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You said ... However, those who say I’m going to burn in a lake or ocean of fire because I don’t subsribe to their beliefs, suck. I’m a good person and have done my duty for Country and Family and Friends. I’m tired of people telling me I’m going to “burn” when he and you and I have NO way of knowing what is beyond all this.

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I’m going to include Revelation 20 here. The 1000 years is the Kingdom Age, or the Millennial Reign of Christ when he returns. After the end of that, comes the “Great White Throne Judgement” of the unsaved dead, then after that comes the new heaven and earth, spoken about in Revelation 21, which is the “eternal state” of those who are in Christ, or, those who are saved.

The “Book of Life” is where the names of the saved are written. Whomever has their name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life is not subject to the Great Whote Throne Judgement. Thus all those who appear at the Great White Throne Judgement are not saved, and are judged ... based on their works, namely what they have done in their life.

Those who are saved are not judged based on their works, but are judged on the basis of Jesus Christ’s righteousness, and are granted entry into the eternal state to be with God, forevermore on Jesus Christ’s works (and not on the individual’s own deeds).

Since those who appear at the Great White Throne Judgement rejected being judged on the basis of Christ’s righteousness, those people are judged on their own deeds ... and God has already said and made it clear that NO ONE can qualify based on their own deeds. So these people who have rejected being judged on the basis of Christ’s righteousness, have condemned themselves because of their rejection.

Revelation 20 NKJV

1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

2 He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;

3 and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

5 But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.

7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison

8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.

10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.

12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.

13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.

14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.