ARTICLE 7 "FROM THERE HE WILL

COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING

AND THE DEAD

RE 3: The Creed and the Articles of Faith

 JESUS CHRIST HAS THE DIVINE RIGHT
TO JUDGE ALL MANKIND

•only one final judge of the human

race
•It is God by whom the world was
first created and to whom we are
destined in eternity to return
TWO KINDS OF JUDGEMENT

1. Particular Judgement
- The Lord judges us individually at the moment
of death
2. General Judgement
- judging us as the human family at the end of
the world
PARTICULAR JUDGEMENT

- As understood by the Church, right after death the eternal

destiny of each separate soul is decided by the just
judgment of God.
- Those leaving the body in the state of grace, but in need of
purification, are cleansed in purgatory.
- Those who depart in actual mortal sin are at once sent to
eternal punishment, whose intensity depends on the gravity
of their sin.
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

- In the New Testament, the Second Coming

(Parousia) of Christ as Judge of the World is
woven into the whole mystery of salvation.
- The Lord’s prediction of the Last Day
covers the whole twenty-fifth chapter of the
Gospel of St. Matthew.
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

• GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 25:1-30

The parable of the 10 Virgins
The parable of Talents
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

What is most instructive is the detail of

Christ’s teaching about who and how the
world will be judged:
- “When the Son of Man shall come in His
majesty, and all the angels with Him, then shall
He sit upon the seat of His majesty.”
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

• Who shall be judged?

• “All nations shall be gathered together before Him.
And He shall separate them one from another, as the
shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And He
shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on
His left.”
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

• Who shall be judged?

• “All nations shall be gathered together before Him.
And He shall separate them one from another, as the
shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And He
shall set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on
His left.”
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

• How shall we be judged? On the basis of our practice of selfless

charity:
• - Then shall the King say to them on His right hand, “Come, blessed
of my Father, possess the Kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me to eat. I
was thirsty, and you gave me to drink. I was a stranger and you
took me in; naked, and you covered me; sick, and you visited me. I
was in prison and you came to me” (Matthew 25:34-36).
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

•“As long as you did it to one of these,

my least brethren, you did it to me.”
 GENERAL JUDGEMENT

• The prophecy of the general judgment closes with

one of the single most important verses in the bible.
• Christ foretells that those who failed in charity
“shall go into everlasting punishment,” but those
who had selflessly met the needs of others, “the
just,” shall go “into life everlasting” (Matthew 25:31-
46).
 EVERLASTING

JOY IN HEAVEN PAINS OF HELL

 ARTICLE 7 "FROM THERE HE WILL
COME AGAIN TO JUDGE THE LIVING
AND THE DEAD

RE 3: The Creed and the Articles of Faith