Judgements of Works vs The Cross

We need to understand that not all judgements are equal and that there are different levels of judgements in the Bible.  In fact even in the Lake of Fire the are different degrees of judgement based on works. None of this has anything to do with ultimate salvation.

We must not forget what is the highest adjudication and judgement made in the kosmos - The Supreme Judgement of the Cross. 

The Cross  is the ultimate judgement on this world. All other judgements found cannot override or overcome the cross. 

All other judgements whether it's Lake of Fire, Gehenna, White throne judgement, AD 70, are all based on works, will bring temporary loss and ruin, cause you to experience death, but it stills ultimately bow to the judgement on the cross. It cannot overturn it.

"Jn 12:31 — Jn 12:32

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out. And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all [peoples] to Myself.”

When Christ died all men died [2 Cor. 5:14] but all men do not yet live. But there will be a day all men will live, because of the cross.

The cross judgment though is the Supreme Court. Remember the cross was the ultimate judgment of the world.

Any other judgment does not negate the judgment of the cross where when He died, it started the irrevocable process where  He will draw all men unto Him.

AD 70 was a judgment against Jerusalem and Israel. It does not negate the judgment of the kosmos on the cross.

Christ himself said it was a judgment against that city.

Matthew 10:15

Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!

More proof...

Here is the link between Calvary and AD 70...

"Luk 11:29 — Luk 11:32

Seeking a Sign

(Matt. 12:38–42)

And while the crowds were thickly gathered together, He began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here."

The cross was a sign of the judgment on Israel. For rejecting the Son of Man, Nineveh, Sheba, Sodom, Tyre, will all on the day of Jerusalem's judgment condemn her.

So the two judgements are not mutually exclusive. 

One is the Supreme Court judgment of the cross, based on His work, all others are lower court based on works.

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Differences in Punishment supposedly in eternity.

Someone would object quoting "if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment." 2 Peter 2:9 <-- absolutely.

But the question is, is the punishment FOREVER?  Let's see.

There are laws of restitution that God upholds where each wicked must give an account of their sin, and blasphemy is one of the worse it seems.  Yet all the wicked who were thrown into the Lake of Fire were still found outside the gates of the city on the New Earth.

Therefore even in “Hell” or Judgment, there is the notion of the punishment must fits the crime, which goes counter to the “eternal” concept, where everyone receives the same “fire” judgment with the same “intensity” or degree.  Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit seems to have a greater degree of punishment.

This is consistent with Luke  12, where the evil servant who did not prepare himself was not let off  the hook.  He was appointed his portion with unbelievers.  Yet he was  beaten with many stripes.  Others would be beaten with few stripes.  Here was a servant who also sinned, and was met with judgment, age-during judgment, and was beaten with a few stripes.

Christ  knows how to render punishment befitting the deed.  Some would get  their portion with unbelievers and given some flogging also.

There  are differences in punishment even in "hell" or after death or in the  judgment.  

Even Sodom and Gomorrah had a case compared to how Jerusalem  treated Christ. Christ said Jerusalem would be punished worse than Sodom and Gomorrah and Ezekiel said Sodom would be restored.

If it was committed then Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit seem to have a higher degree of punishment in that age-during judgment.

That age during judgment took place when Jerusalem was destroyed.  That was the wrath of God poured on the unbelieving Jews and the Pharisees who would have been guilty of blasphemy suffered the most.

*FINALLY*

Christ never said it was NOT forgivable AFTER this age.  If you know anything about Lev. 25, and the Laws of Restitution and Jubilee,  you would know that there is no sin, or debt (for sin is a debt) that can outlast all "ages" or time designated.  It meets its match in the Year of Jubilee.  So even if you are not redeemed or refuse redemption before the 50th year, once the 50th year is reached, all debts are resolved... but it takes a long time... age-during, aionos, and "eternality" to resolve, in the many ages to come.  

The law is a shadow of these things...