Throughout the Bible God warns of punishment for those still in unforgiven sin when they die. See Matthew 22:1-14, Ephesians 2:1-3, II Thessalonians 1:5-10, Revelation 21:8 for a few references.
Several scriptures suggest, without implying or demanding it, that the body of the one condemned is also resurrected. Ezekiel 37:1-14, Daniel 12:21, John 5:28-29, II Corinthians 5:10, Revelation 20:11-15. Ezekiel’s reference applied to ancient Israel restored to her Promised Land, but still spiritually dead. However, it could apply to the unsaved dead at God’s Judgment Day. John 5:28-29 clearly says, “all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out.” The dead person’s spirit isn’t in the grave with the dead, but wherever the spirits of the dead are. Therefore, to “hear” Christ’s voice implies a return of the spirit to a body. In reality, while we tread lightly on this subject, the return of the unsaved to their resurrected bodies would be divine justice. For they claimed no need of God while on earth—the classic sinful man Romans 8:7—only to find their old, worn, weak, powerless hands, brains and bodies useless when God withdraws himself from them. HELL is the complete absence of God from the human being. Suddenly, what distinguished the potentially-imperishable human from the mortal animal is gone. The once possibly imperishable human being is suddenly and forever:
And those troubles only hint at greater ones to always come, on and on and on, without end. When God withdraws himself completely. Fini
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