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There are many ideas about when and how God will close probation, but for some it has already come as they have died, and nothing can be changed or they life altered at the point. The close of probation is the time when repentance is no longer possible, your record is complete and closed, waiting to be judged. A person's probation can close at death which has happened to all those in the grave, or when the unpardonable sin has been committed or when probation is closed for all just before the Second Coming. As long as Christ functions as high priest and mediator between God and man, mercy is available. But when Christ's work as priest and advocate has finished Christ has ceased His pleading, and probation has ended.
So for those who are teaching the false idea that God will gives everyone a second chance when life stops for them or that somewhere in the universe there is a place where, after death, or at the second coming a person has an opportunity to change from wickedness, think of the people outside the ark at the Flood. God tells us that probation will close for all and He even lays out how it will be done, lets look at Revelation 22:11..
Revelation 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
And we have what Isaiah shows in a urgent warning in Isaiah 55:7.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
All who have truly repented of sin, claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, obeyed the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they will have eternal life. The cases considered are those of the professed people of God, judgement will begin with those in the church..
1 Peter 4:17
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The judgment of the wicked is a distinct and separate work and is after the close of probation and the saints sit on that tribunal.
1 Corinthians 6:2
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
So for those who are teaching the false idea that God will gives everyone a second chance when life stops for them or that somewhere in the universe there is a place where, after death, or at the second coming a person has an opportunity to change from wickedness, think of the people outside the ark at the Flood. God tells us that probation will close for all and He even lays out how it will be done, lets look at Revelation 22:11..
Revelation 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
And we have what Isaiah shows in a urgent warning in Isaiah 55:7.
Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Human beings will be separated into the wicked, who reject God's authority, the saints or genuine believers, who have put their trust in the merits of Christ through faith and live in obedience to God's law, and we will see a group who will be put with the wicked who acted or appeared to be genuine believers but are not.
Matthew 13:40-42
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
All who have truly repented of sin, claimed the blood of Christ as their atoning sacrifice, obeyed the law of God, their sins will be blotted out, and they will have eternal life. The cases considered are those of the professed people of God, judgement will begin with those in the church..
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
The judgment of the wicked is a distinct and separate work and is after the close of probation and the saints sit on that tribunal.
1 Corinthians 6:2
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
