Revelation 11:18
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18 And[kai] the nations[ethnos] were angry,[orgizo] and[kai] thy[sou] wrath[orge] is come,[erchomai] and[kai] the time[kairos] of the dead,[nekros] that they should be judged,[krino] and[kai] that thou shouldest give[didomi] reward[misthos] unto thy[sou] servants[doulos] the prophets,[prophetes] and[kai] to the saints,[hagios] and[kai] them that fear[phobeo] thy[sou] name,[onoma] small[mikros] and[kai] great;[megas] and[kai] shouldest destroy[diaphtheiro] them which destroy[diaphtheiro] the earth.[ge] KJV-Interlinear
18 "And the nations were enraged, and Thy wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to give their reward to Thy bond-servants the prophets and to the saints and to those who fear Thy name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." NASB
At the end of our current dispensation, the Church Age, a great apostasy will take over the minds and thoughts of the peoples of the world.
Apostasy is not just the rejection of truth, but the embracing of lies. The numbers of new believers which are added to the believing population will diminish to zero, and a great gap in history will occur.
God will then remove all believers at the Rapture, and thus will begin the seven year Tribulation, and final seven years of the dispensation of the Age of Israel. The population of the world immediately after the Rapture, will be a one-hundred percent unbelieving population.
But salvation is not yet over. There will remain millions of people who will believe in Christ during the Tribulation. They will just need some incentive to help them reach out to faith in Christ. That incentive will be the ruined world due to mans failed utopia policies, and from Gods judgments.
Just as the winepress is squeezed down tighter and tighter, to get every last good drop of the juice, so too, God will apply more and more pressure in the form of judgments to squeeze out of an unbelieving world, the very last person who will believe in Christ.
At some point in the latter half of the Tribulation, the good juice will finally be obtained, and the rest of the bad, will finally be judged in ever increasing judgments.
In our verse, that point will have been reached.
Likewise, every person who has ever been born into life, has a reward waiting for them in heaven. Those who reject Christ and die as unbelievers, lose their reward. Their reward will be redistributed to believers.
But just to make a quick note, for all believers who reject doctrine and do not grow up in their spiritual life, their additional rewards of eternity will be lost to them as well, and redistributed to those who do grow up in their spiritual lives. God gives us all every incentive and every opportunity to grow up in our spiritual lives.
All unbelievers and all who reject truth, are in fact the destroyers of the world and life. There is no such thing as a legitimate alternative opinion to replace truth.
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