The Great White Throne Judgment: Christians included?

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And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
 
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And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. .

Jeremiah 1
15“For behold! I am calling all the families of the kingdoms of the north,” declares Yahweh;
“and they will come and they will set each one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem,
and against all its walls round about and against all the cities of Judah.
16“I will pronounce My judgments on them concerning all their wickedness, whereby they have forsaken Me and have offered sacrifices to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

Sounds similar to the 10 Kings of the North in Revelation coming against Jerusalem? This judgement of the great City and people in here happen before the 1000yr period. Will have to study on this more

Revelation 17:12 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. 16 “And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the Harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 “For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose,................

Rev 16:19
The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed.
God remembered Babylon the Great and gave her the cup filled with the wine of the fury of his wrath.

Notice the cities of the Jews in Israel Rome came against in the 1st century...........


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They address two different resurrections. There is no link to the great white throne in these verse where is the reference to tombs at the great white throne . You are only trying to create a link

Why does a verse in Daniel state many will be resurrected and not say all will be resurrected if there is just one resurrection

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.
Of course there are two resurrections. However these passages state "A RESURRECTION" where both are judged. Plain English which you choose to ignore. Again, which one is it? If you choose to decline to answer my question, don't bother to reply.
 
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When the books are opened then Christ's reign through his Cross in restoring man to God has come to be fulfilled, where God will be all in all those who are to be written in the Book of Life.

Christ hands over the Kingdom of Daniel 2:44 to God the Father as in mission accomplished and he becomes subject to the Father, for the Harvest of mens souls has ended. The Holy Spirit has finally guaranteed to all who are written in the Book of Life what is to come, the end!

There is no more sea of people and no more biological and neither spiritual death, no more Hell because the Old order of things has ended and the New Heaven and the New Earth have now been fully realised through the last Adam Jesus Christ. That is why even the sea gives up its dead, implying that all terrestrial men have died and have faced the Final Judgment of the Dead at the White Throne Judgement, which points to closure of the Old order or the things under the condemned to death first Adam.
 
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You are on the right track.

It is confirmed by Paul in 2 Timothy 4:1.

Many ignore the timing of the event, because it does not fit their man-made doctrine.


Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

Those who have been purchased by the blood of Christ will be judged based on His works.

When some try to force the New Testament to fit their Pre-mill interpretation of Revelation 20, they must ignore what you are presenting.



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Thanks for your reply as that is an interesting perspective as I was unaware of the amillennial view regarding this. However, I have difficulty reconciling the amillennial view with Revelation 20:4-6 where it references a first resurrection followed by a 1,000 years after which the rest dead come to life. Thus there must be two resurrections instead of just one. Can you clarify?
 
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There are 2 resurrections, in the 1st resurrection (at Jesus 2nd coming) is all the saved in the graves (and the saved living at the time) they do not experience the 2nd death. The 2nd resurrection (The GWT judgement) is later (after 1,000 years) and all the unsaved along with satan and his minions are destroyed along with the earth by fire.

Revelation 20:5

The rest of the dead (the unsaved) did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.

Revelation 20:14

14Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire.15 And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Read the passages I cited again. They describe ONE resurrection in which BOTH the righteous and unrighteous are judged - not two separate resurrections for each. How do you reconcile this?
 
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When the books are opened then Christ's reign through his Cross in restoring man to God has come to be fulfilled, where God will be all in all those who are to be written in the Book of Life.

Christ hands over the Kingdom of Daniel 2:44 to God the Father as in mission accomplished and he becomes subject to the Father, for the Harvest of mens souls has ended. The Holy Spirit has finally guaranteed to all who are written in the Book of Life what is to come, the end!

There is no more sea of people and no more biological and neither spiritual death, no more Hell because the Old order of things has ended and the New Heaven and the New Earth have now been fully realised through the last Adam Jesus Christ. That is why even the sea gives up its dead, implying that all terrestrial men have died and have faced the Final Judgment of the Dead at the White Throne Judgement, which points to closure of the Old order or the things under the condemned to death first Adam.
So according to the Eastern Orthodox view, both the saved and unsaved are judged at the GWT? Just asking as I'm not familiar with the Eastern Orthodox stance.
 
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Thanks for your reply as that is an interesting perspective as I was unaware of the amillennial view regarding this. However, I have difficulty reconciling the amillennial view with Revelation 20:4-6 where it references a first resurrection followed by a 1,000 years after which the rest dead come to life. Thus there must be two resurrections instead of just one. Can you clarify?

Not two resurrections, but infact two millenniums. The chaining of Satan by the Cross, followed by the everlasting millennium of Christ when the books are finally opened at Christ's coming at the Final Trumpet when time no more is declared.

