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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

If anyone were a candidate for purgatory, [the] thief [from Luke 23] would be. Moments before, he had taunted Christ along with the unrepentant thief (Mark 15:32). His repentance was a last-minute change – while he was literally in his death throes. Yet Jesus promised to see him that very day in paradise.
John MacArthur