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A cold hard fact of life
is that the vast majority
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of humanity has lived
and died without ever
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accepting Jesus Christ
as their Savior--in fact,
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most of them without ever
hearing His name spoken aloud.
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For many, this fact is
more than a statistic,
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as they agonize with concerns
about a dead loved one,
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unsure of their fate
in the hereafter.
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Yet the true answer
concerning the fate of
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the unsaved is far more
joyous and hopeful than
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almost anyone understands.
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You need the hope of your
Bible's answer to the
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question of where the
unsaved go when they die.
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Stay tuned.
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♪
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Greetings, and welcome to
Tomorrow's World, where we
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help you make sense of
your world through the
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pages of the Bible.
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The question we'll tackle
today has been a source of
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needless doubt, heartbreak,
and hopelessness for many
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over the centuries:
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"Where do the unsaved
go when they die?"
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The answer to this question
is one of the most hopeful
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and profound truths
of the Bible.
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So today we're offering
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topic themselves in
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The title is Is This the
Only Day of Salvation?
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In Acts chapter 4, we read
of an exchange between the
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Apostle Peter and angry
Jewish leaders who were
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upset that he'd just healed
a man in the name of Christ.
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Let's read it, beginning
in verse 10:
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"...let it be known to you
all, and to all the people
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of Israel, that by the name
of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
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whom you crucified, whom
God raised from the dead,
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by Him this man stands
here before you whole.
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...Nor is there salvation
in any other, for there is
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no other name under heaven
given among men by which
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we must be saved."
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But that causes a problem, doesn't it?
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Because of the billions of
human beings who've ever
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lived, relatively few have
ever heard of Jesus Christ
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and His message.
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Now let's set aside for the
moment the fact that most
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people who believe they
have "accepted Christ"
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have not actually accepted
Him at all, but have fallen
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for what the Apostle Paul
calls "another Jesus"
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and a "different gospel".
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Again, let's set that
aside and be as generous
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as we can for the sake
of this discussion.
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Today, Christianity is
just about as big as
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it's ever been.
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For the more than 8 billion people currently on planet
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earth, a little less than a third, between 2 and 2 1/2
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billion, consider themselves
any sort of "Christian."
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And if we go back to the
beginning of Christianity
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around 2000 years ago, population scientists
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estimate that as many as
65 billion people have been
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born in those two millennia--
the vast majority of whom
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have never been any
sort of "Christian."
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In fact, most of mankind throughout history has been
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"unsaved" and never even heard the name of Jesus Christ,
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let alone His message.
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So, what happened to them?
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It isn't just a question
about cold statistics.
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Many have agonized over the
fate of their loved ones,
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and others have been turned
off of the Bible, believing
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the God of Scripture to
be cruel and capricious.
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Frankly, it's a question
I personally wrestled
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with as a young man.
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I asked everyone I knew
and respected--my parents,
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my grandmother, my pastor... even my geometry teacher.
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They all had answers,
but the answers never
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completely fit the Bible.
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I heard that God might
ignore that some people
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hadn't had an opportunity
to accept Christ for
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forgiveness and would
just save them anyway.
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But that didn't fit
Peter's words in Acts 4,
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and it seemed to make Christ's sacrifice unnecessary.
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And I knew that wasn't the case, since Romans 3:23 said that
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"all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God."
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Some suggested that maybe
God foreknew that those who
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never heard the Gospel would
not have accepted it anyway,
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so He didn't bother
to send it to them.
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But that doesn't even match Jesus' own testimony.
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For instance, look in Matthew 11, starting in verse 20:
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"Then He began to rebuke
the cities in which most
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of His mighty works had
been done, because they
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did not repent:
"Woe to you, Chorazin!
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Woe to you, Bethsaida!
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For if the mighty works
which were done in you
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had been done in Tyre and
Sidon, they would have
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repented long ago in
sackcloth and ashes.
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But I say to you, it will
be more tolerable for Tyre
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and Sidon in the day of
judgment than for you.
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And you, Capernaum, who
are exalted to heaven,
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will be brought down to
Hades; for if the mighty
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works which were done
in you had been done
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in Sodom, it would have
remained until this day.
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But I say to you that it
shall be more tolerable for
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the land of Sodom in the day
of judgment than for you."
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Note that Jesus says clearly,
if the people of Tyre,
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Sidon, and Sodom were
given the same opportunities
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that His audience had been given, then they would have
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repented before they died.
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It all started to make
God seem so unfair.
