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This was already accomplished during the Harrowing of Hell. It does not need to be done again. Those ancients who have died before Christ's comeing was givin the chance to believe in Him when Christ, as a responce to taken on all our sin when He died, went to Hell to proclaim that not only did He defeat Death but that He is God.The Second Judgemrnt is just that. It is to judge all of mankind based upon their deeds in service of God.
Boy you are really twisting scriptures to your belief. Did you not read where it says they were to be resurrected from the dead? The verse said nothing of Jesus/messiah going to Hell and preached to these Israelites. It simply mentions God giving His prophet instructions in regard to the House of Israel. The two scriptures are talking about the same thing. Are you aware that the Bible mentions three resurrections? Are you aware that Jesus will return to set up His kingdom on the earth, and that the saints will rule on the earth with Him? Are you aware that Jesus' kingdom will be set up in Jerusalem? Are you aware that the saints will be kings and priest on the earth? In order for you to understand those who will be in the second resurrection you need to know something about the questions that I have asked. There are many of us who do not want God to be merciful to others.....remember Jonah? He tried to run away from God because he did not want God to be merciful to the people of Nineveh.God tells Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh, but he ran away because he did not want God to have pity on them.Jonah 1:1-3 (KJV) 1 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. 3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD. God told him the second time to go and preach to the City of NinevehJonah 3:1-4 (KJV) 1 And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time, saying, 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. The people changed there waysJonah 3:5-10 (KJV) 5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not. But Jonah is displeased with God's mercyJonah 4:1-2 (KJV) 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry. 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil. God reason with Jonah about his attitudeJonah 4:6-11 (KJV) 6 And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd. 7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered. 8 And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death. 10 Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: 11 And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle? Jonah had a very bad attitude, just like some of us; we want God to punish the wicked for there sins, because this is how we feel. We fail to see that this is not what God is about. God is slow to anger and quick to forgive.We fail to understand that people cannot turn to God, unless God Himself reaches out and touch that person. So if the person does not repent, its because God has not called him or her. When God call someone they will respond.