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Juízo de Deus: o que significa e como ele restaura a justiça

O que significa o juízo de Deus

O juízo de Deus é a avaliação justa e definitiva que Ele faz de todas as pessoas, obras e intenções humanas. Longe de ser apenas condenação ou castigo, o juízo bíblico é o acerto de contas que restabelece a verdade, corrige a injustiça e separa o mal do bem.

A Escritura ensina que nada fica encoberto diante dessa avaliação:

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.(Ecclesiastes 12:14)

No Novo Testamento, essa autoridade foi confiada a Jesus Cristo. Ele revela os corações e exerce a justiça de Deus tanto para salvação dos que creem quanto para discernimento dos que o rejeitam:

For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.

"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Most certainly I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

"If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. (John 5:21-31)

He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.

Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind."(John 9:38,39)

A cruz é o ponto central desse julgamento: ali o pecado foi julgado e o poder que escravizava a humanidade foi quebrado:

Jesus answered, "This voice hasn’t come for my sake, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."(John 12:30-32)

Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment; about sin, because they don’t believe in me; (John 16:7-9)

A prestação de contas de cada pessoa

A Bíblia ensina que ninguém passa despercebido diante de Deus. Cada indivíduo responderá pessoalmente por suas escolhas, atitudes e pela forma como lidou com a verdade revelada:

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables. Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him. Who are you who judge another’s servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.(Romans 14:1-4)

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling. I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.(Romans 14:12-14)

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.(1 Corinthians 4:5)

Esse exame criterioso começa pelo próprio povo de Deus. Por saber que todos estão debaixo do mesmo padrão reto, os cristãos são chamados a abandonar a censura hipócrita contra os outros:

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?(1 Peter 4:17)

For with whatever judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with whatever measure you measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but don’t consider the beam that is in your own eye? Or how will you tell your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ and behold, the beam is in your own eye? (Matthew 7:2-4)

O juízo como livramento e restauração

Para quem sofre a maldade e a opressão, o juízo divino não é ameaça, mas promessa de socorro. No Antigo Testamento, os juízos de Deus contra o Egito foram os atos concretos pelos quais Ele libertou o seu povo da escravidão:

Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments.(Exodus 6:6)

For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.(Exodus 12:12)

Reconhecer que Deus é o juiz legítimo leva tanto ao arrependimento sincero diante da própria culpa quanto à confiança de que o santuário e a honra de Deus não serão derrotados pelo mal:

Against you, and you only, I have sinned,

and done that which is evil in your sight,

so you may be proved right when you speak,

and justified when you judge.(Psalms 51:4)

Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground.

They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.(Psalms 74:6,7)

Zion heard and was glad.

The daughters of Judah rejoiced

because of your judgments, Yahweh.(Psalms 97:8)

O desfecho da história humana culmina no triunfo final dessa justiça, quando todo engano e tirania são definitivamente julgados e removidos:

After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation, power, and glory belong to our God; for his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."

A second said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever."(Revelation 19:1-3)

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