I strive to be in that number with the saints when they go marching into heaven. Those that washed their robes (angels) in the blood of the Lamb before they died from the land of the living. This has nothing to do with the first and second resurrection from the dead. All, at some point in time, will be resurrected from this place of rest Jesus called Paradise, or that place of torment for those wicked souls that have died from the land of the living. A place called hell.
Jesus will come into His Kingdom for the millennial reign of peace in the first resurrection from the dead, and will judge both the living and the dead from the house of Israel. This earth will become a lake of fire, probably by having an asteroid of some sort to fall in the midst of the Mediterranean Sea, to make this earth a very uncomfortable place to exist for all eternity, eternal damnation, while the saints of God will inherit eternal life in that world to come.
Those souls whose names have been blotted out of the book of life are destined for this eternal damnation in the second resurrection from the dead. But if I am fortunate enough to be in that number with the saints when they go marching into heaven, when God returns for the great and dreadful day of the Lord, then I won’t have to worry about the first or second resurrection from the dead. That’s why I want to be…“In That Number with the Saints.”