Judging Biblically

Most people, when confronted with a religious concept that goes against their habits and thinking, are quick to reply, "Judge not!" and insist that not judging them is the proper Christian response. They quote Matthew 7:1 - "Judge not, that ye be not judged." as their authority, but without taking the context of the whole passage into account. The form of judgement that Matthew 7:1 passage says not to do, is the kind of judgement that a person makes when against another person for a sin that they themselves are doing. It is hypocritical judgment. Taking the whole passage into account, not just the single verse, makes that more clear: Matthew 7:5 - "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."

The Bible indicates to boldly correct people in an effort to bring them to repentance. We should not judge hypocritically, or doubtful things, or things only by appearance, or things by only one passage, BUT WE ARE INSTRUCTED TO MAKE RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT ON THINGS THAT ARE MADE CLEAR IN THE BIBLE. The Bible says that we need to judge! We need to read ALL other relevant verses to get a correct overall view of judging as presented in total in the Holy Bible. We must take all relevant verses of the Bible into account to arrive at a full and balanced understanding of the "judging" issue.

John 7:24 - "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgement."

Correction, which often brings the "Judge not!" response, is NOT hypocritical judgement, as the Bible says that we should correct, rebuke and be bold to those who are sinning. Rebuking a sinner, exposing corruption, correcting someone IN LOVE or disciplining ones children is not judging wrongfully. People are more likely to take note and remember strong stirring words. Strong words cause people to repent and not remain lukewarm. Bold ministry can turn people off but they would probably turn away anyway and be considered by God to be lukewarm. Therefore, they probably would have been rejected by God anyway. In the Bible people mostly either turned well away or became repentant and committed believers, when confronted with the horrors of their sins. The proper course of action is to teach in the spirit of friendship first, but when the teaching falls on deaf ears, then rebuke and warnings of punishment from God are next in order. We should pray that the Holy Spirit guide us in our witnessing at all times as we witness to the unsaved.

1 Timothy 5:20 - "Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear."

Luke 17:3 - "Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."

2 Timothy 4:2 - "Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine."

Titus 1:13 - "This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith"

Titus 2:15 - "These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee."

Readers, never fall for, or accept, the many comments made Like "Don't judge me!" or "You shouldn't judge them." We judge things constantly, all the time, and just because it involves someone's beliefs or conduct, does not mean we should stop judging things for what they really are.

Righteous, correct judgement is a very necessary component of the Christian life. We need to become expert in knowledge and understanding of the Holy Scriptures. And then we need to be bold like the Apostles in witnessing the Gospel Message, exercising Godly judgement in all things, while clearly exposing the differences between Right and Wrong.

A Related Study About Judging

How To Save Our Country From Judgment

There are five cycles of judgment that God uses when withdrawing His protection from a nation or an individual. Step by step, sin results in the withdrawal of God's protection, which exposes the nation and the individual to greater and greater attack by demonic forces. These cycles, or stages, are described in Leviticus 26. The Bible points out that these judgments are automatic, and will not be stopped without the sin being repented of and rejected. And each judgment is declared to be seven times worse than the preceding judgment.

Cycle One is described in Leviticus 26:14-17. It is SICKNESS resulting from fear. It is a fact that we cannot escape from ourself. It is a fact that sinning produces negative feelings within oneself about oneself, a fear that can grow to border on terror. The sickness can be physical or mental, or both. This is when a determined and rebellious person will begin to harden ones heart and to build a false reality to justify ones sins. We see the plague of human casualties from this first cycle everywhere, all idolizing other things than God, movie stars, body decoration, piercing and scarring, and rampant drug use, for example.

Cycle Two is described in Leviticus 26:18-20. It is CROP FAILURE. Joel 1:1-5 also addresses this, showing that crop destruction can come in successively destructive waves. "That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworn eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten." These four types of locusts each act in a unique fashion. First, the palmerworm, "gazam" in Hebrew, meaning "to cut off," eats the tops right off the stalks, consuming the fruits or kernels. Second, the locust, "arbeh" in Hebrew, meaning "swarming locust," eats the stalks to leave only a stubble behind. Third, the cankerworm, "yeleq" in Hebrew, meaning "to lick up," does exactly that by consuming the stubble right down to the ground. Fourth, the caterpiller, "chaciyl" in Hebrew, meaning "the devourer," actually eats the seeds, the underground part of the plant. The result is a hopeless situation. Monsanto, genetically engineered crops, lack of rain and unstable weather patterns, and increasing instances of bird flu epidemics and other animal diseases should all come to ones mind.

