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The Lake of Fire

April 21 2008 at 6:29 AM
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Please, NO OFFENSE intended! But yes, the CAPS ARE SHOUTING!!
Can you hear me now?

The Lake of Fire! The Second Death! The FINAL end of sin, and all sinners!

That is what God has planned for those who will not repent. Those who are given their one an only chance, (whether in this life or the next), IF they will not repent of their SINS, and submit to the will and rulership of God, then they will be destroyed in the Lake of Fire. This is a vital truth that satan the devil doesn't want anyone to understand, and he works overtime to blur the line between death and life, thus obfuscating the truth about the lake of fire. He and his demons will have their place in that same fire. All the works that he has striven to accomplish, all the evil he has striven to endorse and spread, will be destroyed in that cleansing fire.

The Second Death is NOT life!! The second death is >>>*DEATH!*<<<
Death is the absence of life!! Not 'life' in an ever-burning hell !

There will be no rescue from that death. Those who are disposed of in the lake of fire will DIE and BE DEAD FOREVER! Not conscious! Not suffering! Not anything! That death will be the END of their life! Not the beginning of life in another location. Not the continuation of life separated from God! Death is NOT life!

There will be no resurrection from that death. Those that go into the lake of fire will never return. They will be burned up and totally destroyed! Their existence will END!

Some don't believe that and they unwittingly allow the devil to use their deception to deceive others.

Here is a quote from one such individual I found on the web:

"We should desire to experience the lake of fire if God sees that is what we need. That's how much we can relax in the arms of God's love." - Roger Tutt

You may recognize that name... he posts and spams his way into many forums, preaching about things he doesn't understand. (You may think I'm in the same boat) Ha!

I'm all for the prospect of 'relaxing in the arms of God's love', but experiencing the lake of fire is not how that's done!

I do not want to 'experience the lake of fire'! It is a fire that will reduce the contents to ASHES! There will be no resurrection from the lake of fire.
But satan has deceived the WHOLE WORLD!! (Rev. 12:9)

Friends, if God sees that the Lake of fire is "what we need", then WE NEED TO BE DESTROYED! Roger is a very sincere and dedicated person and he really BELIEVES what he is teaching! But a firm belief and a dedicated mind wont save anyone! And a person can be very sincere, and yet be sincerely wrong!

Don't let satan deceive YOU about the lake of fire!! It's NOT a 'spa' where sinners go to be rehabilitated!! It's NOT where they go to be punished for a time and have the 'hell' burned out of them! And it's NOT where they go to endure eternal punishING! It's where they go to DIE!.. to disappear!.. To be burned up!.. To be DESTROYED!!

The lake of fire will be the end of sin and all sinners!! From that point forward, only RIGHTEOUSNESS will prevail!

May God help us all to see and grasp the truth of this in spite of the devil's efforts to the contrary!

AMEN!!

Phil

 
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Re: The Lake of Fire

April 21 2008, 4:02 PM 

Those in the “lake of fire” do not have life. Their names are not written in any “book of life.” And life is life, whether spent in pleasure or in suffering pain. Accordingly, there is no consciousness or feeling of pain or suffering in the “lake of fire,” because there is no life there at all. Why, then, does the Bible speak of the Devil, the “wild beast” and the “false prophet” as being “tormented day and night forever and ever” in this “lake”?—Rev. 20:10.

It is because they are under the torment of restraint. When Jesus was on earth, the demons entreated him not to order them to go away into the “abyss.” (Luke 8:31) In a parallel account of the same incident, the demons asked Jesus: “Did you come here to torment us before the appointed time?” (Matt. 8:29) This being put into the “abyss” will be a “torment” because it will be a restraint.

Satan and his demons are, therefore, to suffer the “torment” of restraint by being hurled into the “abyss” just prior to the thousand-year reign of Christ. They will be restrained from all activity during that thousand years. Then they will be loosed after the thousand years end. (Rev. 20:7; compare Revelation 11:7; 17:8.) After the final attack on God’s sovereignty, the Devil and his demons are hurled into the “lake of fire,” where they suffer the “torment” of everlasting restraint, without letup, in the “second death.” They are completely annihilated, never to appear again. Moreover, all that they accomplished, all their works, will be erased from the universe.—1 John 3:8.

The truth that this being put into the “lake of fire” does not mean conscious pain of torment is shown in that the “wild beast” and the “false prophet,” both symbolic of systems or organizations, are spoken of as being “tormented day and night.” But systems or organizations cannot suffer pain. The “lake of fire” annihilates, destroys them. They are restrained from operating, forever. Never will such wicked organizations rise up to dominate or disturb mankind.

Also, death and Hades, mankind’s common grave, are done away with in the “lake of fire,” in that Adamic death will have been completely wiped out and Hades will have been emptied and will receive no more such dead. (Rev. 20:14) Certainly these two inanimate things can feel or experience no conscious suffering, but they can be restrained, put out of the way, forever.

The “lake of fire,” which means, or symbolizes, the “second death,” also ‘burns with sulphur.’ (Rev. 21:8) Sulphur ignites at a low temperature and burns quickly, thus tending to consume things that would not otherwise burn so readily. Sulphur was anciently used in fumigation. Thus the “lake that burns with fire and sulphur” would well represent a complete, everlasting destruction universally of everything and everyone that has “contaminated” it, carrying on filthy practices, challenging God’s sovereignty and bringing reproach upon his name. The “lake of fire” or “second death,” though always possible for God to use on the willfully disobedient, will not hold any threat to those who have been proved everlastingly loyal through the test of Satan’s loosing after the end of the thousand years of Christ’s reign. The faithful survivors of that test will have God’s guarantee of protection and the sustaining of their lives forever.—Rom. 8:21.

Thus the “lake of fire” is an important factor in God’s purposes. It is not something contrary to the personality of Jehovah God, who never conceived nor would ever countenance the eternal conscious torment of anyone. (Jer. 19:5; 32:35) It is in harmony with his personality of justice and loving-kindness, however, for God to clear out wicked troublemakers forever. For it is essential that justice be carried out in the universe for the sake of peace and order in behalf of those who want to do what is right.—Ps. 145:20.


 
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