Davy
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The issue of when immortality is conferred, is not one that we should quibble over. All will be revealed in due course.
I contend that it does not and cannot happen until the GWT Judgment. You believe it happens at the Return, but John 5:24 does not give timing.
John 3:16 also does not say when, but Eternal life is for Eternity. Revelation 21 & 22
After the Millennium is also logical, as why should there be immortals alongside people who can die, during the Millennium? Isaiah 65:20
I'm not quibbling. The Scripture is a no brainer...
John 5:21
21 For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom He will.
KJV
John 5:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him That sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
KJV
Jesus had just remarked how The Father raises the dead and quickeneth them, and even so with Jesus The Son. So the subject is there right before verse 24.
And verse 24 is about "everlasting life" being given the believer upon flesh death. That is what it means not coming into condemnation after death. This Message is also in prep for what He says in verses 28-29 about the 2 types of resurrection that will occur on the day of His return...
John 5:28-29
28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
KJV
That "resurrection of damnation" is the condemnation after death He was talking about. This is actually a confirmation of what happens to the believer and unbeliever after flesh death today, as He showed in the Luke 16 story of Lazarus and the rich man who both found themselves in Paradise, but on opposite sides.