Grace, the justice of God, and the function of the millennium in the atonement

Abstract

"Grace is absolutely central to the plan of salvation. Yet, there is a sense in which grace—giving people what they don't deserve, giving them forgiveness and eternal life when they deserve condemnation and death—is essentially unjust. In light of God being a God of grace, one of the central issues in any understanding of the atonement is the justice of God. How can God save some people and destroy others when all have rebelled and sinned against Him and His principles? It is the contention of this paper that the best answer to such questions is found in the Apocalypse of John. In examining that contention, we will look at the Apocalypse in terms of the Second Advent and God's judgment on sin, the millennial period and the universe's judgment on God, and the doxologies of the Apocalypse and the universe's verdict for God."