THE UNITED STATES AND TERRORIST
GODÕS JUDGEMENTS PAST AND PRESENT
Preface
All or mankind are
now in one of two groups, they are Òin ChristÓ or they are lost. No one who is
not a Christian, not in Christ, not washed by the blood of Christ can be saved.
There is no hope of salvation for anyone with out the blood of Christ. No
Christ-less religion can save anyone.
All religions that do
not worshipper God as He has reviled Himself in the Bible are opposed to God
and there is no neutral position; all who do not obey the commands of Christ
are opposed to him, and all that are opposed to him will not go
unpunished. "The LORD, the LORD God, compassionate and gracious, slow to
anger, and abounding in loving kindness and truth; who keeps loving kindness
for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no
means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the
children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations"
(Exodus 356-7).
Much of the
inspiration for this book came from a book by William Robert West,
ÒUnconditional Immortality Or Resurrection Of The Dead,Ó Infinity Publishing,
March 2008, ISBN 0-7414-4620-0. In this book he proved to me, beyond any doubt,
that the wages of sin is death. With his permission, without quotations marks,
I have used much from his copyrighted book as a foundation, which saved me many
hours of research and added my comments about (1) occult and idol worship (2)
adultery (3) and homosexuality. His book points out that sin brings
death, not eternal life, for ANY un-forgiven sin; I have added what the Bible
teaches about these THREE SINS that has became common in America today
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Table of Contents
THE WRATH OF GOD
PART ONE: Old Testament: Punishment (wrath) only
in their lifetime on earth
1. On
individuals from Adam to the Law
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Adam
á
Cain
á Korah
2. On
Nations And Cities
á The flood
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Sodom
á Seven nations
stronger than Israel
á Chorazin,
Bethsaida, and Capernaum
3. On
Israel from the Law to A. D. 70
PART TWO: Moral Sins –
sins that have been sins from creation unto now
Sins that
are committed by individuals
1. Occult
or Idol worship
2. Adultery
3. Homosexuality
PART THREE: New Testament:
1. Wrath
of God in this lifetime.
2. Wrath
of God at the judgment - A day of wrath and judgment for all that
are not in Christ is the coming of Christ, but not in this lifetime.
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2 Peter 3
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The Second Death – The Lake of Fire
APPENDIX
ONE: The Calvin God
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THE WRATH OF GOD
PART ONE
GodÕs Judgments Under The Old Testament
Punishment (wrath) only in their lifetime on earth
(This is now being written and many parts of it are incomplete and
will have be completed soon)
Wrath on individuals from Adam to the Law
ADAM
God told Adam in
the day he ate he would die. The day he ate was the beginning of the dying
process ("Dying you shall die"). The death that came into the world
by Adam's sin is the same death that he died for eating, a physical death. His
punishment was that he had to work to live, and dying. It was not the death of
Adam's "soul," an inward immortal never dying part of Adam that could
not die. He was not told that after his death he would be subjected to endless
torment in Hell, but endless torment is almost always read into this. The
complete silence of any punishment after death would be unthinkable if the
doctrine of Hell were true.
Adam had many trees to eat from and just one
that he was not to touch. Why, because God gives all the free will to choose to
worship Him or not too.
"YOU SURELY SHALL NOT DIE" (Genesis
3). WHERE DID THE IDEA OF AN IMMORTAL SOUL ORIGINATE? Not from the first lie as
many believe. Adam and Eve were told, "YOU (not your soul) shall not eat
of it neither shall YOU (not your soul) touch it lest YOU (not your soul)
die." Satan said, "YOU (not your soul) shall not surely die."
They were not told their "souls" would die. THEY (Adam and Eve) not
their "soul" were sent out of the Garden of Eden "lest HE (not
his soul) put forth HIS (not his soul) hand and take also of the tree of life,
and eat, AND LIVE FOREVER." Not their "immaterial, invisible"
undying soul eats and lives forever. THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT A SOUL IN
GENESIS CHAPTER THREE, BUT THIS CHAPTER IS USED TO PROVE A PERSON HAS AN
IMMORTAL SOUL THAT CANNOT DIE; AND NOT ONE WORD ABOUT "HELL" IN
GENESIS CHAPTER THREE, BUT THIS CHAPTER IS ALSO USED TO PROVE ETERNAL TORMENT.
God said, "In the
day YOU eat it DYING YOU SHALL DIE."
Eve said, "YOU
shall not eat from it or touch it, LEST YOU DIE."
Satan said, "YOU
surely SHALL NOT DIE."
SatanÕs lie (ÒYou
surely shall not dieÓ) has been added to in today's preaching, but it has been
changed to be, "Your body shall surely die but YOUR SOUL, WHICH IS THE
REAL YOU, SHALL SURELY NOT DIE."
"And all the
days that Adam LIVED were nine hundred and thirty years: and HE DIED"
(Genesis 5:5). "Adam LIVED...and HE DIED." Today's theology says not
so, "Adam LIVED...and he CONTINUED TO LIVE."
The warning for
eating of the tree was "YOU shall surely die." God's sentence for
eating of the tree was "to dust YOU shall return" (not your soul
shall return to dust). In God's statement to Adam, the personal pronouns
"you" and "your" are used about fifteen times (it varies in
different translations). "Then to Adam He said, 'Because YOU have listened
to the voice of YOUR wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded
YOU, saying, YOU shall not eat from it; cursed is the ground because of YOU; in
toil YOU shall eat of it all the days of YOUR life. Both thorns and thistles it
shall grow for YOU; and YOU shall eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of
YOUR face YOU shall eat bread, till YOU return to the ground, because from it
YOU were taken; for YOU are dust, and to dust YOU shall return" (New
American Standard Version). The "YOU" is Adam, not just an
immaterial, invisible part of Adam. Those who use this passage to teach a
person has an immortal soul pick one of the many of the "YOU'S" and
say only this one is an immortal part of Adam but say nothing of the others and
hope you do not see the others for their immortal "immaterial, invisible
part of man" cannot eat, will not return to the ground, does not sweat,
etc. This passage is used to teach the doctrine of an immortal soul (nehphesh)
even though it says nothing of a soul (nehphesh) or immortality, and at the
same time, death, which is in the passage, is removed and made not to exist.
WHY WOULD AN IMMORTAL, IMMATERIAL SOUL THAT CANNOT DIE HAVE ANY NEED OF THE
TREE OF LIFE TO LIVE?
It was a real
earthly tree with a real earthly fruit that a real earthly person with a real
earthly hand that was told HE would die if HE eats, and a real earthly person
that was put out of a real garden "lest HE (not his soul) put forth HIS
hand (not his soul's hand), and take also of the real tree of life by eating
the fruit HE would have had in the same hand HE put forth (not his soul
eating), AND LIVE FOREVER." TO WHAT PART OF A PERSON DID LIVING DEPEND ON
EATING OF THE TREE OF LIFE? To Adam, or an "immaterial, invisible"
immortal part of Adam that could not die even if it did not eat? Would it not
be a contradiction to say Adam had an immortal soul that could not die and must
live forever, but it depended on eating of the tree of life to live, or that
the soul that could not die would die if it did not eat of the tree of life?
Yet, we are told that all, even Adam, have an immortal soul that will live
forever and this deathless soul has no need of the tree of life and that this
deathless part of a person is the only part of a person that will ever live
forever; therefore, what could the tree of life give to Adam's deathless soul
that it did not already have and that according to this doctrine it did not
lose by eating of the tree? Nothing. This doctrine makes the flaming sword to
keep Adam from the tree of life so that he may eat and live forever useless,
for it makes Adam live forever if he eats or if he does not eat.
It was Adam that God said would die if he ate,
not an immortal soul that cannot die. It was Adam that Satan told Adam he would
not die if he did eat; nothing is said about Adam having an immortal
deathless soul would not die. "You shall surely die" is far from
saying, "When you die, a part of you will live and suffer eternal
torment" but many read this into it. Was Adam created mortal or immoral?
If immortal, how could he be threatened with death when he could not die? If he
were immortal, he would be death-proof; therefore, God's sentence of death if
he eats would have been a lie.
"It is
appointed unto man to die, and after this comes the judgment" (Hebrews
9:27). Not just part of a person, not only the body of the man. This is changed
to read only your outer shell, and not the real YOU shall die. "In the day
YOU eat thereof YOU shall surely die" is not, "After the death of
your body, your soul, a part of you, shall be eternity alive in Hell and
tormented by God" but this is what many read into it. Some say this is not
physical death but a spiritual death. Then where did physical death come from?
What death was passed unto ALL men (Romans 5:12)? Is it appointed for a
man to die is changed to be appointed for only a part of a man
to die?
"The first
man is of the earth, earthy" (1 Corinthians 15:47; Ecclesiastes 3:20).
THE DEATH SENTENCE: God: "YOU shall surely
die" (Genesis 2:17) versus Satan: "YOU shall not surely die"
(Genesis 3:4).
THE DEATH SENTENCE
REPEATED: "Dust YOU are, and unto dust YOU shall return" (Genesis
2:19). The YOU that shall die is the same YOU that shall return to dust. These
words do not point to a continuation of life but to the end of it.
THE DEATH SENTENCE FULFILLED: "Therefore,
just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and
so death spread to all men, because all sinned" (Romans 5:12).
THE REMEDY FOR THE
DEATH THAT CAME THROUGH ADAM'S SIN: "For the hour is coming, in which
ALL THAT ARE IN THE TOMBS shall hear his voice, and SHALL COME FORTH; they that
have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that
have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment" (John 5:28-29).
Was this sentence
of death given to an immortal soul that cannot die? If it is immortal how could
any kind of death sentence be given to it, how could it not live forever? It
could not be subject to death. It would not matter if Adam ate or did not eat
for his immaterial invisible immortal soul could not die. In the fall of Adam
and his sentence, nothing is said about an immortal soul. It was Adam that
sinned, Adam that died; and it was through Adam that death came into the world
and passed unto all men, not death passed to all immortal souls (1 Corinthians
15:21-22; Romans 5:12-14). The penalty to Adam and all his seed is death, not
eternal life in Hell. There will be a resurrection from the death that came
into the world from Adam's sin.
Today's preachers
would tell Adam that he was going to Hell for his sin, but God said not one
word about Hell. "Die" has been changed to "Hell."
"Death" has been changed to "life with torment." Satan
said, "YOU surely SHALL NOT DIE." Satan added the "not" and
many have changed his "YOU shall not" to "your soul shall
not" to make a person now have an "immaterial invisible"
immortal soul that shall not die.
For a person to
have an immortal soul two kinds of life must be read into this, therefore, two
kinds of death with one not being a death at all, but eternal life with
torment. Look in your concordance and you will see that "Spiritual
life" or "spiritual death" which is read into this is not in the
Bible. It is argued that Adam did not die physically that day; therefore,
"spiritual death" was Adam's penalty for eating. If this were true,
why did he ever die a physical death, and how did physical death come into the
world? In the Hebrew the penalty was "dying YOU shall die." It was
the "living being" (Genesis 2:7) that would die, not an immortal soul
that cannot die but was told that it would die anyway. Death came into the
world through Adam and all die (1 Corinthians 15:22; Romans 5:12-21). "And
inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this comes
judgment" (Hebrews 9:27). The death that came into the world by Adam's sin
is the same death that he died for eating, a physical death. "By the sweat
of your face YOU shall eat bread, till YOU return to the ground, because from
it YOU were taken; for YOU are dust, and to dust YOU shall return"
(Genesis 2:19). It was not the death of Adam's "soul," an inward
immortal never dying part of Adam that could not die. Adam could not have
understood that YOU was only his body, and that only a part of the YOU would
die, but the rest of the YOU would not die but would live forever in torment
unless he had a revelation from God to tell him a part of him was deathless.
There is no such revelation recorded in Genesis although it is repeatedly read
into it today. Adam's undying soul theory is based on the silence recorded in
Genesis two and three. Edward White, "No word is said either before the
fall, or on the approach of the Judge, or afterwards, of Adam's possession of a
deathless soul, when his mortal integer was broken up; --not a word is uttered
in the divine comment on the curse, of an eternity of misery to be endured by
the soul after dissolution of the Man. Indeed, that notion seems to deserve
little else than the scorn, which Locke bestows upon it. It is the gratuitous
invention of theologians who have forfeited the claim to be listened to in that
matter by their perverse departure from the record" Life In Christ,
Page 212, 1878.
A definition of
death from the Bible, "Till YOU return to the ground, because from it
YOU were taken; for YOU are dust, and to dust YOU shall return," and
without the resurrection, all would forever remain dust. But, God's definition
of death cannot be believed by any that believe the soul is immortal.
ANOTHER USE OF "YOU SHALL SURELY DIE"
(the same words in the Hebrew); Solomon told Shimei to
"Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth
thence any whither. For on the day you go out, and pass over the
brook Kidron, know you for certain that YOU SHALL SURELY DIE" (1
Kings 2:37). He did go out of Jerusalem, and he did die just as Adam did but
not on the very day he went out.
