41 When does God resurrect the robber who will be with our Lord Jesus in paradise?

When does God resurrect the criminal who will be with the LORD Jesus in paradise?

Because God knows everything, even before creation begins, God fully knows whose beliefs will be true and whose beliefs will be false. But the creatures do not know. Therefore, if God brings an unverified criminal into the world of rest as soon as he/she confesses, without public proof of the truthfulness of the faith he/she confessed, among the creatures looking at it, there may be those who are not sure whether God's judgment is really just. There may be creatures that cannot be convinced about this. If God does not tell us the reason and just burns a certain creature to death without a public trial, there may be creatures who misunderstand God among the creatures who look at it. There may be creatures who do not fully understand God's love and justice (as a fullness of creature). Doubts about God do not disappear from creatures who do not fully understand God's love and justice. Therefore, the possibility to sin still remains in those creatures. An ambiguous judgment on one creature can wreak havoc on the free will of countless other creatures.  If God had created the creatures in a state of fully knowing God's love and justice from the beginning, assuming that God had created the creation world as it is now, God would not have had to show God's love and justice to them through the cross.[1] Then the creatures would not have had a choice. Because sin would have been impossible. In the creation world like as it is now, when a creature who wants to worship God[2] realizes God's love and justice beyond the level God has set[3], the creature will fall in love with God and will not be able to sin.[4] The more we try to disobey God[5], the more we cannot realize God's love and justice.[6] If the angels sin even though God created them in a state of knowing God's love and justice beyond the level set by God, it means that God did not create the angels out of the creatures as they are now.  To say that God made his creatures in a state of fully knowing God's love and justice, therefore, also means that God did not grant free will to them. If God had not come to the creatures through the sacrifice of the cross as it is now, the creatures would not have had the same meaning to God as they are now. However, since God the Father and God the Son had to be cut off from each other in order to annihilate sin from the creatures[7], the creation world soaked with the Son's blood is precious to God now.[8] Toys themselves are of little value to parents, but toys that their child cherished until the moment of death, even if broken, are precious to the child's parents. Because they can see their child they love through that toy.  God gave His creatures free will. Therefore, creatures must know God through experience, and must see what God is like through their eyes God has given them. Therefore, God who is seated in the great white throne, will show the other creatures through his/her revealed deeds whether the faith of the creature being judged, is true. In other words, the creature who are being judged needs a measure of his/her life that will prove the truthfulness of his/her beliefs. Therefore, God will give each and every creature who will stand before the judgment seat, a period of life sufficient to stand before the judgment seat.  Of course, it is true that God's love and justice are confirmed through the resurrection or the transformation of the martyr witnesses and the free will of the creatures is perfected. But the perfected free will of the creatures is built upon God's unchanging acts in them. If God who is seated at the great white throne, suddenly gives up on throwing Satan into the lake of fire and brings Satan into the world of rest, just because the free will of the creatures has been perfected, the confirmation of God's love and justice which God proved so painfully to the creatures through the cross, will be shaken again in the creatures. But the free will of the creatures was perfected because they realized that God would never do it.

1. When God resurrects and transforms the martyr witnesses and catchs them up into the air

If God resurrects those who are to be verified with soulish bodies and catches them up into the air with the martyr witnesses who have been resurrected or transformed with spiritual bodies through the 1st resurrection[9], and brings them into the 1000-year kingdom, even though they are people, they will have bodies without curses in a land without curses and enjoy the blessings and live happily for 1000 years. It needs an explanation as to whether it is fair or not.  There may be an opinion that God will only resurrect them with a soulish body, but not catch them up into the air. The saints were nourished in the prepared place for the 1260 days of great tribulation. After the saints are resurrected and transformed, there is no more prepared place on the earth. If they are left on the earth, they will have to endure the 7 plagues that fall on the earth. The opinion should be able to explain that ① Do those who passed through the 7 plagues and kept their faith and entered into the 1000-year kingdom, really need to be tested again? and ② How can those who have kept their faith in the midst of the 7 plagues, not be recognized as martyr witnesses?

2. When Satan is imprisoned in the abyss and the 1000-year kingdom is established

Although it will be a resurrection that being clothed with a soulish body[10] unlike the 1st resurrection which being clothed with a spiritual body[11], it can mean that there will be one more large-scale resurrection between the 1st resurrection[12] and the resurrection at the time of the great white throne judgment.[13] This needs an explanation. If they are resurrected, they will live a blessed life in a land without curse as a people in a body without curse for 1000 years, and then face Satan's deception at the end of the 1000-year kingdom. It is also necessary to explain whether it is really fair.

