God is not...
God is not...
operating a "disaster control center"
from his throne of the universe
He is not trying to "pick up the pieces"
of a totally unexpected tragedy
that he never saw coming
He is not trying to "figure out" a way
to somehow to get things back
to being as good as they once were
He is not
trying to "figure out" a way to out smart Satan-
and he is not "falling behind" numerically
as far as how many will be saved
and how many will be lost
God has a plan,
and he is working out that plan
to perfection on a perfect schedule
God has a "will" and he has his "intention"
There are times,
when we will go against his will
accorded with his divine plan-
but we will never ever go against his intention
which is his intended final result
Contrary to popular belief;
his "will" was that man would sin
and indeed be lost for a period of time
but his "intention" is for ALL to be saved,
and come to a knowledge of the truth-
thus becoming Sons and Daughters of the Most High
It was God who planted the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil-not Satan
It was God who put Satan there to do the tempting
It was God who made Adam and Eve Spiritually weak
so that they would indeed partake of the tree according to plan
Rom 8:20-22
For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly
but by reason of him (Elohim) who hath subjected the same in hope;
because the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of Elohim
For we know that the whole creation
groans and travails in pain until now
Vanity-empty, vain, profitless, depravity (wickedness)
Bondage-slavery, subjection
Corruption-spoil, ruin, deprave defile decay, destroy, perish
Groan-moan, calamity murmur grief anguish
Travail-pangs, pain, travail as in birth,
Pain-anguish, starving
Elohim himself...
subjected the whole creation to vanity
and it is Elohim himself who will deliver
the whole world from the bondage
of corruption, pain, and suffering
The Lamb of God
was "slain from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD"
The Salvation of Adam and Eve and the entire world
was prepared way before they were ever even created
Why do you suppose there was but one tree
containing both qualities of good and evil?
Because you can't separate good from evil
You can't appreciate good-
if you have never experienced evil
You can't appreciate light-
if you have never experienced darkness
You can't appreciate eating
if you have never been hungry
You can't become a Son or Daughter of God
without knowing good and evil
The Father commissioned Yahushuah (Jesus)
to be the Saviour of the world
Will he fail the Father,
and not save the entire world?
Read my writing:
Most Christians will die in their sins
You will then understand why Yahushuah (Jesus)
said "few there be" that will find the narrow way
and stand before him without sin
The majority...
will have "their part" in the Lake of fire
and as was stated,
some will receive few lashes (so to speak)
and some will receive many-
but you will not come out
until you've paid the uttermost farthling
How can anyone be a minister of the gospel
and doubt the God of Perfect Love
saving ALL of His children?
2Peter 3:9
The Lord is...not willing that ANY should perish
Rom 11:32
For God hath concluded them... ALL ... in UNBELIEF,
that he might have mercy upon ALL
1Tim 4:10
because we trust in the living GOD,
who is the SAVIOUR of ALL men,
specially (but not only) of those that believe
1Tim 2:4
Who will have ALL men to be SAVED
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth
Luke 3:6
And ALL flesh shall see the salvation of God
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw ALL men unto me
1John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify
that the Father sent the Son
to be SAVIOUR of the WORLD
2Cor 5:19
To wit, that GOD was in CHRIST,
reconciling the WORLD unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us
the word of reconciliation
John 1:29
Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the WORLD
God sent Yahushuah (Jesus)...
to be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
Rom 5:19
For by one man's disobedience
MANY WERE MADE SINNERS (MANY means ALL)
so by the obedience of one
SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS (MANY means ALL)
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE BIBLE
Do you really,
I mean REALLY BELIEVE
the first half of 1Cor 15:22
"FOR AS IN ADAM...ALL...DIE?" (ALL OR MANY?)
Do you really,
I mean REALLY BELIEVE the last half,
"EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL
..ALL.. BE MADE ALIVE?" (ALL or MANY?)
Do you believe that Yahushuah (Jesus)
only "wants or wishes" to save the world?
