@ekename,
Quote:In Christianity, the Great White Throne Judgment is the time when the dead people that did not live during the 1,000 years that Satan was inside the bottomless pit come back to life and are judged by God according to their works using the 66 books of the Bible.
All good up to the part where the 66 books of the Bible are used as the standard of judgement.
My reading of it says only two books are used. Not sure which order would be used but I’d guess it would go something like this.
Are you in the Book of Life? If not, let’s open the Book of Works.
At this point I would assume that God would not need the Bible in order to render a proper and just judgement. That book was primarily for us, not him. There is no more use for it at this point.
What is interesting is that thousand years. As the Bible says, all the ones written in the book of life were raised before the thousand years. The ones raised after were not in that book. My guess is the only reason for the judgement out of the book of works is observance of due process, an opportunity for the accused to face the accuser.
My question to you (or anyone wishing to say) is - What is the purpose of the 1000 years before the judgement, since all that were alive at the time were 'saved' people (the dead in Christ) ? Why not go straight to judgement and send those in the book of life to Heaven and the rest to the second death?
