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Romans 3:4, speaks of God and says,
"So you may be justified in your words,
and prevail when you are judged."
Here is a clear verse that speaks of God being judged. It is unfortunate that
our Bible translators often hide the meaning of this verse by "correcting"
the Greek. The NRSV, for example, translates this:
"prevail in your judging."However, its footnotes show that the Greek actually says,
"when you are being judged."Why should God be judged? Because it solves the basic problem of the great controversy. God's actions have been questioned. For many saints (even for angelic beings) God's actions are accepted by faith as being right. However, in the Judgement, faith gives way to evidence. The Judgement demonstrates that every one of God's decisions has been correct.
The Judgement examines the life of every person on earth -- and sees how God has worked positively in each hour of each life. This assessment of every one of God's decisions on earth is a mammoth task. Consider this:
There have been an estimated 12 billion people on earth. If each lives an average of 60 years, they each live 500,000 hours. So the number of "people hours" lived on earth is 6,000,000,000,000,000.
If God made only one decision in a person's life every hour, that would be 6,000,000,000,000,000 decisions. (Count them, there are 15 zeros, an incredible number of correct decisions!)
The Judgement will show that in every one of those decisions, God has not made a mistake. God will "be justified... when (he) is judged" (Rom 3:4). I find that incredible -- 6,000,000,000,000,000 decisions, and not one of them wrong. But it gets better than that. Every angel and every other being in the universe will be convinced that God is right in every case. Revelation 5:11 says:
"I looked
and I heard
the voice of many angels
surrounding the throne,
the living creatures
and the elders.
They numbered 10,000 times 10,000
and thousands of thousands.
That verse says the number of angels around God's throne (where the Judgement
takes place) is more than 100,000,000. If each angel decides that God is right
in eac of those 6,000,000,000,000,000 decisions, that its an incredible
600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 individual assessments of God's actions.
(That's 23 zeros -- a number so large it would take 20,000,000,000,000,000
years to count that high.)
And every one of those assessments is that God has done the right thing!That's amazing. Thank you, God, for being so good. I am proud of you.
Once this incredible assessment of God is complete, then, in the words of various translations of Daniel 8:14, the status of God's heavenly government will be "restored to its rightful state," "reconsecrated," and "properly restored." God will be totally, completely, and thoroughly "justified."