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to Hell, for an unpleasant experience of exposure to the gospel (Job 24: 19, Psalm
9:17, 139:8, Zech 9:11, Luke 16:23, Eph 4:9, 1 Pet 3:19-20, 4:6) which is like
being in a fire (Deut 32:22, Luke 16:24), or to a part of heaven (Luke 16:22, Rev
2:7) - for a pleasant experience of exposure to the gospel (Luke 16:22-5). Those
who respond by belief are then saved (John 5:25 - ‘hear’, 1 Pet 4:6). That which is
not Heaven is either the Grave or Hell. David went to either Heaven or the Prison
part of Hell to hear the gospel (Psalm 88:4, 6, 10) and is now saved (Acts 4:25 -
reference the use of the present case). Being in Hell is no bar to calling upon God
as the dead Jonah did so when his body was in the fish and his soul was in Hell
(Jonah 2:2).

The process of salvation covers therefore those alive on Earth and the unsaved
dead being preached to in Heaven or Hell and is alluded to in Psalm 88:10-12, 89:1
Amos 9:2, Zech 3:1-8, and Rev 14:6. Even in Hell, God’s lovingkindness is
shown and some at least respond (Psalm 3:2, 32:5, 88:10-12, 89:1). The Grave,
and the spiritual unconsciousness that goes with it, is however the default
destination of the dead (Psalm 88:3, 89:48, Eccl 3:20, 9:10). Furthermore it is not
automatic or axiomatic that men respond positively to the preaching in Heaven or
Hell (1 Pet 4:6). Those in the default status of the Grave can not respond as they
are unaware of anything (Psalm 115:17, Isaiah 38:17-18). The preaching in
Heaven and Hell is the only purpose and focus of the awareness given therein to
the unsaved dead, there being no other activity, and this awareness ceases
immediately the process is concluded with either acceptance or rejection (Eccl
7:14, 9:5- 6, 10, Psalm 143:3).

At least some have been converted after death this way and are now in Heaven as
Christians via the preaching received in Hell or Heaven (Luke 11:31, 32, 1 Pet
4:6). Christians are ‘adopted’ until changed or resurrected (Rom 8:15, Gal 4:5,
Eph 1:5) at which point they will have a perfect, supernatural, and yet fully
physical, resurrected body just as Jesus has and had (1 John 3:2). This is the
culmination of the adoptive process and is the final adoption (Rom 8:23).

Therefore, by the process described above, everybody across all time and place
receives ample and equal opportunity to believe in Jesus including those dead that
have never been explicitly exposed, by our way of thinking, to the gospel (Rom
1:20, 15:21, 1 Pet 4:6). This is part of the Prime Principle. Those who do not
believe are returned to the default state of the Grave which is unconsciousness until
the Judgement. Those dead who believe go to a particular part of Heaven, Paradise
(Luke 23:43, Rev 2:7). You must therefore be saved forever to be in Paradise
(Luke 23:43). Those in Heaven receiving their preaching are in a part of heaven of