IF HELL WERE
ADAM'S SENTENCE: "Die" must be changed into an eternal life for a
part of Adam but not his body. If Hell was Adam's sentence then God was unclear
in His warning and unclear in the sentence. What was the penalty God give in
Genesis 3:9-24?
The serpent cursed
Sorrow in bringing
forth children
The man ruling over
his wife
The earth bringing
forth thorns and thistles
Must work to eat, by
the sweat of his face.
They would return to
the ground from which they came
HOW CAN ANYONE GET HELL OUT OF THIS SENTENCE?
THERE IS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT AN IMMORTAL, IMMATERIAL PART OF A PERSON IN IT AND
NOT ONE WORD ABOUT HELL OR TORMENT AFTER DEATH IN IT. THERE IS NOTHING ABOUT
ANYTHING AFTER DEATH IN IT, THE PENALTY FOR THEM EATING ENDED WHEN THEY
RETURNED TO THE GROUND.
WHAT IS THE DEATH THAT CAME INTO THE WOULD AND
PASSED UNTO ALL THROUGH ADAM'S SIN? "It seems a strange way of
understanding a law which requires the plainest and direct words, that by death
should be meant eternal life in misery...I confess that by death, here, I can
understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and
sense. Such a death came upon Adam and all his posterity, by his first
disobedience in paradise, under which death they should have lain forever had
it not been for the redemption by Jesus Christ" John Locke,
"Reasonableness of Christianity."
The
"soul" as it is used today will live forever if it eats of this fruit
or does not eat of it, and the teaching is that not even God can keep it from
living forever. If God had made men with unconditional immortality, would it
have done any good to put him out of the garden to keep him from eating of the
tree of life to live forever? If Adam were made with an immortal undying part,
he would have lived forever and could not have died even if he did not eat of
the tree of life.
Adam and Eve
passed from a state in the garden where they had access to the tree of life,
where it was possible for them to live forever, to a state where it was
impossible for them not to die. The day they did eat was the beginning of the
dying process ("Dying you shall die"). There is nothing in this about
a person being a dual being with an immortal soul, but most read it into this.
It was the whole person as he was then, which would have lived forever if he
had eaten of the tree of life. It was the whole person, not just some inter
part of a person, which God said would die. HOW COULD AN "IMMATERIAL
INVISIBLE" PART OF A PERSON EAT OF A VISIBLE MATERIAL TREE? Satan's lie
was that THEY, not some inter part of them, would not die. The presence of the
"tree of life" in Eden indicates that immortality was conditional on
eating of that tree. To prevent the possibility of being able to "live forever"
(Genesis 3:22) God put a barrier to the garden when Adam was put out of Eden
and the dying process began.
Adam
had many trees to eat from and just one that he was not to touch. Why, because
God gives all the free will to choose to worship Him or not too.
YOUNG'S Literal Translation Genesis 2:17
"For in the day of thine eating of it - dying thou dost
die."
ADAM
CLARKE "Thou shall surely die. Literally, a death thou shall die; or,
dying thou shall die-from that moment thou shall become mortal, and shall
continue in a dying state till thou die. This we find literally accomplished;
every moment of man's life may be considered as an act of dying."
JOHN
WESLEY "Thou shall die-That is, thou shalt lose all the
happiness thou hast either in possession or prospect; and
thou shalt become liable to death, and all the miseries that preface
and attend it. This was threatened as the immediate consequence of sin."
The
New JOHN GILL Exposition of the Entire Bible "For in the day thou eat
thereof thou shalt surely die; or in dying, die; which denotes the
certainty of it...man became at once a mortal creature, who otherwise
continuing in a state of innocence, and by eating of the tree of life, he was
allowed to do, would have lived an immortal life; of the eating of which tree,
by sinning he was debarred, his natural life not now to be continued long, at
least not forever; he was immediately arraigned, tried, and condemned to death,
was found guilty of it, and became obnoxious to it, and death at once began to
work in him; sin sowed the seeds of it in his body, and a train of miseries,
afflictions, and diseases, began to appear, which at length issued in
death."
A DOUBLE CHANCE:
First change: Adam's death must be made to be a "separation," not
death. Second change: Then his "separation" must be made to be an
eternal life of torment in Hell. "For as in Adam all die" (1
Corinthians 15:22). If death = separation, and separation = Hell, then all go
to Hell for "in Adam all die."
CAIN
His sin was the
first murder, which by most is believed to be the greatest of all sins. What
was his punishment? Today, he would be told that he would go to Hell if he did
not repent, but his punishment was that he was to be a fugitive and a vagabond
in his lifetime on the earth. Not one word about any punishment after his
death. The punishment for anyone who killed Cain would be SEVEN TIMES GREATER
than the punishment of Cain. How could anything be seven times greater than
today's Hell?
KORAH
NMBERS16:1-49 Korah and
his company rebelled against Moses and were punished by death, not eternal
torment.
ON THE NATIONS
God
judges nations when they become when their evils, Adultery, Occult or Idol
worship, Homosexuals, etc. become such that they are intolerable to Him.
Nations are judged and punished in time, not at the judgment day.
ÒAt
what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to
pluck up and to break down and to destroy it; if that nation, concerning
which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I
thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation,
and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it; if they do that which is
evil in my sight, that they obey not My voice, then I will repent of the good,
wherewith I said I would benefit them. Now therefore, speak to the men of
Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus says Jehovah: Behold,
I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return you now every
one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings. But they say it is
in vain, for we will walk after our own devices, and we will do every one after
the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore thus says Jehovah: Ask you now
among the nations, who have heard such things; the virgin of Israel hath done a
very horrible thing. Shall the snow of Lebanon fail from the rock of the field?
Or shall the cold waters that flow down from afar be dried up? For
my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods;
and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk
in bypaths, in a way not cast up; to make their land an astonishment, and a
perpetual hissing; every one that pass thereby shall be astonished, and shake
his head Like an east wind I will scatter them before the enemy; I will show
them My back and not My face in the day of their calamityÓ (Jeremiah 18:8-17).
ÒAnd He made form one,
every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
their appointed time, and the boundaries of their habitationÕ (Acts 17:26).
ÒHe
rules over the nationsÓ (Psalms 22:28).
THE FLOOD
The people had
become so evil that God destroyed them. Only eight were saved. What was their
punishment? Read the Bible. It was death. There is no mention of any punishment
after their death. They were not told they had lost their souls or that they
would go to Hell. Their punishment was not something that would be after the
flood; it was the flood and their death. "And the Lord was sorry that He
had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. And the Lord said,
'I will BLOT OUT MAN whom I have created from the face of the land'"
(Genesis 6:6-7 New American Standard). "And all flesh DIED that moved upon
the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that
creeping that creeps upon the earth, and every man: all in whose nostrils was
the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land DIED. And
every living thing was DESTROYED that was upon the face of the ground, both
man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were
DESTROYED from the earth" (Genesis 7:21-23). The same thing happened to
"every man" also happened to every beast. Their punishment was death,
not eternal torment. If the punishment of Hell awaited all those who drown in
the flood, the punishment given to them utterly pales into insignificance when
it compared to an eternal life of torment in Hell, yet absolutely nothing is said
about it.
"I establish my covenant with you, and with
your seed after you; and with every living creature (soul-nehphash) that is
with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all
that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. And I will establish my
covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of
the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to DESTROY the earth"
(Genesis 9:9-11). All the souls, both of beast and man were destroyed, not
forever tormented.
"For this
they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth
compacted out of water and amid water, by the word of God; by which means the
world that then was, being overflowed with water, PERISHED (apollumi)" (2
Peter 3:5-6). American Standard Version "WAS DESTROYED" New
American Standard Bible, nothing is said about endless torment or any torment
after death.
THE FLOOD 2 Peter 2:5 Eight lived; but for the
rest of mankind, there was only death in the flood, not a life of torment.
Genesis 7:13-23 "And God said unto Noah, The END of all flesh is come
before me...and behold, I will DESTROY them with the earth...And I, behold, I
do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to DESTROY all flesh, wherein is
the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth SHALL
DIE...And all flesh that moved on the earth PERISHED, (died King James Version)
birds, and cattle and beasts and every swarming thing that swarms upon the
earth, and all mankind; of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils
was the breath of the spirit of life DIED. Thus He BLOTTED OUT (was destroyed
American Standard Version) every living thing that was upon the face of the
land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky, and they
were BLOTTED OUT (was destroyed American Standard Version) from the earth; and
only Noah was left (alive) and they that were with him in the ark" New
American Standard Version. "Died" "perished" "was
destroyed" "blotted out," and not "left" alive was
literally the end of them, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit
of life DIED. Does anyone think "birds and cattle and beasts and every
swarming thing..." etc., did not perish when they died, and are living in
some third world somewhere with these evil men that did not perish when they
died? The flood is a type of the judgment. The wicked will literally perish,
die, be blotted out, and not be left alive; and only the saved will
"remained" alive. "For this they willfully forget, that there
were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water,
by the word of God; by which means the world that them was, being overflowed
with water, PERISHED: but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same
word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the DAY OF JUDGMENT
AND DESTRUCTION OF UNGODLY MAN" (2 Peter 3: 5-7). Just as those outside of
the ark were all destroyed by the flood and none, animals or man, were left
alive and tormented, all those outside of Christ will be destroyed. There is no
question or doubt that destroy, perish, die, and end was the end of all life at
the time of the flood. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE (type) OF THE JUDGMENT TO COME. ONLY
THOSE IN THE ARK (Christ) WILL BE LIFT ALIVE.
THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
Moses said,
ÒNow the men of Sodom were wicked exceedingly and sinners against the LordÓ
(Genesis 13:13). What are we told about them? When two man were spending the
night at the home of Lot, before they went to bed of the night, ÒThe men of the
city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the
people from every quarter; and they called to Lot and said to him, ÔWhere are
the men who came to your tonight: Bring them out that we may have relations
with themÓ (Genesis 19:1-5 New American Standard Bible).
á ÓBring
them out that we may have relations with themÓ New American Standard Bible
á ÒBring
them out to us so that we can have sex with themÓ New International Version
á ÒBring
them out to us so that we may have intercourse with themÓ revised English Bible
á ÒBring
them out to us so we can have sexual relations with themÓ New Century Version
á ÒBring
them out to us that we may have intimacies with themÓ The New American Bible
á ÒBring
them out so we can have sex with themÓ New Living Translation
á ÒSend
them out, so we can have sex with themÓ Contemporary English Version
Under the Law God
demanded the death penalty for homosexuality. ÒIs there is a man who lies with
a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable
act; THEY SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATHÓ (Leviticus 20:13).
ÒYou shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abominationÓ
(Leviticus 18:22). ÒDefile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in
all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you; and the
land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and
the land vomits out her inhabitantsÓ (Leviticus 18:24-25).
Genesis 13 and 14:
These cities were literally burnt up (Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 34:9), not still
burning with the people walking around in torment. Their end was complete
(total destruction) and is an example of the total destruction that is coming
to the ungodly at the judgment.
SODOM AND GOMORRAH
Jude 7 "Are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal
fire" American Standard Version. God "condemned them to
extinction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly"
2 Peter 2:6 New Revised Standard Version. These cities were literally burnt up,
not still burning with the people walking around in torment. Their end
(extinction) was complete (total destruction) and eternal; and is an example of
the total destruction that is coming to the ungodly at the judgment. SODOM HAS
CEASED TO EXIST. So thoroughly was it's destruction
that it's location is not known. Some believe it was under what is
now the Dead Sea, some that it was other places. The annihilation (end,
destruction, extinction, death) of the ungodly will be total and eternal, just
as it was of Sodom and Gomorrah. THEY WILL CEASE TO EXIST. This is the first
use of "fire and brimstone" and the only time it was literally rained
on anyone. It was the total destruction of the two cities, and is later used as
a symbol of total and eternal destruction. (Psalms 11:6; Isaiah 34:9;
Revelation 19:20; 20:10; 21:8). "By turning the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction and made them an example of
what is coming to the ungodly" New Revised Standard Version. That they
were reduced to ashes and the fire went out is also a part of the example of
what will happen to the ungodly. Where does any one find the revelation that
changes this example of total destruction by a fire that went out when the
destruction was complete into an example of destruction that will never be
complete and the fire will never go out?
á "And
if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them too
extinction and made them an example of what is coming to the ungodly" New
Revised Standard Version.
á "And
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with a
overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly"
American Standard Version.
á "He
condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to
ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly
thereafter" New American Standard Version.
á "He
condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made
them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly" New
International Version.
á "And
turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to
destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live
ungodly" New King James Version.
á "And
God also destroyed the evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them until
they were ashes. He made these cities an example of what will happen to those
who are against God" New Century Bible.
