The blowing of trumpets, which heralds the holy convocation of both living and resurrected saints at the end of spiritual day/age 6, also announces a great victory.  In the pattern of the Israelites, blowing trumpets at the edge of the Promised Land signaled a great victory.

And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.  And you shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once.  You shall do so for six days.  Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.  …  So the people shouted and priests blew the trumpets; and it came about, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.  Joshua 6:2-4,20  NASB

Similarly, for the body of Christ and the whole world, the blowing of the heavenly trumpets of Tabernacles/Booths when Jesus shall appear in the clouds announces a great victory for humanity over the kingdom of darkness.  Consequently, Jesus’ second coming is also portrayed in terms of warfare that will result in the conquest of the kingdom of darkness.

And I saw heaven opened; and behold, a white horse, and He who sat upon it is called Faithful and True; and in righteousness He judges and wages war.  …  And He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood; and His name is called The Word of God.  And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following Him on white horses.  …  And on His robe and on His thigh He has a name written, “KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”  …  And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies, assembled to make war against Him who sat upon the horse, and against His army.  And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.  And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat upon the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.  Revelation 19:11,13-14,16,19-21  NASB

Jesus, seated on a white horse, and His army of saints will defeat both the beast and the false prophet, who had tormented the saints during spiritual day/age 6.  The Word of God, i.e., the sword which came from the mouth of Him, is the means to bring an end to the reign of Satan’s agents.  In addition, Satan, the ruler of the world since the beginning of human history, will be bound for the millennium during spiritual day/age 7.

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.  And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he should not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.   Revelation 20:1-3  NASB

What a great victory Jesus and His armies of saints will provide for humanity.

In the pattern of the days of creation in Genesis 1-2, day seven was a sabbath of rest from creative activity for God Almighty.

“For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath and made it holy.”  Exodus  20:11  NASB

Likewise, because of the great victory by Jesus and his armies, spiritual day/age 7 will be a sabbath or day of rest for God Almighty from His rule and reign.  We see a suggestion of this period of rest in the pattern of the Israelites after the victory at Jericho.

“When you cross the Jordan and live in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies around you so that you live in security,”  Deuteronomy 12:10  NASB

The beast and false prophet will be thrown into the lake of fire and Satan will be bound for a thousand years, thus the spiritual leadership of evil forces in heavenly places will be removed from the earth.

“Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world shall be cast out.”  John 12:31  NASB

The earth will enter a time of spiritual peace and rest and the priests of God and His Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years (Rev 20:6).  The many-membered Christ who will reign during the millennium will be bifurcated with a heavenly component and an earthly component.  The heavenly component of the reigning Christ will include the Lord Jesus and resurrected saints.  After meeting the Lord in the air (1Thess 4:17), the earthly component, the spiritual man created during spiritual day/age 6, will remain on earth and reign with Jesus.  Jacob, while fleeing from Esau, had a vision of the connection between these two components of the ruling Christ.

And he had a dream, and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.  Genesis 28:12  NASB

The many-membered Christ reigning during the millennium will be anointed with a mighty ministry.

The seventh angel sounded his trumpet; and there were loud voices in heaven, which said, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of His Messiah; and he will reign for ever and ever.”  And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, “We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to reign.  The nations were angry, and your wrath has come.  The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your people who revere your name, both great and small—and for destroying those who destroy the earth.”  Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant.  And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.  Revelation 11:14-19  NIV

This reigning Christ will be a blessing on earth as they produce the spiritual fruit of Tabernacles.

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.  For the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.  For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.  Romans 8:19-22  NASB

Here then we have an indication that humanity will fulfill the prophecy in God Almighty’s curses in the garden that humanity will return to garden/dust realm.

After settling in the Promised Land, judges ruled the Israelites.

Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered them [the Israelites] from the hands of those who plundered them.  Judges 2:16  NASB

Here then we have the indication that some of the many-membered Christ will judge the world.

Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?  And if the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law court?  Do you not know that we shall judge angels?  How much more, matters of this life?  1Corinthians 6:2-3  NASB

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them.  …  Revelation 20:4  NASB

There is ambiguity about the identity of those who will sit upon thrones with judgment, because there is no antecedent in close proximity for the “they” in Revelation 20:4.  A common interpretation is that “they” is defined by the statements which follow, i.e., those who had been beheaded and who had not worshiped the beast or his image.  In addition, those who will sit upon thrones are mentioned elsewhere.  We are told that the disciples of Jesus will be among those sitting upon thrones.

And Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you, that you who have followed Me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on His glorious throne, you also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”  Matthew 19:28  NASB

There are twenty-four elders sitting on thrones.

And around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.  Revelation 4:4  NASB

Those sitting upon thrones will include overcomers, such as those in the Two Witnesses company at the end of spiritual day/age 5.

“He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.”  Revelation 3:21  NASB

After a time, the governance of the Israelites transitioned from judges to kings.  First there were the warring kings, Saul and David, then there followed King Solomon and his glory.

So King Solomon became greater than all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.  1Kings 10:23  NASB

Solomon is a type for the rule and reign of Jesus with His body.

which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the one to come.  And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.  Ephesians 1:20-23  NASB

All things will be in subjection under His feet, that part of the body in contact with the earth, so His feet are those in the body of Christ who are alive and reigning upon the earth.

Following the glorious reign of Solomon, the Israelites were conquered, with some exiled to Babylon in 586 BC.

“But because our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, He gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this temple and deported the people to Babylon.”  Ezra 5:12  NASB

Here then we have an indication that, after a thousand years of rule and reign by the body of Christ, Satan will be released and will once again wage war with the saints.

And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison, and will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together for the war; the number of them is like the sand of the seashore.    Revelation 20:7-8  NASB

The story of the Israelites/Jews since their exodus from slavery in Egypt has been a pattern for the spiritual development of humanity during spiritual day/ages 5, 6, and 7.  But now, we have come to the final chapter of Israelites/Jews, the Jewish nation in first century AD, which is the time of Jesus’ first appearance and also the end of the nation of Israelites/Jews.  So, Jesus’ first appearance 2,000 years ago as the culminating event of the nation of Israelites/Jews and of spiritual day/age 4 is a pattern for the culminating events of spiritual day/age 7.

Jesus, at His temptation, met Satan and defeated him.

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning.  The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil.  1John 3:8  NASB

Here then we have the indication that, after Satan has been released from the abyss, Jesus will defeat Satan and his warriors.

And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.  And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.    Revelation 20:9-10,  NASB

In a literal sense, we have a repeat of the fire from heaven associated with Sodom (Gen 19) and Elijah (2Kings 1:10).  In a figurative sense, we have the suggestion of the Holy Spirit, the fire from heaven on the day of Pentecost.  Either way, the fire from heaven will mean victory for the saints, and Satan will join the rest of the kingdom of darkness in eternal torment.

After the spiritual enemies of humanity have been thrown into the lake of fire/hell, all that remains in the spiritual progression of humanity is the final victory over death.

For He [Jesus] must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.  The last enemy that will be abolished is death.  1Corinthians 15:25-26  NASB

The fourth and last resurrection of humanity and the blessings of grace and mercy will provide this final victory.

Roles are determined by lot.  The role for the two goats on the Day of Atonement was determined by lot.

And Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat.  Leviticus 16:8  NASB

Likewise, the role of the lot for the Lord came upon Jesus when He and Barabbas were presented to the multitude gathered before Pontius Pilate, the governing authority appointed by Rome.  Jesus was chosen by “lot” to die when the multitude decided who would be released and who would not.

Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.  And the man named Barabbas had been imprisoned with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the insurrection.  And the multitude went up and began asking him to do as he had been accustomed to do for them.  And Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”  For he was aware that the chief priests had delivered Him up because of envy.  But the chief priests stirred up the multitude to ask him to release Barabbas for them instead.  And answering again, Pilate was saying to them, “Then what shall I do to Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”  And they shouted back, “Crucify Him!”  But Pilate was saying to them , “Why, what evil has He done?”  But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him!”  And wishing to satisfy the multitude, Pilate released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he delivered Him over to be crucified.  Mark 15:6-15  NASB

Thus, the lot as a sacrificial offering fell upon Jesus.

Both were offered for the benefit of others.  The high priest offered the goat for the Lord as a sin offering to God Almighty on behalf of the congregation.

“Then Aaron shall offer the goat on which the lot for the LORD fell, and make it a sin offering.”  Leviticus 16:9  NASB

Likewise, the high priest designated Jesus as the One to die on behalf of the congregation of Israelites.

