I'm not sure that my approach would require a non-sequential view of Revelation. The more important part is what the eternal state looks like. It seems to me that Isaiah is clear that the eternal state is a world in which people are recruited in the priesthood and that the leaders end up bringing honor to God. My point is that continuing human history on earth including good guys and bad guys is clearly in view in Isaiah in the New Heavens and New Earth and I think this can be matched with Revelation's view as well.steve7150 wrote: I suggest, then, that the bad guys outside of the New Jerusalem in Revelation represent people throughout the world who are invited into the city during that age. There is no reason to believe that those people are dead and in need of restoration from Hades or the Lake of Fire.
I appreciate your point of view Doug and you could be right. My point of view is to take Rev sequentially so since the bad guys in the LOF are there after the raising of the dead and the judgment , i see them as resurrected unbelievers.
Another reason i see them as the raised dead is because Paul expanded an OT statement to include the dead praising Christ in Phil 2 "that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth." Under the earth meaning the dead.
Doug