Hello,
About the punishment of the wicked. I am sure in the English translation, this usage of words is a poor choice of words like Ray says, Punishment is really judgement/Chastisements, and we know that Judgement is designed to rehabilitate the person for the better.
I don’t know if this helps you but I look at the elect as my older brothers in spirit. They are Family. Younger siblings learn from their older siblings. The elect are the ones who have already evolved to a new creation- they have transformed into the Image of the Father. They have overcome all weaknesses of this world- They understand and know how to help you.
They transformed into the new creation because of God’s grace, love, patience, mercy, no revenge, and strengthen us through our weaknesses. You know the saying... The suffering we go through makes us stronger. God is hard on the elect because we have a big job to do... Help the rest of our younger brothers and sisters evolve. We are to extend the same grace, mercy, patience, love, slow to anger, no revenge, etc to our younger siblings as God has extended the same for us. We are to love our enemies. The Elect do have a big job.
The Elect possess all the qualities of the Father- They all have the spirit of God- There’s no judgments’ according to the flesh but your mind. they don’t criticize- they don't get offended. they don’t put you down by showing they love you less because of your sins, They will never love you less. They don’t act on revenge on those who hurt them back in former life. After all they overcame all weaknesses. They care about you as their own- They see you as Family. The mankind is Family that left and is now coming back- like the prodigal son story. They want you to succeed in evolving and will continue to help you, guide you till you are completely evolved.
Since at that day, they will know your mind, they will see your strengths and weaknesses. They will know you. They will probably show you how deep sins has impacted others. How your sins impacted others around you and help you learn from it and help you according to your weaknesses. You are part of them- they are part of you- You are their family. They want you to join the family. They will make sure you are helped the right way.
It is just what it is. It's family helping family. We are to help one another in love. Judge by love's standard. Help them evolve the right way. God loved us since before we were sinners, while we were sinners and will continue to love us the same as we evolve into new creation. He will continue to love us. It will never end. We are his family; the elect are our family too. they love us that much. They just wants us to evolve as much as The Father does. It is what it is… It is the older siblings’ helping the younger siblings. That is beautiful. Helping one another grow. That will take a lot of patience, and all the qualities of the Father to do so.
The Elect has to be fully qualified- Not 50 percent qualified or 99 percent qualified- they have to be 100 percent qualified in order to help the rest of mankind-There is no room for carnal error, no room for the beast to exist. After all the younger siblings do learn and look up to their older siblings’ example as they grow up in spirit and physically. The elect are our spiritual guides in helping us evolve.
On the subject of visions, I would be careful though about criticizing other people visions stories. anyone can be changed by their experiences with their visions. It's happened often in the bible, it's influenced many people and their minds like Saul, Solomon, Daniel, Peter, Paul, John, Jesus, Stephen etc, and sometimes they are so profound they change one's life for the better or worse. You get the idea. I know it is not limited to those people in the bible. People do write about their own stories because of the way it impacted their lives. It can be a beautiful thing, God may be dealing with them bit by bits like Bill Weiss.. HE could be showing him how crazy their doctrines believe in... Who knows? We don’t know what went on in their minds. God does. We don't read minds. Why should we judge? Sometimes their experiences influenced them so profound and so deep that it impacted their lives the rest of their lives. It is between them and God. I know some people take advantage of it but really it is between them and God. It's a deeply spiritual experiences. You can say... BUT... but really It is between them and God in the end.