The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Matthew 10:14-15,
"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."
The judgment of God is an horrific thing. In some passages it is called the day of the Lord, see Joel 2 and Zephaniah 1. Paul speaks of a "day when God judges people's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares." Romans 2:16.
"If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town."
The judgment of God is an horrific thing. In some passages it is called the day of the Lord, see Joel 2 and Zephaniah 1. Paul speaks of a "day when God judges people's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares." Romans 2:16.
What I find of interest is that when God's judgment comes, it comes in varying degrees. Jesus, in the above passage teaches that judgment will be worse for a town that reject his disciples' message of the kingdom of heaven than it will be for two cities that had given themselves over to pronounced debauchery and wickedness, the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. See Genesis 19.
While I certainly do not know how and what these degrees of unbearability might be, it has to be frightening and horrific well beyond anything I would want to face.
This points to the grave importance that those who are exposed to the gospel message respond to it by embracing Jesus Christ in faith.
What a sobering consideration, the degrees of judgment that unbelievers face!
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