Poetic Judgement
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2026 12:48 am
THE COMFORT AND FEAR OF POETIC JUSTICE
There is both horror and comfort in knowing that we will judge ourselves. God withholds His final judgment in favor of a self-judgment that ensures a fairness not to be found in our courts. The war being fought in Heaven is more than a war for power. It is a war for justice. While those in the Heavenly realms dispute the degree of power God holds over them, those who follow Satan believe his claim of equal power with his Creator has merit. Satan is out to prove it.
The whole conflict revolves around Satan’s ability to make mankind follow him. He wants us to choose his ways over the virtue expressed through love. The certainty of God’s power is seen in His administration of truth. He has released Satan from all Godly control, allowing him to demonstrate his claims before all who witness in Heaven. God has left him free to act without constraint against the wiles of his corrupted nature. As a result, mankind is born into a battleground ruled by evil, where each of us must make a choice.
As those who have chosen sides in Heaven watch, we too are given the chance to choose sides. And it is our fate that we will ultimately judge ourselves. God issues no final judgment from His throne of infinite power until the end. That end will come about without interference as Satan continues to work upon human minds through his insidious deceptions.
God’s judgment is poetic, unquestionably fair, and weighed against the measure of pure truth.
Confessing your sins without the weight of Satan’s influence allows the sinner to account for his actions freely, including the justifications he once used to defend them. But the hollow justifications an evildoer relied upon while alive will no longer shield him from the truth.
Revealed will be the full truth behind the justifications that shaped a person into one whose actions appeared evil. These are the circumstances and influences that must be weighed in determining the confessor’s true guilt. They are the truths that often escape the judgments of men, the unseen influences that shaped a person’s behavior beyond his own control. In this final accounting, every truth must be considered.
I like to think of this using the Pharaoh in Egypt as example. God, for His own purpose, hardened Pharaoh’s heart. We must therefore ask how much guilt should be attributed to Pharaoh for his deeds. If God Himself influenced the choices Pharaoh made, how can we judge Pharaoh fairly without accounting for that influence?
We are given the opportunity to confess our sins while still among the living, to change our lives so that our actions bear witness to the side we have chosen.
When you stand in judgment, knowing all that you deserve, you will make your confession burdened by the guilt, shame, and fear that you kept hidden from others throughout your life. Your fear will now concern the fate of your eternal soul, whose existence you can no longer deny.
If you lived your life serving a master who now stands defeated, only one power will loom before you. It is the power of the One whose plan proved victorious over Satan’s free reign. No longer can you hide the products of your greed and avarice. Your soul will suffer as it sees the wrongs you thought you had escaped accountability for. No defense will come to mind. You will be laid bare as your own accounting exposes the choices you made before all who witness your self-condemnation.
The horror of the Godly power you once denied will unfold before you, and the outcome may be one from which only mercy can save you.
But God’s plan was designed to provide mankind with a means to defeat Satan and avoid the self-abasing suffering of this judgment. It offers salvation that is not based on how poorly you have led your life, but on your acceptance of a part in His plan.
That plan offers an advocate whose words speak on your behalf at judgment. His name is Jesus. His part in God’s plan was to die as a sacrifice for your sins, an acceptable payment for the sins of all mankind. Through Him, salvation offers the promise of continued sentience, eternal life.
God’s plan and the sacrifice of His Son require no penance from a redeemed soul. Only acceptance!
There is both horror and comfort in knowing that we will judge ourselves. God withholds His final judgment in favor of a self-judgment that ensures a fairness not to be found in our courts. The war being fought in Heaven is more than a war for power. It is a war for justice. While those in the Heavenly realms dispute the degree of power God holds over them, those who follow Satan believe his claim of equal power with his Creator has merit. Satan is out to prove it.
The whole conflict revolves around Satan’s ability to make mankind follow him. He wants us to choose his ways over the virtue expressed through love. The certainty of God’s power is seen in His administration of truth. He has released Satan from all Godly control, allowing him to demonstrate his claims before all who witness in Heaven. God has left him free to act without constraint against the wiles of his corrupted nature. As a result, mankind is born into a battleground ruled by evil, where each of us must make a choice.
As those who have chosen sides in Heaven watch, we too are given the chance to choose sides. And it is our fate that we will ultimately judge ourselves. God issues no final judgment from His throne of infinite power until the end. That end will come about without interference as Satan continues to work upon human minds through his insidious deceptions.
God’s judgment is poetic, unquestionably fair, and weighed against the measure of pure truth.
Confessing your sins without the weight of Satan’s influence allows the sinner to account for his actions freely, including the justifications he once used to defend them. But the hollow justifications an evildoer relied upon while alive will no longer shield him from the truth.
Revealed will be the full truth behind the justifications that shaped a person into one whose actions appeared evil. These are the circumstances and influences that must be weighed in determining the confessor’s true guilt. They are the truths that often escape the judgments of men, the unseen influences that shaped a person’s behavior beyond his own control. In this final accounting, every truth must be considered.
I like to think of this using the Pharaoh in Egypt as example. God, for His own purpose, hardened Pharaoh’s heart. We must therefore ask how much guilt should be attributed to Pharaoh for his deeds. If God Himself influenced the choices Pharaoh made, how can we judge Pharaoh fairly without accounting for that influence?
We are given the opportunity to confess our sins while still among the living, to change our lives so that our actions bear witness to the side we have chosen.
When you stand in judgment, knowing all that you deserve, you will make your confession burdened by the guilt, shame, and fear that you kept hidden from others throughout your life. Your fear will now concern the fate of your eternal soul, whose existence you can no longer deny.
If you lived your life serving a master who now stands defeated, only one power will loom before you. It is the power of the One whose plan proved victorious over Satan’s free reign. No longer can you hide the products of your greed and avarice. Your soul will suffer as it sees the wrongs you thought you had escaped accountability for. No defense will come to mind. You will be laid bare as your own accounting exposes the choices you made before all who witness your self-condemnation.
The horror of the Godly power you once denied will unfold before you, and the outcome may be one from which only mercy can save you.
But God’s plan was designed to provide mankind with a means to defeat Satan and avoid the self-abasing suffering of this judgment. It offers salvation that is not based on how poorly you have led your life, but on your acceptance of a part in His plan.
That plan offers an advocate whose words speak on your behalf at judgment. His name is Jesus. His part in God’s plan was to die as a sacrifice for your sins, an acceptable payment for the sins of all mankind. Through Him, salvation offers the promise of continued sentience, eternal life.
God’s plan and the sacrifice of His Son require no penance from a redeemed soul. Only acceptance!