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Yet passages such as Acts
10:34 and Romans 2:11 made
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clear that God is very fair
and "shows no partiality."
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Well then, maybe God
just didn't care.
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Yet, Scripture, too,
contradicted this.
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1 Timothy 2:4 says that
God "desires all men to be
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saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth."
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So, maybe it meant that God
was simply not powerful enough
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to save most people.
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But the Bible, from
Genesis to Revelation,
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declares the sovereign
God to be the almighty,
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calling Him in Revelation 19:6 "the Lord God Omnipotent".
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With so many billions
dying "unsaved" who never
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had even a chance to be
forgiven of their sins,
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it can move us to ask as
Abraham once did,
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"Shall not the Judge of all
the earth do right?"
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But the good news is
that there is an answer.
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And the Bible's truth about
what happens to the unsaved
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when they die is a beautiful source of joy, comfort,
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and hope that everyone
needs to understand.
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In the rest of our program, we'll explain four key
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Biblical facts that will lay
out for you the answer to the
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question of what happens to
the unsaved when they die.
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that explain the fate
of the unsaved.
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Welcome back.
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Today, we're explaining the
true fate of the unsaved
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when they die.
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And the key to understanding
the hope-filled answer lies in
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grasping four Biblical facts.
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Fact #1: All who have
died, saved and unsaved,
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await a resurrection.
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Most think that, once you die, your immortal soul either
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flies off to heaven and bliss,
if you're saved, or plunges
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into the depths of hell and
torments if you're not.
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But this isn't the case.
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Of all humans who have
ever lived, Paul says in
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1 Timothy 6:16 that the only
one who has immortality at
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this time is Jesus Christ.
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Instead, the consistent
teaching of the Bible, in
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both Old and New Testaments,
is that we are mortal, and
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that after we die, we await
a resurrection from the dead.
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Again, don't just believe
me--believe your Bible.
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When Paul was challenged on multiple occasions, he didn't
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say that his hope lied in
going to heaven one day.
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Read for yourself in Acts chapter 24 and verse 15...
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"I have hope in God, which
they themselves also accept,
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that there will be a resurrection of the dead,
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both of the just
and the unjust."
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He refers to the resurrection
as his hope in Acts 23:6,
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as well, and he discusses
it in many other passages.
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As we'll see, he even devotes much of 1 Corinthians 15 to
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describing the resurrection,
a future time when
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Christians will finally
"put on immortality."
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Frankly, the focus of
mainstream Christianity
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on "going to heaven" or
"going to hell" is simply
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not the focus of the
Bible, the Apostles,
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or Jesus Christ and the
Church He founded.
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God's word consistently points us to the resurrection
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from the dead as our
hope and focus.
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My colleague here on
Tomorrow's World,
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Gerald Weston, recently dived into that topic in depth
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on his program "When You
Die--Then What?"
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You can find that
program on our website
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at TomorrowsWorld.org or
on our YouTube channel.
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So, the short answer to
today's question about
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where the unsaved go
when they die is that--
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according to the Bible--
the unsaved are awaiting a
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resurrection from the dead,
just like the saved are.
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But that's where things
get very interesting...
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Fact #2:
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Faithful Christians will rise
in the First Resurrection.
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As already mentioned, we
read of this resurrection
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of the righteous
in many places.
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For instance, let's look at
one of my favorite passages
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in 1 Thessalonians
chapter 4...
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"But I do not want you to
be ignorant, brethren,
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concerning those who have
fallen asleep, lest you
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sorrow as others
who have no hope.
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For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again,
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even so God will bring with
Him those who sleep in Jesus.
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For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord,
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that we who are alive and
remain until the coming of
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the Lord will by no means
precede those who are asleep.
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For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with
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a shout, with the voice of
an archangel, and with the
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trumpet of God.
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And the dead in Christ
will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and
remain shall be caught up
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together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
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And thus we shall always
be with the Lord.
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Therefore comfort one
another with these words."
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You know it's interesting how
many seek to comfort
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the grieving by speaking
of their loved ones in
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heaven, when the Bible
itself says that it is
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the resurrection of the
dead at Christ's return
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that should be our
source of comfort.
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But that's another discussion for another time.
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This resurrection of the
righteous dead is spoken of
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in great detail, as well,
in 1 Corinthians 15,
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where Paul writes that the faithful are given "spiritual
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bod[ies]" of "glory" and "power" it takes place
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at "the last trumpet"
when Christ returns.
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The Apostle John says
in 1 John 3 that at the
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resurrection when Jesus
Christ "is revealed"
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we will finally see Him
"as He is" in glory,
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and we "shall be like Him."
