What happens to the lost in the resurrection?
The lost are resurrected to a life separated from God, or the second death, yet they are still going to continue on through all eternity. They are not annihilated; they will suffer, experience regret, and have feeling throughout all the eons of eternity.
Les explains that resurrection is not just being brought back to life. It is God's unique, sovereign act of bringing back from the dead a human being who has died, not to die again but to a life of eternity. He stresses that man is immortal in the soul or spirit, though the body is not. The lost are resurrected to a life separated from God, or the second death, but they continue on through all eternity. Les rejects the idea that the lost are annihilated, saying that does not line up with Scripture; instead, they will suffer and experience regret and feeling throughout all the eons of eternity. Christ was the first person to ever experience resurrection, called the first fruits of them that slept.