As we began the study of eschatology, we saw that
each
individual person is judged by God immediately after
his or
her death. That prompt sentence is called the
particular
judgment.
The Bible is very emphatic in asserting that there
is also a
general judgment of all mankind at the end of the
world.
The particular
judgment addresses each of us as individual
and personal; the general judgment will address all of us as
social,
members of society. Also, after the resurrection, the
body must also share the judgment of the soul.
The general judgment addresses both the whole human
person,
resurrected body reunited with the soul, and the whole
of human society.