Do you BELIEVE
"our Saviour, God, who wants and wishes
for all mankind be saved and come
into a knowledge of the truth"
is a proper translation of 1Tim 2:4?
Do you believe
"Who WILLS
that ALL MANKIND BE SAVED"
is also the proper translation?
Do you BELIEVE Isa 46:11?
"I have spoken it
(as in He has spoken it in 1Tim 2:4 for example)
I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS:
I have PURPOSED it,
I WILL ALSO DO IT"
Isa 46:9-10
"I AM GOD, and there is none like me
Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done,
saying,
My COUNSEL SHALL STAND,
and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE”
YOU CANNOT BELIEVE BOTH;
that God "WILLS" to save ALL mankind
and that He WILL perform ALL His "PLEASURE"
and will bring about ALL that He has "SPOKEN"
and then BELIEVE...
that He will NOT save ALL mankind
and will NOT accomplish ALL His WILL
and will NOT do all His PLEASURE
and His COUNSEL will NOT stand
Can Yahushuah (Jesus)
be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
and NOT SAVE the entire WORLD?
Will Yahushuah (Jesus)
FAIL the Father and NOT SAVE the entire world?
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world
WILL LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS
1Cor 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned
he shall suffer loss but he himself
shall be SAVED yet so as by FIRE
ALL things work together for good-
and Yahushuah (Jesus)
will SAVE the entire world
The Prize and "High Calling" of God,
is to be in the first resurrection
and be able to stand before him-
and not to go through Purification by Fire
Remember, the Bible proclaims:
1Co 12:3
and that no man can say
that Yahushuah (Jesus) is the Lord,
but BY the Holy Ghost
It is this same Holy Spirit
which seals us unto the day of redemption
Eph 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
Whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption
And so shall it be, even with the “unbelievers”
when God’s judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants will learn righteousness
they will receive the Holy Spirit
and they will bow and confess
Yahushuah (Jesus) is Lord
Rom 14:11
For it is written, (in Isaiah 45:23)
AS I LIVE, saith the Lord,
(does this sound like "maybe" he really means it?)
every knee SHALL bow to me,
(do you think “shall” means “maybe” or “possibly”?)
and every tongue shall confess to God
(do you think “every” means just a few?)
Isa 45:22, 23
“Look unto me, and be ye SAVED,
ALL the ends of the earth;
For I am God and there is none else
I have sworn by myself,
the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return,
(what part of the word “not” do people not understand?)
That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear
Rom 10:13
For whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
AND BELIEVE ME...
those who have "their part" in the Lake of Fire
will be calling upon the Name of the Lord-
They will learn righteousness
They will bow before him
and they will confess him as Lord
HOW GOOD OF A POTTER IS GOD?
Rom 9:20-21
"Nay but, O man,
Who art thou that replies against GOD?
Shall the thing formed (that’s us)
say to HIM that formed it, (that’s GOD)
Why have YOU made me thus?
Rom 9:20-21
Has not the Potter (GOD)
power over the clay (man),
of the same lump
to make one vessel unto honour,
and another unto DISHONOUR?"
GOD IS THE POTTER AND WE ARE THE POT
Could anything be plainer?
GOD, the Potter,
does not owe an explanation to the pot
as to WHY He made the pot the way HE desired!!
And God desires
to make some pots honorable
and some pots DISHONORABLE
Why?
Because He is a mean and nasty God?
NO!!!
because HE has a plan, a purpose,and intentions,
to save ALL humanity in the end
That... IS THE "WILL" OF GOD
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy JUDGMENTS are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world
will LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS
Then what about HELL....
