Again from the article:
This is hell: the negation of love; the return of hate for love; bitterness at seeing innocent joy; to be surrounded by love and to have hate in one’s heart. This is the eternal condition of all the damned.
ummm...no...the dead know nothing...they are dead...destroyed...not having feared the One that destroys both body and soul...
They are all dearly loved. They are all invited to the joyous banquet. They are all living in God’s Kingdom, in the New Earth and the New Heavens. No one expels them. Even if they wanted to go away they could not flee from God’s New Creation, nor hide from God’s tenderly loving omnipresence. Their only alternative would be, perhaps, to go away from their brothers and search for a bitter isolation from them, but they could never depart from God and His love. And what is more terrible is that in this eternal life, in this New Creation, God is everything to His creatures.
...there is a SECOND DEATH...no open invitation to a banquet...no fleeing to isolation in the new heaven and new earth...dead still know nothing
The one who has an ear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death (
Revelation 2:11).
Blessed and holy are those who have part in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years (
Revelation 20:6).
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death (
Revelation 20:14).
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars - their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death (
Revelation 21:8).
In the new eternal life, God will be everything to His creatures, not only to the good but also to the wicked, not only to those who love Him, but likewise to those who hate Him. But how will those who hate Him endure to have everything from the hands of Him Whom they detest? Oh, what an eternal torment is this, what an eternal fire, what a gnashing of teeth!
Eccl 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
Psalm 6:5
For in death
there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
Isaiah 38:18
For Sheol cannot thank You; Death cannot praise You. Those who descend to the Pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Depart from Me, ye cursed, into the everlasting inner fire of hatred,” 47 saith the Lord, because I was thirsty for your love and you did not give it to Me, I was hungry for your blessedness and you did not offer it to Me, I was imprisoned in My human nature and you did not come to visit Me in My church; you are free to go where your wicked desire wishes, away from Me, in the torturing hatred of your hearts which is foreign to My loving heart which knows no hatred for anyone. Depart freely from love to the everlasting torture of hate, unknown and foreign to Me and to those who are with Me, but prepared by freedom for the devil, from the days I created My free, rational creatures. But wherever you go in the darkness of your hating hearts, My love will follow you like a river of fire, because no matter what your heart has chosen, you are and you will eternally continue to be, My children.
How nice...but
Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains, 27
but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses 29 How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30
For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay,” and again, “The Lord will judge His people.”36 You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised. ...37 For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay. 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back,
I will take no pleasure in him. 39
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Please note:
it's a raging fire that will consume...that is destroy...they are not continually tortured by their own hatred...
adversaries are NOT called "My children"...He takes NO PLEASURE following them around with a river of love...as those that shrink back are DESTROYED...
Matt 25:46"
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” an eternal punishMENT with an ending...not an eternal punishING...on going...
Daniel 12:2
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt. (and abhorrence done by the living of them not that they abhor themselves)
Is WHY we fear One Who can destroy both body and soul...after judging what our hearts have chosen...that is, is the heart circumcised or uncircumcised? one unto eternal life the other to oblivion...to return to where they were PRIOR their parents conceiving them...
John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish"... but some will not be given eternal life but will perish
ἀπόλωνται [
43 verses](3rd pl aor subj mid) "
They shall... perish"is
apollymi, which means "to demolish," "to lay waste," "to lose" things, "to perish," "to die," "to cease to exist," and "to be undone."
...so sadly...NO forever hating hearts...and they will NOT have rivers of fire hot love following them wherever they go...
but yes again...thanks for sharing...
hope to hear back from you on this...
