I think so. The promise of âAge-duringâ life (wrongly translated âeternalâ life) only has to do with how we may experience our existence within time. But eternity is time-LESS, and there, there is no rebellion, pain, suffering, death, beginning or end.
I believe all humans, in 2017, are either alive on earth, alive in some aspect of heaven, or suffering in the captivity of hell; yet all are still inside the boundaries of time and space.
However, I also think that all humans, and all angelic beings (see note), are also already outside time and space, enjoying never-ending adventures and experiencesâwith God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and each otherâin an immortalized Creation, having all already âgraduatedâ from the âclassroomâ of time.
In eternity, everyone is already presently living âhappily ever afterâ with God.
We are all currently in two places at once, although we canât really yet perceive it: in this âclassroom,â as passing, or failing, students; and yet all of us also already living as successful âgraduates,â in eternity.
Time and space enclose our classroom now; but eventually every last created person will repent and receive Jesus as Savior; and then we will all âgraduateâ together, into a single eternal existence, at a particular moment: when the last person (that slowest, most self-willed student among us) finally comes out of the Lake of Fire, and drinks the living water of Jesus that is freely available to all (Rev. 22:17).
Linear time will end with that personâs repentance, at some point in our future. We will all graduate together, as indicated in 1 Cor. 15:20-28:
"]"Then comes THE ENDâ v. 24. All Death will have been abolished (which would include the Second Death, The Lake of Fire) v. 26, and God will finally be âall in allâ v. 28.
Note: The first sinner was Lucifer. Speaking of the comprehensiveness of the redemptive work of Christ, and also our co-crucifixion with Him (Gal. 2:20), recall that the crucifixion of Jesus was prefigured in Numbers 21:9 by a bronze serpent on a pole. And Jesus promised, âAnd I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all pas] to me.â John 12:32.
Blessings.