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Originally Posted by Ohio
ZNP, God is the judge, angels are the jury, and the evidence is from the heavenly cameras.
This justice will be swift, unlike our courts.
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That is not my question. My question is when was this swift judgement made.
19 Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20 But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.
There is a legal process -- charged with a crime (crime here is clearly rebellion), you are tried, you are convicted, you are sentenced, and then that sentence is carried out.
The charge is that they had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast. The sentence was to be cast into the lake of fire and we see the here. The question is when was the trial in which he was convicted?
If the throne of Christ is where the Lord judges who is an overcomer, who is a firstfruit, and who still needs 1,000 years it makes sense that there would be a lot of testimony about this one who had deluded them. If he deluded them by portraying himself as a prophet of God (hence the term false prophet) it also makes sense that the Lord would judge him accordingly (with what judgement you judge you shall be judged). You don't have to be present at the trial to be judged, you can be judged in absentia. So the battle of Armageddon is carried out with the judgement already hanging over the head of the false prophet.
This makes a very big difference. I have claimed that WL is a false prophet (please note small letter a, not capital The). Others have found that hard to believe since he preached Christ. Well look at the evidence, the false prophet who deludes the whole world is judged at the throne of Christ with the believers. I guess he is one of the ones referred to in Revelation 3 that got their names blotted out of the book of life.
5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the book of life,
Isn't blotting the name out of the book of life a judgement? When would the Lord do that? At the Lord's judgement seat it is about the hidden motives, not so much the actions.
He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of the heart.
It is the motives of the heart that determine if one is a false prophet.