Originally Posted by
dmatic
forty9er, If you still hold your opinions of my position, it is evident that, once again, I did not do a good job of explaining them.
As in Adam all die, so too, in Christ, all will be made alive. Same all. The question is when? Some, the overcomers, will receive life in the Messianic Age, at the first resurrection, wherein the overcomers raised to life in that Age will live and reign with Christ and the second death has no power or authority over them. But what of the rest who are not included among the overcomers? At the resurrection of the dead, all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come forth, after the thousand year 'Age', some resurrected to life and others to 'condemnation', or 'damnation'. Does this mean they will 'forever' be condemned or damned? Some, of course, will 'suffer' the second death, the lake of fire, but does that mean there is no resurrection for them? Does death win? No, according to scripture, death is the last enemy to be destroyed. So, in future ages, they, too, will be given life in Christ, so that the prophecy "Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" will come to fulfillment. As you know, no one can call Jesus Lord except for the work of the Holy Spirit.
At some point, maybe 50,000 years from creation, the creation itself, will benefit from the grace revealed in the Law of God, that of the Jubilee, when everyone will receive the inheritance they had 'lost', so that God will be all in all. To His glory, of course. What a plan of reconciliation and restoration, don't you think?