According to the first book of Peter, a type of the judgment day has already begun for Christians during this life. It is long before the day of Jesus’ Second Coming and the resurrection of the dead. For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it first begins with us.
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Judgment Day
n.1. In Judeo-Christian and Muslim traditions, the day at the end of the world when God judges the moral worth of individual humans or the whole human race. Also called Day of Judgment.
2. judgment day A day of reckoning or final judgment.
Judgment Day
n (Theology) the occasion of the Last (or General) Judgment by God at the end of the world. Also called: Day of Judgment See Last Judgment
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Noun | 1. | Judgment Day - (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives crack of doom, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgment, day of reckoning, doomsday, end of the world, eschaton, Judgement Day, Last Day, Last Judgement, Last Judgment New Testament - the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible day - some point or period in time; 'it should arrive any day now'; 'after that day she never trusted him again'; 'those were the days'; 'these days it is not unusual' |
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