Just to clear this up, if Adolf Hitler on his death bed, asked for forgiveness, you would have no problem with him going to heaven? But, a firefighter who isn’t a Christian, who dies trying to save people in a burning building, you think that person should be prepared to spend all of eternity in flames?
Yet when God signed me up for His program He communicated what the end result would be. By His grace through faith I eagerly accepted the denarius that was offered. Because others who didn't toil as long as I get the same denarius, shouldn't bother me, because I got what was promised to me. But sin still holds some sway in a believer's life and the temptation to be bothered by the gifts others get is strong.
Matt 20:1-16 is the reference, but the last 7 verses apply here:
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’ 13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’ 16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
Works are excluded from salvation: Romans 9:15
There is one problem with that. Hitler killed himself by blowing his brains out.I don't think that would leave him much time to ask for forgiveness,but I still won't condemn him to hell. That's God's decision not mine.