My view on whether it is fair to grant 1000 years of rest to the unverified

At the end of the 1000-year kingdom, Satan is released and deception begins.[14] Most of the people will be deceived and attack new Jerusalem[15], but there will be a few people who will stand on the side of the LORD Jesus to protect new Jerusalem.[16] They risk their lives for the LORD Jesus. It means they are martyr witnesses. The martyr witnesses in the 1st heaven and the 1st earth are rewarded[17] for giving up their lives and being faithful to the LORD Jesus as a life of a royal priesthood[18] in the new heaven and the new earth, the 1000-year kingdom. However, the people who have been martyred in the new earth cannot receive their priesthood in the 1000-year kingdom as a reward, because the 1000-year kingdom has already ended. After the 1000-year kingdom, the great white throne judgment[19], and after that, it is the everlasting world of rest.[20]  Yes. Although they lived as people, not priests, they lived up to 1000 years in a land of rest without sin and sorrow.[21] The martyr witnesses in the 1st earth received their reward later, but the martyr witnesses in the new earth only received their reward in advance. Then what are the people who oppose the LORD Jesus by joining the released Satan? In the end, they were those who would oppose the LORD Jesus, but didn't they also live a blessed 1000 years?  Since they received many grace, I think the cost of refusing the grace will be even heavier. If they had fought for the LORD Jesus, they would have become martyr witnesses, and the 1000-year rest would have been left as a period of reward for them. However, because they resisted the LORD Jesus, the period of rest they enjoyed will be changed into basis for judgment[22] and poured out on them[23] as much as the responsibility worthy of that rest.  I don't know how it will be manifested[24], but God will require much from those who have been given much.[25] Those who have been entrusted with much, much more will be asked in God's justice. Because God is righteous.[26] Conversely, God will not demand any responsibility beyond the favors entrusted to them.[27]

3. At the end of the 1000-year kingdom, when Satan is released again

If God resurrects them around the time when Satan is released at the end of the 1000-year kingdom[28], they cannot be the people of the 1000-year kingdom. If so, it is necessary to explain who the people of the 1000-year kingdom will be, who will give birth and prosper.[29] Also, since it can mean that there will be one more large-scale resurrection between the 1st resurrection and the resurrection at the time of the great white throne judgment, an explanation for this is also necessary.

 

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[1] Rom.5:8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

[2] Prov.8:17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

[3] 1John5:18 We know that whoever is born of God doesn't sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn't touch him.

[4] John14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.

[5] Rom.1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

[6] Matt.13:14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.' "But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

[7] Col.1:20 and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross. Through him, I say, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens.

[8] 1John3:1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

[9] 1Cor.15:44 It is sown a natural(psookheekos:soulish) body; it is raised a spiritual(pnyoomatikos) body. There is a natural body and there is also a spiritual body.

[10] John11:43 When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

[11] Heb.11:35 Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

[12] Rev.20:6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over these, the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with him one thousand years.

[13] John5:29 and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.

[14] Ezek.38:8 After many days you shall be visited: in the latter years you shall come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them. You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.

[15] Ezek.38:15 You shall come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you, and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army; and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.

[16] Rev.20:9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

[17] Luke22:28 But you are those who have continued with me in my temptations. I appoint to you a kingdom, even as my Father appointed to me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

[18] Rom.8:17 and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

[19] Rev.20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

[20] 1Cor.15:28 When all things have been subjected to him, then the Son will also himself be subjected to him who subjected all things to him, that God may be all in all.

[21] Is.11:6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.

[22] Rev.20:13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

[23] Matt.26:24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

[24] Ezek.38:18 It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. I will call for a sword against him to all my mountains, says the Lord Yahweh: every man's sword shall be against his brother. With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.

[25] Luke12:48 but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom they deposit much, of him will they ask more.

[26] Rev.20:9 They went up over the breadth of the earth, and surrounded the camp of the saints, and the beloved city. Fire came down out of heaven from God, and devoured them.

[27] Rev.2:24 But to you I say, to the rest who are in Thyatira, as many as don't have this teaching, who don't know what some call 'the deep things of Satan,' to you I say, I am not putting any other burden on you.

[28] Rev.20:7 And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

[29] Is.65:20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed. They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.https://youtu.be/AupisuARmgQ?feature=shared