Chapter Forty-One/God's Judgment Day -It's Joyful Outcome - Who Are Raised and Judged?

 Jon adds: "But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according their deeds. And the sea gave up those dead in it and death and Hades gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds." (Revelation 20:12b, 13) A breathtaking spectacle indeed! The sea, death, and Hades' each play a part, but note that those terms are not mutually exclusive. Jonah, when in the belly of a fish and therefore in the mist of the sea, spoke of himself as being in Sheol, or Hades. (Jona 2:2) If a person is held in the grip of adamic death, then likely, he is also in Hades. These prophetic words give strong assurance that no on will be overlooked. 

There are, of course, an unknown number who will not be resurrected. Among these would be the unrepentant scribes and Pharisees who rejected Jesus and the apostles, the religious "man of lawlessness," and anointed Christians who have fallen away." (2 Thessalonians 2:3; Hebrews 6:4-6; Matthew 23:29-33) Jesus also spoke of goatlike people at the world's end who go into "the everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels," namely "everlasting cutting-off." (Matthew 25:41, 46) No resurrection for these! 

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