Now Caiaphas [the high priest] was the one who had advised the Jews that it was expedient for one man [Jesus] to die on behalf of the people.  John 18:14  NASB

Both were slain.  The slain lamb provided its blood on behalf of others.

“Then he [the high priest] shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.”  Leviticus 16:15  NASB

As with the sacrificial goat, blood was drawn from Jesus after His death.

The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first man, and of the other man who was crucified with Him; but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs; but one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water.  John 19:32-34  NASB

Jesus’ blood, drawn by a spear, when “applied” to an individual provides escape from the wrath of God which will be delivered as the consequence of judgment.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.  Romans 5:8-9  NASB

The bodies of those offered were placed outside.  The body of the sacrificial goat was burned outside the camp.

“But the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire.”  Leviticus 16:27  NASB

The writer of Hebrews, making the association of Jesus with the sacrificial goat for the Lord, noted that Jesus was crucified outside the wall of Jerusalem in accordance with this mandate.

For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned outside the camp.  Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood, suffered outside the gate.  Hebrews 13:11-12  NASB

Thus, the sacrifice of the goat for the Lord on the Day of Atonement was an annual observance that foreshadowed the future sacrifice of Jesus.

Jesus’ fulfillment of the roles of the high priest and the goat for the Lord enabled the covenant/blessing of grace for those called and chosen by God Almighty.  In Chapter 5, we discussed the covenant/blessing of grace and concentrated on the impact of upon the individual while upon earth.  Here, we will consider the impact of the blessing of grace upon the individual in the afterlife.

In the last section, we considered the end of spiritual day/age 7 when, after the rule and reign of Jesus and His body during the millennium, Satan will be released from imprisonment in the abyss to make war with the saints.  Divinely, Satan and his minions will be defeated and will be thrown into the lake of fire/hell (Rev 20:10).  Then, it will be time for the fourth and last resurrection event that will initiate judgment day.

Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; those who did the good deeds, to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.  John 5:28-29  NASB

Therefore, the accumulated dead who have not already been resurrected along with any who may be alive will face the day of judgment.

So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.  Romans 14:12  NASB

Humanity will be judged by the Lord Jesus Christ in the eternal life-or-second death event that was foreshadowed by the original Passover in Egypt.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.  2Corinthians 5:10  NASB

Jesus spoke of this day when He will righteously judge humanity.

“And I say to you, that every careless word that men shall speak, they shall render account for it in the day of judgment.”  Matthew 12:36  NASB

“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.  And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.  Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’   …  Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;’ ”  Matthew 25:31-34,41  NASB

Here is judgment day portrayed in the visions of Revelation.

And I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for them.  And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.  And death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.  This is the second death, the lake of fire.  And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.  Revelation 20:11-15  NASB

On judgment day, those who have been called and chosen by God Almighty to receive the blessing of grace will receive eternal life and thus escape the consequence of their sins.

“And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.”  John 17:3  NASB

The unredeemed sinners will receive the judgment of the second death, i.e., to be thrown into the lake of eternal fire/hell.

For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain terrifying expectation of judgment, and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES.  Hebrews 10:26-27 NASB

We may state the covenant/blessing of grace as follows:  God Almighty, having declared a second death in the afterlife for every sinner, bestows the gift of grace–eternal life in God Almighty’s presence free from His wrath–upon those whom He has called and chosen to have the blood of Jesus applied to their hearts to cover their sins.  In other words, God Almighty’s gift/blessing of grace places one’s name in the book of life, thereby avoiding God Almighty’s wrath of the second death in the lake of fire.

A pattern for judgment day is the original Passover in Egypt when God Almighty commissioned Moses to bring the Israelites from slavery in Egypt to the freedom of the Promised Land.  Pharaoh’s stubbornness to release the Israelites (Ex 4:21) persisted through the first nine plaques brought upon the Egyptians by God Almighty.  The following table displays events of the original Passover, which occurred with the tenth and final plague, as a pattern for implementation of grace on judgment day.  In Chapter 4 (p. 4-60), we documented that Jesus fulfilled the role of the sacrificial Lamb of the spiritual Passover; therefore, we will not concern ourselves with those details in this discussion.

God Almighty pronounced death.  God Almighty announced the death of all the first-born of Egypt, including cattle.

