The World and the Word

                                      The Advents and Judgments of Christ

All of the judgments of  Christ are directly connected to the comings of Christ. Christ comes to humanity in many different ways. Christ has come to humanity in the past; He comes to humanity in the present, and He will come to humanity in the future. With every coming of Christ, He makes a judgment.

Christ came to earth in creation which culminated in His creation of mankind whom He judged for his sins, but for whom He also promised an eternal salvation through a Savior who would suffer in their place to take away their sins and eternal deaths and give them all an eternal life, some by His grace and all others by His resurrection of His good image that He put into them that He can never lose. Genesis 3:20; Luke 20:38; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29.

Christ came to Noah after the flood and judged all humanity by giving Noah a burnt offering which symbolized God's recovery and preservation of all life that He had created. In the flood, God killed all evil humans in such a way as to put them in danger of eternal death and separation from God, but in His compassion, God could not allow them to remain in that condition. So He gave Noah a burnt offering to symbolize His future salvation of them and the rest of humanity to a lesser salvation than that of grace. Genesis 3:20-21; Psalm 36:6. When God killed all evil humans in the great flood, He consigned their souls and spirits that He had created in His image to the cursed ground which holds the bottomless pit which, at that time, was a place of eternal death. But with Noah's burnt offering, God symbolically and actually removed the curse from the ground so that He could give His life back to all humans through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son. For this reason, Christ went to these living humans in their prison to inform them that if they would believe in Him, He would liberate them all from eternal death. They all believed which means Christ will raise all of their living souls and spirits that He created from the dead in His final judgment, and He will give them new bodies and a new life on His recreated earth which constitutes His lesser form of salvation. Hebrews 2:9; I Peter 3:18-20; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:1-5.