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Honestly, there are too many beautiful verses related
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to that resurrection for
us to recount now.
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But one passage is
particularly vital
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for our purposes today.
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We find it in Revelation 20, where the beginning of Jesus'
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reign with the glorified
saints is described.
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Let's read verse 4...
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"And I saw thrones,
and they sat on them,
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and judgment was
committed to them.
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Then I saw the souls
of those who had been
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beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God,
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who had not worshiped the
beast or his image, and had
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not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands.
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And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."
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Now that thousand years
is the Millennium that
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begins with Jesus'
return to earth.
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Here we're told that the
glorified, resurrected
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Christians will reign with
Him for those thousand years.
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But note the next verse...
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"But the rest of the dead did not live again until the
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thousand years were finished.
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This is the first resurrection."
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Note that.
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The resurrection of faithful Christians is only the
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first resurrection.
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A "first" implies, at the
very least, a "second".
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And, indeed, the verse says
that "the rest of the dead"--
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that is, those who were not saved--"did not live again
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until the thousand years
were finished."
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So there is a later
resurrection of those
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who were not Christians in
this life, taking place
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1,000 years after the
first resurrection.
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God highlights this timing
in many ways in Scripture,
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though few read carefully
enough to notice--or else
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are so caught up in their own, pre-conceived ideas that
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they don't read the Bible
for what it truly says.
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My friends, we're on the
verge of answering today's
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question about the fate of
the unsaved--right in the
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pages of your Bible.
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We only need two more points
to complete the whole picture.
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Before we continue, allow me
to pause very briefly to
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Welcome back.
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Our last point left us on
the very edge of revealing
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what happens to the
unsaved after they die.
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Let's jump right back
in, with our next fact:
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Fact #3:
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Those who died in ignorance will rise in the Second Resurrection.
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Again, this second resurrection was implied in Revelation 20
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and verse 5.
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In fact, let's read verse 5 again, along with verse 6...
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"But the rest of the dead
did not live again until
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the thousand years
were finished.
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This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.
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Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be
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priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him
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a thousand years."
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Now, this passage is focused
on the First Resurrection,
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but reading it carefully
tells us a great deal about
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the Second Resurrection.
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For instance, it highlights
that the second death has
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no power over those in
the First Resurrection.
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That implies that those who rise in the Second Resurrection,
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at the end of the 1,000 years are still mortal--given
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physical bodies once again,
just as they had in this life.
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Later in the same chapter,
we read even more about
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this resurrection of the
unsaved to physical life:
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"Then I saw a great white
throne and Him who sat on it,
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from whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away.
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And there was found
no place for them.
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And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God,
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and books were opened.
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And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.
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And the dead were judged
according to their works,
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by the things which were
written in the books.
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The sea gave up the dead
who were in it, and Death
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and Hades delivered up the
dead who were in them.
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And they were judged, each
one according to his works."
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There is so much
here to unpack.
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Let's take a closer look,
but let me highlight again
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that today's free resource
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But for now, we'll
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Notice that the passage says that "books were opened"
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and the works they then did
were judged by what was written
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in the books.
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Well, by what books are Christians judged
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in this life?
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The books of the Bible.
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And the Greek word for "books" in Revelation 20 and verse 12
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is biblion, the Bible.
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Just as 1 Peter 4:17 and James 2:12 say that Christians are
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in a time of judgment now, those in the Second Resurrection
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will have entered a time
of judgment, as well.
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Note, too, that it says that
the "books were opened".
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This is important, because
the books of the Bible
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are not open to everyone
in this life.
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In John 6:44, Jesus is
plain that no one can
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"come to [Him] unless the
Father ... draws him."
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And when God does call someone, He opens the Scriptures to
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their understanding--just
as He did with the disciples
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on the road to Emmaus
and with His apostles.
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In this life, God calls
people to follow His Son
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and opens the Bible to
their understanding.
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And Revelation 20 describes
this same process happening
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with the unsaved in the
Second Resurrection.
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And verse 12 adds...
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"another book was opened,
which is the Book of Life."
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Now, keep in mind:
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Everyone whose name had been written in the Book of Life
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had already been resurrected
in the first Resurrection--
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the resurrection
of the faithful.
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The only reason for the Book
of Life to be opened again
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in the second Resurrection
is for more names to be
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written in.
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My friends, God truly is fair.
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Everyone who has ever lived
will have an opportunity to
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have his or her mind opened
and to learn the truth.
