Then they will appreciate it when His judgments permanently right all wrongs and eliminate all evil, through the suffering Sacrifice He has provided. The confusion of thought on this subject is due largely to lack of discrimination between our relations to God and our relationship to creatures like ourselves. By reasoning or inference the human element is carried over to the divine, because most men have no proper idea of the dignity due to the Deity. The object of human justice is quite different from God's judgments. Men must protect society by removing objectionable members from it, either for a time, by imprisonment, or finally, by death.
Divine judgment has an entirely different aim.
It is to reveal God's righteousness, as a basis for His love, by placing a proper penalty on all injustice. A real difficulty here is our human view of the meaning of divine judgment. We are apt to look at it as punishment only, a penalty incurred by wrongdoing. He deals with sinners during a short judgment period in order to prepare them perfectly for final endless association with their fellowmen and with Himself. The object of His judging is not to requite the sinner evil for evil, and make him suffer endlessly for his badness, but rather to correct him and remove all hindrances to enjoying His company.