Hell

 Hell was never meant for man or for woman or child.  We were all meant to live forever, but the man, Adam by name, chose years and years ago rebellion over obedience.  Think of Adam, he wasn’t deceived, Eve was, Adam chose to sin, choosing to rebel against God, costing us physical death and, in many cases, spiritual death also.  Hell was never God’s choice for humans, He created human beings for fellowship.  Did God know that Adam and Eve would sin, of course He did, because He knows all things.  Did He cause them to sin, of course not, He gave them a free will to choose to sin or not to sin.  He gave them a stern warning that if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they most assuredly would die. Were they created with a sin nature as we are born with a sin nature, no they were not no more than Lucifer was, all of them chose to rebel against God!! They sinned by choice and many of us are angry because they did, but how do we know that we wouldn’t have made the same choice, if we were put in their situation?

Please read it in Genesis 2:17, “But of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you must not eat. For when you eat from it, you most assuredly will die!”  

They chose to disobey, and they sinned against God and they died spiritually at that point and they also died physically, in the end.  Because of their rebelliousness, we are born in sin and spiritually dead also, with no way for us, on our own, to get right with God.  In other words, by our own efforts or strength or power or works or knowledge or riches or prestige, can we get ourselves right with God!!  The word of God says that our righteousness is of filthy rags.  It also says there is none righteous, no not one.  Another thing it says, there is no amount of good works we can do, no matter what they are, to be right with God.  The good news is that God had a plan, because He knew people would try to use these excuses, thinking that by them they could be right with Him!!  Think of this, (It’s by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God not of ‘works’ lest any man should boast.)

Now if this is true, and it is, we all deserve hell, but because of God’s grace and love He has provided a way of escape, you might say.  God sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to bear the sins of the world, a man who had no sin, became sin for us.  He provided the only way that we could come to God and be right with God, and that’s through true repentance which means having a change of heart and mind, turning from sin to God and going to God through the precious blood of his Son Jesus who became  the sacrificial Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.  Without the shedding of blood there is no remittance, or forgiveness, of sins!!

Please read what Jesus said in John 14:6, “Yeshua said to him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life! No one comes to the Father except through Me.’”       

Jesus didn’t come to condemn us, but only through Him can we receive eternal life, please read John 3:17, “God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.”

Hell will be a dark, scary, lonely place with only pain and suffering.  Where everyone there will be only preoccupied with their own pain and suffering.  All who are there will be dwelling on the fact that they have separated themselves from God who truly loved them and was not willing that any be lost but all would come to repentance!!  I believe everyone gets that opportunity, but many reject it, I pray that you won’t be one of them.  I pray that this has been a help and encouragement, may God bless you all and have a super day!!