Romans 2:5-6 The Righteous Judgment of God

⁵...the righteous judgment of God; ⁶ Who will render to every man according to his deeds: -Romans 2:5-6 Bible, King James Version 

Most Christians believe they will face Judgement when they pass over to the Spirit World. What they may not realize is that we are all right now facing the Karma of our past deeds in this life as well as our past lives. When we pass over to the Spirit World it is more about instant karma depending on our state of consciousness at that moment in time which will be reflected in the world around us like a spiritual mirror rather than what we may have done in the past on the earth.

Beloved Jesus teaches us: "Because it is the close of a Cycle, each Life Stream is tried... and ...tested to know how strong the Light is, and how much substance and energy is still qualified with the human accumulation. Now when that testing time comes, beloved ones, no one can help you, not even We! When the hour strikes for you to stand before the Great Lord the Maha Chohan, before the Mighty Cosmos or before the Mighty Divine Director, and have Their Great Magnificent Observation of Life poured upon your Life Stream, you cannot hide anything... You must at a certain point on the Path, come under This Observation." ('The Voice of the I AM' 1946 May p10)

"The outer self of every Life Stream must face the judgement of the Higher Mental Body and the Ascended Host; and that determines where the embodiments will be in the future, or whether the Ascension is possible now!" -The Beloved Messenger ('The Voice of the I AM' 1946 February p18)

 

Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
From Things Heard and Seen

by Emanuel Swedenborg

Chapter 52

The Second State of Man After Death.

509. When evil spirits are in this second state, as they rush into evils of every kind they are subjected to frequent and grievous punishments. In the world of spirits there are many kinds of punishment; and there is no regard for person, whether one had been in the world a king or a servant. Every evil carries its punishment with it, the two making one; therefore whoever is in evil is also in the punishment of evil. And yet no one in the other world suffers punishment on account of the evils that he had done in this world, but only on account of the evils that he then does; although it amounts to the same and is the same thing whether it be said that men suffer punishment on account of their evils in the world or that they suffer punishment on account of the evils they do in the other life, since every one after death returns into his own life and thus into like evils; and the man continues the same as he had been in the life of the body. Men are punished for the reason that the fear of punishment is the sole means of subduing evils in this state. Exhortation is no longer of any avail, neither is instruction or fear of the law and of the loss of reputation, since every one then acts from his nature; and that nature can be restrained and broken only by punishments. But good spirits, although they had done evils in the world, are never punished, because their evils do not return. Moreover, I have learned that the evils they did were of a different kind or nature, not being done purposely in opposition to the truth, or from any other badness of heart than that which they received by inheritance from their parents...