"THREE? Did you say three eternal destinies?
I thought it was only Heaven or Hell..."

Many people ask this question, and it is not surprising. After all, Christians have been preaching about heaven and hell for almost two thousand years. But for those same two thousand years, thoughtful people have struggled with another perplexing question:

“What about the millions who never had the opportunity to hear about Jesus Christ?
Are they all going to hell?”

There are many “pat” answers to this question from the great Christian thinkers, following their well-worn doctrinal paths. But these answers fail to bring peace to the conscience of many sensitive people. A person’s innate sense of a just and loving Creator cannot be easily reconciled with the view that He arbitrarily condemns all who died without accepting Christ to eternal torment.

We have discovered that the Bible presents many profound contradictions to the “pat” answers that most of us have heard all our lives. We hope you will take the time to read and seriously consider the things we have written. It will change your life.

Revelation 22:11 shows
The Three Eternal Destinies of Man
(proving that God is fair to everyone)

All mankind is made up of Three Categories.
Each Category has its own Eternal Destiny.

The First Category contains Two Classifications of people who do evil: the Unjust and theFilthy.

The Unjust take advantage of others for their own selfish gain.
The Filthy ruin the lives of others with their own moral corruption.

The Second Category is made up of those who do good: called the Righteous (or Just).

The Righteous are the “good people” of every nation and culture (Acts 10:35) who live according to the dictates of their own conscience (Romans 2:14-16). They fear God and respect other human beings.

The Third Category is the Holy.

Holy means set apart. The Holy live entirely for the One who redeemed them (2 Corinthians 5:15). They are members of the Holy Nation which the God of heaven is raising up on the earth (1 Peter 2:9; Daniel 2:44).

Revelation 22:11 pictures each Eternal Destiny
as the outcome of a way of life:

“He who is unjust, let him be unjust still;
he who is filthy, let him be filthy still;
he who is righteous, let him be righteous still;
he who is holy, let him be holy still.”

This means that the way a person chooses to live now
is how he will be forever and ever.

This is why it says “unjust still... filthy still... righteous still... holy still.”
Still means always.

For all the people in all the Nations of the world
there will be a judgment.

This judgment will be based on what they have done, regardless of what they claim to believe.

“Do not be surprised at this; the time is coming when all the dead in the graves will hear His voice, and they will come out of their graves: those who have done good will rise and live, and those who have done evil will rise and be condemned.”(John 5:28-29)

“The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done.”(Revelation 20:13)

“God will give to each person according to what he has done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality, He will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.”(Romans 2:6-8)

The people in each of the Three Categories of Mankind will exist eternally in a place that has been prepared:

The Unjust and the Filthy will go to the place prepared for Satan and his angels — experiencing forever and ever a Second Death in the Eternal Lake of Fire (Matthew 25:41,46; Revelation 20:14; 21:8).

The Righteous will go to the place that has been prepared for them since the world began — enjoying a Second Life in the Nations of God’s Eternal Kingdom (Matthew 25:34; Revelation 21:24,26; 22:2).

The Holy will experience Eternal Life in the place prepared for God’s very own special people (1 Peter 2:9) — called the Holy City, New Jerusalem (Revelation 21:9-12).

The judgment of those who do Evil will be fair.

No one is born unjust or filthy. People make themselves that way by the things they do. All are born with the knowledge of God in their conscience. They instinctively know right from wrong. The unjust and the filthy do not like to retain that knowledge (Romans 1:28; Genesis 3:22).Both classes break the Everlasting Covenant of conscience (Isaiah 24:5,6; Genesis 3:16-19; 9:1-7) and callous their hearts by ignoring the truth. As a result, they hurt others and lead others astray from doing what is right. Thus they earn for themselves the fate of Satan and his angels. At the judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), the Second Death will be their Eternal Destiny (Matthew 25:46).

The judgment of those who do Good will be fair.

The Righteous stay within the boundaries of conscience. They are born in a fallen state, and so they DO sin (Romans 3:23), but they do not reject the instinctive Knowledge of Good and Evil within them (Romans 1:28). Instead they obey their conscience; they do not sin so as to ruin others. So, after paying for their sins in death (Romans 6:23) they will rise from the First Death to face judgment (Hebrews 9;27). They will not go to the Second Death because they do not deserve it. They do not practice the deeds which the Bible describes as worthy of the Second Death (Revelation 21:8; 22:15). Since they persevere in doing good (Romans 2:7) their Eternal Destiny will be a Second Life in the Nations (Revelation 21:24; 22:2).

The judgment of the Holy will also be fair.

The Holy have already been judged worthy of Eternal Life. They do not need to face the judgment that decides a person’s Eternal Destiny (John 5:28,29). They will not go to a Second Life in the Eternal Nations or to a Second Death in the Lake of Fire. They have already passed out of Eternal Death and into Eternal Life (John 5:24). This is evident from the daily life of self-denying love that they lead (1 John 3:14,16; Acts 2:44,45; 4:32-35).

Seeing that they would be willing to do His will, (John 7:17) God redeemed them with the death of His Son (Isaiah 53:10; Acts 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15), Messiah Yahshua and set them apart for His very own plan and purpose. (He did this not because of any good thing that they had done, but only because of His mercy. Most of those He has redeemed were actually on their way to the Second Death.) Their response of wholehearted devotion shows that His suffering in Death for them was worthwhile. He said they will prove themselves worthy of Him by leaving behind their own life, property, possessions, family, etc. to become His disciples (Matthew 10:37-39; Mark 10:29-30; Luke 14:26-33). Those who do not respond this way judge themselves as unworthy of Eternal Life (Acts 13:46). He makes those who do respond into a New Nation who live their lives entirely for Him. Those who obey Him fully will never see death at all, not even the First Death (John 8:51). In Eternity they will be Citizens of the Holy City (Revelation 21:10-12), still part of the Holy Nation that they entered in this age (Ephesians 2:12,13). They will rule with Messiah Yahshua over the Nations in the Eternal Kingdom of God.

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