Do we Long for Judgement or Fear it?

Hebrews 9:23-28 

23 Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us; 25 not that He should offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood of another— 26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

The copy or shadow of the heavenly sacrifice and worship is made clean by the actual things in heaven as revealed in Christ and His work.  He entered into the heavenly sanctuary, God’s real temple, and that so He could be our interceding High Priest who stands in presence before God our Father and not in a crude representation here on earth.  Unlike the earthly priests, Jesus only had to offer Himself once to be effective forever; the Levitical priests worked hard to repeatedly sacrifice with only temporary results.  Jesus, however, does not have to repeatedly suffer and sacrifice Himself from creation to final consummation, but died once to pay sin’s price because He was the perfect and blameless sacrifice.  Each of us will die once and face God’s judgement; will it be met with the sacrifice once made for us and believed to be effectual, or will it be not believed and received, resulting in eternal judgement with the inevitable consequence of eternal torment?  There is no second chance after death - we die and face our Judge who can also be our Mediator if we know Him and His reconciling grace by faith in this life.  He offered Himself for many, those He calls, to take on our sin by His sacrifice, and we who know Him now will see Him without our sin when He returns.  We eagerly long for the final judgement because of His grace in His atoning sacrifice for us.