The Great Judgment Day (Lillenas)

Some day when time shall have writ­ten

Its sto­ry

and mer­cy is past;

The mul­ti­tude mill­ions shall ga­ther

To judg­ment

an ar­my so vast.

From all of the ends of cre­ation

From grave­yard

from ocean

from land

Each race

ev­ery tongue

tribe and na­tion

Before the white throne then must stand.

You will be there

I will be there;

Shall our hearts trem­ble with fear or des­pair?

When the great Judge our names will call

On that great and dread­ful day.

Those who re­ject­ed the Sav­ior

And spurned all His in­fin­ite grace

Who oft­en had been free­ly of­fered

His par­don­ing kiss and em­brace

And those who ne­glect­ed to seek Him—

Some oth­er time

this was their plea—

Shall hear

De­part

I nev­er knew you;

How sad will their des­ti­ny be!

Those who would trust in their good­ness

Denying the need of the cross

Will find their self right­eous­ness van­ish

Their gar­ments but rags and but dross.

And those who by some means or oth­er

Would en­ter

but not thro’ the blood

For ev­er away shall be ban­ished

To dark­ness of night with­out God.

But those who trust­ed the Sav­ior

Repented and turned from their sin

Shall hear the glad mes­sage of wel­come:

Well done

to My joy en­ter in.

Their sins from the book have been blot­ted

Their re­cord is whit­er than snow

Throughout all the un­end­ing ag­es

The joy of their Lord they shall know.