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“Glorious Justice: Its All About Him.”

I was reading in Ezekiel a few months ago, and I recall being struck by something rather startling. There was a clear declaration that God was going to judge and punish sinners. Usually, one links the judgment or punishment of God with the just desserts of sinners. It fits with the cultural notion that, “what goes around comes around.” Yet in this text there is a very different idea, indeed. The ultimate goal of God’s judgment is His glory.

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 28:22-23.


The idea that God would judge, and that this would be for His glory, is a neglected concept these days. It is certainly true that sinners judged by God get precisely what they deserve; there is no injustice in God’s ways. But the purpose of God’s judgment is here revealed to be His glorious revelation of His majestic holiness and splendor.

Not only will God be glorified in the redemption of the elect; He will also be glorified in the damnation of the reprobate. The idea that God is to be disappointed with the millions that have perished without salvation fails to come to terms with God’s wise and just plan. In preserving the reprobate by His providence, and waiting, while they store up wrath for the day of wrath, God is not impatient. In dark days we can all be assured that God is working out this glorious plan. For His own, though sometimes it is hard to see, God is on our side. Yet, in the days of seeming prosperity of the wicked, let us remember, as Ezekiel declares, He is against the wicked and is determined to judge them.

Just as God’s eternal plan of redemption, though involving numerous elect persons, is ultimately “all about Him,” so God’s eternal plan of damnation, though involving numerous reprobate persons, is also, “all about Him!”

Theodore.