Hi lauriellen,
Php 1:6 And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
God is not constrained by time and circumstances, like saying maybe if only someone would have had a little more time they would have made it, no. God is sovereign and in control of every single thing that happen in everybody's lives. Now as that verse states God will complete/finish what He has started in His Elect. He is in control, so He knows exactly what He has planned to happen down through the course of time for each of the Elect to complete them. He even has it planned out when the exact right number of Elect He wants will be reached and completed at the end of the age. Everything has been planned out precisely from the beginning and those in the first resurrection or the second were intended to be there.
Isa 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, "My counsel shall stand,
And I will do all My pleasure,'
No one has barely missed being one of the Elect, either you will be according to God's will or you won't. We don't know for sure, but He does. So don't worry about everybody else God will take care of them exactly as it needs to be, whether it's the first or second resurrection. To have been given life and breath is a miracle and we know everyone is assured to be saved. God loves everyone very much, more than we can know and He will save all, just some now and the rest later.
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John 3:16 For God so loves the world.
Not He loved, past tense. He's still loving, it's not come to an end. It's not like used to love the world, but now He doesn't, God still loves the world. Now they got it right in the rest of the verse. For God so loves the world…“ then, for whosoever believed on Him. No, “whosoever believeth” present progressive. He so loves those that believes and they should not be perishing, but be having eonian life.
John 3:16 For God so loves the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not be perishing, but be having eonian life.
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There is the resurrection from the dead, there is no Scripture that says resurrections. The Elect will be raised before the rest or first.
Rev 20:6 Happy and holy is he who is having part in the first(4413) rising again; over these the second death hath not authority, but they shall be priests of God and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
G4413 foremost (in time, place, order or importance): - before, beginning, best, chief (-est), first (of all), former.
mercy, peace and love
Kat