And Moses said, “Thus says the LORD, ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt, and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of the Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the first-born of the slave girl who is behind the millstones; all the first-born of the cattle as well.’ ”  Exodus 11:4-5  NASB

“For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment – I am the LORD.”  Exodus 12:12  NASB

Similar to the original Passover in Egypt, God Almighty has decreed, for all of humanity, the death of the body in the physical realm and the second death in the lake of eternal fire in the afterlife.

…  all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  Romans 3:23  NASB

You get what is coming to you when you sin.  It is death!  …  Romans 6:23  New Life Version

And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.  Revelation 20:15  NASB

However, God Almighty designated a segment of humanity to whom He would grant life.  In an exception to His decree of the death of all first-born in Egypt, God Almighty bestowed the gift of continued life on earth upon the first-born of the Israelites.

“But against any of the sons of Israel a dog shall not even bark, whether against man or beast, that you may understand how the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.”  Exodus 11:7  NASB

(Note that escape from death for the Israelites was only temporary because they would eventually suffer the death of the body.)  Here are God Almighty’s instructions to the Israelites.

“Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.  And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.  Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.   Exodus 12:5-7  NASB

As with the original Passover, God Almighty has provided an exception from the second death in the afterlife.  By grace, a portion of humanity while alive on earth will be granted eternal life of the soul in the afterlife, free of God Almighty’s wrath.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”  John 5:24  NASB

The blood of the lamb is the means to life.  In Egypt, the blood of the sacrificial lamb was applied to the doors of the houses of the Israelites.

…  And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.”  Exodus 12:13  NASB

The blood of Jesus is the means of redemption for the sinner called and chosen for grace.

Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,  …  let us draw near with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean [by the blood of Jesus] from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  Hebrews 10:19,22  NASB

The sacrificial lamb was to be consumed.  The Israelites ate the flesh of the sacrificial lamb.

“And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.”  Exodus 12:8  NASB

At His last meal, Jesus, the sacrificial Lamb, offered His body for His disciples, and all believers, to eat.

And while they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and after a blessing, He broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.”  Matthew 26:26  NASB

Bread was also consumed. The Israelites were to eat unleavened bread with the flesh of the sacrificial lamb.

“And they shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.”  Exodus 12:8  NASB

Because of the sacrifice of Jesus, the believer is to have the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened.  For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.  Let us therefore celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.  1Corinthians 5:7-8  NASB

After the Passover meal, there is a journey.  The Israelites were to eat the sacrificial lamb dressed for a journey to a new place.

“Now you shall eat it in this manner: with you loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat in haste – it is the Lord’s Passover.”  Exodus 12:11  NASB

The called and chosen believer, one to whom the blood of Jesus has been applied, is to embark upon a new walk.

Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?  Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.  Romans 6:3-4  NASB

Death, as pronounced by God Almighty, is implemented.  At the original Passover, the death imposed by God Almighty upon Egypt was the death of the body of the first-born of a household.

Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born cattle.  And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.  Exodus 12:29-30  NASB

The night of death of the original Passover foreshadows judgment of the soul, that is, the eternal life-or-second death event for humanity after resurrection.  We have previously cited this description of judgment.

“But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.  And all the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.  …  Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;’ ”  Matthew 25:31-33,41  NASB

Thus, the unredeemed who do not have the blood of Jesus applied to their hearts will receive the second death in the lake of fire/hell.

There is life for God Almighty’s chosen.  That same night, the first-born of Israelite households where the blood of the sacrificial lamb was applied escaped the death of the body.

“that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’ ”  And the people bowed low and worshiped.  Exodus 12:27  NASB

Similarly, those called and chosen by God Almighty to receive the blessing of grace will escape the wrath imposed by judgment and will receive the gift of eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Romans 6:23  NASB

Hence, judgment day will be a spiritual fulfillment of the original Passover.

The gift of grace will bring about the complete restoration of the three components of humanity.  First, the soul of humanity is restored and granted righteousness by Jesus’ substitutionary death.

For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous.  Romans 5:19  NASB

Second, the spirit of humanity is restored by the change in spiritual fathers, that is, from a child of Satan to a child of God Almighty.

The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.  Romans 8:16-17  NASB

Third, at the time of resurrection, the redeemed will have a spiritual body.

There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.  …  So also is the resurrection of the dead.  It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.  If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.  1Corinthians 15: 40,42-44  NASB

Thus, by the blessing of grace, the trinity of humanity will be restored and made acceptable to God Almighty so that one may enter His presence in heaven.

