- Are you saying that there is salvation for the wicked dead in hell.
I am not ducking around what is not even implied in the text. I would agree those dead, at least those still named in the Lamb's book of life, should be allowed to accept the Atonement and recieve eternal life. Do you see that written down by John or implied? Do you assume they will even accept, or will they continue to reject God?
Do you believe there is hope for Satan and the demons also?
No.
You are avoiding all the core issues again. I suspect you know that.
- Who are the millennial inhabitants? Where do they come from? What is the criteria for inheriting the millennial earth?
- Who are Gog and Magog? Where do they come from? What is the criteria for inheriting Satan's little season?
The criteria for inheriting Satan's little season is the 1000 years are up. Revelation 20:7-8
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea."
Revelation 20 does not say what happens to those on earth and in Paradise. Give me one good reason it should. All can shoe horn their pet opinions, but you really want to speculate about it?
There is no need given nor implied that the living will stand before the GWT. They are not the dead, they all are in Christ, and covered by the Atonement of the Cross. Why would those with eternal life have to ever die again after Revelation 20:4? The dead are the dead, and that is all John claims are standing at the GWT.
You really do not understand how the Millennium starts? The Second Coming happened. All humanity were killed in the final harvest. None of Adam's flesh and blood left alive. All were dead, period! Then there was a resurrection, Revelation 20:4
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
John does not seem to be ducking around the points being raised. I am sure if he needed to, he would have included all the details, and no one would need to sit around and speculate.
If the wicked are destroyed at the end of Satan’s little season then where do they go when they die? Do they not need to be resurrected again to be judged?
Where have I denied Satan's little season happens after the 1,000 years? Where have I denied even billions are free to rebel, after the 1,000 years have expired? Where have I denied they were consumed by fire? Where have I denied Satan was cast into the LOF, 1000 years after the FP and beast? Where have I denied heaven and earth ceased to exist, not just recieved a make over? Where have I denied the dead stand before God sitting on the throne alone in eternity? Where have I denied all the dead from sheol, Death, and the sea, indeed stand and are judged, and then cast into the LOF? Where have I denied that Death and sheol were cast into the LOF? Where have I claimed those cast into the LOF still had their names in the Lamb's book of life. My only opinion is that some in sheol may not have been removed from the Lamb's book of life.
The dead are dead. Even those consumed by fire are still dead. They still hear the words, "Depart from me, I never knew you". Once a name is removed from the Lamb's book of life, it seems indicative God never knew them. Not that God stops being omniscient. It is the fact they are no longer named from the foundation of creation. God knew they were there, up until that moment, and after that moment, it was like they had never been there. The dead only stand in judgment once. They only stand before the GWT once. If you claim they are called out of their graves, obviously they do come out of the sea, sheol, and even Death, but as dead. The dead remain physically dead, and end up in the Lake of Fire dead dead, or twice dead.
Now you can explain why any living covered by the Atonement have to stand like a dead person before God on His GWT. You can explain how they all died again, and are called the dead. If you think I am misrepresenting a point, show me where in Revelation 20 the living stand before a GWT. The resurrection was 1000 years prior. Explain:
"But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection."
If some were resurrected then, why does it say the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished? How do I get that verse wrong? Were there no dead resurrected in Revelation 20:4? Was Revelation 20:4 not the first resurrection?
"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
Do these resurrected people not rule and reign literally on earth for 1,000 years, never dying again? They were just resurrected, they already died once. They can never physically die again. None of these can even rebel at the end. It is impossible to stop being blessed and holy. They do have offspring, because some one has to be born to actually rebel after the 1000 years. That is just logical common sense. All are dead before Revelation 20:4. Or alive in Christ in Paradise. Both the dead and those in Paradise have already physically died once. They cannot physically die again. Why would they have to?
