To never have a resurrection, never live again after death, is the ultimate punishment for people in this age and in the millennium who have committed the unpardonable sin before the second resurrection because prior to the second resurrection the blood of Christ will not provide a person who commits the unpardonable sin with the opportunity of the second resurrection.
Matthew 12:32 “Anyone who speaks a word against the son of man it will be forgiven him but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit it will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Remember the unpardonable sin can only be committed by people who have been given the Holy Spirit and have blasphemed the spirit. Hebrews 6:4 Hebrews 10:26-29
It is well known that at the great white throne, that happens after the second resurrection, those whose names are not written in the Lambs book of life are cast alive into the lake of fire which is the second death that is everlasting death. What about people who lived and died prior to the great white throne, in this current age before the second advent or during the millennium ? The only two people cast into the lake of fire who are identified are the beast and false prophet at the return of Jesus. This leads me to think that one must be alive in order to be judged and be cast into the lake of fire. People in this age and the millennium simply die forever already knowing their punishment, which I think is their human spirit that goes back to GOD when they die is cast into the lake of fire along with those alive at that time.
Matthew 10:28 “Do not fear those who can kill the body but cannot kill the spirit. Rather fear HIM who is able to destroy both spirit and body in the lake of fire.”
It is my belief that the people who committed the unpardonable sin that died before the great white throne and second resurrection have no resurrection, will never live again. This is because there is no more sacrifice for sin, the blood of Christ will not cover this sin and therefore all the benefits that come through Christ become nullified.
Hebrews 10:26 “no more sacrifice for sin”
My previous position on this subject was that prior to the first advent of Jesus to the end of this age, there would be no one that suffers the lake of fire except the beast and false prophet but this became questionable upon discovery of certain scriptures in the Old Testament writings.
I have also realized that the second resurrection will have people in it going back to Adam thus opening up the possibility of some of them having committed the unpardonable sin who had the Holy Spirit in those days.
Remember the church began with righteous Able so there were people like King David who did have the Holy Spirit before Pentecost along with all those in Hebrews 11.
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Many people will be resurrected from the dead but there will be some people from this age before the return of Jesus that may not be. There must have been in ancient times, before Christ, people that had GODS spirit but committed the unpardonable sin of blasphemy of the holy spirit. They had the holy spirit but refused to obey GOD knowingly and willfully and would not repent. They were incorrigible.
I rest of GODS elect 144,000 are not of this sort because they, The blasphemers, were known by GOD in eternity to perish while the elects names were written in the book of life before time began from the foundation of the world. A person who blasphemes is disqualified and their name is blotted out of the book of life.
This is a new thing that I have been thinking about for a while. I base my theory on the following scriptures.
Jeremiah 51:39 In their excitement I will prepare their feasts; I will make them drunk, That they may rejoice, And sleep a perpetual sleep And not awaken. (Does this say they will never be resurrected?)
Psalm 69:26-28 For they persecute the one You (GOD) struck (Jesus) and recount the pain of those You wounded. Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness. May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous. (This says plainly that their names are blotted out)
Psalm 109:13 May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation. (Again blotted out but perhaps not spiritually )
Deuteronomy 9:31-34. "So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves. Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.” The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book. Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.” The day accounts are settled is at the return of Jesus.
Isaiah 26:14 The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them. (This verse makes me think of Matthew 10:28 kill both body and spirit in “Gehenna” symbolic for the lake of fire)
Perhaps the condemned were of the people during time of Noah, who are described as " every thought and imagination or intent of their hearts was only evil continually." There is an indication that GOD did deal with people in these ancient times.
Genesis 4:26 And to Seth also a son was born, and he called him Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
2 Peter 2:5 if He did not spare the ancient world when He brought the flood on its ungodly people, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, among the eight;Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with
godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he
condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is
according to faith.
Will the second resurrection be composed of unconverted people from Adam to the end of the millennium, except for GODS elect ? YES
We know that Satan is released from prison at the end of the millennium which would be the time of the second resurrection. During the millennium and second resurrection everyone will have GODS Holy Spirit yet Gog and Magog align themselves with Satan and therefore commit the unpardonable sin and are burned alive. Then all the rest of the resurrected dead will face the great white throne judgement. At this white throne the people will be judged and those who have committed the unpardonable sin will be cast alive into the lake of fire. The people of the millennium live 100 years or more but those who sin will die cursed as Isaiah 65:20 says,
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years,and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
Matthew 25:31-46 When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, He will sit on His glorious throne. All
the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the
people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the
goats. He will place the sheep on His right and the goats on His left. Then
the King will say to those on His right, Come, you who are blessed by
My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. For
I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you
gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me. Then the righteous will answer Him, Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink ? When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You ? When did we see You sick or in prison and visit You ? And the King will reply, Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me. Then
He will say to those on His left, Depart from Me, you who are cursed,
into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave Me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me nothing to drink, I
was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not
clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after Me. And
they too will reply, Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a
stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You ? Then the King will answer, Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for Me. And they will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into everlasting life. Notice it’s “punishment” not punishing and it says only the righteous have everlasting life.
The glorious throne here , is it the white throne of Revelation 20:11-15, by comparing the text in both Matthew 25 and Revelation 20 it seems that it is.
Revelation 20:11-15 Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne.And books were opened, and one of them was the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their deeds, as recorded in the books. The sea gave up its dead, and Death and Hades gave up their dead, and each one was judged according to his deeds. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death—the lake of fire. And if anyone was found whose name was not written in the Book of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
GOD has given Jesus the authority to judge humanity because Jesus will judge righteously just as GOD would. I am confident that if a person is cast into the lake of fire they will deserve it.I still believe that the total number of the incorrigible will be few when compared to all that have lived, what do you think ?
Has GOD in eternity known who will live forever or die forever ? I believe HE has, what do you think ?
After reading this article please respond in the comments with your thoughts, thank you, Lee.