Furthermore,
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly teaches that the day of repentance was not only Moses’ day but David’s day (Hebrews 4:7; Psalm 95); and not only David’s day but the day of the Hebraist (Hebrews 3:13); and not only the day of the Hebraist but our day today (unless salvation of sinners is supposed to have ceased after the day of the Hebraist!); and not only our day today but for day after day “as long as it is called ‘Today’” (Hebrews 4:13), even into the Day of the Lord to come as prophesized by Moses in Moses’ day (“For the Lord will vindicate His people and will have compassion on His servants when He sees that their strength is gone, and there is not even any remaining slave or free”, Deuteronomy 32:35-36, among numerous other Hebrew scriptures); and
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly teaches that even Moses, by his sin, did not come into God’s rest in the day of Moses, but died outside the promised land (Deuteronomy 32:50-52), nor did even Jesus lead the people into rest when He led them into the promised land (Hebrews 4:8); and
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly teaches that as Christ having died once to bear the sins of many shall not die again but live unto salvation from sin to those who eagerly await Him (Hebrews 9:28), so it is likewise appointed for men to die once and after this the judgment (Hebrews 9:27) when all shall be raised by Christ, the good to a resurrection of life and the evil to a resurrection of judgment (John 5:25-29); and
WHEREAS, the Bible thus clearly precludes a second death for even those resurrected to judgment, and yet there is a second death for those thrown into the lake of fire with Hades and Death (Revelation 20:13-15), and yet at some time after this, when the old things have passed away and there is a new heaven and a new earth, there shall be no more death and no more curse but Christ shall make all things new (Revelation 21:3-5); and
WHEREAS, the Bible also clearly states that in the declaration of the making of all things new, Christ our Lord, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, shall give to the one who thirsts water from the spring of life without cost so that those who thirst and drink shall overcome to inherit these things (Revelation 21: 5-7); and
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly goes on to portray those whose part is in the lake of fire (Revelation 21:8) outside the never-closed gates (Revelation 21:25; Isaiah 60:11) of the New Jerusalem descended from heaven (Revelation 22:15) being evangelized by the Spirit and the Bride to accept Christ and drink of the water of life given freely without cost (Revelation 22:17), thus obtaining permission to enter the city and eat of the tree of life (Revelation 22:14) the leaves of which are for the healing of the rebel nations (Revelation 22:2); and
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly states that this shall happen in Jerusalem’s favor after God has struck her in wrath for her idolatries, desolating her to the death (Isaiah 59), yet God shall have compassion on her and raise her far beyond her former glories, so that the nations shall bow to the soles of her feet and shall joyfully worship God in her (Isaiah 60) despite having been covered in darkness (Isaiah 60:2); and
WHEREAS, the Bible clearly states that in the final days the kings of the nations shall lead their people astray and make war even against the second coming of Christ until our Lord scatters their bodies for the birds of the air to eat (Revelation 19); yet
WHEREAS, the Bible also clearly states that Christ shall thus be shepherding them (although this is often obscured in English translation) with His rod of iron in overthrowing them in pursuit as a king against rebel armies (Revelation 19:15-21), as Christians regularly pray should happen for us unto our salvation (Psalm 23); and
WHEREAS, the Bible afterward very obviously shows the kings of the earth bringing their glory into the New Jerusalem in the Day of the New Heaven and New Earth, and leading their people in as well by following the light of Christ, where none may enter unless they have had their names written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 21:22-27); then Christians everywhere are
INVITED to search the scriptures for themselves and see if the Bible precludes any opportunity of salvation after death, or whether instead the Day of Repentance shall indeed continue “for as long as it is called Today”, even into the Day of the Lord to come, although surely it is better to avoid the Day of Judgment at all, and not be found to be a baby-goat, fondling our sins impenitently. For “how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation” (Hebrews 2:3) that even the rebel angels shall repent to worship the First-Born Son when the Father leads Him again into the world (Hebrews 1:6; Psalm 97: 3-7) so that those who worship idols will be ashamed to see their idols worshiping God Most High?!–so that even “the king over all the sons of pride”, figured as Leviathan, shall be drawn out of the swirling depths and be taken as a covenant servant forever? (Job 41)