} But everyone shall sit under his vine and under his fig tree, And no one shall make them afraid; For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

(Acts 10:42 NKJV) "And He commanded us to preach to the people, and to testify that it is He who was ordained by God to be Judge of the living and the dead.

(Acts 17:31 NKJV) "because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead."

5.) (Hebrews 10:26-27 NKJV) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, {27} but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

(1 Peter 4:17 NKJV) For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?

(Matthew 16:27 NKJV) "For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

(2 Timothy 4:8 NKJV) Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

(1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 NKJV) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. {17} Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

(1 Corinthians 15:50-53 NKJV) Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. {51} Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; {52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. {53} For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

(John 3:16 NKJV) "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

(Romans 6:23 NKJV) For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

(Revelation 20:5-6 NKJV) But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. {6} Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

(Revelation 5:10 NKJV) And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."

6.) (Revelation 20:5-6 NKJV) But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. {6} Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

7. (Revelation 20:11-14 NKJV) Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. {12} And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. {13} The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. {14} Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

8. (Revelation 2:11 NKJV) "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death."'

(Revelation 20:6 NKJV) Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

(Revelation 20:14 NKJV) Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

(Revelation 21:8 NKJV) "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."