Okay, so hell is real in all that, but what is it like? For the sake of time and simplicity, I will combine hell and the Lake of fire in this post, they are different as in different places, but they are both very similar in what they are like.
In the last study we learned that hell is a place of torment, in the presence of God with fire. It sounds bad, but let me illustrate just what it might be like. You are dropped into the middle of a bonfire... You cannot escape... You can feel all the pain of the flame, but... You cannot die... Ever... You are thirsty... There is no water... The pain continues you wish to die but you cannot... All the while in the back ground others in the fire are screaming and gnashing their teeth... You are too... Just think of this all for a minute, imagine the above scenario for two minutes, what about ten? How about sixty? One day? A year? How about eternity?
We have all been burned sometime in our lives. Imagine the pain of the burn going on forever, it never diminishes, and you never die. On top of that you are desperately thirsty. You cannot quench your thirst at all, there is no water, think about what it is like when you are really thirsty, then start adding time, and heat, imagine the pain and desperation. You cannot escape. On top of all this you have all the teeth gnashing, and the moans screams and groans, along with the horrible suffocating smell of sulfur. Folks, words fail to tell the half of it, you have to really feel it to know.
Say have you ever been burned really bad? I have, it was a steam burn to the face, and it hurt terribly for days, after the source of heat was removed. I can't even imagine if it was a dry burn how it would have hurt, and folks, it wont be wet in hell, it will be fire, not steam. Have you ever tended a large brush fire? How unbearable the heat can be, even when you are at a distance, just think of being actually in the fire, what would it be like then? Hell is like that but worse. In hell there is no second chances, you are there to stay, no escape, no help, you are stuck there, burning, burning forever. The pain is worse than anything that can be described, and it goes on forever. Stick you finger in the flame of a candle and hold it there till you cannot bare it, multiply that pain by a hundred all over your body, make escape impossible, death impossible, water no where to be found, throw in the stifling sulfur, the gnashing, and eternity, then my friends you have hell.
Here is some good news to end on, nobody has to go there, no one, period. I'll tell you about that next post.
God Bless,
Flame of Jah
5 comments:
Do you think that the devil and his angels don't have to go there either?
I was speaking of people, I am sorry I didn't make that clear, hell was prepared for the devil and his angels.
Brother, I absolutely agree with that statement from Matthew 25, but I add to it that hell is also for the wicked! You found that statement in Scripture... What was the context? God was casting a person, deserving of hell (we are too) into the lake of fire. And that someone claimed to know God. "Lord! Lord!..." Where do you read about a decision for Christ? Where do you find an example of offering life to the wicked? Jesus Himself said that there are children of the devil that cannot hear the truth.He also said that if one is not of His sheep one cannot believe. I believe there is a hell. The devil, his angels and those who are unelect are going there to receive the just reward for their sin. The only reason that we are not is because of His mercy and the demerit-ed favor of Christ's righteousness being placed upon us. Jehovah does not love everyone.(Ps. 5:4-6)Throughout the word of God, there are two great classes of men – the wicked and the righteous, the reprobates and the elect, the sinners and saints, the children and the bastards, the church and the rest, the saved and the lost, vessels of wrath and vessels of mercy, etc., etc.
What about John 1:12,13 Our will does not accomplish anything.
Brother, I only write this because you fear the LORD. The fruit that I have seen in you assures me of this. I only care about you and the truth. You do not have to publish this comment if you do not want to. Thank you for allowing me to ask a few questions :)
Your sister,
Brytni
Sister Brytni,
I am working on a reply, you have asked very good questions,
lots to think about, lots to think about,
God Bless sister,
Flame of Jah
My reply to your questions will by up as a post, due to space constraints and for other reasons, I thought it would be best that way,
Flame
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