Quote Originally Posted by Robert Harris
Outer Darkness is reserved for the wicked; it is not reserved for the redeemed or the saved. It is not, under any circumstance, reserved for the Body of Christ as a loss of rewards. To believe such and teach such is to believe and teach false doctrine.
The 5 unwise virgins though saved don't get to enter the marriage feast--the millennial kingdom. Therefore they go elsewhere during the 1000 years.

"Blackness of darkness forever" (Jude 12) for the unsaved ("twice dead" in the flesh and going to Hell) is not the same as "outer darkness" which is temporary. God's words are very specific. Never associated to "outer darkness" do we find it being "forever" or a furnace of any kind. It is simply outside the light of rewards of reigning with Christ for the 1000 years.

Logic asks the question, where do the 5 unwise virgins go since they are not allowed into the millennial kingdom? The reason you leave this question unresolved is because you are antinomian: a person who feels he is free from the consequences of being a carnal Christian so he can do whatever he wants. This is a morally bankrupt view, likely indicating you are unsaved. Even carnal Christians know they are being carnal and need to overcometh or there are consequences.

That place mentioned three times in Scripture by name is called "outer darkness" and in various other ways in the Scriptures. It is like standing outside a brightly lit cabin but you're not allowed in. Not until the feast is over are you allowed to join them and go off to the Mansion (the New City). The beautifully lit log cabin is just like the millennial kingdom a transitionary period from the dispensation of grace or mystery age of the Church to eternity future in the New City and New Earth. Amen.

I really like this analogy also. You're painting a house but you are sloppy so you get paint all over your body. Your friend who was more careful had no paint on his body so he went right to the shower after he was done. But because you were careless, you have to put gasoline on your body to take the paint off and it stings. This is akin to the "outer darkness". In fact, God uses Hell itself to burn off the dross of your false works so that you can enter "outer darkness". It's not like you go to Hell, but He uses the fiery effects of Hell to make you fit for outer darkness and to be ready for the New City after you have been disciplined for the 1000 years.

What I am impressing upon you is that a carnal Christian is not qualified to reign over the nations as kings in priests (Rev. 2.26; ch. 20). Do all Christians fit the description of Rev. 20.4? Of course not. Hence, verses that say, they shall not be hurt by the second death, are actually rendered in the original, they shall not forever be hurt by the second death. This is the baptism by fire. It's quite figurative, but also there is a literal component because obviously, you don't get to reign during the 1000 years; you don't even get to enter the millennial kingdom which is the marriage feast because you were a non-overcomer.