good topic BG, God can do anything he wants, scripture, Romans 9:12 "It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
Romans 9:13 "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Romans 9:14 "What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Romans 9:15 "For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
Romans 9:16 "So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Romans 9:17 "For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
which bring me to the JUDAS question. like Judas so pharaoh, scripture, Mark 12:26 "And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Mark 12:27 "He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
now under the New covenant to fulfill it, scripture, Romans 14:9 "For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living".
Now Judas died before christ died, scripture, 1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1 Peter 3:19 "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter 3:20 "Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
so Judas was in prision, as was pharaoh, and any other who was sometimes disobedient and Jesus preache to all of them of the dead.
so alive in the flesh God harden pharaoh heart, but in the spirit he preached to him. Esau alive in the flesh have I hated. but he blessed him through his father Isaac. Hebrews 11:20 "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.
when I look at this thing God have no restraints, "is anything to hard for God?" .... no.
so alive or DEAD, God can still save. for he is Lord of both the living and the dead.
PICJAG.