á "And
He condemned to ruin and extinction the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, reducing
them to ashes (and thus) set them forth as an example to those who would be
ungodly" The Amplified Bible.
á "God
reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, condemning them to total
ruin as an object lesson for the ungodly in future days" Revised English
Bible.
If Sodom and
Gomorrah are an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly, how could
the ungodly have an eternal life of torment? They were reduced to ashes and
when there was nothing more to burn, the fire went out. They are an example of
total destruction, not of eternal torment.
What is Sodom an example of?
á "Condemned
them too extinction" -- Sodom --- or an eternal life of torment?
á "Condemned
them too extinction" -- ungodly -- or an eternal life of torment? Does
anyone think Sodom is now being tormented in Hell today? If it is not, then how
is it an example of being tormented in Hell?
Next to the flood
the destruction of Sodom was the most devastating judgment by God in the Old
Testament. Homosexuality is the sin that wrought the wrath of God and a
judgment of total destruction (death) on all the inhabitants of these four
cities and all the inhabitants around them. As Homer Hailey says, Òit was
clearly a judgment from Jehovah, an expression of His fierce wrath and hot
anger against the cities and the sin of sodomyÓ Homer Hailey, ÒGodÕs
Judgments and Punishments Of Individuals and Nations,Ó Page 98.
Anyone must reject
many plain statements of the Bible to believe man has an immortal soul that is
deathly and will live forever without the blood of Christ. All through the
Bible death is GodÕs punishment for homosexuality.
SEVEN NATIONS STRONGER THAN ISRAEL
ÒWhen the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are
entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites
and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and
the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and
stronger than you, and when the LORD your God delivers them before
you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them You shall make no
covenant with them and show no favor to them. Furthermore, you shall not
intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor
shall you take their daughters for your sons. For they will turn your
sons away from following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of
the LORD will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you.
"But this you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars,
and smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their
graven images with fireÉ 16 "You shall consume all
the peoples whom the LORD your God will deliver to you; your eye shall not pity
them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to
youÓ (Deuteronomy 7:1-5; 34:16). These nations were idol worshipers, which is a
rebelling against His sovereignty and authority. They were to be DESTORYED, not
tormented forever just as Israel would be DESTORYED if they worshiped
the idols of these nations.
GOD DESTORYED
CITIES AND NATIONS FOR THE EVILS IN THEM THROUGHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT;
Adultery, Occult or Idol worship, Homosexuality, Etc., to many to go into the
details of each one. To name a few, Philistia, Moab, Ammon,
Edom, Tyre, Media, Assyria, and Babylon. These evils are becoming more
common in the U. S. today. These evils have become Òpolitical correctÓ and adultery
is not thought of as a sin. Do you think God destroyed Sodom because of
homosexuality but will not destroy a nation today for the same reason?
CHORAZIN, BETHSAIDA, AND CAPERNAUM
Christ spoke of
the Day of Judgment for lands or cities, more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah
than for Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum (Matthew 11:21-24, Luke
10:10-12).
More
tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah then for the cities that did not receive those
He sent out (Matthew 10:14-15, Mark 6:11, Luke 10:10-12).
There is no mention of
punishment of any individual and no mention of Hell in any of these passages.
The punishment spoken of is of cites and takes place IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT,
NOT IN HELL. If the punishment of these cities takes place in the Day of
Judgment, then it cannot take place in Hell after the judgment is over. HELL OR
ETERNAL PUNISHMENT IS NOT MENTIONED IN ANY OF THESE PASSAGES. Those who believe
in Hell read it in.
WHEN ARE CITIES
AND NATIONS JUDGED? WHEN IS THEIR DAY OF JUDGMENT TO BE? "And you,
Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You shall descend to
Hades" (Matthew 11:23). It was a great city but would go down to hades-the
grave. Today, there are only a few ruins of Capernaum. They went from greatness
to non-existence. From exalted to heaven to the grave (hades).
Nations and cities
will not be judged at the judgment at the coming of Christ. Matthew 24 is of
the judgment of Jerusalem (Matthew 23:36-38). All these cities have had a day
of judgment and were brought down to the grave. The Day of Judgment for them is
past. The destruction of Sodom was quick and soon over. The destruction of
Jerusalem, which saw and rejected Christ was long and drawn out with much more
suffering, therefore, much less tolerable. The Day of Judgment for a city or a
nation is the time when God will cause it to be destroyed? The Old Testament is
full of God's judgment of nations. For further study of God's judgment and
destruction of nations, see "God's Judgments and Punishments of Nations
and Individuals" by Homer Hailey, Nevada Publications (775) 747-0800, PO
Box 15444, Las Vegas, Nevada 89114.
A PROBLEM. Some
seem to think there will there be a resurrection and judgment of cities? If so,
will the individuals of these cities be judged as individuals or as a part of
the cities or both? If it were the judgment day at the coming of Christ, them
God would be condemning people for where they live, not for what they did or
did not do themselves. BUT, EITHER WAY (1) If this is God's judgment day on there
cities when they were destroyed, (2) or even if God did judge cities in the
judgment day at the coming of Christ, there is nothing said about an immortal
soul or about God tormenting anyone in Hell. Hell is read into it. If the
judgment is "in the Day of Judgment," it could not be in Hell after
the Day of Judgment is over.
ISRAEL UNDER THE LAW OF MOSES
ALL THESE
BLESSING, ALL THESE CURSING: "Now it shall be, if you will diligently obey
the Lord our God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you
today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth,
AND ALL THESE BLESSING SHALL COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU, if you will obey
the Lord your God" (Deuteronomy 28:1-2). "Moses was instructed in all
the wisdom of the Egyptians" (Acts 7:22), therefore, he knew of their
teaching of life after death, but he did not put a word of it in the Law.
ALL THESE
BLESSINGS of the Law were in this lifetime, not after death, but only if they
kept the Law (Deuteronomy 28:11). NOT ONE WORD ABOUT A BLESSING AFTER DEATH.
God would set Israel high above all nations
(Deuteronomy 28:1).
Blessing in the city and in the country
(Deuteronomy 28:4).
Blessing in children, cattle, and the ground
(Deuteronomy 28:5).
Blessing in full barns (Deuteronomy 28:8).
Blessing in all they set their hand to do
(Deuteronomy 28:8).
The Lord will establish them as a holy people to
Himself (Deuteronomy 28:9).
All nations will see and be afraid of you
(Deuteronomy 28:10).
They will abound in prosperity, in children, and
the fruit of the land (Deuteronomy 28:11-12).
They will lend to many nations and not borrow,
be the head and not the tail (Deuteronomy 28:12-13).
ALL THESE CURSES
of the Law, if they did not keep it, were in this lifetime (Deuteronomy 28:18-19).
NOT ONE WORD ABOUT A CURSE AFTER THIS LIFETIME. "But it shall come about,
if you will not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments
and His statutes with which I charge you today, that ALL THESE CURSES SHALL
COME UPON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU" (Deuteronomy 28:15)
á Cursed
in the city and the country (Deuteronomy 28:16)
á Cursed
in your basket and kneading bowl (Deuteronomy 28:17)
á Cursed
in their children, the produce of their ground, the increase of their herd
(Deuteronomy 28:18)
á Cursed
when they come in and when they went out (Deuteronomy 28:19).
á Confusion,
rebuke, in all they did unto they were destroyed (Deuteronomy 28:20)
á Cursed
with pestilence until they were consumed from the land (Deuteronomy 28:21)
á Smite
with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with fiery heat, with the
sword, with blight, with mildew, and pursued unto they perished (Deuteronomy
28:22)
á The heaven
over their head as bronze and the earth under them as iron (Deuteronomy 28:23)
á The rain
on their land made as power and dust unto they were destroyed (Deuteronomy
28:24)
á Defeated
before their enemies and their carcasses shall be food for birds (Deuteronomy
28:25-26)
á Smite
with boils of Egypt, with tumors, with scab, with an itch, which cannot be
healed, with blindness, madness and bewilderment of heart (Deuteronomy
28:27-28)
á They would
not prosper and would be oppressed and robbed continually (Deuteronomy 28:29)
á Their wives
would be violated, and they would build a house and not live in it, plant a
vineyard but not use it (Deuteronomy 28:30)
á Many more
curses if they did not obey the Lord (Deuteronomy 28:31-68). Those who came out
of Egypt and provoked the Lord died in the wilderness. Death was their
punishment, not eternal torment after death (Numbers 14; Hebrews 3:16-19)
"I declare
unto you this day, that you shall surely PERISH; you shall not prolong your
days in the land" (Deuteronomy 30:18). "So they, and all that
appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon
them, and they PERISHED from among the assembly" (Numbers 16:33).
"And whatsoever soul it be that does any manner of work in that same day,
that soul will I DESTROY from among his people" (Leviticus 23:30). Throughout
the Old Testament perish and destroy means dying and has nothing to do with any
kind of torment after death. It would be past comprehension that God would give
them such detail of what would happen to then in this lifetime and say nothing
of the unending pain He was going to forever heap on them in Hell that awaited
them.
"One of the
first phenomena which draws attention in the Pentateuch is the omission, both
in the historical and perceptive portions of it, of any mention of the
immortality of the soul. If this view of man's nature is true in our
time, it was true from the beginning, and true in the time of Moses. And if
it is as important as it is supposed to be now, it was equally
important then. Yet no single indication of it is discoverable in the writings
of Moses...There is but one tolerable explanation of this silence. Moses was
withheld by divine control from teaching what was not true; a doctrine which
was radically opposed to the fundamental facts of man's sin and mortality, on
which redemption proceeds" Edward White, Life In Christ, Third Edition,
Page 148, 1878.
The fifth
commandment is the "first commandment with promise" (Ephesians 6:2).
What was the promise? Was it that one would be rewarded in Heaven? No, it had
nothing to do with life after death, but life on earth, "That your days
may be prolonged, and that it may go well with you on the land which the Lord
your God gives you" (Deuteronomy 5:16).
UNDER THE JUDGES
AND KINGS: Both under the Judges and later under the Kings the history of the
Jews is one of rebellion against God followed by defeat and captivity. When
they repented and turned back to God, they came out of exile and prospered.
"The entire
history of the Jewish people as a nation, and as individuals, from generation
to generation, shows with what exactness the threatening of the law was
fulfilled in judgment. When they were obedient, the Lord prospered them, and
rewarded them with fruitful seasons, with increasing wealth and power, and made
them superior to their enemies. But, when they were rebellious and wicked, then
followed adversity, defeat, captivity, and all the physical calamities
threatened in the Law; all this while we have not one syllable of an endless
woe, which is to be added to all the other woes. In no instance of rebellion
against God, not when their corruption and idolatry were at the highest reaches
of crime and blasphemy, do we find them threatened with the torments of a hell
beyond the present life." Thomas Thayer, "Origin And History Of The
Doctrine Of Endless Punishment"
All the blessings
and all the punishments of the Law were physical in their lifetime. Punishment
or reward after death is not promised. For thousands of years throughout the
Old Testament, God warned of punishments in this lifetime if anyone did not
keep the Law, but not one warning that anyone would "go to Hell."
Death (mooth) is used hundreds of times and except the few times it is used in
a symbolic passage it always means an actual physical death. The concept of
Heaven is in the Old Testament but only as the dwelling place of God (Psalms
11:4; 33:13-14) and of angels (Genesis 21:17; 22:11; 28:12). Heaven in the Old
Testament was not a place where any person would ever be and where they would
live forever. The God of Israel was a God who would protect them, give them
blessings in this lifetime if they were faithful to Him and punish them only in
this lifetime if they were not. The savior they looked for was A PERSON (not
the Son of God) who would restore Israel as a nation and make it
to be superior to other nations. Even after His death and
resurrection His apostles still thought the Christ they and all Israel looked
for would restore the nation of Israel and rule it (Acts 1:6). A resurrection
to immortality and life in Heaven was a new teaching by Christ (2 Timothy 1:10)
and was unknown in the Old Testament. The word resurrection is used forty-one
times in the New Testament but not once in the Old Testament. One of the great
difficulties with the eternal torment view is the profound silence of the Old
Testament about it. How could God have warned Israel in detail about
punishments in this life, droughts, plagues, and other punishments and not say
one word about an eternal Hell which would be the worst of all punishments? The
TOTAL SILENCE of the Old Testament for thousands of years about this endless
torment is proof that it does not exist.
"For
man to endure unending pain (characterized by fire) is a doctrine so awful to
contemplate, that it is reasonable to conclude it would be revealed to man from
the beginning, and so revealed that he could by no possibility misapprehend the
consequences of sinning against his Maker; and we might expect to find the
terrible sentence reiterated from time to time throughout the Scriptures, especially
upon occasions of aggravated sin and wickedness" W. T. Berger, The Wages
Of Sin And Everlasting Punishment, 1886.
"First.
If their belief was the same as in our day, why did they never express
themselves as people now do in books, sermons, and common conversation? None
can deny the wide difference in the language used, or that the difference is
proof that the new language had its origin in new views concerning the future.
