Well, I don't know what Interlinear you are using but the Mounce (Blue Letter Bible) says its all "pas"....no "panton".
Well, if you looked at the actual Greek word in those verses, you'll see that they are PANTON and PAS.
But what is the point? "All" can have more than one meaning. It is clear that Jesus died for "ALL", but not "all" are going to pass the judgment at the end of this world system under satan's rulership, when Christ separates the sheep from the goats.
The point is as you stated, Jesus died for ALL, PAST and PRESENT. How can those before Jesus 1st advent benefit from His ransom, if they never knew him? You're right, "not all are going to pass the judgement. But they need to be there in order to be judged. You want EVERYONE who was ever judged to never get that opportunity, because even though they were so blinded by Satan, you want them to have known better. What part of "blind" don't you understand?
Isaiah is recorded as saying:
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, Lest they should see with their eyes, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.” (John 12:40) Are they to blame for their blindness?
Paul tells us in Romans 11:7: "
What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded." The rest were blinded, who's to blame for their blindness? Verse 8 tells us: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see
And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” So tell me Jane, is it fair that God should condemn Israel for being too blind to see Jesus as the Messiah when it was God Himself who blinded them?
Most couldn't understand Jesus, and walked away confused, as he spoke in parables. When asked why he spoke in parables, he answered: “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given." Those who walked away .... are they to blame for not understanding and following Jesus?
Paul tells the Corinthian brethren "whose
minds the god of this age has
blinded, who do not believe, lest
the light of
the gospel of
the glory of Christ, who is
the image of God, should shine on
them." - 4:4. They can't see the Truth, because they are blinded. So you knock on someone's door, they reject your message, because they are sp[iritually blinded, so you wipe the dust off your feet and proclaim them "bird food"
You seem to overlook the fact that the goats are sent to the place "reserved" for satan and his angels....they are confined to the abyss for the full thousand years of the Kingdom's reign. During this time the resurrected dead are given opportunity to come to Christ, but the goats are already dispatched to the place where the devil and his hordes will end up. The devil is not released from the abyss until the end of the thousand years, and after he has attempted to steer mankind away from God again....only then does he go off into the lake of fire.
I believe that you have the timing all wrong.
So you don't see theses so-called goats as part of the resurrected dead? All humanity is dead, dead in their sins, that's why Jesus could say "Let the dead bury the dead" - Matthew 8:22; Luke 9:60
You see where you have misinterpreted the timing of the events.
Enlighten me, please.
All the resurrected ones...yes. But the goats are already gone. Any who deliberately sin during the thousand years will join them, but satan does not go into that fiery lake just yet.
The scriptures disagree with the goats being already gone. I think you better read Revelation chapter 20 again.
Paul tells us clearly that Israel has done her dash.....'spiritual Israel' ("the Israel of God" Gal 6:16) will get the fulfillment of the promises. Heavenly Jerusalem is not on earth.....the "land" they inherit has a temple, but it is the one that the earthly temple represented. (Types and shadows) No earthly temple will ever be built again because there is no need. The priests in the grand spiritual temple in heaven will serve mankind all through the thousand year reign of Christ and his elect. (Rev 20:6)
I'm well aware that the Witnesses believe in "replacement theology". That is that all the promises of Israel are being fulfilled by Spiritual Israel. When God makes a promise he keeps it. He made a promise to the Nation os Israel, the Old Testament is filled with these promises. The Apostle Paul discusses these promises, and yet you (as well as others) want to take those promises and apply them to yourselves. That is replacement theology, that is an alteration of God's plans and promises, and Jehovah Himself says: "My covenant I will not break, Nor
alter the word that has gone out of My lips." - Psalms 89:34
Wow!....you think God approves of her bloodshed, whilst allied with nations whose worship she despises? Have you read the OT? Did the ancients not learn a thing about shedding blood without God's sanction? (Isaiah 1:15) Did they learn nothing about being allied with foreign nations? Apparently....which is why they blew their chance to become "the kingdom of priests and a holy nation".....that God promised them IF they remained obedient to him....they failed time and again, so he gave that privilege to a 'nation' more worthy.
Well they are blinded, and they are fighting for their survival, just as they did during Old Testament times.
Yes you can....unless you fail to discern why God abandoned literal Israel and replaced them with a new nation who wanted to obey him. You focus on "the Promised Land" as if that literal piece of dirt meant something to God when those he gifted it to betrayed him. He allowed foreign nations to dominate the Jews in their own land....think about what that meant for them. In 70 CE, the temple was destroyed, never to be rebuilt.....think about what that meant for the Jews who rejected Jesus as Messiah. They had no way to atone for their sins because the temple was the place where their sacrifices were made. Ask the Jews today how God can forgive their sins with no sacrifices....and you will hear excuses but no valid ones.
Yes and God told them that He would do that. Plenty of Old Testament verses that support this. Jehovah God promised Israel blessings if they would obey His Law, and threatened them with punishments if they would disobey it (Deut. 28:1-68), and that for centuries they received such blessings and punishments. He threatened Israel four times (Lev. 26:18, 21, 24, 28)
with a final punishment of "seven times" at the hands of the nations (Gentiles), among whom He would scatter them (Lev. 26:33-45), despite previous punishments they would continue to walk contrary to His Law.
Are you aware that Israel's preservation as a separate people while dispersed among all nations (Hos. 3:4, 5) is one of the miracles of history?
Or that Israel's return to their land and God's favor is also prophesied (
e.g., Lev. 26:40-45; Psa. 22:23-31; 102:13-28; Isa. 2:2, 3; 14:1; 40:1, 2; Jer. 23:5-8; 24:6; 30:7-11, 18-24; 31:8-12; 33:7, 10, 11; Ezek. 16:53-55, 60-63; 36:1-15, 24-38; 37:1-28; Hos. 3:4, 5; Joel 3:1, 2, 17-21; Amos 9:14, 15; Zeph. 3:10-20; Zech. 8:1-23)?
Read Zechariah 14, where Jehovah will "gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, The houses rifled,
And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity," Then says eh will fight for them as in the days of old and restore them. That hasn't happened yet. That's why it's a prophecy.
Jesus said that their house was "abandoned".....and that they would not see Jesus again until they blessed the one who came in Jehovah's name.....how likely is it that after almost 2,000 years of hostile rejection, they would suddenly turn to Jesus and hale him as Messiah? Pride will not let them. It was their pride that always their undoing.
Oh, so you can read the hearts now Jane? That's exactly what's going to happen. As Paul says,
"that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come
in." (Romans 11:25) When the 144,000 is complete, Israel shall be restored, they will see. The Prophet declares that it will be after their return to their own land, and after the great Time of Trouble which is now upon us, that the Jew will recognize that the great Messiah of glory, the great Michael of Daniel 12:1, for whose Kingdom they have been waiting, is none other than one of their own race (Isa. 7:14; 9:6, 7)—the “man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all” (1 Tim. 2:5, 6), now exalted at the right hand of God (Psa. 110:1). God will then blessedly open their eyes of understanding. As the Prophet declares, “They shall look upon me whom they have pierced” (Zech. 12:10); they will then see the identity between the Jesus who was sacrificed for the sins of Israel and the world, and the Messiah of Glory.