The Last Judgments
WE pray in the Creed that Jesus…
…will come again to judge the living and the dead. —Apostle’s Creed
If we consider that the Day of the Lord is not a 24 hour period, but an extended period of time according to the vision of the Early Church Fathers ("a thousand years is like a day and a day like a thousand years"), then we can understand the coming General Judgment of the world to contain two components: the judgment of the living and the judgment of the dead. They constitute one judgment spread over the Day of the Lord.
What we are approaching now in our world is the judgment of theliving…
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