Those that don't come to life until the millennium of Satan ends is saying they do not live to see the everlasting Millennium with Christ and are not recipients of the one and only resurrection of the dead when the books are opened at the White Throne Judgement.
Since they who do not take part in the resurrection of the dead (also called the first resurrection), they are those who represent death and hell who are cast into the Lake of Fire (annihilation).

When the sea of people give up its dead, it implies all of humanity has died and been judged past this point and death and hell cannot continue at Christ's coming. He is the God of the Living and death and hell and unsaved cannot continue when his everlasting millennium commences.
 
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So according to the Eastern Orthodox view, both the saved and unsaved are judged at the GWT? Just asking as I'm not familiar with the Eastern Orthodox stance.

I am of the Church of the East, the Oldest Church and foundation of Orthodoxy. The profile may suggest Russian Orthodox, but historically the Assyrian Church of the East was twice as large as the Church in the West up until 1300 AD. The church is now the smallest. These are the Men of Nineveh spoken of by Jesus and the Assyrians who are declared God's Handy Work in Isaiah 19:23-25.

Orthodoxy from the East, owes its routes to the Assyrian Church of the East in Edessa (Iraq) Nineveh, where it was dispensed along the Silk Road Highway of God through the corroboration and partnership of Jewish merchants and Assyrians who spoke the Franco Lingo of those days.

Aside from history, the Assyrian Church believes that all of humanity will be judged at Christ's coming and the saved continue and the unsaved discontinue (Lake of Fire).
 
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Thanks for your reply as that is an interesting perspective as I was unaware of the amillennial view regarding this. However, I have difficulty reconciling the amillennial view with Revelation 20:4-6 where it references a first resurrection followed by a 1,000 years after which the rest dead come to life. Thus there must be two resurrections instead of just one. Can you clarify?

You are making the assumption that the Book of Revelation is in chronological error.

Since Christ returns in Revelation 16:15-16, and also in chapter 19 the book cannot be in chronological order.
Instead, it is a series of overlapping visions.

Most skip "the time of the judgment of the dead" in Revelation 11:18, because it does not fit their doctrine.


Based on John 5:24, I was dead, but am now alive.
This is the first resurrection found in John chapter 5.
It is a spiritual resurrection.
It is also the first resurrection found at the beginning of Revelation chapter 20.
John saw "souls" in heaven with Christ. They have already been through the resurrection found in John 5:24.


The second resurrection in John chapter 5 is found in John 5:27-30.
It is the "hour" of the bodily resurrection and judgment of "all" the dead, which occurs at the Second Coming of Christ.

What does "all" mean?

Matthew 25:31-46 kills the Pre-mill doctrine because it leaves no mortals alive on the planet.

In 2 Timothy 4:1 Paul said Christ judges both the living and the dead at His appearing.
This agrees with Christ returning in "flaming fire", as found in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10. How would mortals survive the flaming fire?

The fire comes at the end of Revelation chapter 20.

Revelation 20 is full of symbolic language.
The Premill interpretation can only work by ignoring many other passages.

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I am of the Church of the East, the Oldest Church and foundation of Orthodoxy. The profile may suggest Russian Orthodox, but historically the Assyrian Church of the East was twice as large as the Church in the West up until 1300 AD. The church is now the smallest. These are the Men of Nineveh spoken of by Jesus and the Assyrians who are declared God's Handy Work in Isaiah 19:23-25.

Orthodoxy from the East, owes its routes to the Assyrian Church of the East in Edessa (Iraq) Nineveh, where it was dispensed along the Silk Road Highway of God through the corroboration and partnership of Jewish merchants and Assyrians who spoke the Franco Lingo of those days.

Aside from history, the Assyrian Church believes that all of humanity will be judged at Christ's coming and the saved continue and the unsaved discontinue (Lake of Fire).
I was under the impression the the Eastern Othodox Church subscribes to the doctrine of apocatastasis/apokatastasis. Am I mistaken?
 
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This is the first resurrection found in John chapter 5.
It is a spiritual resurrection.

Question 1: When did the spiritual resurrection happen?

Cross? Pentecost? 70AD

Question 2: Where do partial Preterists stand on the beginning of this spiritual resurrection?

Confusion leads to multiple eschatological paths right? For God is not the author of confusion right?

Question 3: Was Revelation of Jesus Christ dispensed before or after the spiritual resurrection?

Question 4: Is the first resurrection (spiritual) before or after the battle of Armegeddon?

Scripture states the first resurrection is after the battle of Armegeddon when the beast and the false prophet were thrown in the Lake of Fire and where Satan was chained after the events of the battle right?

