God wants all of us to know what He knows. He wants to demonstrate the righteousness of His judgments by open exposure. The necessity of this kind of judgment is built into the very fiber of this moral universe. For actions to be moral, they must have consequences; evil must be punished and good rewarded. Without moral government, all behavior would be meaningless.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7).
It is the nature of life that everything must culminate in a final moral sorting.
Human justice at its best is inadequate, and sometimes justice is corrupted.
Justice in its absolute sense demands a final culmination, when all wrongs will be righted, and the unjustly accused will be vindicated.
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked (Isaiah 11:4).
God by nature is absolutely just; He must definitively deal with good and evil in order to be true to himself.
God is glorified in judgment because it reveals His true character. During this life many of us misunderstand God because He seems to allow so much evil. We will understand what it was all about when the final books are opened.
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness (Isaiah 5:16).
All accusations and objections regarding God’s justice will be publicly answered.
God will bring all His creatures together and judge openly before everyone. He will show both what deeds were done and what judgment He renders. As all observe God’s perfect justice, every complaint will be subdued, every mouth shut. Only praise will be appropriate in that day!
Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shall be, because thou hast judged thus (Revelation 16:5).
God delights in judgment.
He wants a universe that perfectly reflects himself. He will continue to deal with all that falls short of His glory and to eliminate evil. He will not stop until He is perfectly satisfied with the works of His hands.
I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the lord (Jeremiah 9:24).
The certainty of coming judgment when every secret will be exposed, creates in us the fear of God and a respect for His moral demands.
our behavior in this life is definitely changed as we come into the knowledge that God is keeping books and that we will face everything we have done or failed to do. The fear of the Lord is a strong motivation toward doing right.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil (Ecclesiastes 12:13, 14).