This concept is hinted at in such scriptural passages as the following: " Therefore, verily, thus saith the Lord, let Zion rejoice, for this is Zion — THE PURE IN HEART ; therefore, let Zion rejoice, while all the wicked shall mourn.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

After Armageddon there will be a resurrection in the flesh of " both righteous and unrighteous " dead ( but not the " wicked "), based on Acts 24: 15.

* Historical Situation → The historical situation goes through three stages: in chapters 1 – 39 the prophet speaks of a judgment which will befall the wicked Israelites ; in chapters 40 – 55 the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple ( 587 BCE ) is treated as an accomplished fact and the fall of Babylon as an imminent threat ; and in chapters 56 – 66 the fall of Babylon is already in the past.

The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked ".

An important development in the New Testament is the understanding that the resurrection of the wicked will not be at the same time as that of the righteous.

Irenaeus declares that the Antichrist's future three-and-a-half-year reign, when he sits in the temple at Jerusalem, will be terminated by the second advent, with the resurrection of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the millennial reign of the righteous.

Freyja replies that Loki is lying, that he just wants to " yelp about wicked things " that gods and goddesses are furious with him, and that he will go home thwarted.

Daniel's prophecies refer to him as a descendant of King David, a Son of Man, who will rebuild the nation of Israel, destroy the wicked, and ultimately judge the whole world.

* Conditional immortality ( fundamental belief 27 )— The wicked will not suffer eternal torment in hell, but instead will be permanently destroyed.

Edwards says that it is the will of God that keeps wicked men from the depths of Hell.

The wicked, and their descendants, will suffer and have shortened lives.

He emphasizes that if the people are righteous, they will prosper ; but if they are wicked, they will be destroyed.

Usually in the pre-Reformation plays, the Vice will come outright and state that he is wicked to the audience.

She wrote, " they will stick at nothing, be it never so wicked, if it will promote their interest ... there may be foul play intended.

And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death ; for he practised no iniquity, nor craft with his mouth.

Like his older brother, Er, Onan died prematurely by Yahweh's will for being wicked.

* The Great White Throne Judgment is the final judgment when all the wicked dead will stand before God.

Spirit prison is the condition of the spirits of " the wicked ... the ungodly and the unrepentant who had defiled themselves while in the flesh ... the rebellious who rejected the testimonies and the warnings of the ancient prophets ...." The latter will continue to receive gospel teaching and be given the opportunity to repent, though their disposition toward repentance will only change as they recognize and accept gospel truths and believe in Jesus Christ.

However, the Hopi say that he will return again and at his coming the wicked will be destroyed and a new age of peace, the Fifth World, will be ushered into the world.

She was so beautiful with her rosy mouth and haughty air that she had to be wicked.

He mumbled at her but let himself be led off inside the house, shuffling mightily to make it clear how weak and aged he was and how he was buffeted about by those who still had their wicked strength.

Individuals judged by God to be wicked, such as in the Great Flood or at Armageddon, are given no hope of an afterlife.

This can be seen in a popular Latin anagram against the Jesuits: " Societas Jesu " turned into " Vitiosa seces ", or " cut off the wicked things ".

Abraham protests that it is not just " to slay the righteous with the wicked ," and asks if the whole city can be spared if even ten righteous men are found there.

By now Glasnevin was an area for families of distinction-in spite of a comment attributed to the Protestant Archbishop King of Dublin that " when any couple had a mind to be wicked, they would retire to Glasnevin ".

The first search when anything was stolen, was there, and when any couple had a mind to retire to be wicked there was their harbour.

has no idea of goodness he must be naturally wicked ; that he is vicious because he does not know virtue ".

Sādhus are expected to treat all with respect and compassion, whether a person may be poor or rich, good or wicked.

The description of Noah as " righteous in his generation " implied to some that his perfection was only relative: In his generation of wicked people, he could be considered righteous, but in the generation of a tzadik like Abraham, he would not be considered so righteous.

They point out that Noah did not pray to God on behalf of those about to be destroyed, as Abraham prayed for the wicked of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In Code Complete ( a book that criticizes widespread use of the waterfall model ), Steve McConnell refers to design as a " wicked problem "— a problem whose requirements and limitations cannot be entirely known before completion.

Powell said that " it would be difficult to imagine a more cynically wicked or criminally absurd or insultingly provocative action ".

" In a similar vein, poet John Greenleaf Whittier detested what he deemed to be the " wicked " and " heathenish " message of Walden, decreeing that Thoreau wanted man to " lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs.

The granting of the charter included the charge that the town " at all perpetual future times ... be and remain a town and borough of Peace and Quiet, to the example and terror of the wicked and reward of the good ".

" ( This implies that the Seder is not for the wicked son because the wicked son would not have deserved to be freed from Egyptian slavery.

After three nights, the soul of the wicked is taken by the demon Vizaresa ( Vīzarəša ), to Chinvat bridge, and is made to go to darkness ( hell ).

Some notable differences with mainstream Christianity include: A belief that Jesus began his atonement in the garden of Gethsemane and continued it to his crucifixion, rather than the orthodox belief that the crucifixion alone was the physical atonement ; and an afterlife with three degrees of glory, with hell ( often called spirit prison ) being a temporary repository for the wicked between death and the resurrection.

" There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.

# God may cast wicked men into hell at any given moment.

While the ideas of heaven and hell are left unmentioned in the book, it teaches that the virtuous man is rewarded by a favorable attitude of nature, while the wicked man finds it hostile to him.

In the Latter Day Saint movement, " outer darkness " can refer to hell ( the place where the spirits of the wicked reside after death but before the resurrection ) or to the place where the sons of perdition will reside.

), eventually even rescuing the spirits of the wicked from hell.

The wicked see an immense fog seeping from the box, " stripping their sanity, as they witness an image of hell, spawned and formed from their own evil ; a hideous reflection of their demented souls.

Parham believed in annihilationism — that the wicked are not eternally tormented in hell but are destroyed.

Dante could not picture the horrors of hell and the punishments awaiting the wicked more minutely than did the author of the " Shebet ' Musar ".

The text extends Peter's Apocalypse by framing the reasons for the visits to heaven and hell as the witnessing of the death and judgement of one wicked man, and one who is righteous.

I would to God, Mr. Speaker, that these two were buried in hell, I mean rumours and messages, for wicked they undoubtedly are.

In other ways, it resembles Zoroastrianism, in particular with its belief in a narrow bridge walked by all souls upon death ; the wicked tumble off, unbalanced by their sins, to Skotos ' icy hell, while the souls of the virtuous make it across.

With his guides he then descends into hell to be shown the sufferings of the wicked.