An unscriptural doctrine always give rise to unscriptural language; for the words
of Scripture are the very best which could be chosen to express the will of God
to man. If the doctrine were of God, the words of Scripture would be sufficient
to express it. As we do not find this new phraseology in the Bible, we infer
that the doctrine it was introduced to teach is not there. Second. How is it to
be accounted for that the fears and feeling and exertions of good people, under
the old dispensation, were so different from the fears and feelings and
exertions of Christians in our day, about saving men form hell? I do not find
that they express and fear of hell, and it is fair to conclude that they had
none. I find no examples of their fears about their children, their relations,
their neighbors, or the world at large, gong to eternal misery. As to their
feelings, I do not find a sigh heaved, a tear shed, a groan uttered, a prayer
offered, or any exertions made, as if they believed men were exposed to endless
misery. We see parents, and others, deeply affected at the lost of their children
and friends by death; we see pious people grieved on account of their
disobedience to God's laws; but we find no expression of feeling arising from
the belief that such persons would lift up their eyes in endless misery. Now,
is it not strange that all this should be the state of the fears and feelings
of good people, if they believed such misery was to be the portion of the
wicked? The whole race of mankind was swept from the earth by a flood, Noah and
his family excepted; but does this good man deplore, in any shape, that as many
precious souls should be sent to hell? God also destroyed the cities of the
plain. Abraham interceded that they might be spared, but used no argument with
God that the people might not go to hell to suffer eternal misery. If Abraham
believed this doctrine, it is possible he should have failed to urge it as an
argument that all those wicked persons must go to hell, if God destroyed them?
No notice is taken of the very argument, which, in our day, would be most urged
in prayer to God, if anything similar was to take place. All who have read the
Old Testament know what vast numbers were cut off in a day, by war and
pestilence, and other means; yet do you ever hear it deplored by a single
individual, as is often done in our day, that so many were sent out of the
world to eternal misery? In short if this doctrine was believed by any
under the Old Testament even good men maintained a dead silence about it and
the most stoical apathy.
Under
the Old Testament dispensation the sinful condition of the heathen nations is
often spoken of. But do we ever find the inspired writers representing those
nations as all going to eternal misery, or did they use similar exertions to
save them from it as are used in the present day? If the doctrine of eternal
misery was know and believe in those day, is it not unaccountable that so many
ages should pass away before God commanded the gospel to be preached to every
creature, and before those who knew their danger should use exertions to save
them from it? If the doctrine be false, we may cease to wonder at
this; but if it be true, it is not easy to reconcile these things with the well
known character of God, and the feelings of every good man. What an immense
multitude of human beings, during four thousand years, must have lived and died
ignorant that such a place of misery awaited them" Walter Balfour,
"An Inquiry Into The Scriptural Import Of The Words, Sheol, Hades,
Tartarus And Gehenna" 1854.
The Law of Moses
offered no atonement of reconciliation, if it had, the death of Jesus would not
have been needed. Then Jesus, our High Priest, would not have presented
his sacrifice to the Father, and would not have brought life and immortality to
light through the gospel (2 Timothy 1:10).
Hebrew 11: Some
seem to have had some knowledge and faith in life after death, not in an
immortal soul (see Hebrews 11:13-16; 11:35 and Job 14:14-14), but there is
nothing about it in the promises made to Abraham or the first covenant given to
Moses. Nothing recorded in the Old Testament giving any promise of life after
death. All other rewards spoken of in Hebrew 11 were rewards in this lifetime
and have no promise of a reward after death.
From the first
page to the last page of the Old Testament God warns no one of an eternal life
of torment after death if they were not faithful to Him. ÒThe wages of sin is
deathÓ not an eternal life in torment.
PART TWO: Moral Sins
Sins
that have been sins from creation unto now
Sins that
are committed by individuals in both the Old and New Testaments
ÒThe wages
of sin is deathÓ (Romans 6:23)
á Occult
or Idol worship
á Adultery
á Homosexuals
There
are severe consequences for anyone who commits these sins when they are
unrepeated and unforgiven. Unforgiven adultery, etc. will mean
their eternal death at the judgment, yet many churches have members that have
their second, third or more husbands or wives while the first ones are still
living.
HOMOSEXUALS ARE WORTH OF DEATH
Romans 1:26-32:
ÒFor this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: FOR THEIR WOMEN
CHANGED THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE: AND LIKEWISE ALSO
THE MEN, LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF THE WOMAN, BURNED IN THEIR LUST ONE TOWARD
ANOTHER, MEN WITH MEN WORKING UNSEEMLINESS, AND RECEIVING IN THEMSELVES THAT
RECOMPENSE OF THEIR ERROR WHICH WAS DUE. And even as they refused to
have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do
those things, which are not fitting.
ÒBeing filled with all
unrighteousnessÉare worthy of deathÓ
ÒWickednessÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒCovetousnessÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒMaliciousnessÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒFull of
envyÉare worthy of deathÓ
ÒMurderÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÓStrifeÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒDeceitÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒMalignityÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒWhisperersÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒBackbitersÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒHateful to
GodÉare worthy of deathÓ
ÒInsolentÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒHaughtyÉare worthy of
deathÓ
ÒBoastfulÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒInventors of evil
thingsÉare worthy of deathÓ
ÒDisobedient to
parentsÉare worthy of deathÓ
ÒWithout natural
affectionÉare worthy of death
ÒUnmercifulÉare worthy
of deathÓ
ÒWho
knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practice such things are
worthy of death.Ó Homosexuals Òmen with menÓ are in the company with murders
and many other evils.
SHALL NOT INHENT
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
1 Corinthians 6:9-10:
UnrighteousÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
FornicatorsÉwill not inherit the kingdom of God
IdolatersÉwill not inherit the kingdom of God
AdulterersÉwill not inherit the kingdom of God
Homosexuals...will not inherit the kingdom of God
Sodomites...will not inherit the kingdom of God
ThievesÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
CovetousÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
DrunkardsÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
RevilersÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
ExtortionistsÉwill not
inherit the kingdom of God
Galatians 5:19-21: ÒThe acts of the sinful
nature are obvious:
ÒSexual immoralityÉthey who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
Heaven.
ÒImpurity and
debaucheryÉthey who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
Heaven.
ÒIdolatry and
witchcraftÉthey who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of
Heaven.Ó
ÒHatredÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒDiscordÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒJealousyÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒFits of rageÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÓSelfish ambitionÉthey
who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒDissensionsÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒFactions and envyÉthey
who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒDrunkennessÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒOrgiesÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒAnd the likeÉthey who
practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of Heaven.Ó
ÒOf which I
forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practice such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.Ó
THREE SINS THAT
ARE STRONGLY CONDEMNED THROUGH OUT THE BIBLE IN BOTH THE OLD AND NEW
TESTATMENTS BUT ARE NOW ÒPOLITICAL CORRICT.Ó Note: Any sin is condemned, but in
the U. S. these three are rampart, therefore, I am singling them out.
(1). Occult or Idol worship - Christ less religions
In the Old Testament the punishment was DEATH
ÒYou shall have no
other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any
likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water
under the earthÓ You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children,
and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate MeÓ (Deuteronomy
5:7-9). ÒFor they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus
they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom
they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as foodÓ (Ezekiel
23:37). ÒWill you steal, murder, and commit adultery and swear falsely, and
offer sacrifices to Baal and walk after other gods that you have not knownÓ
(Jeremiah 7:9).
The Old Testament has a history of many nations
that were destroyed by God because they worshiped other gods.
Occult or Idol worship - Christ
less religions of today
Judaism: A religion of the Old Testament that rejected the Christ that
was foretold by there prophets.
Hinduism: A religion that rejects Christ as the only way mankind can be
saved, and rejects the Bible account of creation.
Buddhism: A religion that has many savers but rejects Christ and his death
and resurrection. It is a Christ less and bloodless religion.
Confucianism: Basically Confucianism seems to be a human religion that is
without a real belief in the existence of gods or spirits. It is a religion
that totally rejects the Bible, God and Christ.
Islam or Mohammedanism: Islam accepts the Koran as the absolute word or God and rejects
Christ completely.
There is only one true God and only one
savior, Jesus Christ. The only way anyone can be saved is by the blood of
Christ. Any God less and Christ less religion cannot be accepted as being
political correct and must be totally rejected and opposed by all Christian. To
accept any of them will bring eternal death (The Second Death) at the Judgment
Day.
Halloween: SatanÕs holiday has become the second most celebrated day in
America. That it is a day of Satan, witches and witchcraft, the living dead,
and many other evils is undeniable. No Christian can celebrate this day of
Satan or permit their children to celebrate it. Witchcraft is condemned
throughout the Bible yet many ÒChristiansÓ decorate their homes with witches
and dress as witches on this evil holiday of Satan.
ÒYou
shall not suffer a witch to liveÓ (Exodus 22:18 ÒsorceressÓ in some translations)
ÒFor
rebellion is as the sin of witchcraftÓ (1 Samuel 15:23) Also 2 Chronicles 33:6
and Deuteronomy 18:10
In
the New Testament, ÒNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraftÉof
the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they
which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of GodÓ (Galatians 5:19-21
King James Version)
o Many
ÒChristiansÓ just do not read the Bible or if they do read it they are
selectively in the parts of the Bible they believe and accept; this day of
Satan is accepted and celebrated by them and by their example, which is much
stronger than their words, their children are taught that Satan worship is acceptable.
New Age movement, the Channeling Craze with spirits of the dead, and
near-death experiences; familiar spirits are spirits of devils (See Numbers
25:13). God had forbid dealing with familiar spirits.
Spiritualism claims
to communication with the spirits of the dead.
All Christ Less Religions Of Today
MAKES
GOD A LIAR: ÒHe that believes on the Son of God has the witness in him: he
that believes not God has made him a liar because he has not believed in the
witness that God has born concerning His SonÓ (1 John 5:10). The world
religions of today do not believe in Christ as being God only Son and do not
worship Christ.
HAS
NOT ETERNAL LIFE: ÒGod gave unto us eternal life and this life is in
his Son. He that has the Son has the life; he that has not the Son has not the
lifeÓ (1 John 5:11-12). Most of the world religions do not believe in Christ at
all, some just believe He was a prophet but not as great a prophet as their
prophets.
HAVE
NOT GOD: ÒWhosoever goes onward and abides not in the teaching of Christ has
not God; he that abides in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the
SonÓ (2 John 9). The Christ less religions of today definitely do not abide in
the teaching of Christ and many of them hate those who do abide in His
teaching; therefore, they have not God.
THOSE WHO
FELLOWSHIP THEM OR GIVE THEM THEIR APPROVEAL PARTAKES OF THEIR EVIL: ÒIf any
man comes unto you, and brings not this teaching, receive him not into your
hours, and give him no greeting: for HE THAT GIVES HIM GREETING PARTAKES IN HIS
EVIL WORKSÓ (2 John 10-11).
Occult or Idol worship in the New Testament
Coming soon
(2). Adulterers and Fornicators
In the Old Testament the punishment was DEATH
One of the Ten
Commandments, ÒYou shall not commit adulteryÓ (Exodus 20:14). ÒIf there is a
man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with
his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to
deathÓ (Leviticus 20:10). ÒThe one who commits adultery with a woman is lacking
sense; he who would destroy himself does itÓ (Proverbs 6:32). ÒThe scribes
and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the
center of the court, they said to Him, ÔTeacher, this woman has been caught in
adultery, in the very act. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such
women; what then do You say?Õ They were saying this, testing Him, so
that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with
His finger wrote on the ground. But when they persisted in asking Him, He
straightened up, and said to them, ÔHe who is without sin among you, let him be
the first to throw a stone at her.ÕÓ This was before the Law had been taken out
of the way and mailed to the cross (Colossians 2:14). Jesus looked at all sins
as being worthy of physical death, not eternal torment.
Adulterers and Fornicators in the New Testament
In the New
Testament the punishment for adultery is Òshall not inherit the kingdom of
God,Ó the SECOND DEATH. ÒWhosoever shall put away his
wife, and marry another, commits adultery against her: and if she herself shall
put away her husband, and marry another, she commits adulteryÓ (Mark 10Ó11-12).
ÒYou have heard that it was said, ÔYou shall not commit adultery, Õbut I say
unto you, that every one that looks on a woman to lust after her has committed
adultery with her already in his heart. And if your right eye causes you to
stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that
one of your members should perish, and not your whole body be cast into
Gehenna. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it
from yourself: for it is profitable for you that one of your members should
perish, and not your whole body go into Gehenna. It was said also, ÔWhosoever
shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement,Õ but I say
unto you, that every one that puts away his wife, saving for the cause of
fornication, makes her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her
when she is put away commits adulteryÓ (Matthew 5:30-31; 19:9; 19:18Õ Luke
11:18; 18Ó20). ÒLet marriage be had in honor among
all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators
and adulterers God will judgeÓ (Hebrews 13:4). They Òshall not
inherit the kingdom of GodÓ (Galatians 5:18-21; Romans 2:22; James 2:11).