IF YOU DIE...You don't BURN forever
If you BURN forever...YOU DON'T DIE
From the Old Testament Hebrew Bible;
Sheol was translated to hell
(a chamber.... cave, tomb, or grave)
When the Hebrew Bible was translated to Greek
Sheol then became hades
(unseen underworld for the dead)
The concept of torment
was not associated with Sheol
by any of the old testament prophets
As Christianity was arising,
the Levitical Priesthood
became the privileged "learned"
in regard to the letter of the law
Therefore, they were respected and feared
for they had the power of life and death
When Rome under Titus invaded Palestine in AD 70
the temple was destroyed and eventually
Rome accepted Christianity
As the Popes of Roman Catholic Church
began their "holy apostolic succession"
They quickly realized that
fear and ignorance worked much better than love
The everlasting torments of Hell
thus made its appearance
in conjunction with the opposite
alluring rewards of Heaven
This brought many people
and much money into the church
You were not allowed to have a Bible
as the church would instruct you
in all matters concerning religion
But soon, an "enemy" would arise
in the form of the Printing Press
Ex-communication from the church would be the result
if anyone was caught reading or having any portion
of the Wycliffe Bible
William Tyndale and John Rogers
were burned at the stake for being translators
Translating from one language to another
was not always easy and errors were made
One such example,
was the translating of Hebrew and Greek words
to the English words of eternal, everlasting
and for ever and ever
The hebrew word OLAM and the greek word AION
can be simplified to the english equivalent of EON(age)
for this explanation
First of all, that which NEVER ceases
can only be in the SINGULAR form
Therefore,
if the hebrew OLAM or greek AION
equals the english EON(age)
meaning TIME UNENDING (eternity)
there could be but ONE such EON (age)
One such time unending
Yet many times, these words are used
as PLURALS in our scriptures
So, if there are times
when there are more than one EONS (ages)
We must conclude that one of these EONS (ages)
must of necessity be of A LIMITED DURATION
Therefore, if translators rendered
certain passages FOR EVER AND EVER
this would have to be an error
because if FOR EVER means time unending (eternity)
It would be incorrect
to attach to TIME UNENDING (eternity)
another equal period of TIME UNENDING (eternity)
by the added words of AND EVER
This error results
in the "ETERNAL" nature of HELL
equaling in the same language
our "ETERNAL" reign with Christ
So it would appear
that our life with Christ is to be ETERNAL
and that our suffering in HELL is to be ETERNAL also
Yet, what did Paul write about the reign of Christ?
1Cor 15:24,25
Then shall the end come,
when he (Christ)
hands over the Kingdom to God the Father
after he has destroyed
all dominion, authority, and power
For he must reign UNTIL
he has put all his enemies under his feet
The reign of Jesus
is to be of a LIMITED duration
which will at some point come to a termination
Just as the Lake of Fire
is to be of a LIMITED duration
which will at some point come to a termination
after having completed what it was truly designed
by God the Father to accomplish
The words
"everlasting"... "evermore"... "for ever"...
"fore ever and ever"... and "eternal"...
are no where found....
not even once in any Hebrew or Greek manuscript
from which our modern language Bibles are translated!!
One of the greatest lies about our loving God
has made its way into the church and is
being taught as truth
Insinuating, that our Father in Heaven
is a God of hatred and vengeance
And that he is
the greatest of all hypocrites-
in that he teaches us to love our enemies
yet he will torture his enemies
in fire for all eternity
This most evil doctrine was designed to insure
that man would hate the loving Creator
The truth is:
God, is not going to and never intended to
burn anyone, in the Lake of Fire for all eternity
The first time Jesus came, it was NOT
to condemn or judge the world
but to save the world
The next time Jesus comes it will be
to judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS
Those that will be cast into the Lake of Fire,
will have their carnal sinful natures burned away!!
