Can Those In The Lake of Fire Lose Their First Love and Endure The Seven Last Plagues?

Hi Mike,

I have been reading your Revelation commentaries and a question has come to mind. I know all things come alike to all men, and we all go through the seven plagues. My question is, how does that apply to those who remain in the sea and never know a first love of Christ or experience Babylon prior to their physical death? Will they some how experience this in the Lake of Fire? I know they will repent, but how will they lose their first love and experience Babylon and everything else we go through prior to the beast being revealed? How will they experience this if at this point they are spirit beings? Will they still be corruptible as spir​i​t beings? How and will they be deceived by Babylon if they know they are alive from the dead and are being judged in the Lake of Fire?

As always, thanks for your time and commitment, Mike. Peace and Grace on to you and yours.

Your brother,
S____

Hi S​____​,

It is good to hear from you.

You ask about how it is possible that the verse which tells us “All things come alike to all” (Ecc 9:2) applies to those whom remain in the sea and never know a first love of Christ or experience Babylon prior to their physical death.​

Then you go on to answer your own question by asking:

“Will they some how experience this in the Lake of Fire? I know they will repent, but how will they lose their first love and experience Babylon and everything else we go through prior to the beast being revealed?  How will they experience this if at this point they are spirit beings? Will they still be corruptible as spirit beings? How and will they be deceived by Babylon if they know they are alive from the dead and are being judged in the Lake of Fire?”

Those are all very good questions we all have at one time, and this is the answer to each of those questions if you are given to receive it and to apply the truth of this verse of scripture:

Rom 1:20  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

So the answer is, yes, they will have these same experiences in the lake of fire. They will repent, then lose their first love and experience Babylon, and everything else we go through prior to the beast being revealed within us. How that is accomplished as spirit beings is understood by simply believing “the invisible things of Him, from the creation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made…”

We have been made to believe that those who are in the spirit realm know all things, but nothing could be further from the Truth. The revealed Truth is that “they desire to look into these things” but are not yet given to understand the things that are given to God’s elect to understand.

Here is the scripture backing up that statement:

1Pe 1:9  Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
1Pe 1:10  Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
1Pe 1:11  Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
1Pe 1:12  Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

If the angels, or anyone who is resurrected from the dead, already knew the truth, we would not be told they “desire to look into” these things. It is very clear that those who are resurrected into the lake of fire do not know that they must yet “lose [their] first love” because we are told by no less than Christ Himself what many will say in that day:

Mat 7:21  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 7:22  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Mat 7:23  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

“That day” is the day of the resurrection of the dead at the great white throne judgment. These people do not yet understand that “all things come alike to all”, or that “man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Ecc 9:3 and Mat 4:4)

They certainly do not know that “the invisible things of Him, from the foundation of the world, are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made” (Rom 1:20).

If we are simply given to receive the Truth of Rom 1:20, then we will know that spirit beings are capable of being spiritually hungry and spiritually thirsty “desiring to look into [these] things” (1Pe 1:12).

Hunger and thirst are also spiritual words which have nothing to do with physical water or physical food in this verse of scripture:

Mat 5:6  Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Obviously spirits, too, can experience spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst for spiritual food and spiritual water in the very same way bodies of spirit can also experience spiritual pain and torment as these verses demonstrate:

Mat 8:29  And, behold, they [the demons] cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?

Like many of us, the demons know there is a time of torment yet to be endured even as spirit beings. According to Romans 1:20, spirits can experience anything we can experience, but they do so spiritually. They can work, rest, hunger, thirst, fear, and rejoice just as “the things that are made” of flesh and blood.

Why, then, could not spirits lose their first love and endure the seven last plagues before being dragged to the Lord just like all of the elect experience while in these clay vessels?

I hope these verses of scripture have helped you to see that “the invisible things of God are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made”.

Your brother in Christ, Mike