Then the first resurrection was future to the Cross right?

Partial Preterists options have been narrowed down to either Pentecost or 70AD right?

If the book of revelation was given after the fact, then it narrows it down to 70AD right?

Was the book of Revelation given before or after 70AD?

If before 70AD, then John is being told with urgency to now commence preaching from the littie sweet book (The Gospel).

If before 70AD, then God is reprimanding his Church during a time period where the Church is being persecuted and the turmoil of war has it on the run from its enemies.

It cannot be given before 70AD, because during war, famine, pestilence and death, the Gospel will not be conducive to the general public consumption and most importantly there is absolutely no evidence that the opening chapters of reprimand is to a complacent Church, especially when they have valiantly given all they could under extreme persecution.

The facts remain that the book of Revelation was given several decades after 70AD, where the Church that had been in hiding had become laxed and complacent and needed a push to kick start the commission. John was informing the 7 Church leaders (messengers) that it was now safe to do so, because the beast and the false prophet are gone for good and Satan is prevented from persecuting and preventing them.

From a biblical exegetical study, the alleged Preterist spiritual resurrection did not happen at the Cross, neither Pentecost, neither 70AD.

So when does the alleged spiritual resurrection happen?

? There is no scripture to corroborate its commencement after the battle of Armegeddon right?

John says it does not happen until the Millennium of Satan's chaining has ended, coinciding with him being released for the last and final time in the battle of Gog and Magog, which is the Day of Great Battle of God almighty mentioned in Zechariah 14:1-3, where Christ sends his Angels to separate the Goats from amongst his Sheep within the very walls of Jerusalem the Holy City. This Holy City is the Body of Christ, and the separation of the Tares from amongst the Whear happens after the Gentile nations have come to full number and before the books are opened.

This requires wisdom, because the first resurrection is not spiritual, but is the Crown of Life that awards the Testator their eternal Life in the everlasting Millennium that happens only after the Battle of Gog and Magog which is the second battle at the end of the New Covenant Age and ending the Harvest and attesting to Christ's final reign before he hands the Kingdom to the Father as in mission accomplished.

The 1st battle was the battle of Armegeddon against the beast (Herodean Dynasty) and the false prophet (Pharisical Religious System) whom Satan wielded as the flood of people who persued the 1st century Woman that was in labour of dispensing the Gospel (The Church). Then Satan was chained, meaning he was prevented from persuing the Woman by using the beast and the false prophet that did his bidding . John was given the OK to preach yet again from the Gospel (little sweet book) several decades after 70AD.

The final battle of Gog and Magog is within the antithesis Jerusalem of Zechariah 14:1-3 where the fullness of the gentiles from the gentile nations have entered within its very walls. Satan is released to deceive the leaders of the Christian religious establishments on the Day of Great Battle, where the Tares (sons of perdition/ men of sin) will do Satan's bidding within the Body of Christ as they who represent the many false christs (religious leaders) and the false prophets (ministers), who try to circumvent Christ's Daily Sacrifice by abominations in serving a lie. Christ comes to fight in Jerusalem his Church against those false christs and false prophests and then after this point Satan is destroyed in the Lake of fire where as before he was only prevented because the Gentiles had not yet come to full.

Then the books are opened and Christ's everlasting millennium commences in his Father's house.
 
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I was under the impression the the Eastern Othodox Church subscribes to the doctrine of apocatastasis/apokatastasis. Am I mistaken?

The Christian Forums label is limited and yet the Ancient term Eastern Church should not be confused with the modern spin.

The Assyrian Orthodox Church of the East came before the concept of Eastern Europe owing to modern terminologies.
 
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You are making the assumption that the Book of Revelation is in chronological error.

Since Christ returns in Revelation 16:15-16, and also in chapter 19 the book cannot be in chronological order.
Instead, it is a series of overlapping visions.

Most skip "the time of the judgment of the dead" in Revelation 11:18, because it does not fit their doctrine.


Based on John 5:24, I was dead, but am now alive.
This is the first resurrection found in John chapter 5.
It is a spiritual resurrection.
It is also the first resurrection found at the beginning of Revelation chapter 20.
John saw "souls" in heaven with Christ. They have already been through the resurrection found in John 5:24.


The second resurrection in John chapter 5 is found in John 5:27-30.
It is the "hour" of the bodily resurrection and judgment of "all" the dead, which occurs at the Second Coming of Christ.

What does "all" mean?

Matthew 25:31-46 kills the Pre-mill doctrine because it leaves no mortals alive on the planet.

