So I would posit that Romans 9 is not at all about being chosen for heaven or hell, but rather chosen to bring glory to God whether we consider the choosing positive or negative, God gets the glory in both cases, and whether the person is apoliea in a temporal or eternal sense, God gets the glory. (redeeminggod.com)
For He truly willed the Eternal in the eternal sense, and yet in the temporal order He became distinguished by being repudiated, and so accomplishing but little. (religion-online.org)
Orthodox Christians have believed for millennia that these terms contain an eternal sense to them. (christianitytoday.com)