Cycle Three is described in Leviticus 26:21-23. It is the DESTRUCTION OF THE OFFSPRING OF MAN AND BEAST. Verse 22 says that "wild beasts" will come in and ravage the nation, killing innocent children, and the young of the flocks and herds. The result will be the lessoning of the number of the people. Their ability to provide for themselves will be drastically reduced. Abortion, rampant child abuse, the incredible number of disappearing children and Satanic Ritual Abuse should come to mind. Propaganda and brainwashing leading couples to reject marriage and having children, to accept homosexuality and other GLBTQ+ perversions, and to limit offspring to lower numbers than can maintain the current population, are all indications of these "wild beasts" existing among the flock.

Cycle Four is described in Leviticus 26:23-26. It is MILITARY OCCUPATION. Here we see the nation overrun and controlled by a foreign power. The land is stolen. The rightful citizens of the land fall under the jack boots of domination. A military dictatorship is imposed upon them. Today our government is under the occupation of outside forces, Marxists, socialists, communists, New Agers and Muslims, and a President that isn't even eligible to be our President by law. A coup is in progress, and as I write this, is winning! It is common knowledge, provable knowledge, that this occupier government is preparing for bloody social transformation, stocking weapons and ammunition, and preparing concentration camps. They "know" the economy is going to collapse. Perhaps they are even engineering the collapse. False flag operations have been a specialty of the occupiers all along.

Cycle Five is described in Leviticus 26:27-29. It is DESTRUCTION, CAPTIVITY AND ENSLAVEMENT IN A FOREIGN LAND. Scripture indicates that in the very last of the last Days that an Antichrist will arise that has the power to control all buying and selling, worldwide. That will be total tyranny. The technology exists to accomplish this, a technology that will allow an oppressive tyrant to simply delete you from the database if they should decide to do so. This predicted tyrant will kill as many Christians and Jews as he can during his reign of terror. How close is America to this destruction? Will we be the victims of a nuclear holocaust on the way to this eventuality? The world hates we who worship only One God and who frown on all others!

Is the United States headed for oblivion? Do our sins compare to Sodom and Gomorrah? The fact of the matter is that judgment does not come because everybody is not living for God. Nor does preservation come because everybody is living for God. Until the Lord returns for the final harvest of the Church Saints, the wheat and the tares will coexist. So then, what causes judgment to come? It is of the utmost importance to understand how to stand against this trend toward nation destruction by God's Judgments! We simply must understand how to save our country, or we are, as a nation, lost, doomed, and destined for slavery.

Judgment comes when the salt loses its savor. It isn't the immorality of the nation that causes judgment. It is the immorality of the Saints that causes judgment to fall on men and nations. When we Christians grow too fat and too lazy, and neglect our duty to pray and stand in the gap, then we are tempting judgment. Ezekiel said in Ezekiel 22:30, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."

Prayer! Standing in the gap! Living and breathing as responsible Saints, that is the answer to saving America! The book of Joel is directed to the REMNANT, and in this era to you and to me. We have not been blessed because of our Constitution. We were blessed because our earliest immigrants and our Founders once stood in the gap, and prayed, arrayed against evil while actively pursuing righteousness. We are the salt within a sinful society, called and commissioned to pray for this nation and to stand on our feet as Christian soldiers properly outfitted with the Armour of God. But if the salt loses it savor it is only worth casting out. If we are good for nothing then we will be judged.

I challenge my fellow patriots to compare these stages of judgment to the recent history and conditions present in America today! We ARE being judged, and we HAVE been found wanting!

Source: Article developed from a study of "Joel, The Outpouring of God's Glory"
by Bob Yandian, ISBN 0-89274-402-2, C. 1985.