Is this more setting up of straw men so they can be knocked down? @Mem was right.
Perhaps I'm recalling past threads, where some had suggested that
OT usages of the word "destroy / destroying / destroyed" MEANS
"annihilated" (as in "no longer EXISTS [anywhere... at all!]")
I have mentioned the resurrection of all at the end of this age quite a few times.
[biblically, "at the end [singular] of the age [singular]" which is DISTINCT FROM "this present age [singular]"... and the GWTj is not at the end of EITHER of THOSE, but at the END of "
the age [singular] to come" i.e. the MK age... at the end of THAT]
But aside from that ^ point (which itself is helpful in understanding properly the "chronology" issues, and not having ppl inadvertently thinking that, say,
Matt13:24,30,39,40,49-50 / Matt24:3 [and context in 2 chpts] is speaking of
the GWTj time-slot,
which it ISN'T)...
... Revelation 20 shows us (among other passages not IN Rev) that "saints" [even] who died in the SECOND HALF of the Trib are resurrected BEFORE the MK age (that is,
ALL "saints" will have been resurrected
BY / IN TIME FOR the MK age commencing)... but the text continues on telling of "but the REST / remnant of the DEAD
lived not again UNTIL the 1000 yrs were CONCLUDED" (i.e. at the
LATER GWTj time-slot... so NOT ALL (saved AND unsaved) are "resurrected" at the SAME time-slot!!; These ("the rest of the DEAD") are the "UNSAVED [DEAD... of all times]"... i.e. "resurrection OF JUDGMENT" at a distinct time-slot / 1000-yrs LATER)
So why are you now
speaking as if the first death is what it's all about, when the reality is, it is the second death we speak
of, when those who refuse to acknowledge God are not given more life, and pass into the second death?
I'm putting what I did because of what I'd written in a DIFFERENT thread on Feb21--perhaps you've not seen that post--my
Post #2251 (pg 113, diff thread...
bottom half of that post)... quoted IN PART, below:
[quoting from that post]
Then (further),
"Hell / hades" will be
later (at the GWTj time-slot) cast into the lake of fire, as well as those who will have
come from there (i.e. the unsaved dead; Rev20:13,14,15); The beast and the false prophet will have been in the lake of fire for the thousand years already by that point (so far), and Satan will be loosed from his prison to be cast into the lake of fire at that point, where (as it says), "
they [plural] shall be tormented day and night
for ever and ever [/unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural]" which underlined phrase,
everywhere it is used (
in every case, even in Revelation), ALWAYS MEANS "forever" (as we normally define the term), that is, forever without end.
All those of whom it is said "[and death]
and hell/hades[/U] delivered up the dead which were in them" are all of the unsaved dead (i.e. those whose names were not found written in 'the Book OF LIFE') and these will be cast into the lake of fire also at that point (at the GWTj point in time; i.e. when Satan will be cast into the lake of fire). "Death" and "hell /hades" will also be cast into the lake of fire at that point...
IOW, this is when "death" itself ('the last enemy') will be "destroyed [G2673; 'to render idle, unemployed, inactivate, inoperative'... 'to cause to cease, put an end to, do away with, annul, abolish']" 1Cor15:26 (meaning, "the SECOND death" is NOT "death" which will have just been put out of business permanently at that point / destroyed [G2673]... "the SECOND death" is the lake of fire Rev20:14, 21:8). "Death" will have been put out of business at that point (no one suffering the lake of fire will ever employ "death"... the only thing available is "the SECOND death [i.e. 'the lake of fire']"--there is no escaping out of there by means of dying [/death]... as it will have been officially put out-of-business, at that point (at the GWTj time-slot).
[end quoting from that thread; more at LINK, further below that portion quoted above]
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Post #2251 -
https://christianchat.com/threads/a...r-anyone-except-the-devil.206431/post-5023354
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"the SECOND death" (i.e. the lake of fire) is
not defined as "death" which will have been PUT OUT OF BUSINESS at the GWTj time-slot, no one employing it ever again!
But "the lake of fire" (the SECOND death) is said to exist "unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural]" (b/c of what it says in v.10 "and THEY SHALL BE TORMENTED
unto the ages [plural] of the ages [plural]" which in ALL 21x this phrase is used, ALWAYS MEANS unendingly / forever / without end... They can no longer count on "DEATH" to get them OUT of it, as it will have been "cast into" ALSO and "annulled [/put out of business]" at that same GWTj point...)