the Catholics had a simple answer to this: Pergatory. Everyone was placed into pergatory until it was time for the messiah. But, then, Jesus created the lake of fire and now there is no more pergatory (even though the Catholics used it to scare people into buying indulgences until latter days... and by that I mean a year ago). The Catholics were right in thinking that there was a pergatory, but wrong for thinking you got such and such years off by gazing at holy relics. There is no longer a pergatory, no longer a holding place now that jesus came and "set the captives free". The end :)