Judgment is God's strange work. He uses it on the way. Men make it the end. No matter how an unbeliever is dealt with, whether he dies as a result of sin, or by the direct intervention of God, whether he be cast into outer darkness or into Gehenna, this is not his end. All who do not belong to Christ will be roused from the dead and judged before the great white throne. There they are not forgiven, or saved, but judged. But this is not their end. All these will be cast into the lake of fire, to suffer the second death. Even this is not their end. God does not reach His goal in any of His disciplinary measures. These only prepare His creatures for it. Let us not confuse the going with the goal.
What perhaps is missing here is the concept that the judging will lead to a person who, by the changing of his character through correction, is no longer deemed inadmissable to the Kingdom of God. It's my opinion that this change actually takes place in the Lake of Fire and is open-ended in terms of time.
