The Last Judgment is God’s final judgment of all people through Jesus Christ at the close of this age. Scripture presents it as a real future event in which God will judge with perfect justice and reveal every person’s true standing before him.
The Last Judgment is God’s final judgment of all people through Jesus Christ at the close of this age. Scripture presents it as a real future event in which God will judge with perfect justice and reveal every person’s true standing before him.
The Last Judgment is the final and universal judgment by which God, through Jesus Christ, will judge all people at the end of the age. Scripture consistently presents this event as certain, righteous, and comprehensive: God will expose what is hidden, vindicate his justice, and assign the final destinies of the righteous and the wicked. Those who belong to Christ are saved by grace through faith, yet their lives will also be brought into judgment as the public demonstration of God’s righteous verdict and the reality of their works; those who reject God remain under condemnation and face final punishment. Orthodox Christians have differed on how this judgment relates to debated questions in eschatology, but the core teaching is not in doubt: there will be a final judgment, Christ will be the appointed Judge, and God’s verdict will be perfectly just and eternally decisive.