What will stop the people from repenting even if they want to? Surely you don't suggest that God will prevent them from repenting?
Ping - The teaching is for all that didn't make it in the first resurrection.
Who are these people that did not make it in the first resurrection? Is there a second resurrection?
Seven
7 - What will stop the people from repenting even if
they want to? Surely you don't suggest that God
will prevent them from repenting?
Ping - Nothing would stop them from being sorry for not
following God and repenting but it will be too late. God is a forgiving God and wants to bring all to repentance. That is the reason those that didn't make it are not thrown into a lake of fire at the beginning of the millennium.
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should
perish, but that all should come to repentance.
That longsuffering will not last forever. Vengeance is His.
7 - Who are these people that did not make it in the first resurrection? Is there a second resurrection?
Ping - Rev.20:4 Are those that made the first resurrection and lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
5.But the rest of the dead (spiritually) lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
6.Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
12.And I saw the dead (spiritually), small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
14.And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15.And whosoever was not found writen in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The second resurrection are those that were written in that book of life. After that Great White Throne judgment eternity begins and God lives with us.
.......Ping-Pong
A PS to the previous post.
7 - "Who are these people that did not make it in the
first resurrection? "
Ping - An additional thought on my answer:
Rev.22:15. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie."
Dogs means homosexuals and sorcerers means pharmacia or drug users, those that get a spiritual high from drugs.
There are many liars but what do you think it means about those that "loveth" a lie. I assume that means those that listen to lies about God and don't search for the truth on their own. They're content to believe what they are told by men when He warned "Take heed that no man deceive you".