In an unbelieving world, Camus argues, the convicted is given no chance of atonement.
Camus also stated that in an unbelieving world there is no absolute authority capable of delivering judgement as no man possesses absolute innocence himself.
I have chosen thee a last messenger for a great work, unto this bloody unbelieving world.
He will, in fact, be viewed by the unbelieving world (including Israel) as a great deliverer and protector.
Those saints will not experience the eternal punishment soon to be meted out on the unbelieving world at the day of the Lord.
Immediately before the Lord takes His saints to be with Himself, the unbelieving world will be living in peace and security under Antichrist's protection.
The warning signs of Christ's second coming will be of a radically different sort, but they will be ignored in exactly the same way by the unbelieving world.
Not only was the Spirit to universalise the person of Jesus to future believers, he was to do the same to the unbelieving world.
That is how I knew that these plagues and trials were more than just judgments on an unholy and unbelieving world.
Manning added: "That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."