read again of the pale horse
"answer? GO LOVE IN FEAR IF YOU HAVE A MINUTE."
...it will only take a second.
read again of the pale horse
"answer? GO LOVE IN FEAR IF YOU HAVE A MINUTE."
We are reading this in a book that is symbols, allegories and metaphors.
Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Is this woman really drunk on blood? Or has she shed the blood of true Christians in copious amounts and taken pleasure in doing so?
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Have nations actually drunk wrath of fornication? Have the kings of the earth actually committed fornication with the streets and buildings of this city?
Remember what you are reading and where it is from.
Oh trust me, hell is going to be very real. The suffering, although brief, will be much worse than you can imagine. These people will be thrown in the Lake of Fire and burned to death. There will be much weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, but it won't go on and on and on.
God is not cruel or sadistic, but He is just and rejecting Him leaves one with a heavy price to pay.
"day and night for eternities is well on and on and on."
Well, let me ask, what sins can a human commit in one lifetime, under the influence of someone else (Satan) that justifies torture and suffering forever?
Satan's fate is different than man's, His fate (and the demons) is eternal suffering.
So, do you think that a man influenced by Satan should be tormented forever and ever in unspeakable suffering by a God that is love?
Following Satan who is murderer from the beginning and the father of lies.
Where will Satan's "eternal suffering" be? This ought to be good...
As I said on one of these threads just the other day, the Bible says that "God is love" and it does not say that "Love is God". There is a world of difference between the two, John. IOW, what multitudes of people do is to begin with their own definition of what "love is" and then to "fashion a god" to match said definition. Contrariwise, what we all should be doing is to learn Who "God is" and then form our definition of what "love" is based upon Who "God is".
This God Who is love wiped out all of humanity except for 8 people in the days of Noah, John...
This God Who is love wiped out, IN HIS WRATH, 603,548 of the original 603,550 Israelite men who were 20 years old and upward who came out of Egypt, John...
This God Who is love regularly sent PESTILENCES, FAMINES, DROUGHTS, INVADING ARMIES, ETC., ETC., ETC. upon different nations, John...
Do you know how many people, professing Christians included, deem all of these TRUTHS to be "unloving"? There's no shortage of them here...right on this very forum...
Again, you apparently have no concept of God's HOLINESS and therefore no concept of His hatred of sin. As such, if I were you, then I'd pray that God opens your eyes to the same. Even righteous men like Daniel and John fell down as dead men before God or an angel and nowadays "God" is just our heavenly buddy...
People really need to wake up.
Luke 16; Lazarus and the Rich Man...
Luk 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luk 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Luk 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
Luk 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
Luk 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Let's note here that they can see one another.
Luk 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
The can speak to and hear one another.
Luk 16:25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
Luk 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
There is a barrier between them that cannot be breached.
Luk 16:27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
Luk 16:28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Luk 16:29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
Luk 16:30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
Luk 16:31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Now let's take these conditions and see how they apply. Let's assume that a Christian woman has a wayward son. He gets robs a gas station and in the process kills the clerk. On the way out the police surround the building and he decides to shoot his way out and is killed by police gunfire. His mother is so overcome by grief she has a heart attack and dies. She goes to heaven and the son obviously goes to hell. Now...
She is in heaven and can see her son burning. She can see the skin being burned off and the muscles and tendons burned black. She can hear his screams and shrieks of unimaginable agony. Remember the barrier? She cannot go to him or render any aid to comfort him, all she can do is watch him suffer in agony for all eternity.
Please tell me which is heaven and which is hell? I can't see any difference.
when Christ Informs a woman is drunk with blood, the woman is drunk with blood.
Ah, so blood is intoxicating?
Ah, so blood is intoxicating?