His eyes were like a fiery flame, and many crowns were on his head. He had a name written that no one knows except himself.

Revelation 19:12

Jesus has a name that no one knows except himself. In other words, there are attributes of God that we may not know. Such as Jesus, the judge. I don’t fully comprehend some of God’s attributes, he has a name that no one knows, and my inability to accept this teaching of God, enacting divine vengeance, stemmed from my lack of knowledge of how holy he is. Because when I lower his holiness than sin, my sinfulness is not utterly sinful. But when I hold the belief that he is completely wholly more holy than I can imagine a name that I don’t even fully know, then divine judgment makes sense because sin compared to the holiness of God must be punished.

St. Augustine, an early church father, had a group of intellectuals who said to him, “Augustine, the punishment of divine vengeance or of hell seems greater than the crime.”

Maybe you imagined something like this: someone rejects Jesus for a lifetime, but then spends eternity in hell, as though the punishment warrants the crime. Augustine said, “In true justice, the length of the punishment is never commensurate with the length of the crime. It’s it’s never equal.”

In true justice, the length of the punishment is never commensurate with the length of the crime. It’s it’s never equal.

St. Augustine

Assume that murdering someone takes you 2.2 seconds. No one believes that justice should be limited to only 2.2 seconds. The length of the sentence is always proportional to the type of the crime and the person who did it. So even small crimes against a king or a president have a much greater sentence, and our sinfulness against the Holy God is greater than we could ever imagine.