How we know Mad Dawg is deranged:
My first responses are, “Shut up! I AM complete. So THERE!
And to go around the house singing, “How long do I have to wait? Can I be finished now, or must I hesitate?” to the tune of the “Hesitation Blues”
I REALLY need a vacation.
So, is it fair to say that there’s a sense of Completion— but not yet.
My analogy for the eschaton is that we are like freedom fighters in eastern France after D-Day. The War is over. We know it. Hitler knows it. But Eisenhower’s establishing a beach-head in France means “his wrath is great because he knows his days are short.”
And there may even be a Battle of the Bulge in our future. (Remarks about my waistline are NOT appropriate here.) But the good guys have won.
So, of course, we would jam purgation into the “over,but not yet” stack. It’s over, but there’s still something left to do.
Yes, there IS something left to do...
"For our conversation is in heaven: from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Philippians 3:20,21.
Does this happen over time, in purgatory, until we are acceptable to enter heaven?
"Behold, I shew you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall ALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be CHANGED." 1 Cor. 15:51,52. It's not a process. It happens in the twinkling of an eye.