(3). Homosexuals
You cannot be POLITICAL CORRICT and be a Christian.
You cannot accept
adultery, worshiping other gods or homosexuality and a Christian cannot just
look the other way and say or do nothing. A person stands up for what God says
or stands against Him; there is no on the fence. God said to the church in
Laodicea, ÒI will spew you out of my mountÓ (Revelation 3:16).
A Christian cannot be neutral when it comes to
any sin or any false religion. He or she cannot stand by and let their friends
believe in any religion that was not bought with the blood of Christ and say
nothing, nor when his or her friend is practicing any sin, adultery, lying,
homosexuality, believing any Christ less religion or any sin. If being
political correct means saying nothing to any Christ less religion or any sin,
Christian cannot be political correct and still be a Christian.
GodÕs wrath will be on all who try to sit on the
fence and say or do nothing.
ONE SIDED
Freedom of speech
dose not mean anyone who dose not believe as you do must keep quite. Political
correct is used to mean a Christian must keep quite about any Christ less
religion, anyone living in adultery, homosexuality, or any other thing that God
says is a sin; they can and do condemn a Christian that does not accept what
ever they want to do but no Christian and condemn them or their evil.
The vile and
obscene way Hilton attacked Miss California for saying what she believed shows
how the homosexuals attack all who will not support them or in any way oppose
them. If she had answered the question the way that homosexuals
thought she would she would be Miss America now, but when she answered it the
way she believed he attacked her immediately and viciously and the attack has
not stopped and will not unto they think they have completely destroyed her. IN
THEIR MIND, ALL WHO DO NOT SUPPORT THEM ARE EVIL AND ARE TO BE DESTORYED.
Being political
correct is just one of their weapons to use against any who oppose them. They
went after Miss California unto Miss California was taken form her and most
ÒChristiansÓ did or said nothing. FREEDOM OF SPEACH AND FREEDOM OR RELIGION IS
A ONE WAY STREET WITH THEM; THEY CAN BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY WHAT TO AND SAY
ANYTHNG THEY WANT TO ABOUT ANYONE BUT IF ANYONE SAYS ANYTHING SAYS A WORD ABOUT
THEM IT IS TAKING THEIR FREEDOM AWAY AND IS EVIL. The truth is that God says
clearly and without any doubt that homosexually is evil.
Being political
correct is used as a weapon to make all who are not homosexual to keep them
quite while they force their evil on others. A TRUE CHRISTIAN CANNOT
KEEP QUITE BUT EVEN MOST PREACHERS HAVE BEEN INTIMIDATED AND ARE KEEPING QUITE
ABOUT THIS EVIL SIN AND MANY OTHER UNGODLY EVILS.
ÒThe objective and
general thrust of the gay rights movement is not only to make this sin
acceptable to the American public, but to destroy the traditional divine
principle of the home as a unit in which children are to be reared. A home is
composed of father (husband), mother (wife), and children; with
grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins, complementing the image of a stable
family relationship. The gay movement is backed and promoted by anti-God forces
in organizations within our nation. These work through city, county, and state
governments to get laws enacted that violate the consciences of the godly moral
element of our society. Against their will there are being forced to rent their
property to the undesirable element, to hire them as school teachers, and
to use them as leader of their children. Through books for children the gays
are subtly seeking to indoctrinate three to six-year-old children with the
acceptance of homosexual and lesbian marriage as the normal home relationship.
With gay teacher, male or female, what type of books or stories will they
assign to the children? The answer is obvious. The forced acceptance to which
the American people have yielded to pressure from this enemy of righteousness
and decency is shocking! Much of the peoplesÕ indifference is due to ignorance
of what is taking placeÉOther nations were cast out of Canaan because of the
sins of homosexuality and bestiality which God condemned side by side
(Leviticus 18:22-23, 24-25). Each of these sins brought the death penalty
for all parties involved (Leviticus 20:13, 15-16). God condemns the
sins of homosexuality and lesbianism in the New Testament with the came clarity
as He did in the Old Testament (Romans 1:24-32). Homer Hailey, Dean of Bible at
Florida Collage, ÒGodÕs Judgments And Punishments Of Individuals And Nations,Ó
Page 118, 2003, Nevada Publications
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PRESS RELEASE - Urgent Request from
Focus Press
War Declared on the Whole Counsel of God!
Almost two
thousand years ago the apostle Paul declared, Òfor I have not shunned to
declare to you the whole counsel of GodÓ (Acts 20:27). Many preachers have
diligently followed PaulÕs example, and have mounted pulpits even to the point
of persecution or being fired because of their decision to preach Òthe whole
counsel of God.Ó The playing field has change dramatically, as lawmakers
quietly pass legislation to silence specific verse. Future sermons are likely
to be scrutinized by atheists and homosexual activists who are successfully
eliminating the condemnation of homosexuality using our legal system.
While many were
attending Wednesday night Bible Study on April 29,2009, the U.S. House of
RepresentativeÕs passed bill H.R. 1913, known as the Local Law Enforcement Hate
Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 (often referred to as the hate crime bill). While
all Christians should celebrate legislation against hate crimes (and all
crime), this bill gives special punishment to individuals who carry out crimes
against homosexuals. In doing so it opens the door the federal prosecution of
crimes that are suspected to be Òmotivated by prejudiceÓ against homosexuals,
bisexual, or those wrestling with Ògender identityÓ (transsexuals,
cross-dressers, sex changes, etc.). This bill is absolutely riddled with vague
language. The opening line states: Òto provide Federal assistance to States,
local jurisdiction, and Indian tribes to prosecute hate crimes, and for other
purposes.Ó Exactly what are Òother purposes?Ó More importantly the meat of the
bill states the federal government will support investigation and prosecution
of a hate crime Òmotivated by prejudice based on the actual or perceived race,
color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, ender identity,
or disability of the victim, or is a violation of the State, local, or tribal
hate crime laws.Ó The ill does not define motivation, It also provides federal
protection for Òsexual orientation,Ó and Òender identity,Ó either ÒactualÓ or
ÒperceivedÓ giving the federal government the right to judge mental intent
(instead of actual crime). None of these terms are defined in the legislation.
Sexual orientation is defined b the Am. Psych. Assoc. as 30 behaviors including
pedophilia. This bill is providing special protection for homosexuals. Should
not a crime be prosecuted as a crimeÉperiod. Murder should be prosecuted as
murder. This is opening the door for special protection of which
Constitutional lawyers agree will affect the church. This new bill, if passed
into saw, would allow preachers to be prosecuted if their sermon ÒmotivatedÓ
someone to commit as act against a homosexual. Imagine watching the police and
federal agents descend on a preacherÕs office and confiscate his files,
computer, CDÕs, DVDs, and any copies of his sermons because someone committed a
crime and blamed it on his sermon. This bill would make this scenario
frighteningly real.
Openly gay
Congressman Barney Frank helped craft the bill and solicited 42 co-sponsors.
Christians need to be aware that this bill violates not only GodÕs Word, but
also the U.S. constitution. As any middle school student knows, the First
Amendment of the United States protects religion and the freedom of speech. The
full wording of the amendment states: Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Once
made law, this bill would effectively muzzle any speech against the sin of
homosexuality and could prosecute preachers who teach what the Bible says about
the abomination of homosexual behavior. H/R. 191 also tramples the 14th Amendment,
which guarantees equal protection under the saw—words that can be found
on the entrance to the Supreme Court Building. By enacting this bill into law
it would give harsher penalties to someone who commits any crime against
homosexuals. This would be the first time in our nationÕs history that a
minority would receive not equal rights, but special rights in the legal
system.
The obvious
question is: What can we do about it? The bill was passed by the House, by but
it still needs to go through the Senate and be signed by the President. Let
your voice be heard. You can find your SenatorÕs contact information
here: http://www.senate.gov. Contact them by phone, email, and letters. We encourage you to
pass this message on to all of your friends. Print it out for your
congregation. The statesman Edmund Burkeonce said: ÒAll that is
necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.Ó Can we afford to
continue to do nothing?
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Note: If this bill were passed,
it would make this ÒPRESS RELEACEÓ a crime and the reading of many passages of
the Bible in Church or any public place a crime. It would make teaching many
passages of the Bible to your children or to anyone a crime.
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EVILS IN THE US TODAY
THAT ARE ÒPOLITICAL CORRECTÓ
Being political
correct, as it is used by most, is exceedingly one sided; living in adultery is
political correct, but believing God said adultery is sinful makes Christians
politically un-correct and always wrong. All the world religions are all right
even though they are Christ less and Christians are always
politically wrong when they say these religions are without the saving blood of
Christ and cannot save anyone. When God said, ÒFornication, ÉidolatryÉshall not
inherit the kingdom of heaven,Ó God was political un-correct by todayÕs
standards.
IDOLATRY
IDOLATRY – WITH IMAGES
God said, ÒYou
shall not make unto yourself a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water
under the earth; you shall not bow down yourself unto them, nor serve themÓ
(Exodus 20:4-5). Aaron built an altar of a molten calf, ÒAnd Aaron make
proclamation, and said, ÔTomorrow shall be a feast to Jehovah.Õ And they rose
up early on the morrow, and offered burnt-offerings, and brought peace
offeringsÓ (Exodus 32:5-6). But God said, ÒThey have made them a molten calf
and have worshipped itÓ (Exodus 32:8). THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE WORSHIPPING GOD,
BUT GOD CANNOT BE WORSHIPPED THOUGH AN IMAGE, NOT EVEN A CROSS OR A
FISH. The church of Christ now have a cross on many of their building, use
crosses and other images in their class room books and in their power point in the
worship. Our children are being taught images are O. K. in worship; God cannot
be worshiped through an image today just as He could not be worshipped through
a molten calf of through the many Roman Catholic images. ANY VISIBLE IMAGE OF
ANYTHING USED IN WORSHIP IS IDOLATRY, BUT THE USE OF IMAGES BY CHURCHERS IS
RAPIDLY GROWING.
IDOLATRY – WITHOUT IMAGES
Sports are the god
of many. If a person speeds more time, as many do, on sports then they do on
worshiping and severing God, spots has became their God. Pleasure, materialism,
sports has become idolatry to many. THIS FORM OF IDOLATRY, IN WHICH THINGS ARE
MORE IMPORTANT THEN GOD, IS FOUND IN MANY CHURCHERS AND IS RAMPANT IN AMERICA.
PART THREE – New Testament
WRATH OF GOD
"Vengeance belongs unto me, I will
recompense and again, the Lord shall judge His people. It is a fearful thing to
fall into the hands of the living God" Hebrews 10:30-31, See Romans
2:1-16; 1 Thessalonians 1:10. The Day of Judgment will be a fearful day to
the lost, when they must give an account to God. The theology of many makes it
essential that the wrath of God keeps the fire of Hell hot, and forever
tormenting the lost in extreme pain and anguish. The Bible does not one time
say His wrath will mean everlasting anguish for the lost.
1) WRATH OF GOD IN THIS LIFE
Many of the
scriptures on the wrath of God are His wrath is on the sinner now in this life
(Romans 1:18; 2 Peter 2:9). The outbreak or aids around the world is one
example of God wrath on homosexuality today. "Men with men committing
indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of
their error" (Romans 1:27). His wrath has always been on homosexual. Sodom
was destroyed because of God wrath on homosexuality. It was totality annihilated
with all they were in it. In the flood all life not in the ark was totality
destroyed, annihilated, abolished, not tormented. Throughout The Old Testament
God's wrath has been on people, cities, and nations that disobey Him. They were
destroyed by fire, sword, wars, floods, but never forever tormented. Capernaum
was thrust down to the grave. It does not exist today.
2) WRATH OF GOD "IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
And others are His
wrath is at the Judgment Day "... wrath in the day of wrath and revelation
of the righteous judgment of God...but unto them that are factious, and obey
not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worked evil...in the day
when God shall judge the secrets of man" (Romans 2:5-16 American Standard
Version).
á "For
if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth,
there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation
of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which shall devour the adversaries. A man
that has set at naught Moses law died without compassion on the word of two or
three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, think you, shall he be judged
worthy, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of
the covenant wherewith he was sanctified and unholy thing, and has done despite
unto the Spirit of grace? For we know him that said, vengeance belongs unto me,
I will recompense, And again, The Lord shall judge his people. It is
a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God" (Hebrews
10:26-31).
á "And
inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this comes
judgment" (Hebrews 9:27).
á "Inasmuch
as he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by
the man whom he has ordained" (Acts 17:31).
