Posted by Gary #1 [GLamotta] on March 29, 1999 at 10:06:57 {boLUiPtahcY0732tR0xUMW4MSSTtTA17s}:
In Reply to: ****New Messianic Truths posted by Joseph Malik on March 28, 1999 at 17:56:00:
I'm doing this point by point:]
You said:
>>If Satan is now dead, who will mislead the ones yet to be resurrected?
This is where you misunderstand my viewpoint on this. As the Bible says, they will be judged for the things that they did before during their earlier life. They don't need to be misled by Satan again.
>>How will they be tested?
They don't need to be tested again. Remember, some already had been written in the book of life.
The resurrection
is of the "righteous and the unrighteous" and some will have a resurrection to life and others a resurrection to an everlasting cutting-off. All based upon what they did, good or bad, in their previous life. No need for them to be
tested.
>>The
purpose for binding Satan in the first place was to prevent him from misleading the Nations any
further not the Saints. Did you miss this point?
I did not miss this point. The nations that are protected from Satan during this period are the millions of survivors of Armageddon who have not as yet been approved for eternal life. Thus they are considered "dead" and are said to come to life only after the 1,000 years. It is these nations whom Satan will not mislead during the 1,000 years. But he does so at the end of the thousand years. And it is then these who do not rebel with Satan that are said to be the "dead the great and the small" who are now judged to have life after Satan has been destroyed. Then, in very logical order, after these survivors are judged, then the literal dead who are in the memorial tombs and the sea, etc. are resurrected and they are judged from the scrolls based upon what they did during their lives. Some have already been judged to receive life because their names were in the "book of life." Some will have a favorable resurrection and some will have an unfavorable resurrection. That is, some will be judged as not being worthy of everlasting life and then will be thrown into Gehenna where Satan and his angels had been cast.
Gary