9. When will the wicked be resurrected? Revelation 20:5, first part.
NOTE: ‘At the close of the thousand years, Christ again returns to the earth. He is accompanied by the host of the redeemed and attended by a retinue of angels. As He descends in terrific majesty, He bids the wicked dead arise to receive their doom. They come forth, a mighty host, numberless as the sands of the sea. What a contrast to those who were raised at the first resurrection! The righteous were clothed with immortal youth and beauty. The wicked bear the traces of disease and death.’ Darkness Before Dawn, page 52.
10. Why did Jesus say that the wicked need to be resurrected? John 5:29, last part.
NOTE: ‘There is no life but from God. “For with Thee is the fountain of life.” But life is righteousness; “for to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Sin is death, and is from Satan, and the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. Sin is at last to be utterly blotted from the universe, and of necessity those whose lives are still sin must be blotted out with it. If they cling to their sinful lives they must be destroyed with sin. Christ is the righteousness of God; for God alone is good, and in Christ is all the fulness of God. Therefore only those who have Christ can have any hope of life hereafter. In fact, they have no real life now. “This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.” Nay, more than this: “He that believeth not the Son shall not see life.” It is true that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust, but only the righteous will be raised to life; they that have done evil come forth from their graves to the resurrection of damnation. Their lot will be to “be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.” [2 Thessalonians 1:9.] Since they have not the righteousness which alone is life, there is nothing by which their existence can be continued.’ E. J. Waggoner: The Gospel in Creation, pages 146-147.