Warnings April 18, 2014

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 If someone were to ask you why did Jesus Christ come to Earth the first time only  to die on the cross what would you tell them?  I am not sure what you would say but as for me after readying God’s word I can tell you Jesus came out of love for us all.  Christ knew that without the shading of his own blood on the cross for us we would all be doomed to hell.  Recently I spoke with a person about God’s curse on the nations who try to divide up the nation of Israel.  The person could not except that people who had nothing to do with the act of working to divide up Israel would also be punished along with the leaders who actually were trying to divide Israel.  I was told that God is love and there is no way he would do such a thing and that God does not act like He did in the Old Testament where he punished people for not following His laws. While it is true that when Jesus came we were given the New covenant but through Christ does this mean Jesus would not punish anyone or send them to hell?  First of all let us kind in mind that Christ has given us free well to choose to believe or not to believe that He is the only way to heaven.  Christ has given us free well to either embrace His free gift of salvation or to reject it.  That brings me to a good question. Why did Christ give us free will?  Every question you may ask will all lead down the same path which is directly to the cross.  

Let us take a close look at what Jesus said about hell in Matthew 10:28. “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”  Anyone can kill the body and that would be the end of it however, life continues on after the body is dead and this is what Jesus was showing us in Matthew 10:28.  Christ is a loving God but He is also the judge and without embracing the gift of His blood being poured out for our sins a person who rejected Christ and died they would find out very quickly that Christ is in fact the judge because it is Christ who has the power to take the unrepentant soul and cast it into the lake of fire.  Once again I remind you that you have a choice to receive the free gift of salvation or to say I don’t believe in Christ, I don’t believe there is a hell, and if there is no hell there is no heaven so why worry what happen after I die.  I assure you of two things. First it is true Jesus is the God of love and the second thing is Jesus is righteous judge and if you want to take the risk of being cast into the lake of fire where you will spend eternity than that is your choice but by doing so you cross out the work of Christ at the cross and you will wish you listened to the Good News of Christ when you were alive.  You may want to do a check about hell because out of the entire Bible Jesus talked more about hell than anyone in the Bible.  Why was that?  Because it was only by Jesus that the door to hell could be blocked for people but, that door was going to be opened only to anyone who knocked on Christ’s salvation door.  

You may want to take a closer look at what Jesus said about hell and the lake of fire.

Matthew 25:41
“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels …’ ” (NKJV)

Another Greek term used to indicate hell or the “lower regions” is Tartarus. Like Gehenna, Tartarus also designates the place of eternal punishment.

Example of Tartarus:

2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment … (ESV)

With so many references to Hell in the Bible, any serious Christian must come to terms with the doctrine. The passages are grouped in sections below to help us understand what the Bible has to say about hell.

Punishment in Hell is Eternal

Isaiah 66:24
“And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.” (NIV)

Daniel 12:2
Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace. (NLT)

Matthew 25:46
“Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (NIV)

Mark 9:43
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand than to go into the unquenchable fires of hell with two hands. (NLT)

Jude 7
And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment. (NLT)

Revelation 14:11
“And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.” (NKJV)

Hell is a Place of Separation from God

2 Thessalonians 1:9
They will be punished with eternal destruction, forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power. (NLT)

Hell Is a Place of Fire

Matthew 3:12
“His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (NKJV)

Matthew 13:41–42
The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will remove from his Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. And the angels will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (NLT)

Matthew 13:50
… throwing the wicked into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (NLT)

Revelation 20:15
And anyone whose name was not found recorded in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire. (NLT)

Hell Is for the Wicked

Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. (ESV)

I talk to many people about Jesus and in those conversations I have come to learn that people will pick and choose what they want to believe in the Bible.  If they don’t like the fact that Jesus would send people to a place of punishment they say that is not my God.  Why did Jesus suffer on the cross and die?  Because He loves you and wanted to open the door to heaven which was closed off via the fall in the garden.  I pray today you embrace what Jesus did for you and all people at the cross.  So yes we all  have free will the question is what will you do with it? Will you listen to our Lord’s enemy and say there is no place of punishment or will you ask Jesus to prepare a place for you in His kingdom?  

By the way Jesus warned us in the last days you would see the sign of many earthquakes and “great earthquakes” Huge quake hits Mexico http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/earthquake-shakes-mexican-capital/2014/04/18/a3ca3a5e-c706-11e3-b708-471bae3cb10c_story.html