á ÒBut fornication,
and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as
becomes saints; nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not
befitting: but rather giving of thanks. For this you know of a surety, that
no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an
idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no man
deceive you with empty words: for because of these things the wrath of
God comes upon the sons of disobedienceÓ
2 PETER 3
WORLD - 2 Peter 3:6 is from
"kesmos" Wigram page 430. Kesmos is in the Greek
about 185 times and in the King James Version it is translated
"world" all but one time in 1 Peter 3:6 where it is translated
"adorning." It is used to mean this planet earth, never the Jewish
age from Moses to A. D. 70.
Kesmos is never
translated "age." Peter is not speaking of "the end of the age
(arion)" as Matthew is in Matthew 24:3.
EARTH - 2 Peter 3:7; 3:10; 3:13 is from
"gee" Wigram page 116. Gee is in the Greek about 242 times
and is translated "earth" about 284 times, "land" 39 times,
"ground" 18 times, "country" 2 times, and "world"
1 time. It is used to mean this planet earth or some particular part of this
earth.
ALL THE WORLD
UNLESS SOME PARTICULAR PART OF THE EARTH IS
NAMED
IN 2 PETER 3, NOTHING IS SAID A PARTICULAR PART
OF THE EARTH, NOTHING ABOUT ISRAEL.
2 PETER 3:7 IN EIGHT TRANSLATIONS
1. "The
heavens SHALL PASS AWAY with a great noise, and the
elements SHALL MELT with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing than that all these things
shall be dissolved" King James Version
2. "The
heavens SHALL PASS AWAY with a great noise, and the elements
shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are
therein shall BE BURNED UP. Seeing that these things are thus,
all TO BE DISSOLVED" American Standard Version
3. "The
heavens WILL PASS AWAY with a roar, and the elements
will BE DESTROYED with intense heat, and the earth and its
works will be burned up. Since all these things Are TO BE DESTROYED in
this way" New American Standard Version
4. "And
then the heavens WILL PASS AWAY with a loud noise, AND
THE ELEMENTS WILL BE DISSOLVED with fire, and the earth and everything
that is done on it. WILL BE DISSOLVED. Since all these things
Are TO BE DISSOLVED in this way" New Revised Standard
Version
5. "THE
HEAVENS WILL DISAPPEAR with a roar; THE ELEMENTS WILL BE
DESTROYED by fire, and the earth and everything in it WILL
BE LAIN BARE" New International Version
6. "The
heavens WILL PASS AWAY with a terrible noise and the heavenly
bodies WILL DISAPPEAR in fire, and the earth and everything on
it will BE BURNED UP. And so since EVERYTHING AROUND
US IS GOING TO MELT AWAY" The Living Bible
7. "The
skies WILL DISAPPEAR with a loud noise, everything in them
will BE DESTROYED by fire, and the earth and everything in it
will BE BURNED UP. In that way everything WILL BE
DESTROYED" New Century Version
8. "In
that day the heavens WILL VANISH in a tearing blast, the very
elements WILL DISINTEGRATE in heat and the earth and all its
works WILL DISAPPEAR. In view of the fact that all these
things are to BE DISSOLVED" J. B. Phillips
If
this passage does not say the heavens (the sky) and the earth shall pass away,
all be dissolved, be burned up, will disappear, disintegrate, there is no way
God could have said the heavens (the sky) and the earth will not be after the
day of the Lord? THERE IS NO WAY TO READ THE EARTH WILL BE RESTORED TO
BE THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE ADAM SINNED IN THIS PASSAGE. "DISAPPEAR"
"MELT AWAY" "VANISH" "BE DESTROYED" "BE
DISSOLVED" "PASS AWAY" "BURNED UP" DOES NOT MEAN
"BE RESTORED." According to Premillennialists this
cannot be at the coming of Christ for there is to be a thousand years of the
Millennium after His coming.
If
the second coming of Christ is passed and all end time prophecy has been
fulfilled as Realized Eschatology teaches then life will go on forever on the
earth as it is now for, according to them, nothing is said in the Bible about
the earth ending.
The Second Death – The Lake of Fire
The "lake of
fire" in which the Devil is cast is used five times, all five in the Book
of Revelation.
(1) LAKE OF FIRE:
First time it is used. Revelation 19:20 The beast and the false
prophet-two world powers are cast into the lake of fire. The beast, which was
the great heathen world power of that day, was the Roman Empire, and the false
prophet. "These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire." Those that
worshiped the beast were not thrown alive into the lake of fire but were killed
with the sword, which came from the mouth of him who sat upon the horse,
"and all the birds were filled with their flesh." The fire was no
more literal fire than the birds are literal birds. It is a symbolic picture of
total destruction, the end of the beast and the false prophet (world powers).
THOSE WHO MAKE THIS LITERAL HAVE A LITERAL BEAST BEING BURNT IN A LITERAL LAKE
OF FIRE; ONLY THE BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET WHERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF
FIRE; THE REST (those people who worshiped the world powers) WERE KILLED (not
tormented) AND EATEN BY BIRDS. WHEN SOME MAKE THIS LITERAL TO PROVE THERE
IS A HELL, IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO THE HELL THAT IS TAUGHT TODAY, NOT EVEN CLOSE
TO THE HELL THEY ARE TRYING TO PROVE. When something is not taught in the
Bible, no passage that is misused to prove it will prove it. They want to make
only the lake be literal, but all others things in this passage, the beast, the
sword; the birds, etc. must be symbolism for if they were literal, they would
not fit with today's Hell. Why do they use this passage to try to prove Hell
when it is nothing like they say Hell will be? It puts a beast alive in Hell
and leaves the people that they say will live forever in Hell not in the lake
of fire (not in Hell), but they are dead and are eaten by birds, not alive and
tormented in Hell. THE "HELL" THAT IS PREACHED TODAY DOES NOT HAVE A
BEAST THAT IS ALIVE IN IT, AND DEAD PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT IN HELL BEING EATEN BY
BIRDS.
The lake of fire
is used only in the Book of Revelation and is a symbolic picture taken from
this earth. Literal fire will not exist after the end of this age (1 Peter 3).
Anything cast into a literal lake of fire would be totally destroyed, not tormented
forever. It is a symbol of total destruction, not of eternal torment, not
something that will exist after the destruction of the earth. To have their
Hell in this passage, they must mix symbols and literal together in the same
passage and only they can tell us what part is literal, and even then they
cannot find anything that is close to the Hell that is preached today in
it.
Homer
Hailey "Revelation, An Introduction And Commentary" Chapter 19, Baker
Book House, "The beast is the great heathen world power of that day,
the Roman Empire" Page 387. Then on page 388 he says "These 'two were
cast alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone,' where the harlot
had already met her fate, being 'utterly burns with fire'...Because of the
expression, 'cast alive,' some writers have concluded that these two are
literally individuals who will appear in person before the end of time. But
this does not necessarily follow; for 'being cast alive into the lake'
indicates that up to the actual time when they were cast into the lake of
brimstone and WERE BROUGHT TO FINAL DESTRUCTION by His mighty power and
judgment, these two personified forces of political and spiritual power were
actively fighting against the Lamb. The Roman Empire and emperor worship backed
by the imperial power were now BROUGHT TO A FINAL AND COMPLETE END, never to
rise again" On the same page he says "The Roman power and the
paganism which it supported ARE NOW DESTROYED FOREVER. The vision of Daniel is
fulfilled (Daniel 7:11), AND IN THIS DEFEAT AND DESTRUCTION IS REVEALED THE
DESTINY OF ALL SUCH POWERS THAT SHOULD EVER ARISE TO FIGHT AGAINST GOD AND HIS
KINGDOM. This is God's guarantee to victory to the saints who lived then and to
all who would come after them, even until the end of time. 'And all the birds
were filled with their flesh' completes the symbolism of verses 17-18. Not a
vestige of the anti-Christian forces were left; THE DESTRUCTION WAS
COMPLETE." And on page 398, "The devil, man's great deceiver from the
beginning, now reaches his final doom and eternal end. First, he was cast down
to the earth (12:9), then into the pit of the abyss (20:3), and now into the
lake of fire and brimstone, his ultimate end." When he gets to Revelation
20:11 he says, "THUS FAR IN THE BOOK SEVERAL SCENES OF JUDGMENT HAVE BEEN
DESCRIBED, BUT NONE DEPICTED THE FINAL JUDGMENT" Page 399
Foy
E. Wallace, Jr. says the lake of fire is a figurative description of complete
destruction and annihilation of all persecuting powers opposed to the church
(Page 434), and then of the complete destruction and annihilation of Satan, and
all who are not in the book of life. "The ones who had part in it (the
lake of fire) came to the same end as the persecuting beast-a figurative
description of complete destruction and annihilation of all persecuting powers
opposed to the church whose opposition was crushed." Wallace says.
"ONE OF THESE PASSAGES CANNOT BE CONSIDERED MORE OR LESS LITERAL THAN THE
OTHER-BOTH WERE FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONS WHICH SIGNIFIED THE UTTER END OF THE
PERSECUTING AUTHORITIES OF HEATHENISM AGAINST CHRISTIANITY. The phrase cast
alive into a lake of fire was equivalent to burned alive, AND IT SYMBOLIZED
COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. The signal triumph of the cause of truth represented by
the burning alive of the beast and the false prophet did not symbolize the
destruction to the Roman Empire, but of the persecutions waged by the emperors,
which the beasts represented. THE LAKE OF FIRE WAS NOT LITERAL ANY MORE THAN
THE BEAST WAS LITERAL. NEITHER WAS SUBJECT TO LITERAL APPLICATION, BOTH WERE
FIGURATIVE. THE BEAST SYMBOLIZED THE PERSECUTING POWER OF THE ROMAN EMPEROR:
AND CASTING HIM INTO A LAKE OF FIRE SIGNIFIED THE COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE
HEATHEN POWER HE REPRESENTED IN THE WAR AGAINST THE CHURCH " The Book Of Revelation,
Page 397.
Of
the final judgment in Revelation 20:14-15, Hailey says, "'He that
overcomes shall not be hurt of the second death' (2:11); those that overcome
had part in the first resurrection (20:6). Thus far the harlot, the beast, the
false prophet, Satan, and now death and Hades, HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO THEIR END
IN THE LAKE OF FIRE...There remains only one group to be dealt with: those not
found written in the book of life...Of this second death, Alford writes, 'As
there is a second higher life, so there is also a second and deeper death. And
as after that life there is no more death, so after that death there is no more
life'" Page 403. Death and hades are nonliving things. They have no life,
thoughts, or feelings. They can be destroyed and "brought to a final and
complete end," but it would not be possible to torment them. They can no
more be tormented than a rock, but both will come to an end. Both will be made
not to exist.
A.
M. Ogden says the lake of fire in Revelation 19:20 is symbolic of God's fire of
destruction coming upon the Roman Empire and its pagan religions that were the
persecutor of the church. Page 354.
Both
Wallace and Arthur Ogden say, "The holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down
out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband"
(Revelation 21:2) is the kingdom of God, the church of Christ; and not a vision
of Heaven; but is a vision of the church, the bride of Christ.
B.
W. Johnson on Revelation 19:20 says, "Here the false prophet, both symbols
of the same power, is cast in the lake of fire. THE SYMBOL INDICATES UTTER
DESTRUCTION. WHAT IS CAST INTO THIS LAKE IS SEEN NO MORE."
Frank Walton says it
is not a literal lake of fire. It symbolizes the total defeat of heathen powers
that war against the church. Florida College Lectures 1994, Page 176.
Jim McGuiggan in
his commentary on Revelation 19:20 says he believes the lake of fire stands for
the utter defeat of the enemy.
These commentaries are
some of the best, if not the best, and they all say the lake of fire is
symbolic of destruction or death, not of eternal life in torment. If Revelation
21 is a symbolic picture of the church on earth as the bride of Christ, or if
it is a symbolic picture of the church in Heaven, in either case the lake of
fire is symbolic and not a real place. John clearly says in Revelation 21:8
that it is symbolic of the second death. Many who believe in Hell are forced to
admit that in Revelation 19:20 "The Lake of Fire" is symbolic, but
insist the same lake of fire in chapters 20 and 21 is a real literal lake of
fire.
"FALSE
PROPHET" IN HELL BEFORE THE JUDGMENT: On page 169, Peterson says the
"false prophet" (Revelation 19:20) are thrown alive into it and are
still there a thousand years later. Then he says Revelation 20:14 speaks of all
human standing before God at the Last Judgment. By making symbols literal, he
changed nations (false prophets) into people and puts people into Hell before
they are judged at the Judgment Day.
"DEVOURED"
not "TORMENTED" Even if they make the symbolical language literal, it
would teach God would destroy His enemies, not torment them. "And
fire came down out of heaven, and devoured them" Revelation 20:9, the
Bible language does not suit today's teaching.