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Those who have never heard
the name of Jesus Christ
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and had His life-saving
message opened to them
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in this life will have
that opportunity.
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Understanding this beautiful truth answers other mysteries,
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as well.
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For instance, in the book
of Romans, the Apostle Paul
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laments that his fellow Jews
and Israelites were refusing
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to accept the Gospel and that God had "blinded" them,
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"given them a spirit of stupor",
so they would not understand.
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Every day around him, his fellow Jews were dying unsaved--
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unable to see that their own Savior had come in their day.
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Yet, rather than despair,
Paul states in Romans 11
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that those who have, in his
day, "now been disobedient"
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will eventually "obtain
mercy", explaining,
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"For God has committed
them all to disobedience,
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that He might have
mercy on all."
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Surrounded by Israelites dying daily without accepting the
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Gospel, Paul says confidently
in Romans 11 verse 26...
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"And so all Israel
will be saved".
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How could he be so
boldly confident?
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Because he understood that there was a future resurrection to
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come for those that God
was not calling today.
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In fact, Paul had likely
read about that physical
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resurrection many times, just
as you can in Ezekiel 37.
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There, God gives Ezekiel a vision of a valley of dry bones
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and describes restoring dead sinners to physical life of
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"bone," "sinew," and "flesh",
so that He can "put [His]
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Spirit in [them]" and they
can learn His ways.
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God describes these physically restored people as "the whole
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house of Israel"--or, just
as Paul said in Romans,
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"all Israel will be saved".
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And the Israelites are not alone in the Second Resurrection.
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Jesus Christ plainly says in Matthew 12 verses 41 and 42,
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that Gentiles, too, such
as the men of Nineveh and
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the queen of the South will
"rise up in the judgment with
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this generation" of Jews.
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No one will be left out.
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What a glorious time that judgment period to come will be.
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But it is not yet
the end of the story.
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We will see the whole
conclusion of the matter
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in our last segment.
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We've seen that God is fair,
and He will give everyone
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who's ever lived a real opportunity to have their
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minds opened to know His truth and to commit to His Son.
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But God will not rob us of
our free will, and He will
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not force anyone to choose
life over death.
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And the implication in
Scripture is clear that
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some will not accept
obedience to Jesus Christ,
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and will choose to remain
wicked, disobedient,
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and in rebellion against
their Creator.
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That brings us to Fact #4:
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After the First and Second Resurrections, the incorrigibly
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wicked are destroyed in
the Lake of Fire.
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Let's turn to Revelation
20 again and see what
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takes place after the
Second Resurrection and
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the Great White Throne
Judgment period.
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We'll see it described
in verses 14 and 15...
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"Then Death and Hades were
cast into the lake of fire.
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This is the second death.
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And anyone not found
written in the Book of
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Life was cast into
the lake of fire."
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Yes, the incorrigibly wicked
who refuse to repent will be
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burned up, cast alive into the Lake of Fire where they will be
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destroyed and made ashes under the feet of the righteous,
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as the Lord of Hosts says
in Malachi 4 and verse 3.
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At that point, with His Family grown to an innumerable
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multitude to include all
who are willing to accept
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the lordship of Jesus Christ, and the incorrigibly wicked
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utterly destroyed forever in eternal death, the Plan of God
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will be complete.
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And the saved will step
into the rest of eternity,
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enjoying all of existence--physical and spiritual--
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as their inheritance
alongside Jesus Christ
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and their loving Father, in
the Family of God, forever.
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No, the countless billions
of unsaved in this life who
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never had their mind opened by God to the truth of Jesus Christ
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are not lost forever.
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God really is fair.
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He will give everyone a
real, true opportunity to
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embrace or reject His
offer of salvation.
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He is not capricious.
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He is not random.
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And He is not weak.
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He is fair.
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He is merciful.
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And He is the Omnipotent
God who reigns supreme--
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and who profoundly loves every human being He has created.
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And with Him, no one falls through the cracks.
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Our short question may
have had a long answer.
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But it's a beautiful answer.
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And it's the answer from
God's inspired word.
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I hope you won't fail to get your own copy of today's free
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prove this beautiful truth
about the Second Resurrection
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for yourself.
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And I hope you'll
come back next time.
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When you do, Gerald Weston, Richard Ames, Rod McNair,
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and I will be right here waiting for you, ready to share the
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truths of God's word, the warnings of end-time prophecy,
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and the hope of Jesus Christ's Gospel of the Kingdom of God.
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Until next time, take care.
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