He calls these men holy. The one under the Old Covenant evidently was more successful. The whole Old Testament is a puzzle. Not a word is said about hell before Daniel's prophecy. Only then do we read about everlasting shame and contempt.
All judgments are temporal and earthly.
God has pity on people who cannot discern between right and wrong, like the Ninevites, whom He spared. And there it was only a question of a destruction of the town, not of an eternal hell. But today God is supposed to condemn even the ignorant forever. If we follow one of His words and believe that He will have mercy on those who know no better, we should leave the people as much as possible in ignorance. If we follow His other words, we would be forced to the most frantic efforts to warn everyone, even though we profess to believe that no one can come to Christ unless the Father Himself draws him.