C'mon. Gimmee a break: "It is appointed for man once to die and then the judgment" . . no exceptions..
I'm the one that ought to be saying, "C'mon, gimmee a break." I've already cited this passage. Are you suggesting that Eutychus somehow got transported forward in time to the judgment, then back again to hear the rest of Paul's preaching?
Acts 20:7-12 KJV
(7) And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
(8) And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.
(9) And there sat in a window a certain young man named
Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep,
and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
(10) And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
(11)
When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed.
(12)
And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
The judgment is at the end of the world when Christ returns.
2 Peter 2:9 KJV
(9) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust
unto the day of judgment to be punished:
2 Peter 3:7 KJV
(7) But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Jude 1:6 KJV
(6) And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day.
The context of Hebrews 9:27 "it is appointed unto men once to die" is that Christ is our sacrifice to save us from
the second death as spoken of in Revelation 2:11, Revelation 20:6, Revelation 20:14, and Revelation 21:8.
Hebrews 9:26-28 KJV
(26) For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world:
but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
(27) And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
(28) So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Even in that passage in Hebrews it says when he puts away the sin of the world, and it says it is
at the end of the world. Thus, attempting to interpret Hebrews 9:27 out of context to make it mean that God cannot restore mortal life to someone in this world and still allow them to die
their appointed death later on and appear in the judgment in not justified.
If nothing else, see the example of Eutychus above. Does it give any indication that he was raised immortal and incorruptible? No, of course not, but if that were the case it would certainly demand mention.