In the consuming,
purifying presence of God
they will learn righteousness
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world will learn RIGHTEOUSNESS
1Cor 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned
he shall suffer loss but he himself
shall be saved yet so as by FIRE
Yes, there will be suffering in this Lake of Fire
for those who will be cast therein shall burn
in accordance with their sinful carnal natures
The fire will not be quenched
until all the sinful nature is burned away;
resulting in that person
learning obedience and being made perfect
The wages of sin is death not eternal life in Hell
If you die…you don’t burn forever
If you burn forever…you don’t die
If the wages of sin was to burn eternally in Hell
then Jesus,would have had to burn eternally
in Hell for taking all sin upon himself
The wages of sin is death
followed by a resurrection
Rev 20:6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection:
on such the second death hath no power
Rev 2:11
He that overcometh shall not be
HURT (not killed) of the second death
Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study
and they wondered what this statement meant
about the character and nature of God
One of the women offered
to find out the process
of refining silver and get back to the group
at their next Bible Study
That week, the woman called a silversmith
and made an appointment to watch him at work
She didn't mention anything
about the reason for her interest
beyond her curiosity about the process
of refining silver
As she watched the silversmith,
he held a piece of silver
over the fire and let it heat up
He explained that in refining silver
one needed to hold the silver
in the middle of the fire
where the flames were hottest
as to burn away all the impurities
The woman thought about God
holding us in such a hot spot
then she thought again
about the verse that says
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
She then asked the silversmith
if it was true that he had to sit there
in front of the fire the whole time
the silver was being refined
The man answered yes
he not only had to sit there
holding the silver in the fire;
but he had to keep his eyes on the silver
the entire time it was in the fire
If the silver was left
a moment too long in the flames
it would be destroyed!!
The woman was silent for a moment
and then asked the silversmith:
How do you know
when the silver is fully refined?
He smiled at her and answered
Oh, that's easy-
when I see My IMAGE in it!!
Is Elohim able to redeem anyone from hell?
The Translators of the King James Version
translated the HEBREW word "SHEOL"
to the ENGLISH word "HELL" thirty times
If sheol is indeed hell,
is God able to redeem anyone from this "hell"?
Psalms 49:15
But God WILL redeem my soul from from the power of the GRAVE:
for he shall receive me Selah
The word "grave" in this verse is the Hebrew word "sheol"
which is translated "hell" in no less than thirty other verses
So if "sheol" really is "hell"
then there is "REDEMPTION" FROM HELL
And in the GREEK:
1Cor 15:55
O death, where is thy sting? O GRAVE, where is thy VICTORY?
The word "grave" in this verse is the Greek word "hades"
which is translated "hell" in no less than ten other verses
So if "hades" really is "hell"
then there is "VICTORY" OVER HELL
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable,
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death
What is Brimstone anyway?
Does it make the fire hotter and more painful?
Is it caustic to the skin causing greater pain?
Brimstone is defined by the dictionary as Sulfur
Sulfur, is often called brimstone, burning stone, or ignited sulfur
It has been used in religious ceremonies for
PURIFYING or fumigating buildings and for bleaching cloth
(Encyclopedia Britannica, page 536)
Methods of Production:
Producers describe their method
of obtaining sulfur from the ore as
PURIFICATION BY FIRE (Page 537)
Interesting thought-
Purification by Fire
Purification by a Lake of Fire?
Physical Properties
Sulfur is
TASTELESS, ODORLESS,
AND OF NO EFFECT ON THE SKIN (page 537)
Sulfur is a
POOR CONDUCTOR
OF HEAT AND ELECTRICITY (page538)
Interesting thought-
A poor conductor of HEAT
An even more interesting thought-
So if God were to put enough Brimstone into the Lake of Fire,
it would actually have the potential of protecting those in the fire
like an asbestos suit!!
Am I going to fast for anyone?
Do you see where I am going with this line of thinking?
Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
William Wilbur
Whom_seek_ye@yahoo.com
http://www.myspace.com/water_spirit_blood
operating a "disaster control center"
from his throne of the universe
He is not trying to "pick up the pieces"
of a totally unexpected tragedy
that he never saw coming
He is not trying to "figure out" a way
to somehow to get things back
to being as good as they once were
He is not
trying to "figure out" a way to out smart Satan-
and he is not "falling behind" numerically
as far as how many will be saved
and how many will be lost
God has a plan,
and he is working out that plan
to perfection on a perfect schedule
God has a "will" and he has his "intention"
There are times,
when we will go against his will
accorded with his divine plan-
but we will never ever go against his intention
which is his intended final result
Contrary to popular belief;
his "will" was that man would sin
and indeed be lost for a period of time
but his "intention" is for ALL to be saved,
and come to a knowledge of the truth-
thus becoming Sons and Daughters of the Most High
It was God who planted the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil-not Satan
It was God who put Satan there to do the tempting
It was God who made Adam and Eve Spiritually weak
so that they would indeed partake of the tree according to plan
Rom 8:20-22
For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly
but by reason of him (Elohim) who hath subjected the same in hope;
because the creature itself also shall be delivered
from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty
of the children of Elohim
For we know that the whole creation
groans and travails in pain until now
Vanity-empty, vain, profitless, depravity (wickedness)
Bondage-slavery, subjection
Corruption-spoil, ruin, deprave defile decay, destroy, perish
Groan-moan, calamity murmur grief anguish
Travail-pangs, pain, travail as in birth,
Pain-anguish, starving
Elohim himself...
subjected the whole creation to vanity
and it is Elohim himself who will deliver
the whole world from the bondage
of corruption, pain, and suffering
The Lamb of God
was "slain from the FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD"
The Salvation of Adam and Eve and the entire world
was prepared way before they were ever even created
Why do you suppose there was but one tree
containing both qualities of good and evil?
Because you can't separate good from evil
You can't appreciate good-
if you have never experienced evil
You can't appreciate light-
if you have never experienced darkness
You can't appreciate eating
if you have never been hungry
You can't become a Son or Daughter of God
without knowing good and evil
The Father commissioned Yahushuah (Jesus)
to be the Saviour of the world
Will he fail the Father,
and not save the entire world?
Read my writing:
Most Christians will die in their sins
You will then understand why Yahushuah (Jesus)
said "few there be" that will find the narrow way
and stand before him without sin
The majority...
will have "their part" in the Lake of fire
and as was stated,
some will receive few lashes (so to speak)
and some will receive many-
but you will not come out
until you've paid the uttermost farthling
How can anyone be a minister of the gospel
and doubt the God of Perfect Love
saving ALL of His children?
2Peter 3:9
The Lord is...not willing that ANY should perish
Rom 11:32
For God hath concluded them... ALL ... in UNBELIEF,
that he might have mercy upon ALL
1Tim 4:10
because we trust in the living GOD,
who is the SAVIOUR of ALL men,
specially (but not only) of those that believe
1Tim 2:4
Who will have ALL men to be SAVED
and to come unto the knowledge of the truth
Luke 3:6
And ALL flesh shall see the salvation of God
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw ALL men unto me
1John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify
that the Father sent the Son
to be SAVIOUR of the WORLD
2Cor 5:19
To wit, that GOD was in CHRIST,
reconciling the WORLD unto himself,
not imputing their trespasses unto them;
and hath committed unto us
the word of reconciliation
John 1:29
Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the WORLD
God sent Yahushuah (Jesus)...
to be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
Rom 5:19
For by one man's disobedience
MANY WERE MADE SINNERS (MANY means ALL)
so by the obedience of one
SHALL MANY BE MADE RIGHTEOUS (MANY means ALL)
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE BIBLE
Do you really,
I mean REALLY BELIEVE
the first half of 1Cor 15:22
"FOR AS IN ADAM...ALL...DIE?" (ALL OR MANY?)
Do you really,
I mean REALLY BELIEVE the last half,
"EVEN SO IN CHRIST SHALL
..ALL.. BE MADE ALIVE?" (ALL or MANY?)
Do you believe that Yahushuah (Jesus)
only "wants or wishes" to save the world?
Do you BELIEVE
"our Saviour, God, who wants and wishes
for all mankind be saved and come
into a knowledge of the truth"
is a proper translation of 1Tim 2:4?