In 2 Timothy 4:1 Paul said Christ judges both the living and the dead at His appearing.
This agrees with Christ returning in "flaming fire", as found in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10. How would mortals survive the flaming fire?

The fire comes at the end of Revelation chapter 20.

Revelation 20 is full of symbolic language.
The Premill interpretation can only work by ignoring many other passages.

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Yes I believe that it is in chronological order but not as most believe. The 6 seals are followed by the 6 trumpets which are followed by the 6 bowls. However, the 7th seal, 7th trumpet and 7th bowl are all the same event which heralds the Second Coming. That is why as you point out, Rev 16 & 19 describe the same event which is the return of Christ. This little known view was published by the Journal of the Evangelical Society, a well-respected journal in the 1960's (I think), entitled The Relationship Between the Seals, Trumpets and Bowls in the Book of Revelation by the Rev. Dale Ralph Davis. I believe it is still available online in PDF. Perhaps you may want to reference it to study. Given this chronological framework, the first resurrection occurs at the Second Coming, followed by the millennial kingdom which is followed by the second resurrection/GWT judgment.

In terms of Rev 11:18, it fits perfectly with the above model by Rev. Davis. This verse states that the time for judging the dead has come in the context of the 7th trumpet. It is the dead in Christ who are being judged here - not all the dead. The dead saints who are worthy are resurrected before those who are alive in Christ at his return.

In Matt 25:31-46 there are indeed mortals alive. They are referred to as the sheep who enter the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

In 2 Tim 4:1 the mortals are not killed by the flaming fire but instead are judged by it.

In Rev 20, 1,000 years means 1,000 years.
 
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Not two resurrections, but infact two millenniums. The chaining of Satan by the Cross, followed by the everlasting millennium of Christ when the books are finally opened at Christ's coming at the Final Trumpet when time no more is declared
I don't seen anywhere in Scripture that cites two millenniums. Scripture reference?
 
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In terms of Rev 11:18, it fits perfectly with the above model by Rev. Davis. This verse states that the time for judging the dead has come in the context of the 7th trumpet. It is the dead in Christ who are being judged here - not all the dead. The dead saints who are worthy are resurrected before those who are alive in Christ at his return.

In Matt 25:31-46 there are indeed mortals alive. They are referred to as the sheep who enter the millennial kingdom and populate the earth.

In 2 Tim 4:1 the mortals are not killed by the flaming fire but instead are judged by it.

In Rev 20, 1,000 years means 1,000 years.

Your version of the bodily resurrection and judgment of "all" the dead does not agree with the words of Christ in John 5:27-30.

If you can show mortals that survive the judgment of Matthew 25:31-46, please provide the scripture for us to see.

Do you deny the symbolic nature of Revelation chapter 20?
Is Satan bound with a steel chain from the hardware store, or is he bound by the blood of Christ?

Is Satan a giant flying lizard, or is he a fallen angel?

Can a hole in the ground with a metal lid hold Satan?


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Your version of the bodily resurrection and judgment of "all" the dead does not agree with the words of Christ in John 5:27-30.
Why not? I demonstrated that Rev 11:18 refers to the judgment of the dead saints who are worthy - not all the dead. This is the first resurrection. Jn 5:27-30 on the other hand refers to the second resurrection which takes place after the millennium where all the dead are judged - the saved as well as the unsaved. Yes, I wrote the saved as well. This is because these saved souls did not attain to the "exanastasis" that Paul refers to in Phil 3:11. This requires more explanation but that is the short answer.

If you can show mortals that survive the judgment of Matthew 25:31-46, please provide the scripture for us to see.
The reference is the passage itself. Verse 46: And these will depart to eternal (aiōnion | αἰώνιον | acc sg fem) punishment, but the righteous to eternal (aiōnion | αἰώνιον | acc sg fem) life.”
The word aiōnion is an adjectival form of the noun aiōn. Aiōn means age - not eternal. Therefore its adjective aiōnion modifies the noun meaning pertaining to an age, or age-during. The sheep enter the millennial kingdom for an age of time = age during = 1,000 years. The goats likewise enter age-during punishment; not eternal punishment.

Is Satan bound with a steel chain from the hardware store, or is he bound by the blood of Christ?
Ace Hardware probably. :) The answer is maybe both; certainly the later but it does not preclude the former.

Is Satan a giant flying lizard, or is he a fallen angel?
fallen angel

Can a hole in the ground with a metal lid hold Satan?
If God made it for that intended purpose then of course it can.
 
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I don't seen anywhere in Scripture that cites two millenniums. Scripture reference?

My Claims -

First resurrection does not commence when Satan is bound.

Christ's Millennium does not commence when Satan is bound.

