"When our Lord says to those at his right hand, “Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,”
---He takes His saints into the presence of His Father (compare John
13:36; 14:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:14-17; Revelation 19:1-9),
---to the Paradise of God,
-----once here upon earth (Genesis 2:8,9; 3:22-24),
-----now in the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2-4),
---within the heavenly Jerusalem itself (compare Revelation 2:7; 22:2,14).
Here they sit down with him at his table and eat the marriage supper. Revelation 19:1-9.
These things being accomplished, the work of judgment is committed to the saints, a work so vast that we may well conceive the long period which lies between the two resurrections to be requisite for its accomplishment. Revelation 20:4-6.
The sitting of the saints in judgment upon the wicked must begin after they have heard the words of Christ approving them in His Father’s name.
This judgment by the saints is thus presented in the Scriptures:- “.... Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know you not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?” 1 Corinthians 6:1-3." J.N. Andrews
