Blasphemy of Holy Spirit

You made me really think this morning. As I was praying over it these things came to mind.

We know that a person must be born again in order to enter the Kingdom of God, so this obviously has something directly related to the sin of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. This sin and not being born again are THE ONLY LIMITING FACTORS for eternal life and eternal damnation according to Jesus' own words, so they must be one and the same.

Is this why Jesus went to the elect that had died before His resurrection, so that they would be born again (made alive in the Spirit).

For this reason the gospel was preached also to those who are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

I Peter 4:6 NKJV

Could this be the same the same reason that He appeared to those in prison, so that the sin of unbelief was solidified in their spirit?

by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.

I Peter 3:19-20 NKJV

We know that the heart of stone is the heart of unbelief, and that when God changes out the heart of stone for the heart of flesh is the same time a person is filled with the Spirit (being born again). Does it not make since that the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is retaining the heart of stone (unbelief)?

What are We Saved From?

Jesus suffered the wrath of God so that we won't have to. It is from God's wrath that a person is saved.

I Thessalonians 5:9 NKJV

For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

I Thessalonians 1:10 NKJV

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

Romans 5:9 NKJV

Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

And yet... Not everyone is saved from that wrath.

Revelation 14:10-11 NKJV

he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”