The truth of the messages doesn't do any good if it is not heard. They don't really "live on" in this case. They're more "slumbering, as if dead."

Prewitt observes that there's an 'if' in the passage and he concludes that some must not hear the knock. And the reason they don't hear is that they aren't placing themselves where they can hear - by reading and applying the prophets, the SOP and the messenger's God sends. The message is sounding to Laodicea, but in many cases, it's not being heard. So the heart door is shut.

Mark,

When sins are blotted out, God does not save a backup copy of them (otherwise they aren't really blotted out). If someone's sins are blotted out, but in the future that person abandons Christ, this means that that person will not be accountable to God for those sins which were blotted out. Is this what you believe?

The work of the investigative judgment and the blotting out of sins is to be accomplished before the second advent of the Lord. Since the dead are to be judged out of the things written in the books, it is impossible that the sins of men should be blotted out until after the judgment at which their cases are to be investigated. But the apostle Peter distinctly states that the sins of believers will be blotted out "when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; and He shall send Jesus Christ." Acts 3:19, 20. When the investigative judgment closes, Christ will come, and His reward will be with Him to give to every man as his work shall be. {GC 485.2}

Sins that have not been repented of and forsaken will not be pardoned and blotted out of the books of record, but will stand to witness against the sinner in the day of God. He may have committed his evil deeds in the light of day or in the darkness of night; but they were open and manifest before Him with whom we have to do. Angels of God witnessed each sin and registered it in the unerring records. Sin may be concealed, denied, covered up from father, mother, wife, children, and associates; no one but the guilty actors may cherish the least suspicion of the wrong; but it is laid bare before the intelligences of heaven. The darkness of the darkest night, the secrecy of all deceptive arts, is not sufficient to veil one thought from the knowledge of the Eternal. God has an exact record of every unjust account and every unfair dealing. He is not deceived by appearances of piety. He makes no mistakes in His estimation of character. Men may be deceived by those who are corrupt in heart, but God pierces all disguises and reads the inner life. {GC 486.2}

R:If someone's sins are blotted out, but in the future that person abandons Christ, this means that that person will not be accountable to God for those sins which were blotted out.

Does it seem reasonable that God would call the final and seventh church to account? If so, how would he do it?

It appears that the sins are blotted only for the righteous during the investigative judgment. The sins of the wicked will stand on record for the jury of the saints to review during the millennium.

Can I ask you a question Rosangela: Do you think the judgment of the living is a process or simply and examination of the individual's case? Will the individual come up to the judgment at a single point in time - when his book of record is opened? Or does the judgment of the living deal with enlightenment and with being confronted with choices as a result of our enlightenment? And what are the implications for either option? For example, when does probation close in both cases? Or can both views be true?

Mark, what I think is that we who are living at the antitypical day of atonement are in a especial situation. . .

This work must occur in our lives in preparation for the review of our cases. But the review itself is an event, not a process. So I believe there are both a process and an event related to our judgment.