Who needs a sermon on the last judgment? Unbelievers may find this topic offensive, and even some Christians are embarrassed by it. The theme may strike us as negative and impractical. This is exactly how historic confessions can help us. The first words of the Belgic Confession's last article clearly make the point: "We believe" in the return and judgment of Christ "according to God's Word." The final judgment is not just mentioned by Scripture; it is the culmination of the entire drama of redemption. It is the full realization of God's promise to crush the serpent's head and restore God's people to himself. It is the only appropriate conclusion to the entire system taught in the Bible. And this is exactly how the Bible teaches it. The final judgment is the theme of Jesus' last sermons (Matt. 24, 25). It frequently undergirds Paul's most comprehensive and passionate pleas for personal godliness (e.g., Rom. 12:19; 1 Thess. 4:13–18). And it is integral to the apostolic presentation of the gospel (Acts 17:31). Without the final judgment, you have an unfinished story of "a nobleman [who] when into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom" and never returned to look after his servants (cf. Luke 19:12). We can be thankful that the ancient confessions remind us of a truth we need to hear but sometimes forget and undervalue.
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