We’ve enjoyed a great topic for our Sabbath school lessons this first quarter of 2025: God’s love and justice. As we’ve discovered, this subject is deeply pertinent in these last days of earth’s history. The truth about God’s love and justice is constantly questioned and misunderstood in today’s society, just as it has been for thousands of years.
Satan has long attacked God’s character in lying, deceitful ways. Over the centuries, he has substituted the solid truth of the gospel with spurious doctrines that misrepresent the nature and pristine character of our Creator God.
Confusion seems to abound everywhere in our world today. The word “Babylon”, used in the book of Revelation to identify false religious movements (Revelation 14:8), suggests the kind of confusion that occurred when different languages were suddenly experienced by those building the Tower of Babel. See Genesis 11.
No wonder, many are confused enough today to join so-called Christian movements, whose members are far from loving and just in their actions. We must constantly be looking for love and justice in our world, and know that when either of them is missing, God is missing as well.
In order to vindicate Himself, God has chosen to send His Son in the flesh to show us God’s character. His love was dramatically demonstrated during His earthly ministry and at His death on the cross. Christ’s First Coming gives us hope that we are not forgotten by God. His sacrificial death at Calvary leaves no doubt that God loves us beyond anything we can imagine.
Our final rescue from the clutches of Satan have been promised at Christ’s Second Coming. At that time, we will see the fullness of God’s justice. All of God’s creatures, after the millennium His children spend in heaven, will be thoroughly convinced that total destruction of the devil and all the wicked is the only way the universe can have eternal peace and happiness.
Although His love and justice are tightly intertwined, two earthly appearances of Christ seem to be the best way to show God’s creatures the fullness of His character. Both the love and justice of our awesome God will finally be recognized by all (Philippians 2:10-11).