(2) LAKE OF FIRE: Second
time it is used. Revelation 20:10 The devil is cast in with the beast
and the false prophet. Nothing of the physical realm could live in a lake
of fire. It is a symbolic picture of destruction, not of torment. Just as any
living thing of the earthly realm we know, if it were cast into a lake of fire
it would be totally destroyed, a symbolic picture of the devil being cast into
it would be a picture to us of his total destruction, for if the devil were a
flesh and blood being, he would be totally destroyed by a literal lake of fire.
The devil, the beast, false prophet, death, the grave, and all that are not in
the book of life will be totally destroyed. After the resurrection and
judgment, no one will be of the physical realm and could not be tormented by a
literal lake of fire that is of the physical realm. A literal lake of fire
could not torment a spiritual being and could have no effective on Satan or a
"soul" as the word is used today. The devil that is a being not of
the earthly realm, a being of the spiritual realm, is cast to the lake of fire
along with two earthly things, the beast and the false prophet. It is a
symbolic picture of their destruction, not a literal casting of beings or two
realms into a literal lake of fire, which is of this earthly realm. Things of
the earthly and spiritual realms can be mixed in symbolic pictures, but not in
reality. If the lake of fire were of the earthly realm Satan could not be cast
into it, and if it were of the spiritual realm, the beast and the false prophet
could not be cast into it. In Revelation 20:15 and 21:8, John interpreted the
figure or symbol he used and said the symbolic picture of the lake of fire is
in reality the second death. THE LAKE OF FIRE WILL HAVE THE SAME EFFECT ON
SATAN THAT IT WILL HAVE ON DEATH. "AND DEATH SHALL BE NO MORE"
(REVELATION 21:4). If it is the end of death, then it is the end of Satan. It
is a symbolic picture of the end of both.
SATAN'S MINISTERS:
The ministers of Satan, like Satan, shall have an end. "WHOSE END shall be
according to their works" (2 Corinthians 11:15).
REVELATION 20:10
IS A SYMBOLIC PICTURE OF THE END OF SATAN, OF HIS BEING ABOLISHED (DESTROYED),
NOT TORMENTED FOREVER. Hebrews 2:14 IS A LITERAL STATEMENT OF HIS END.
"That through death he might BRING TO NOUGHT (nothing) him that has the
power of death, that is, the devil" (American Standard Version). God made
the world and all that is in it out of nothing. It will go back to nothing.
Satan also will be brought to nothing. "So that through death he might
DESTROY the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil" (New
Revised Standard Version). In Hebrews 2:14 "naught" (nothing) is
translated from "katargeo" which is translated ABOLISHED, VANISH
AWAY, BRING TO NAUGHT, DO AWAY WITH, DESTROY, BE DONE WAY, AND CEASED.
"That through
death he might BRING TO NAUGHT (katargeo) him that had the power of death, that
is, the devil" (Hebrews 2:14). "That through death he might DESTROY
(katargeo) him" King James Version.
Death "SHALL BE ABOLISHED (katargeo)"
(1 Corinthians 15:26).
Knowledge "SHALL VANISH AWAY
(katargeo)" (1 Corinthians 13:8).
"God SHALL BRING TO NAUGHT (katargeo) both
it (their belly) and THEM" (1 Corinthians 6:13).
"The last enemy that shall be ABOLISHED
(katargeo) is death" "DESTROYED" (katargeo) King James Version
(1 Corinthians 15:26).
"The stumbling-block of the cross been DONE
AWAY (katargeo)" "CEASED" (katargeo), King James Version
(Galatians 4:11).
"It (the veil) is DONE AWAY (katargeo) in
Christ" (2 Corinthians 3:14).
"HAVING ABOLISHED (katargeo) in his flesh
the enmity, even the law of commandments" (Ephesians 2:15). The same word
is used for the end of death, knowledge, the belly, Satan, the Law of Moses,
and the lost. Whatever happens to one happens to the others. They all have been
or will be brought to nothing.
A DEATH BRUISE TO
THE HEAD OF SATAN: The serpent of Genesis 3 is not said to be Satan but most
all believe it to be Satan working through the serpent, which was "more
crafty than any beast of the field" (Genesis 3:1). With the first lie, the
devil brought death into the world and became the murderer of Adam and Eve,
therefore, the murderer of all their seed (John 8:44). He sinned "from the
beginning" (1 John 3:8)." "He (Christ) shall bruise you (Satan)
on the head, and you (Satan) shall bruise him (Christ) on the heel." See
Romans 16:20. Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown says, "Thus, fatal shall
be the stroke which Satan shall receive from Christ" Commentary on Genesis
3:15. "The terminology of this verse is such that it cannot apply to
anything in heaven or upon earth except the long spiritual conflict between
Christ and Satan" J. B. Coffman, Commentary on Genesis 3:15. A wound to
the heel is not fatal. Satan wounded Christ by sin and death, which he is
responsible for being in the world. It made the death of Christ necessary, but
Christ rose from the dead and in doing so bruised the head of Satan (Hebrews
2:1). There is much in Genesis 3:1-15 that seems not to apply to Satan.
"On your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your
life" etc. All of Genesis 3:1-15 seems to be spoken of the serpent and not
of Satan, yet does anyone believe the first lie and the fall of man
came through a reptile and not through Satan. In some way, Satan seems to have
used the serpent and part of the curse is against the serpent for being used.
Did the serpent or any other animal have the power to speak or was it Satan
speaking through it? God did speak through an animal (2 Peter 2:1). It looks as
if Satan did. See 2 Corinthians 11:3. Christ said the devil "is a liar,
and the father of lies' (John 8:44). Albert Barnes on John 8:44, "He was a
murderer from the beginning. That is from the beginning of the world, or the
first records there are of him. This refers to the seduction of Adam and Eve.
Death was denounced against sin Genesis ii.17. The devil deceived our first
parents and they became subject of death, Genesis iii. As he was the cause why
death came into the world, he may be said to have been a murderer in that act, or
from the beginning."
Revelation 20:7,
which may be symbolic language and not intended to be taken literally says,
"And the great dragon was thrown down, the serpent of old who is called
the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was thrown down to the
earth, and his angels were thrown down with him." Also see Revelation
12:9.
It is difficult to know what John meant by much
of the symbolic language he used in Revelation, but even more difficult to
understand if it is made to be a literal non-symbolic passage, yet many use a
symbolic passage as the base of their faith and make it override many clear
passages.
(3) LAKE OF FIRE:
Third time it is used. Revelation 20:14 Death and hades are cast into the lake
of fire. If death and hades are annihilated in the lake of fire, all who are
not found written in the book of life must also be annihilated. IF ALL WHO ARE
NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE ARE NOT ANNIHILATED, DEATH IS NOT
ABOLISHED (1 Corinthians 15:26). THE SAME THING HAPPENS TO ALL THREE (death,
hades, and those that do not have their name in the book of life). THEY COME TO
AN END. "And death shall be no more" (Revelation 21:4).
HELL CAST INTO
HELL (Revelation 20:14 King James Version). I have often heard in sermons that
the lost will forever be tormented in the lake of fire. Most who believe in
Hell teach the lake of fire is Hell, but in the King James Version Hell is cast
into the lake of fire, both cannot be the same place, but both Catholics and
Protestants believe they are the same place. Both believe the lake of fire is
Hell. For both the Catholic and Protestant versions of Hell, Hell being cast
into Hell presents an absurd problem. Casting Hell into Hell is another blunder
made by the King James Translators trying to put Hell into the Bible, but most
other translations have corrected this blunder. Dr. C. Campbell on Revelation
20:14 says, "If we interpret Hades, 'hell,' in the Christian sense of the
word, the whole passage is rendered nonsense. Hell is represented as being cast
into hell...THE PHRASE 'CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE' IS A FIGURE OF UTTER
DESTRUCTION. IT IS SIMPLY SAYING 'DEATH AND HELL WAS DESTROYED.'"
DEATH IS ALSO CAST
INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. (Revelation 20:14) Will the lake of fire be the end of
death but not the end of Hell? Or will death be forever tormented in the lake
of fire, which many say is Hell? Death cannot be tormented; this is a symbolic
picture of the end of all three, death, hades and the wicked? DO SOME THINK THE
LAKE OF FIRE WILL ABOLISH DEATH BUT TORMENT PEOPLE?
"AND HELL
DELIVERED UP THE DEAD" Revelation 20:13 THE KING JAMES VERSION HAS HELL
BEING EMPTIED BEFORE THE JUDGMENT, But, most who believe in Hell do not believe
that any in Hell will ever get out ("and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them" Revelation 20:13 King James Version). Many
believe that no one will be in Hell unto after the Judgment Day to be
"delivered up," but they use this passage to prove the lost will go
to Hell after the Judgment although it will be emptied and cast into the lake
of fire before the Judgment. IN THE KING JAMES VERSION THE JUDGMENT IS
AFTER HELL HAS BEEN EMPTIED. NOT ONLY IS HELL EMPTIED BEFORE THE JUDGMENT, BUT
ALSO SOME THAT WERE IN IT BEFORE IT WAS EMPTIED WILL EVEN BE FOUND WRITTEN IN
THE BOOK OF LIFE, AND THOSE TAKEN OUT OF HELL ARE NEVER PUT BACK INTO IT.
According to the King James Version, the Judgment will not take place unto
after all that are in Hell have been taken out, "And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it; and death and HELL DELIVER UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN
THEM; AND THEY WERE JUDGED every man according to their works" (Revelation
20:13). In trying to put a place of eternal torment in the Bible by
mistranslating, they made the Bible teach something that they did not believe
and most today that believe in Hell do not believe.
Most newer translations have also corrected this blunder, but
unfortunately this has done little or nothing to correct any of the many
Protestant versions of Hell.
The end will not
come unto Christ "shall have abolished all rule and all authority and
power for he must reign till he has put all his enemies under his feet, the
last enemy that shall be abolished is death" (1 Corinthians 15:24-20).
(4 and 5) LAKE OF
FIRE: Forth and fifth times it is used. Any not in the book of life will be
thrown into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:15). Lake of Fire is the second
death (Revelation 21:8).
What is cast into the lake of fire?
The BEAST AND THE
FALSE PROPHET, which are symbols of two world powers, two nonliving things
(Revelation 19:20).
THE DEVIL cast in
with the beast and the false prophet (Revelation 20:10).
DEATH AND HADES,
two more nonliving things are cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14).
AND ALL WHO ARE
NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE (Revelation 20:15).
FOUR NONLIVING THINGS that can come to an end
but cannot be tormented. I know of no one that believes world powers will
forever be tormented in "Hell." (1) The beast (symbol of a world
power), (2) The false prophet, (3) Death, (4) Hades, (the grave).
TWO LIVING (1) The
devil (2) Any that are not in the book of life, for them the wages of sin
is death, not the death of the body that comes to all, but the second death.
THE THOUSAND YEARS
AND THE LAKE OF FIRE: In the New Testament many symbols are used and many
of them we are told just what they are symbols of. We are given the
interpretation in clear plan language. WHEN WE ARE TOLD EXACTLY WHAT THE
INTERPRETATION IS IN PLAN LANGUAGE, WE MUST NOT CHANGE THE INTERPRETATION OF
THE SYMBOL. THE PREMILLENNIALISTS MAKE A SYMBOL (the thousand years) INTO A
LITERAL TIME. THE BIBLE'S INTERPRETATION OF THE THOUSAND-YEAR REIGN CANNOT BE
ACCEPTED FOR IF IT WERE, IT WOULD END THE PREMILLENNIAL DOCTRINE. IN THE SAME
WAY, THOSE WHO TEACH THE LAKE OF FIRE IS HELL CANNOT ACCEPT THE BIBLE'S
INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS, THE SECOND DEATH. TO THEM, THE LAKE
OF FIRE IS ETERNAL LIFE OF TORMENT IN FIRE. IT CANNOT BE DEATH. THE BIBLE'S OWN
INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS NOT ACCEPTED FOR IF IT WERE THERE
COULD BE NO HELL.
THE
SYMBOLS ----------------------- THE BIBLE'S INTERPRETATION
THE FIELD
----------------- IS THE WORLD not a farm Matthew 13:38
THE GOOD
SEED -------- ARE THE SONS OF THE KINGDOM not a garden Matthew 13:38
THE TARES
----------------ARE THE SONS OF THE EVIL ONE not weeds Matthew 13:38
BOWLS OF
INCENSE - ARE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS not cereal Revelation 5:8
THE TEN
HORNS ------ ARE TEN KINGS not ten trumpets Revelation 17:12
THE WATERS
----------- ARE PEOPLES, MULTITUDES, NATIONS not seas Revelation 17:15
THE WOMAN
----------- IS THE GREAT CITY not a female Revelation 17:18
FINE LINEN
------------ IS RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE SAINTS not a tablecloth Revelation 19:8
THE DRAGON
--------- IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN Revelation 20:2
1,000 YEAR
REIGN - IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION not a kingdom on earth after the second
coming of Christ Revelation 20:5
LAKE OF
FIRE - - - IS THE SECOND DEATH not
a deathless place of torment.
