Posted by Jason [Jason] on March 31, 1999 at 23:28:33 {ohFII14TUcstjQMitR4A0TOck3Zt.o}:
In Reply to: **Joseph, Judgment Day-Moved UP posted by Gary on March 31, 1999 at 22:49:39:
Hi Gary,
In dealing with the point of those "condemned" who will be resurrected, you state that they would be resurrected only to recieve judgement and then be killed again. You seem to forget something. They are condemned to Gehenna right? Is not Gehenna the grave itself? Death?
Is not the punishment for sin DEATH? If so, then what those people did in the wilderness WAS ALREADY PAID FOR! Even in human law, a man cannot be tried for the same crime twice, especially after recieiving his punishment. If I go and kill someone and get, say just for examples sake, 20 years, after I am released after that 20 years, I cannot be tried for that crime again.
Likewise those in the wilderness, those in Sodom and Gomorrah, the pharisees, yes they did vile things. Yes they were condemned to Gehenna, but think, are they alive today? I didn't think so. Thus they must have died already. Therefore what they did then was already paid for, Jehovah would not try them again for what they did then. Jehovah would not resurrect someone from death only to turn around and kill them again. There is no justice nor love in that. Plus it would violate the scripture I mentioned.
Try this on for size. Those who've died, yes will be resurrected, but will their judgement be then? Or would it be after the thousand years? Think about that. Jehovah resurrects them, then they have an entire 1000 years of life to live. For all of them, that would be more years than they lived in the first place. They would start anew. Then they, at the final judgement, at the end of the millenium, THEN they would be tried for what they did when Satan is turned loose to tempt them once again. Jehovah indicates that those would be "like the sand on the seashore" (rev. 20 vs 8) So that makes plenty to divide to his left and to his right. THEN it would make sense that they would be returned to their deathly state, Gehenna, because they obviously at that point did not appreciate truly what Jehovah had given them, nor did they appreciate life itself. And the rest would live happily ever after.
I think that sounds more correct and more representative of Jehovah. Merciful and just, to give them life again, a new clean slate, since he didn't HAVE to ever give them life again. But it was something he decided he wanted. To give them another chance. Then if they don't appreciate that chance, then return them to where they were and let those who appreciate Jehovah and all of his provisions and his love, and life itself, let them "inherit the earth and reside upon it forever." Does that not make more sense?
Eternally Jehovah's Servant,
Jason