The time is arriving when all in the grave will arise and come out of their graves or tombs at sound of the voice of the son of God , some to everlasting life and the rest to everlasting condemnation . All regenerated are even now while walking the present earth are in reality citizens of heaven and those who have already passed into heaven are now part of the heavenly host from the book of Hebrews looking down on our race and cheering us on ontil we unite ourselves with them in heaven. As Jesus said to one of the church’s in the book of revelation “Hold Fast your profession in Him and when He returns He will give onto them His crown of life” sadly I fear many who today call Him Lord and do not do as He has commanded will hear him say onto them Depart from Him because He never knew them they really only gave Him lip service and never truely trusted Him for their Salvation, they may have wanted him but loved their sins as well perhaps even more than their willingness to give up all and love Him more than their sins, a time is arriving when the Spirit says let the righteous continue in their righteousness, let the thief remain a thief, let the impure remain impure etc why because they will be in the midst of the Great Tribulation period of 3.5 years when God’s judgments are falling upon the whole earth, I don’t think God is saying salvation is past because we know many will come to faith during that time and arrive in heaven out of the Great Tribulation even though it costs them their physical lives at the hands of the anti christ or the devil who in dwells the anti christ at that time frame but we are not their yet and the Spirit says that today is still the day of salvation, let all now call upon the name of the Lord and be saved now, as Jesus says that the will of the father is that all believe upon the Son for salvation that He sent into the world to accomplish the will of His Father. Why does Jesus say to depart from Him on the day of judgment? Because they did not do the will of the father to believe upon the son for salvation. Jesus has warned us that many in pulpits will be wolves dressed in sheep clothing seeking only to destroy the people with lies and false teachings about Gods word telling them they can believe anything except upon the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation. Entertainment is not salvation and getting caught with emotion singing God knows what as passing for worship music to God. We already have fallen short of God’s standard for righteousness, don’t let ourselves be foolish and miss Jesus the only standard now available to us to meet the standard that God now requires of every person to receive salvation provided in Christ alone. Again – The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.” Interesting- they that destroy the earth, possibly with their wars and exploding bombs possibly nuclear etc we do know that when Jesus returns that it was critical because if he did not then no flesh would be left alive upon the earth, again possibly the whole world is again at war only this time they are using their nuclear weapons of destruction, who knows really but we do know this world is on a collision path with Christ Himself that will lead to Armageddon. I know their is teachers saying that the church will eventually take over the world and hand to God on a platter the earth fully conquered obviously that is false teaching, because the truth is that this world of ours will be on the brink of annihilation of not just human life but all life as we now know it.
Milo 