Do you believe
"Who WILLS
that ALL MANKIND BE SAVED"
is also the proper translation?
Do you BELIEVE Isa 46:11?
"I have spoken it
(as in He has spoken it in 1Tim 2:4 for example)
I WILL ALSO BRING IT TO PASS:
I have PURPOSED it,
I WILL ALSO DO IT"
Isa 46:9-10
"I AM GOD, and there is none like me
Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times
the things that are not yet done,
saying,
My COUNSEL SHALL STAND,
and I WILL DO ALL MY PLEASURE”
YOU CANNOT BELIEVE BOTH;
that God "WILLS" to save ALL mankind
and that He WILL perform ALL His "PLEASURE"
and will bring about ALL that He has "SPOKEN"
and then BELIEVE...
that He will NOT save ALL mankind
and will NOT accomplish ALL His WILL
and will NOT do all His PLEASURE
and His COUNSEL will NOT stand
Can Yahushuah (Jesus)
be SAVIOUR of the entire WORLD
and NOT SAVE the entire WORLD?
Will Yahushuah (Jesus)
FAIL the Father and NOT SAVE the entire world?
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world
WILL LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS
1Cor 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned
he shall suffer loss but he himself
shall be SAVED yet so as by FIRE
ALL things work together for good-
and Yahushuah (Jesus)
will SAVE the entire world
The Prize and "High Calling" of God,
is to be in the first resurrection
and be able to stand before him-
and not to go through Purification by Fire
Remember, the Bible proclaims:
1Co 12:3
and that no man can say
that Yahushuah (Jesus) is the Lord,
but BY the Holy Ghost
It is this same Holy Spirit
which seals us unto the day of redemption
Eph 4:30
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God,
Whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption
And so shall it be, even with the “unbelievers”
when God’s judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants will learn righteousness
they will receive the Holy Spirit
and they will bow and confess
Yahushuah (Jesus) is Lord
Rom 14:11
For it is written, (in Isaiah 45:23)
AS I LIVE, saith the Lord,
(does this sound like "maybe" he really means it?)
every knee SHALL bow to me,
(do you think “shall” means “maybe” or “possibly”?)
and every tongue shall confess to God
(do you think “every” means just a few?)
Isa 45:22, 23
“Look unto me, and be ye SAVED,
ALL the ends of the earth;
For I am God and there is none else
I have sworn by myself,
the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness,
and shall not return,
(what part of the word “not” do people not understand?)
That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear
Rom 10:13
For whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
AND BELIEVE ME...
those who have "their part" in the Lake of Fire
will be calling upon the Name of the Lord-
They will learn righteousness
They will bow before him
and they will confess him as Lord
HOW GOOD OF A POTTER IS GOD?
Rom 9:20-21
"Nay but, O man,
Who art thou that replies against GOD?
Shall the thing formed (that’s us)
say to HIM that formed it, (that’s GOD)
Why have YOU made me thus?
Rom 9:20-21
Has not the Potter (GOD)
power over the clay (man),
of the same lump
to make one vessel unto honour,
and another unto DISHONOUR?"
GOD IS THE POTTER AND WE ARE THE POT
Could anything be plainer?
GOD, the Potter,
does not owe an explanation to the pot
as to WHY He made the pot the way HE desired!!
And God desires
to make some pots honorable
and some pots DISHONORABLE
Why?
Because He is a mean and nasty God?
NO!!!
because HE has a plan, a purpose,and intentions,
to save ALL humanity in the end
That... IS THE "WILL" OF GOD
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy JUDGMENTS are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world
will LEARN RIGHTEOUSNESS
Then what about HELL....
