We will all have to go through a judgement when we die, but we are guaranteed that judgement will befall the fool.
"Judgements are prepared for scoffers, and stripes for the back of [self-confident] fools." Proverbs 19:29, Amplified
There is the guarantee that I referenced. Judgements are prepared for the scoffer and there are beatings ready for the fool. The scoffer and the fool are two very special people. Let me explain more.
The scoffer is not only one who does not believe, but he openly mocks that which he does not believe. It is one thing to not believe, but it is an entirely different thing to try and pull others around you down because of your unbelief.
The fool has said in his heart that there is no God, at least that is what the Psalms tell us. Isaiah has another definition, "The foolish person will speak foolishness, and his heart will work iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error against the Lord, to keep the hungry unsatisfied, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail." (Isaiah 32:6, NKJV) The scoffer causes others to falter because of his words and the fool causes others to falter because of his actions. This is why judgements are prepared for the both of them.
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