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The Lord also says: "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say..." (Matt. 25:31-46). The Lord then explains the details of His judgment: the wicked will go to everlasting punishment and the righteous to eternal life.

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The Lord says about the end of the world: "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire" (Matt. 13:41,42).

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St. Paul says to his disciple St. Timothy: "The Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom " (2 Tim.4: 1).
(6) The Lord says in the Book of Revelation: "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work" (Rev. 22:12).

[Mary Naeem]

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One of the reasons for Christ the Lord acting as the Judge is because He knows the deeds of everyone. In His message to the angels of the seven churches in Asia, He says to each of them: "I know your works" (Rev. 2:2,9,13,19); (Rev. 3:1,8,15). Also see the Gospel according to St. Matthew, chapter 7, verses 21 to 23.
If Christ is the Judge then He is God because God is the Judge, . Christ judges people's deeds because He knows their deeds and also because

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all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works" (Rev. 2:23).
Therefore He not only knows the works but even more He searches the minds and hearts.

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God Alone Is the Examiner of Hearts and Thoughts
No one can examine the heart and read the thought and see the secrets of the soul except God alone because this attribute is part of God's infinite knowledge and He alone is Infinite.

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It is written: "Then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You, only You, know the hearts of all the sons of men)" (1 Kin. 8:39).

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Solomon's proverbs are full of these testimonies. He says: "The Lord weighs the hearts" (Prov. 21:2), and "The Lord tests the hearts" (Prov. 17:3).

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David the Prophet says in the Psalm: "For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds" (Ps.7 :9), and "He knows the secrets of the heart" (Ps. 44:21).

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In the Book of Jeremiah the Prophet, the Lord says: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I, the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings" (Jer. 17:9,10). The Prophet Jeremiah says: O Lord of hosts, You who judge righteously, testing the mind and the heart" (Jer. 11:20).