IF YOU DIE...You don't BURN forever
If you BURN forever...YOU DON'T DIE
From the Old Testament Hebrew Bible;
Sheol was translated to hell
(a chamber.... cave, tomb, or grave)
When the Hebrew Bible was translated to Greek
Sheol then became hades
(unseen underworld for the dead)
The concept of torment
was not associated with Sheol
by any of the old testament prophets
As Christianity was arising,
the Levitical Priesthood
became the privileged "learned"
in regard to the letter of the law
Therefore, they were respected and feared
for they had the power of life and death
When Rome under Titus invaded Palestine in AD 70
the temple was destroyed and eventually
Rome accepted Christianity
As the Popes of Roman Catholic Church
began their "holy apostolic succession"
They quickly realized that
fear and ignorance worked much better than love
The everlasting torments of Hell
thus made its appearance
in conjunction with the opposite
alluring rewards of Heaven
This brought many people
and much money into the church
You were not allowed to have a Bible
as the church would instruct you
in all matters concerning religion
But soon, an "enemy" would arise
in the form of the Printing Press
Ex-communication from the church would be the result
if anyone was caught reading or having any portion
of the Wycliffe Bible
William Tyndale and John Rogers
were burned at the stake for being translators
Translating from one language to another
was not always easy and errors were made
One such example,
was the translating of Hebrew and Greek words
to the English words of eternal, everlasting
and for ever and ever
The hebrew word OLAM and the greek word AION
can be simplified to the english equivalent of EON(age)
for this explanation
First of all, that which NEVER ceases
can only be in the SINGULAR form
Therefore,
if the hebrew OLAM or greek AION
equals the english EON(age)
meaning TIME UNENDING (eternity)
there could be but ONE such EON (age)
One such time unending
Yet many times, these words are used
as PLURALS in our scriptures
So, if there are times
when there are more than one EONS (ages)
We must conclude that one of these EONS (ages)
must of necessity be of A LIMITED DURATION
Therefore, if translators rendered
certain passages FOR EVER AND EVER
this would have to be an error
because if FOR EVER means time unending (eternity)
It would be incorrect
to attach to TIME UNENDING (eternity)
another equal period of TIME UNENDING (eternity)
by the added words of AND EVER
This error results
in the "ETERNAL" nature of HELL
equaling in the same language
our "ETERNAL" reign with Christ
So it would appear
that our life with Christ is to be ETERNAL
and that our suffering in HELL is to be ETERNAL also
Yet, what did Paul write about the reign of Christ?
1Cor 15:24,25
Then shall the end come,
when he (Christ)
hands over the Kingdom to God the Father
after he has destroyed
all dominion, authority, and power
For he must reign UNTIL
he has put all his enemies under his feet
The reign of Jesus
is to be of a LIMITED duration
which will at some point come to a termination
Just as the Lake of Fire
is to be of a LIMITED duration
which will at some point come to a termination
after having completed what it was truly designed
by God the Father to accomplish
The words
"everlasting"... "evermore"... "for ever"...
"fore ever and ever"... and "eternal"...
are no where found....
not even once in any Hebrew or Greek manuscript
from which our modern language Bibles are translated!!
One of the greatest lies about our loving God
has made its way into the church and is
being taught as truth
Insinuating, that our Father in Heaven
is a God of hatred and vengeance
And that he is
the greatest of all hypocrites-
in that he teaches us to love our enemies
yet he will torture his enemies
in fire for all eternity
This most evil doctrine was designed to insure
that man would hate the loving Creator
The truth is:
God, is not going to and never intended to
burn anyone, in the Lake of Fire for all eternity
The first time Jesus came, it was NOT
to condemn or judge the world
but to save the world
The next time Jesus comes it will be
to judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS
Those that will be cast into the Lake of Fire,
will have their carnal sinful natures burned away!!
