I already answered that in the op. So Im not answering it again, its crystal clear what I believe about Jn 12:32 in the OP, so either accept it or move right along.
Or post on the plusses and minuses in that answer.
All people are drawn to Jesus, but they are not all drawn to him salvifically. Some are drawn in condemnation. The exact same cross that saves some, condemns others. When he spoke of his dying as a seed that produced much fruit those who conspired to murder him were not that fruit. This op specifies "the saving results of the death of Christ," and it would have been nice if we could have discussed that saving death in its inextricable context of the deadly results of the cross for those who do not believe, but you refused to have that conversation so I will proceed without you.
Jesus started out his earthly ministry teaching, "
Don't judge, or you'll be judged," (Matthew 7:1) and later stated he judged no one but even if he did so he would do so with the witness of his Father and the Holy Spirit (John 8:15). He did not come to judge the world but the world and everyone in it had already been condemned because they hadn't believed in his name (John 3:16-21, 12:47). All of this was taught within the context of what the author of Hebrews wrote, "...
it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment..." (Heb. 9:27). Paul put it this way,
2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad.
Jesus had communicated the same, eschatologically when he said,
Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then he will repay each one according to what he has done.
Of course, that could only be said and have meaning after he left... and then came
again. That would not happen absent Jesus first being lifted up. Many days later Jesus would say,
Matthew 25:31-33
"....when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 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."
Some Christians are taught this "throne" is a physical chair and his kingdom an earthly monarchy but they do so in contraction to Jesus explicitly stating his kingdom is not of this world, it was present when he walked the earth in a fleshly body, and his thrown is the resurrection (Acts 2:30) not a chair made of wood or stone in a temple or palace made by human hands (Act 7:48, 17:24).
Jesus made a comparison similar to that of the sheep and goats using wheat and weeds.
Matthew 13:24-30
Jesus presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away. But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?' And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' The slaves said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?' But he said, 'No; for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, 'First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn.'"
Both sheep and goats, wheat and weeds grow among one another and the focal point through which all must proceed is the cross. Because Jesus surrendered his life on Calvary, he is Lord, Savior, and Judge of all. John 12 was not the first time Jesus had spoken of his being "lifted up." At the beginning of John's gospel he said,
John 3:14-15
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.
What happens to those who do not believe?
Numbers 21:6-9
The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died. So the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD and you; intercede with the LORD, that He may remove the serpents from us." And Moses interceded for the people. Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard; and it shall come about, that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, he will live." And Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on the standard; and it came about, that if a serpent bit any man, when he looked to the bronze serpent, he lived.
Anyone not looking at the serpent died.
John 3:18
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Jesus made that connection, not me.
Luke reports Peter preaching,
Acts 10:38-42
You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all the things he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They also put him to death by hanging him on a cross. God raised him up on the third day and granted that he become visible, not to all the people, but to witnesses who were chosen beforehand by God, that is, to us who ate and drank with him after he arose from the dead. And he ordered us to preach to the people, and solemnly to testify that this is the one who has been appointed by God as Judge of the living and the dead.
The death of Christ also results in death for many.
Romans 2:12-16
For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law; for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified. For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them, on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.
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