Revelation 20:11-15 spells it out plainly.
Everyone who has ever lived will stand before God on His Great White Throne. The Book of Life will be opened and those whose names are found Written it it, will receive immortality, those not found in that Book, will go into the Lake of Fire.
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"Everyone who has ever lived will not stand before God at the Great White Throne," but only those throughout history who died in their sins. That resurrection is the resurrection of the unjust. If you will notice the scripture continually identifies them as 'the dead' even after they have been resurrected. They will be judged based on everything written in the books which are the sins they committed in life. Those who will have taken part in the first resurrection, which is every resurrection which will have take place prior to the one at the end of the thousand year, the second death (lake of fire) has no power over them.
At the appearing of the Lord to gather His Church, those believers who will have died in Christ will be resurrected in their immortal and glorified bodies, with those believers who are still alive being changed immortal and glorified caught up with them. The church will have already been judged at the Bema Seat of Christ after being caught up prior to the time of God's wrath which is initiated by the opening of the first seal.
Simply put, the church will not be apart of that judgment which takes place at the end of the millennial kingdom. This judgment and resurrection is for those dead in their sins throughout all of history.
NOWHERE does the Bible say anyone receives immortality before the final Judgment.
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words."
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—
52in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
53For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.
The church, 144,000 and the great tribulation saints, will all rule with Christ during the millennial kingdom in our immortal and glorified bodies.
Since the wrath of God must come upon this earth via the seals, trumpets and bowl judgments prior to when the Lord returns to the earth to end the age and because believers are not appointed to suffer God's wrath, then believers cannot and will not be on the earth during the time of God's wrath but according to the Lord's promise, will be removed prior to the first seal being opened which initiates God's wrath.
The Church (those who overcome)
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations. He will rule them with an iron scepter and shatter them like pottery —just as I have received authority from My Father.
Great Tribulation Saints:
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.
The 144,000/Male Child:
And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, ready to devour her child as soon as she gave birth. And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.
The three groups listed above will rule with Christ during the millennial kingdom already being in their immortal and glorified bodies.
Job, David, Lazarus; they all await this, as they 'sleep' in their graves. We Christians, too die and 'sleep' in death, until that Day. We do have the Promise of Eternal life thru Jesus, John 3:16, but never receive it until after the Millennium.
You need to get away from the false teaching of soul-sleep, because the scriptures do not support it. Whenever the phrase 'sleep' is used to describe a person, it is referring to their body only. There are many scriptures which support the soul/spirit being conscious and aware after the death of the body. The rich man and Lazarus is one of them, which shows two men who die, yet their spirits are down in Hades. One on the side of comfort and the other on the side of torment in flame. Of course those who have adopted soul-sleep and contend for it, have joined the ranks of those who turned the information of the rich man and Lazarus into a parable in order to circumvent the fact that the spirits of these two were conscious and aware after the death of their bodies.
Then there is the opening of the 5th seal where the souls of those under the altar who will have been killed by those on the earth, who are having a conversation with the Lord and are also given white robes to wear.
Then you have Moses and Elijah appearing to Jesus speaking with Him about His departure on the mount where He was transfigured.
We also have Jesus telling the thief who was crucified next to Him saying "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise." How is that possible when both Jesus and the thief died that same day? Jesus was referring to their spirits going down into the comfort part of Hades where Abraham and Lazarus were after the death of their bodies. And no, the comma is not in the wrong place. That teaching is just another apologetic to circumvent the truth.
Paul also supports the fact that the spirits of believers are not sleeping in their graves, but are conscious and aware in the presence of the Lord:
"Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord."
"For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I go on living in the body, this will mean fruitful labor for me. So what shall I choose? I do not know. I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed."
So, according to the scriptures above, to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord, our spirits that is. And we know that Paul is speaking about what happens to our spirits at the time of death and not the resurrection, because at the time of death the spirit/soul departs from the body, where at the resurrection, the spirit returns to the body.