All
die once, sinners will die twice Revelation 21:8
The interpretation
is ONLY what it is stated to be. The thousand years is the first resurrection.
The thousand years and the lake of fire are the two most misused symbols in
this book. It is as if God knew they would be misused, and He plainly said what
they are symbols of so there could be no excuses to misuse them. Those in
Christ are now "kings and priests" (Revelation 1:6). Are a
"kingdom and priests; and THEY REIGN UPON THE EARTH" (Revelation
5:9-10). Those who are baptized into Christ have been raised with Him; they
were dead and now have the life He gives and they live with Him. This is the
first resurrection, and those who have a part in it will not be subject to the
second death after the judgment. All others are dead in that they do not have
the life He gives and after the resurrection and judgment they will die the
second death. The 1,000 years is symbolic of an indefinite time in which the
saints will reign with Christ; the saved reigning with Christ begins after the
resurrection of Christ and will last to His second coming.
Strong list ten
Greek words that are translated thousand in the New Testament. Only two of them
are used in Revelations.
Strong's word
5505, "chalias" is used 22 times in the New Testament. Luke 14:31
used two times; Acts 4:4; 1 Corinthians 10:8; Revelations 5:11; 7:4; 7:5 three
times; 7:6 three times; 7:7 three times; 7:8 three times; 11:13; 14:1; 14:3;
21:16. In all of the 22 times it is used the precisely number of thousands is
stated.
Strong's word
5507, "chiloi" which Strong says is "plural" and
"uncertain" is used eleven times in the New Testament. Thousands (an
indefinite plural) of years is a long indefinite period of time having no
certain or fixed limit. "Chiloi" is used in 2 Peter 3:8 two times;
Revelations 11:3; 12:6; 14:20; 20:2; 20:3; 20:4; 20:5; 20:6; 20:7.
In all four times the second death is used,
death is from "thanatos," which is used 118 times in the New
Testament. In all 118, death is death, not eternal life with torment, not
separated from God but alive, not just a loss of well being but alive.
"You do proclaim
the Lord's death (thanatos) till He comes" (1 Corinthians 11:26)
"He was sick nigh
unto death (thanatos)" (Philippians 2:27)
"Brother shall
deliver up the brother to death (thanatos)" Matthew 10:21)
"Shall not taste
of death (thanatos)" (Mark 9:1)
"What death
(thanatos) he should die" (John 12:33; 18:32)
"By the death
(thanatos) of his Son" (Romans 5:10)
Thanatos always
means death, never any kind of life, but today's theology tells us that John's
interpretation of the Lake of Fire must be reinterpreted and death changed to
eternal life with torment for there could not be death to a soul that cannot
die, therefore, John's interpretation of the Lake of Fire being the second
death must be reinterpreted to be the Lake of Fire is eternal life with
torment.
Lake of fire -
interpreted by John to be the second death
Lake of fire -
reinterpreted today to be eternal life with torment
The lake of fire
is only a symbol of the real thing (the second death), but many preach and
teach it as if there is a real lake of literal fire somewhere, but it is not on
this earth, and this fire will last forever. There is not now or ever will be a
lake of literal fire. They must turn it around and make the second death be
only a metaphor of the lake of fire, therefore, the second death cannot be a
real death, for the second death cannot be a real death if the "soul"
can never die. They also make the second death be only a metaphor of Gehenna
(but only after Gehenna has been mistranslated into "Hell"). They do
not seem to be able to make up their minds on whether the second death is a
metaphor of the lake of fire, or a metaphor of Gehenna after Gehenna has been
changed to "Hell."
Changes made by those who say they do not change
the Bible
The Bible says THE
LAKE OF FIRE ------ IS THE SECOND DEATH
Today many say THE
SECOND DEATH - IS THE LAKE OF FIRE
Today many say THE
LAKE OF FIRE --- IS HELL
Today many say THE
LAKE OF FIRE --- IS GEHENNA
DEATH WILL END
AFTER THE JUDGMENT WHEN DEATH IS DESTROYED. The end will not come unto Christ
"shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power for he must
reign till he has put all his enemies under his feet, the last enemy that shall
be abolished is death" (1 Corinthians 15:26).
Death will be
"DESTROYED" King James Version, New King James Version, New Revised
Standard Version, New Century Version, and New International Version.
Death will be "ABOLISHED" American
Standard Version.
The lake of fire,
which is the second death (Revelation 21:8), will be abolished, destroyed when
the kingdom is delivered up to God (1 Corinthians 15:24-26).
3) WRATH OF GOD AFTER THE JUDGMENT:
Not one word about the wrath of God. Many mix the first two together, and
misapply most of them to their Hell after Judgment Day, which they must prove
at all cost. Is it that they want them burning in Hell while we are in Heaven?
Nothing is said about God tormenting anyone after the Judgment Day is over, or
about His wrath after that day; but they teach it as if it were a gospel fact.
God's wrath will be on the Judgment Day (Matthew 16:27; Luke 14:4; John
5:27-29; Acts 17:31; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 2 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 3:7; Malachi
4:1-3. The tares are burned "in the end of the world" Matthew
13:36-50. Not "in Hell after the end of the world"). WHAT DOES THE
BIBLE SAY ABOUT GOD'S WRATH AFTER THE JUDGMENT? NOT ONE WORD.
Summary: A CHRISTAIN CANNOT
PARTAKE OF OR APPROVE ANY THREE SINS that has became common in America
today, (1) occult and idol worship (2) adultery (3) and homosexuality. ÒAnyone
who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have
God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the
Son. IF ANYONE COMES TO YOU AND DOES NOT BRING THIS TEACHING, DO NOT
RECEIVE HIM INTO YOUR HOUSE, AND DO NOT GIVE HIM A GREETING; FOR THE ONE WHO
GIVES HIM A GREETING PARTICIPATES IN HIS EVIL DEEDSÓ (2 John 9-11).
To
accept (receive) any who worship idols is to participate in his or her evil
deed
To
accept (receive) any who is living in adultery is to participate in his or her
evil deed
To
accept homosexuality and fellowship them (receive) is to participate in his or
her evil deed
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APPENDIX ONE (coming)
THE CALVIN GOD
2 Peter 3:9: ÒThe
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is
longsuffering to us, not willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance.Ó This verse does not describe the Calvin God
that is going to torment most with out giving them a chance to be saved Òfor
his own good pleasure.Ó Not a God that is going to love burning most of us in
Hell forever.
THE CALVIN GOD, which is believed in and
worshiped by many, is a God many times more evil, more cruel and sadistic than
any heathen god. Before the Calvin God made the world, He chose to make most of
mankind to be lost before He made them. He even made it impossible for them to
believe, but will torment them forever for not believing. The torment by the
worshipers of heathen gods soon end with death of the ones being tormented; but
Calvinism teaches God made most men, many millions, just so He could torment
them without end for eternity "for his good pleasure." According to
Hell fire Calvin teachers, this torment will be many times worse than any
torment by the worshipers of heathen gods; and will never end in the death of
those being tormented. How could any person who has an ounce of compassion,
love and worship such a God?
Those who believe
in the Calvin God say this God chose you to be saved or to be lost before he
made the world. If you are one of the few chosen by this evil God to be
saved, even if you live in the most out of the way place in the world and never
know of God or Christ, when the time comes for you to be saved you will be. You
can do nothing about it. You cannot say no. If you are one of the many he chose
to torment forever, there is no use to send preachers to you. There is no use
for you to read the Bible or do anything. There is nothing you or anyone can
do. According to Calvin this God made you just because he wants to torment you
forever, and he will. Such a God is like a very rich ruler who torments a
thousand people "for his good pleasure" and enjoyment, and chose you
to make rich and happy. He would not be worthily of your love, but only your
contempt. To destroy the evil, either in this lifetime or at the judgment is
one thing; but to make them be evil before they were born, and then torment
them without end with more pain than they can know in this lifetime for being
what he made them to be is not justice. He would be an unjust and evil God. He
made them evil and gave them no chance not to be, and then torments them for
being what He made them to be. If you put a person who worked in a store in the
electric chair for unknowingly short changing a person one cent, your injustice
would not equal that of a God that made one person just so he could torment
that person forever. Many say He did this with most of mankind. Most are filled
with grief when a loved one or friend has some sickness that makes them suffer
even when they know the suffering will soon end with death. Yet, they worship a
God who they believe will take pleasure in the suffering of billions without
end; and not only will he take pleasure in it but he will be the one that is
tormenting them and making them suffer and he made them just so he could
torment and make them suffer.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: ÒThe nature of man–what is man?Ó
Chapter 2: ÒLife or Death
Chapter 3: ÒThe great doctrines of the BibleÓ
Chapter 4: ÒFrom where came Hell, from man or God?Ó
1. Unquenchable fire, weeping, gnashing of teeth
2. Old Testament history of Gehanna
3. Gehenna used by Christ on four occasions
4. The vanishing Hell
5. Twenty-nine plus version of Hell
Three Catholic versions of Hell
Seventeen plus Protestant versions of Hell
Nine other versions of Hell
Chapter 5: Sheol, Hades, and Tartarus
Chapter 6: The thirty-one Hell passages
Chapter 7: A strange and unexplainable silence of the Old Testament on
punishment and life after death, life, death, torment, destruction, destroy,
perish, die, and end
Chapter 8: Figurative language, metaphors, and symbolical passage
Part one, The rich man
Part two, The symbolic pictures in Revelation
Part three, The forever and ever of the King
James Version
Chapter 9: Universalist, The "age lasting" Hell
Chapter 10: The results of attributing evil Pagan teachings to God
Chapter 11: Historical proof of the changing of the
teaching of the Bible
Chapter
12: IsraelÕs destruction, scripture about the destruction of Israel that
are misapplied to Hell
1.
IsraelÕs weeping, gnashing of teeth
2.
Outer darkness
3.
Matthew 24, Preterits Eschatology, Realized Eschatology
4.
A D 70 Doctrine
5.
The day of the Lord
6.
2 Peter 3, After the Resurrection
The fate of those who not are in Christ
The fate of those who are in Christ
Appendix one
ALL THIRTEEN CHAPTERS ARE
AT http://robertwr.com/resurrection.pdf
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OTHER WEB SITES of
William Robert West, Church of Christ
ÒTHE RAPTURE AND ISRAELÓ can be downloaded free at http://www.robertwr.com/rapture.pdf
THE
PRINTED BOOK AT BOOKSTORES ask for ISBN 978-1452895352
Ch. 1 After the
Judgment where will we spend eternity?
Ch. 2
When will the secret rapture come to pass? Will you miss it?
Ch. 3 Will
there be cars without drivers after the rapture?
Ch. 4 What is the
battle of Armageddon?
Ch. 5 Is Armageddon
coming soon?
Ch. 6 Will
Israel be restored? Will there be a worldwide conversion of Jews?
Ch. 7 Will the
temple be rebuilt in Jerusalem?
Ch. 8 Will animal
sacrifices be restored?
Ch. 9
What are the signs of the second coming of Christ?
Ch. 10 Who are the 144,000?
Ch. 11 Will there be one, two, or
three resurrections?
Ch. 12 What is the "time of the
Gentiles"?
Ch. 13 What is the "gap" theory?
Ch. 1 4
Who is the thirteenth tribe?
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http://www.robertwr.com/ThirtyOneHells.htm
http://www.robertwr.com/GodsJudgments.htm
http://www.robertwr.com/OppositionToHell.htm
http://www.robertwr.com/AD70.html
http://www.robertwr.com/UnitedStatesAndTerrorist.htm
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ÒTHE
INDICTMENT OF ETERNAL TORMENT: THE SELF-NEGATION OF A MONSTROUS DOCTRINE,Ó by E. D. Slough, a preacher in the Church of Christ, F. L. Rowe
Publisher, 1914. I have put this book on the web free at
http://www.robertwr.com/EternalTorment.pdf
ÒLIFE IN CHRISTÓ by Edward White was published in 1875 may have been one of
the first major protest against the doctrine of an immortal soul. For the most
part this book teaches the truth on the doctrine of a soul and Hell however
there are a few things in it that are unbiblical. I have put this
book on the web free at
http://www.robertwr.com/LifeinChrist.pdf
ÒA HISTORY OF THE DOCTRINE
OF THE SOULÓ by D. M. Canright.
Although there are a few things in this book that I do not believe to be right,
it is the best I have seen on the history of the origin of the belief in a soul
being in a person that will leave the person at their death, that this belief
came from pagan sources, and is not taught in the Bible.
http://www.robertwr.com/soul.pdf
GOOD WEB PAGES BY MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF
CHRIST.
(1) Articles by Ken Fortier and C. Dickinson
http://kenfortier.com/site/articles
(2) "The Maxey—Thrasher Debate"
A debate on the eternal destiny of the wicked between two Gospel preachers.
http://www.zianet.com/maxey/MxThrshr.htm
(3) http://www.jeremyandchristine.com/articles/eternal.php