Is There a Second Chance for Departed Souls?

The instrument through whom God’s saving message was preached was Noah, during the 120 years of the Ark’s preparation and before the universal flood, according to 1 Peter 3:18-20. Jesus essentially went to the antediluvians with his message while they were yet alive, through the agency of Noah the preacher (2 Peter 2:5). Both 1 Peter 3:19 and 1 Peter 4:6 refer to persons who were dead when Peter wrote, but who were alive when they were told God’s Word. The sense is that at judgment there will be no excuse, as the living and the dead were made aware of God’s Word. Not elsewhere in either testament of the Bible, and consequently, not in 1 Peter either does Scripture teach that a person can opt to be saved after death. There is no second chance for departed souls to be saved!