LOL. That is ridiculous. It is not saying that at all. It's talking about all unbelievers from all-time being judged at the same time just like Revelation 20:15.
LOL. That is ridiculous. Are you saying unbelievers will be made righteous at that point?
See how pointless these comments are?
Revelation 20:15 is about the physically dead in Death and in sheol, as both locations are emptied out, of the dead.
Now, my point.
Nations is used to signify these people are still alive and not in Death, nor in sheol. As the goats are tossed alive into the LOF.
"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:"
The LOF is the only everlasting fire, as both Death and sheol come to an end and are cast into the LOF as well.
Why are you avoiding the point these nations are still alive in Adam's dead corruptible flesh? Who are the dead in Christ anyway?
If the dead in Christ are only those physically dead, then at what point are they not dead? Certainly not spiritually alive, if they cannot even be physically alive.
Now one could say the dead in Christ is only spiritual. Meaning us alive on earth are physically alive, spiritually alive, but still mortal in the state of death. We on earth are the only one's dead in Christ if you claim the resurrection is the second birth and not physical at all.
Were the OT redeemed in Abraham's bosom physically dead in Christ or spiritually dead in Christ? You want to deny the first resurrection is merely physical, then cannot even describe what it means to be dead in Christ while on earth, much less with God in Paradise. Since the Cross no one has been separated from God, but has enjoyed His presence the whole time in Paradise, who have physically left the earth. And they do so physically as they have a permanent physical body that is incorruptible. They certainly are not the dead in Christ. They are more alive than we are, and more so since your physical resurrection you call the spiritual birth still leaves you in a state of death, instead of giving you a permanent incorruptible physical body.
The dead in Christ can only mean the state of the soul prior to a physical resurrection. Those in Abraham's bosom were still in a state of death, and were the dead in Christ. But no longer, because the Cross physically raised them from that state of death. Did they have the second birth? If they did not have it because it was only available post the Cross, they certainly have it now, because they would not be in God's presence without having both a spiritual birth and a physical resurrection. Why would Paradise be only half open? Why would there be an automatic second birth, but not being able to enjoy Paradise physically?
Jesus ascended physically into Paradise to show us that Paradise was physical. Not that He had to leave His physical body behind, and put it back on the next visit to earth. Obviously the ascension of the OT redeemed with Jesus was never experienced by any of those on earth.
"And came out of the graves after his resurrection."
Sounds permanent to me, and no mention they lived out their lives on earth and died again as a NT redeemed soul. If they permanently left their graves like Jesus did after His resurrection, why not ascend with Jesus like Jesus did after His physical resurrection?
Jesus would not have left a single soul in Abraham's bosom, but not all were buried in Jerusalem. Just like at the Second Coming all on earth will rise, not just those living in Jerusalem. So wherever on earth they were when they came out of their graves, they still ascended with Christ into physical Paradise, physically. They were not literally the dead in Christ.
Why should we keep referring to them as the dead in Christ? Especially if you claim they were not in Christ, as that is a post Cross position of the church. They were literally in Abraham. They had faith as they obeyed God in the task He gave each and every one who made it to Abraham's bosom. Now they are in Christ in Paradise, and there physically, not dead, but alive. In this case sleep or death means no longer present on earth, not that they are in a state of death.
That also means we are in a state of death, and we literally are the only ones dead in Christ. Once again, death is only physical in the case of those in Christ, as the spiritual birth makes us spiritually alive, and no longer separated from God spiritually. But it is a birth, because there is no spiritual state of death prior to a spiritual birth. A birth is going from nothing to something, not a dead state to a living state. We are still in a dead mortal body, and physical death is not the cessation of life into nothing. Death is the change of soul from one body to another body. The soul no longer has to wait for a physical body in Abraham's bosom.
The point is that these people standing in Judgment are not in Christ prior to them becoming a sheep or a goat. The sheep are unbelievers made righteous, hence they become sheep. The goats are not made righteous, hence they end up in the everlasting fire. They are the physically alive dead, but certainly not those physically dead from sheol. They are called out of all nations so still physically alive on the earth after the Second Coming. No, we are not told how long it takes. This will occur during the first 6 Trumpets. And the angels are moving people around, because all humans works were all burned up and incinerated at the Second Coming. That climactic and wholesale destruction you all Amil like to talk about, but don't think any one can live through. They do, because angels gather them from every nation on earth, and deliver them to Jerusalem to be judged. That is what Trumpets do for Israel. It is a call to assembly. Each Trumpet call gets more dire on earth, and the 5th and 6th Trumpets add Satan doing a woe on earth as well. Remember Job and the progression of woe? 6 Trumpets worth of progression.