Any discussion of judgment day will eventually turn to consideration of the fate of those who have not heard the gospel preached.  The apostle Paul, in the first two chapters of his letter to the Romans, addressed the issue of judgment for those uninformed of the gospel.  First, Paul indicates that the physical world is a self-evident display of God Almighty’s expectation of humanity, and therefore there is no excuse of ungodliness on the part of anyone.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.  Romans 1:18-20  NASB

We have mentioned the book by E. W. Bullinger The Witness of the Stars (1893) in which he writes that God Almighty and His plan were revealed for all times in the stars through the constellations of the zodiac (p. 1-6).

Second, there is reinforcement of that which is displayed in nature within the individual’s conscience.

When Gentiles, who do not have the Law [since it was given only to Jews], do instinctively the things the Law requires [guided only by their conscience], they are a law to themselves, though they do not have the Law.  They show that the essential requirements of the Law are written in their hearts; and their conscience [their sense of right and wrong, their moral choices] bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or perhaps defending them on that day when, as my gospel proclaims, God will judge the secrets [all the hidden thoughts and concealed sins] of men through Christ Jesus.  Romans 2:14-16  Amplified Bible

An individual lacking specific knowledge of God Almighty’s covenants will be judged according to expectations set forth from without by God Almighty’s creation and from within by the conscience.  The implication here is that grace can and will be extended by God Almighty to those who have not heard it explicitly expressed.

And opening his mouth, Peter said:  “I most certainly understand now that God is not one to show partiality, but in every nation the man who fears Him and does what is right, is welcome to Him.”  Acts 10:34-35  NASB

Paul’s conclusion is that all, none excluded, will be judged, and that the judgment will be just.

Judgment day will divide humanity into two mutually exclusive groups.  Jesus spoke of this division.

“Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth?  I tell you, no, but rather division;”  Luke 12:51  NASB

“Now it came about that the poor man died and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.  And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away, and Lazarus in his bosom.  And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue; for I am in agony in this flame.’  But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that during your life you received good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.  And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, in order that those who wish to come over from here to you may not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.’ ”  Luke 16:22-26  NASB

Of course, the unrepentant in the lake of fire/hell will want to cross the chasm to escape torment.  Jesus tells us that no one may cross the great chasm.  This division of humanity will separate spouses, children and parents, families, and friends.

After judgment, each person will be in the presence of their spiritual father.  The covenant/blessing of grace grants the Spirit of God Almighty in full to those entering heaven, where the redeemed will join God Almighty.  The saints will enter the world of light, life, and love.

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,  Hebrews 12:22-23  NASB

Here, from the visions in Revelation, are descriptions of heaven which the recipients of grace will enter.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.  And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God himself shall be among them, and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”  Revelation 21: 1-4  NASB

And I saw no temple in it [the holy city, new Jerusalem], for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.  And the city has no need of the sun or of the moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God has illumined it, and its lamp is the Lamb.  And the nations shall walk by its light, and the kings of the earth shall bring their glory into it.  And in the daytime (for there shall be no night there) its gates shall never be closed; and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it; and nothing unclean and no one who practices abomination and lying, shall ever come into it, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.  Revelation 21:22-27  NASB

On the other hand, after judgment, the entirety of the kingdom of darkness will have been thrown into the lake of fire/hell: Satan, the antichrist, the beast, the false prophet, Satan’s angels, and the unrepentant sinners whose spiritual father is Satan.  The unrepentant dead, governed by the physical senses in life, are destined for the second death, a time of misery in the lake of fire/hell.  The apostle Paul gave us this description of the spiritual setting after judgment day.

For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.  Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.  Ephesians 5:5-6  NASB

There are many scriptures telling us that spending eternity in the lake of fire/hell separated from the presence of the Lord (2Thess 1:9) is just reward for the unredeemed after resurrected.

For after all it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you, and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.  And these will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,  2Thessalonians 1:6-9  NASB

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.  For it is on account of these things that the wrath of God will come,  Colossians 3:5-6  NASB

“Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels;’  …  And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”  Matthew 25:41,46  NASB

Here we are told that there is an eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.  In addition, the unrepentant sinner will go away into eternal punishment in this lake of eternal fire.

It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  Hebrews 10:31  NASB

Based on these and other scriptures, preachers of hellfire and brimstone declare that the unredeemed sinners, having received no grace, will spend eternity in the lake of fire/hell.  However, God Almighty has a blessing of mercy for them.