In the consuming,
purifying presence of God
they will learn righteousness
Heb 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die,
but after this the judgment
Isaiah 26:9
for when thy judgments are in the earth
the inhabitants of the world will learn RIGHTEOUSNESS
1Cor 3:15
If any man's work shall be burned
he shall suffer loss but he himself
shall be saved yet so as by FIRE
Yes, there will be suffering in this Lake of Fire
for those who will be cast therein shall burn
in accordance with their sinful carnal natures
The fire will not be quenched
until all the sinful nature is burned away;
resulting in that person
learning obedience and being made perfect
The wages of sin is death not eternal life in Hell
If you die…you don’t burn forever
If you burn forever…you don’t die
If the wages of sin was to burn eternally in Hell
then Jesus,would have had to burn eternally
in Hell for taking all sin upon himself
The wages of sin is death
followed by a resurrection
Rev 20:6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in the first resurrection:
on such the second death hath no power
Rev 2:11
He that overcometh shall not be
HURT (not killed) of the second death
Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study
and they wondered what this statement meant
about the character and nature of God
One of the women offered
to find out the process
of refining silver and get back to the group
at their next Bible Study
That week, the woman called a silversmith
and made an appointment to watch him at work
She didn't mention anything
about the reason for her interest
beyond her curiosity about the process
of refining silver
As she watched the silversmith,
he held a piece of silver
over the fire and let it heat up
He explained that in refining silver
one needed to hold the silver
in the middle of the fire
where the flames were hottest
as to burn away all the impurities
The woman thought about God
holding us in such a hot spot
then she thought again
about the verse that says
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
She then asked the silversmith
if it was true that he had to sit there
in front of the fire the whole time
the silver was being refined
The man answered yes
he not only had to sit there
holding the silver in the fire;
but he had to keep his eyes on the silver
the entire time it was in the fire
If the silver was left
a moment too long in the flames
it would be destroyed!!
The woman was silent for a moment
and then asked the silversmith:
How do you know
when the silver is fully refined?
He smiled at her and answered
Oh, that's easy-
when I see My IMAGE in it!!
Is Elohim able to redeem anyone from hell?
The Translators of the King James Version
translated the HEBREW word "SHEOL"
to the ENGLISH word "HELL" thirty times
If sheol is indeed hell,
is God able to redeem anyone from this "hell"?
Psalms 49:15
But God WILL redeem my soul from from the power of the GRAVE:
for he shall receive me Selah
The word "grave" in this verse is the Hebrew word "sheol"
which is translated "hell" in no less than thirty other verses
So if "sheol" really is "hell"
then there is "REDEMPTION" FROM HELL
And in the GREEK:
1Cor 15:55
O death, where is thy sting? O GRAVE, where is thy VICTORY?
The word "grave" in this verse is the Greek word "hades"
which is translated "hell" in no less than ten other verses
So if "hades" really is "hell"
then there is "VICTORY" OVER HELL
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable,
and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers,
and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone:
which is the second death
What is Brimstone anyway?
Does it make the fire hotter and more painful?
Is it caustic to the skin causing greater pain?
Brimstone is defined by the dictionary as Sulfur
Sulfur, is often called brimstone, burning stone, or ignited sulfur
It has been used in religious ceremonies for
PURIFYING or fumigating buildings and for bleaching cloth
(Encyclopedia Britannica, page 536)
Methods of Production:
Producers describe their method
of obtaining sulfur from the ore as
PURIFICATION BY FIRE (Page 537)
Interesting thought-
Purification by Fire
Purification by a Lake of Fire?
Physical Properties
Sulfur is
TASTELESS, ODORLESS,
AND OF NO EFFECT ON THE SKIN (page 537)
Sulfur is a
POOR CONDUCTOR
OF HEAT AND ELECTRICITY (page538)
Interesting thought-
A poor conductor of HEAT
An even more interesting thought-
So if God were to put enough Brimstone into the Lake of Fire,
it would actually have the potential of protecting those in the fire
like an asbestos suit!!
Am I going to fast for anyone?
Do you see where I am going with this line of thinking?
Malachi 3:3
He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver
William Wilbur
Whom_seek_ye@yahoo.com
http://www.myspace.com/water_spirit_blood
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