It has been questioned how far the sins of the people of God, which have been for ever pardoned, are to be revealed at judgment.  But we see no reason whatever why this should not be the case, and every reason why it should.  We might, beforehand, have thought it more likely that God would not have recorded in the Bible, and exposed in the light of all coming ages, the sins of His most eminent servants, as those of Abraham, Moses, David, of Peter, or of Paul.  But He has told the whole truth regarding them for our warning and instruction; and so will the whole truth be told regarding every saint at judgment, “that no flesh may glory in His presence;” and that the reality of the wickedness of the old man may be proven, as well as the reality of the holiness of the “new man created in Christ Jesus unto good works.”  And what saint can be unwilling to have revealed what he was, that so the glorious love of God’s Spirit may be made the more manifest, as the sole cause of what he has become, and will continue to be for ever and ever?

Fallen angels shall also be judged upon that day:  “For God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them, down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment,” “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains, under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.”  Under what dispensation those beings first sinned against God, we cannot tell.  All we know from the information given us by God is, that they have been permitted to exercise their power in this world, on the side of evil, ever since the creation of man.  Satan, the adversary, the tempter, the enemy, who is the head of these principalities and powers, has been a “liar and murderer from the beginning;” and in every age and clime, he and his wicked spirits have advanced the kingdom of darkness with indomitable perseverance, untiring energy, ceaseless hate, and “all deceivableness and unrighteousness in them that perish.”  Fallen angels having thus taken so dreadful a part in the history of Christ’s kingdom, and being responsible for all they do, shall be tried at judgment; and what a revelation must their trial be of the character, the hellish plots and machinations of those enemies of Jesus Christ and His Church!

We have already alluded to the individuality of the examination at the last day,—­how “every one of us must give an account of himself to God;” and “receive the things done in his body, according to what he hath done, whether good or evil;” and also, how each fact must be brought to light upon evidence whose truth cannot be questioned.  Upon that day, mere assertions will not be sufficient to establish the right or the wrong condition of any one before the judgment-seat.  The universe must know the truth!  Evidence must, therefore, be adduced which will “convince all;” and that evidence, too, will be sifted.  Before sentence is passed, overwhelming proof will demonstrate the righteous ground on which each individual must take his place among those on the left hand or on the right.  Let us see if we can discover any sources of evidence for the detection and discrimination of character.