5. Jesus is the judge
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The meaning of judgment is to distinguish, separate, distinguish all according to their deeds:- evil and good, legal and illegal, sinful and righteous. Judgment is traditionally given to earthly judges, but the authority is God's alone. Because it is only God who knows in advance what they think in their heart, what they walk in their conscience without needing human evidence and testimony, and who can give each person the value they deserve. When David spoke of God's judgment in Psalms, "The heavens declare righteousness, for God is the judge." He said. (Ps 50:6) In another psalm, he said, "For God is a judge, he humbles this and honors that." (Ps 75:7) Although it is not appropriate to repeat it because we have seen above that Jesus means God, but to strengthen this and make it more clear, we will also see here below that Jesus is a judge too.
It is enough evidence that judgment is the work of our Lord, our Savior Jesus Christ, that at the time of his second coming, the Lord will place sinners on his left and the righteous on his right, and that he will give heaven to the righteous and hell to the wicked. "When the Son of Man comes in his glory ... all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates his sheep from his goats." He will make the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.โ so that (Matthew 24:31-46) Here the sheep and the goats are the sinner and the righteous. It is written there that the left and the right are hell and heaven. If this is the work of Christ, then Christ is the judge. And if he is the judge, then it means that He is God.
But some do not understand this and say that Jesus is a mediator and not a judge. And when they say from whom does he intercede, they say from the Father. After all, who is the father? Do they have a difference? "He who has seen me has seen the Father, I and the Father are one" doesn't he say? And when they are told, they put it as if the Bible contradicts itself by citing other verses. However, the Bible does not contradict itself anywhere, unless they do not properly understand its interpretation and mystery. The word does not say 'the Father judges, the Son mediates', but "the Father judges not even one person, but gives all judgment to the Son". (John 5:23) Even so, when we look this word separately, it seems that only the Son is the judge while the Father and the Holy Spirit seems observers. But no, when the Bible raises one of the three body, namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, it is putting in mind that all three are one in authority. For example, when the great prophets Moses spoke about creation, he told us, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). The apostles Saint John and Saint Paul also say that the worlds were created by the Word of the Son. (Hebrews 1:1, Hebrews 1:1)
Therefore, in the words "he gave all judgment to the Son", the word "son" is to say that the Son is the Word of the Trinity; and that judgment is spoken verbally; but it is not to say that judgment belongs only to the Son. Instead, he means that He will appear in glory as a judge and gave the power of ruling and judging to the Son. Because the Father and the Holy Spirit did not take on human flesh. And one: Because the Son is the Word of the Trinity, and judgment is spoken by words, therefore it is said that he gave judgment to the Son.