27 | Why God Does Not Judge Before the Day of Judgment arrives

Jesus said: "He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good" (Matthew 5:45). This sentence declares a startling fact: before the final judgment, God does not perform the "Ultimate Verdict" on good and evil. The wicked may prosper for a time, and the righteous may suffer. This is not a Divine oversight; it is God’s restraint, His wisdom, and His profound respect for Free Will. The present is not the time of Judgment; it is the time of Grace.

I. Immediate Judgment Would Abolish Freedom

If every evil thought or deed met with immediate retribution:

• Man would "do good" only out of fear.
• Morality would cease to be an internal choice and become an external pressure.
• Ethical responsibility would vanish, replaced by mere "conditioned reflexes."
• Humans would no longer be "moral agents," but spiritual robots controlled by a punishment mechanism. Freedom must carry weight, and choices must carry consequences, otherwise the "Man made in God’s image" would never emerge. God prefers to endure the risk of evil rather than turn the world into a vast prison.

II. God Allows Evil to Persist for the Sake of Love

God is All-Good, but "All-Good" does not mean the "instant elimination of all bad behavior." The cost of doing so would be the destruction of Free Will—which is the very foundation of Love, responsibility, and maturity. God never forces anyone into Love, because a coerced "good deed" is not Love at all. Because Love is free, freedom can be abused, and that abuse produces evil. God permits the possibility of evil not because He approves of it, but because He respects that Love must arise from freedom.

III. "Sun on the Good and Evil": The Cosmic Structure of Grace

Until the final judgment, God allows the natural order to serve all equally:

• Rain falls on the just and the unjust.
• Sunlight shines on the saint and the sinner. Why? Because in God’s eyes, time is not the end, and a person’s current state is not their final self. A man sinning today may return, repent, and turn toward God tomorrow. To judge prematurely would be to cut off the possibility of his return Home. Thus, delayed judgment is not indulgence; it is Mercy.

IV. Injustice and Suffering are Consequences of Freedom and Systems

Starvation, war, and inequality are not God’s intent; they are the results of choices made by men in fear, possession, and the lust for power. If God were to instantly eliminate all injustice, He would have to:

• Withdraw human freedom.
• Dismantle all human institutions.
• Turn the world into a theater where He is the sole, unilateral operator. Such a world would be "orderly," but there would be no one left capable of Love. Thus, God chooses another way: restraining evil through history, calling for repentance, sending rescue, and using the Final Judgment to place the ultimate, righteous period at the end of the story.

V. The Standard of Final Judgment: The Ultimate Direction of the Will

Judgment will indeed be "according to deeds," but deeds are merely the outward expression of the heart. More deeply, God looks at the ultimate lean of a man’s free will:

• Does it lean toward God or away from Him?
• Does it desire to be illuminated in the Light or remain locked in the Dark? The wicked will not escape the final confrontation because of a temporary prosperity, nor will the righteous lose their reward due to temporary suffering. God gives man a "season to turn back"; Judgment is the final confirmation of where a man has ultimately chosen to go.

Summary | Original Doctrine 27

1. The present world is in a "Period of Grace," not a period of ultimate verdict.
2. If God judged evil instantly, freedom and responsibility would collapse into fear-driven compulsion.
3. God permits evil for a time out of respect for Freedom and Love.
4. "The sun shines on all" is the restraint of Divine Mercy, giving everyone space to repent.
5. Final Judgment is based on the ultimate direction of the Free Will: whether one is willing to return Home.

Conclusion: God’s silence is not indifference; it is the holding of a door. He waits until the last possible moment so that every child who wishes to return might find the way Home.