2118. The last judgment means the last days of the church and also the end of each individual's life.
The last days of the church. The earliest church, which predated the Flood, had its last judgment when its descendants were destroyed; their end is portrayed as a flood. The ancient church, which came after the Flood, had its last judgment when almost all in that church became idolaters and were dispersed. The representative church, which took the place of the ancient church among Jacob's descendants, had its last judgment when ten of the tribes were taken into captivity and scattered among the surrounding nations, and again after the Lord's Coming when the Jews were exiled from the land of Canaan and dispersed throughout the world. The last judgment of the current church, which is called Christian, is what the new heaven and the new earth in John's Revelation mean.
