Please educate me on the meaning of €œ‘Divine Judgment’

While the Bible does not use the term “divine judgment,” the Day of Judgment is regarded as the “last day,” or the end of the present world, when God will preside over a final, universal judgment of the living and resurrected dead. In the New Testament, the judge is increasingly identified as Jesus who serves as God's agent (see Romans 2.16).

See also Matthew 25.31-46 where it is the Son of Man who sits on the throne of judgment and where the nations are judged based on their treatment of the needy.
God is judge of all the earth (Psalm 94) and ruler of the world (Psalms 96, 97, 98). While God is judge (Psalm 50.6; Romans 2.3, 5; Hebrews 12.23; James 4.12), the Father has given authority to judge on the last day specifically to Jesus Christ, the Mediator (John 5.22, 27; Acts 10.42). We can find comfort and assurance in 1 John 4.17. When Christ completes his mediatorial work, he will deliver the kingdom to the Father (1 Corinthians 15.24, 28).

The last judgment will be universal and worldwide. Believers will inherit the kingdom and enjoy the full bliss of heaven while unbelievers “will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might” (2 Thessalonians 1.9). According to Revelation 20.12, all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

Faith in Jesus Christ brings justification now and eternal life at the last judgment. For the unbeliever, the appointed day of judgment is a day of wrath (Romans 2.5), but for believers, it is the day of redemption (Ephesians 4.30) when they shall inherit the kingdom prepared for them by Christ their king
(1 Corinthians 6.9).

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