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  "term": "Judgment Day",
  "slug": "judgment-day",
  "letter": "J",
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  "short_definition": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness.",
  "simple_one_line": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness.",
  "tooltip_text": "The appointed day of God's open judgment.",
  "lede_intro": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness. Its meaning is controlled by its canonical placement, covenant setting, and the way later biblical writers remember or interpret it.",
  "at_a_glance_definition": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness through his chosen Son.",
  "at_a_glance_key_points": [
    "Judgment Day highlights the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness.",
    "It concentrates themes of accountability, resurrection, verdict, and the public vindication of God's justice.",
    "Read it with attention to prophetic warning, apostolic preaching, and the lordship of Christ."
  ],
  "description_academic_short": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness through his chosen Son. A good dictionary treatment identifies both the historical referent and the theological weight the canon places upon it.",
  "description_academic_full": "Judgment Day is the appointed day when God openly judges the world in righteousness through his chosen Son. More fully, the entry should be read as part of Scripture’s unified history of creation, fall, covenant, kingdom, judgment, and redemption. Its significance is not exhausted by bare chronology or geography, because later biblical writers often recall persons, places, and events as theological signs within the unfolding canon.",
  "background_biblical_context": "Biblically, the expression gathers together prophetic day-of-the-Lord themes, resurrection hope, and apostolic proclamation of final accountability.",
  "background_historical_context": "Historically, Judgment Day is likewise an eschatological expectation rather than a past historical episode, expressed in prophetic and apostolic teaching about a fixed future day appointed by God.",
  "background_jewish_ancient_context": null,
  "key_texts_primary": [
    "Acts 17:30-31 - God appoints a day of judgment.",
    "Romans 2:5-16 - Day of wrath and righteous judgment.",
    "Revelation 20:11-15 - Final judgment."
  ],
  "key_texts_secondary": [
    "Ecclesiastes 12:14 - God will bring every deed into judgment.",
    "Matthew 12:36 - Idle words will be accounted for in the day of judgment.",
    "2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 - Final judgment brings both relief and vengeance.",
    "2 Peter 3:10-13 - The day of the Lord includes cosmic dissolution and renewal."
  ],
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  "theological_significance": "Theologically, it matters because it places all humanity under divine judgment while magnifying the necessity of repentance and faith in Christ.",
  "philosophical_explanation": null,
  "interpretive_cautions": "Do not detach Judgment Day from its place in the biblical timeline or reduce it to a bare historical datum. Its significance is shaped by divine action, covenant context, and later canonical interpretation.",
  "major_views_note": null,
  "doctrinal_boundaries": null,
  "practical_significance": "Judgment Day sobers readers with the certainty of accountability while anchoring hope that evil will not have the last word in God's world.",
  "related_entries": [
    "Covenant",
    "Exile",
    "Restoration"
  ],
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