Article XVII Christ's Return for Judgment

[1] Our churches teach that at the end of the world Christ will appear for judgment and will raise all the dead [1 Thessalonians 4:13–5:2]. [2] He will give the godly and elect eternal life and everlasting joys, [3] but He will condemn ungodly people and the devils to be tormented without end [Matthew 25:31–46].

[4] Our churches condemn the Anabaptists, who think that there will be an end to the punishments of condemned men and devils.

[5] Our churches also condemn those who are spreading certain Jewish opinions, that before the resurrection of the dead the godly shall take possession of the kingdom of the world, the ungodly being everywhere suppressed.