HOPE FOR LIVING

THE CLASSLESS DAY OF JUDGMENT It was Job that first painted a picture to me of what happens in the life down beneath the earth – even if we won’t allow it to happen here in the life atop the earth. He described the grave as a place where "the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master” (Job 3:17-19). Then Isaiah came up with this same reality while describing the day of God’s judgment in Isaiah 24. Verses 1-2 said, “Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, distorts its surface and scatters abroad its inhabitants. And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.” The world is boun...