[citation needed] When the individual dies, general judgment holds that the person's final dispensation will await the general judgment of the dead at the end of the world, rather than be judged immediately.
Jesus provided examples and illustrations of judgments against cities and generations.
Jesus warned his contemporaries that the men of Nineveh, who repented at the preaching of Jonah, and the Queen of the South would testify against them in the judgment.
[3] A decisive factor in the Last Judgment will be the question of whether the corporal works of mercy were practiced during a lifetime or not.
Therefore, and according to the biblical sources (Matthew 5:31-46), the conjunction of the Last Judgment and the works of mercy is very frequent in the pictorial tradition of Christian art.