Let us read the versus in context and how the culture of the day would read them, not so much how it is worded in English within brackets. Brackets imply uncertainty of correct translation.

They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 5(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. 6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

what is the emphasis of the Millennium ending?

3He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

This particular Millenium is after the Battle of Armegedon when the beast and the false prophet is killed in the Lake of Fire and Satan prevented from using those very 1st Century players in doing his bidding.

It certainly does not coincide when Christ returns to call it a day and open the books to resurrect his bride in the first resurrection, unless, you like Preterists or Partial Preterists say that Christ came within the 1st Century and opened the books and defeating the final enemy death and spiritually resurrected his bride.

My question according to the synthesis of my post # 33 is when did this spiritual resurrection happen within the 1st century?

Note that the Battle of Armegedon chains Satan, yet the Battle of Gog and Magog after the Millennium ends is, when Satan joins the 1st century beast and 1st century prophet in destruction Lake of Fire, second death (annihilation).

7When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison8and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—and to gather them for battle
the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown.

So we need to separate the two battles.

The 1st (Armegedon) is 1st Century effecting first century Church (Woman), where the thesis City Jerusalem (The False Prophet) makes war with the Lamb, but the literal thesis City is destroyed in 70AD.

The 2nd (Gog and Magog) is when the Gentiles come to full and before the books are opened, effecting the Church internally within its walls as the anti-thesis Holy City that Christ will purge off the many Tares (sons of perdition) on the Day of Great Battle of God. The antithesis spiritual Jerusalem that Satan decieves the very Gentile leaders of who niw become the false christs are purged by the breath of his mouth and the brilliance of his coming. Notice that Zechariah 14:1-3 has half of the Gentile believers not purged from thus antithesis Holy Jerusalem and they remain within tge Body of Christ.

The thesis literal city is destroyed in 70AD.
The antithesis spiritual City (Church) is not destroyed, as half of the Gentiles remain within its walls (Zechariah 14:1-3).

Now we come to the brackets that I mentioned earlier.

Those that came to life only after Satan's millennium has expired and the battle of Gog and Magog is over explicitly projects to an everlasying millennium with Christ at the time Satan is destroyed in the Lake of Fire, the books are opened (eternal life registry finalised) and then those who are not written in the Book of Life are partakers with Satan in the Lake of Fire, the second death (annihilation). Notice death (dpiritual/biological) and hell at this point is no more and Christ has finally defeated the final enemy death as his reign is niw complete where God is all in all and then the hand over of the Kingdom to the Father occurs and the Cross of Christ has now fulfilled its purpose.

27Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.

When Christ's millennium commences all the sea of peoples from all nations will give up its dead, as he comes not to offer his Cross for redemption as this is now mission accomplished in his reign during Satan's captivity, but now delivers the salvation that is -

13The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.

The End! No more death (spiritual/biological)

There cannot be a 1st century spiritual resurrection (post #33) without no more death to all at Christ's Appearing.

Not to forget the second death is future to death (spiritual/biological) and hell being consumed by it and cannot be spiritually to only the believers as the sea of all peoples gave up its dead and all the world was judged, without exception.
 
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The reference is the passage itself. Verse 46: And these will depart to eternal (aiōnion | αἰώνιον | acc sg fem) punishment, but the righteous to eternal (aiōnion | αἰώνιον | acc sg fem) life.”
The word aiōnion is an adjectival form of the noun aiōn. Aiōn means age - not eternal. Therefore its adjective aiōnion modifies the noun meaning pertaining to an age, or age-during. The sheep enter the millennial kingdom for an age of time = age during = 1,000 years. The goats likewise enter age-during punishment; not eternal punishment.

The form of the word found in the Greek text recorded by Matthew means "eternal". It is translated as such in multiple translations.

G166
αἰώνιος
aiōnios
ahee-o'-nee-os
From G165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well): - eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
Total KJV occurrences: 71

Matthew 25:46

(CJB) They will go off to eternal punishment, but those who have done what God wants will go to eternal life."

(ESV) And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

(Geneva) And these shall goe into euerlasting paine, and the righteous into life eternall.

(Greek NT TR) και απελευσονται ουτοι εις κολασιν αιωνιον οι δε δικαιοι εις ζωην αιωνιον

(GW) "These people will go away into eternal punishment, but those with God's approval will go into eternal life."

(LITV-TSP) And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life.

(KJV) And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

(KJV+) AndG2532 theseG3778 shall go awayG565 intoG1519 everlastingG166 punishment:G2851 butG1161 theG3588 righteousG1342 intoG1519 lifeG2222 eternal.G166

(NKJV) And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

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2Ti 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;


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