1. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: Death
and judgment are appointments that you cannot
avoid. Some people appear to have escaped human
judgment, but the Day of Judgment will certainly
come to pass for everyone.
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which
do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt
escape the judgment of God?
Romans 2:3
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after
this the judgment:
Hebrews 9:27
The Appointment in Accra
There was a certain rich Nigerian man who lived in the city
of Lagos, the capital of Nigeria. This man had many servants,
but he was particularly fond of the chief servant who was a
Ghanaian and had been with him for many years.
One day, the chief servant went to the market to buy some
things for the master. And whom did he meet? He met a person
called Death. Death had appeared in the market in bodily form.
Death stared at the chief servant who in turn became frightened
by the long stare of this stranger. He was so frightened that he
abandoned his mission and forgot to buy the goods his master
had sent him to buy.
When he got back home his master asked him, “Where are the
things I sent you to buy?”
He told his master about how he had met Death in a bodily
form. The chief servant was very shaken; and the master quickly
realized that the chief servant was truly shaken because he had
not behaved that way before.
The chief servant begged his master saying, “I am so terrified
by the way Death stared at me that I want to leave Lagos
immediately. I would like to go back to Accra before tonight. I
really feel that Death wants to kill me.”
The master really loved his servant and so released him to
leave immediately for Accra. After the chief servant left, the
master decided to go to town himself and see if he would find
Death there. Indeed, if he did find him, the master would sort
Death out because he was a very powerful person.
In the market, he was surprised to meet Death in bodily
form, just as his servant had said. The master was fearless and
approached Death, confronting and challenging him, “How dare
you stare at my servant that way? Who do you think you are?
What do you mean by that?”
Death stared silently at the master and then spoke. He said,
“I was staring at him because I was surprised to find him in the
market this morning seeing I have an appointment with him in
Ghana tonight.”3
The master was aghast. His servant was on his way to Ghana!
He then knew that there was no way his servant would escape the
appointment with Death.
2. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: The Day of
Judgment often comes suddenly. No one knows the
hour or the day that God will call on us for judgment.
For when they shall say, peace and safety; then SUDDEN
DESTRUCTION cometh upon them, as travail upon a
woman with child; and they shall not escape.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
But God said unto him, THOU FOOL, THIS NIGHT
thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those
things be, which thou hast provided?
Luke 12:20
3. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: The delay
in the coming of the Day of Judgment is because of
God’s love and mercy to us.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day
is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years
as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,
as some men count slackness; but IS LONGSUFFERING
TO US-WARD, NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD
PERISH, but that all should come to repentance.
2 Peter 3:8-9
4. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: As the Day
of Judgment is delayed, men become more hardened
and more set in their evil ways.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set
in them to do evil.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
5. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: The mercies
of God are intended to lead you to repentance before
the Day of Judgment.
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and longsuffering; not knowing that THE GOODNESS
OF GOD LEADETH THEE TO REPENTANCE?
Romans 2: 4
Do you think that God will judge and condemn others for
sinning and not judge you when you do them, too?
Don’t you realize how kind, tolerant, and patient God is
with you? Or don’t you care? Can’t you see how kind he
has been in giving you time to turn from your sin?
Romans 2:3-4 (NLT)
6. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: As at today,
you are not condemned. A final decision has not been
taken about you in spite of your sins. A verdict has
not been passed on you. God has not taken a decision
on whether you should go to heaven or hell. You still
have a chance to repent.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the
world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that
believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not
believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the
world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because
their deeds were evil.
John 3:17-19
7. No one will escape the Day of Judgment: Now is the
time to repent because you are not condemned yet.
God will receive you today. How can you escape if
you neglect such an opportunity to be saved?
The Day of Judgment
Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day,
after so long a time; as it is said, TO DAY IF YE WILL
HEAR HIS VOICE, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS.
Hebrews 4:7
(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in
the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, NOW
IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; behold, now is the day of
salvation.)
2 Corinthians 6:2
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the
Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;
Hebrews 2:3
Did They Escape?
I know of several people who seem to have escaped judgment.
The infamous Slobodan Milosevic who was the president of
Serbia and Yugoslavia from 1989 until 2000, died of a heart
attack before his five-year long trial for war crimes ended.
Adolf Hitler seemed to escape from the judgment of the allies
who descended on Berlin in 1945, by committing suicide just
before they arrived in his bunker.
As many as thirty-seven per cent of all murders in the United
States go unsolved and the murderers seem to have escaped
judgment.
But do these people really escape judgment? They may have
escaped the judgment of human beings but they cannot escape
the judgment of God. The Bible says that evil men will not go
unpunished. (Jeremiah 30:11)
