(Resurrection & Judgement)
Revelation 20:11-15
Our
culture is changing in quantum leaps! Wasn’t it just yesterday that every kindergarten
student read “Dick and Jane”? While last year my granddaughter, in her
kindergarten class, used Chromebooks – whatever that is.
12 I saw the dead, great and small, standing before God; and The
Books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged
according to the things written in The Books, each according to the deeds
he had done. 13 The oceans surrendered the bodies buried in
them; and the earth and the underworld gave up the dead in them. Each was
judged according to his deeds. TLB
Is
it possible that the Living Bible, or some other hip modern day translation,
might eventually refer to the “Book of Life” as the “Twitter of Life” or “Facebook
of Life” or some other social media?
At
the risk of sounding sacrilegious with this suggestion, just think about it? What
is it that people post on social media other than what they’ve been doing? But
do they tell everything that is happening; their every action, every thought,
every desire, every emotion? No. Because if they did they wouldn’t have any
friends left!
On
the other hand, the Book of Life will. In social media we tell what we want people
to know about us. The Book of Life will tell, as Paul Harvey used to say, “The
rest of the story”. Or David may have said it better with this abbreviated
quote.
O Lord, you have
examined my heart and know everything about me… You know when I sit or stand;
my every thought; where I am; what I am going to say before I even say it. Psalm
139:1-4 TLB
The
Twitter of Life may sound catchy, but final judgment is definitely not. It is
a
reality that all of us face, and it is only by God’s grace that we are free
from “the lake of fire” as our
destiny. Instead, our destiny lies in a “new
heaven and a new earth” living in the eternal presence of our loving Holy
Father.
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