DESPICABLE
Hell, though it is real, is not so much a place as it is a non-place housed in the core of the earth. It is a negative, the absolute absence of God and all that God is. To try to imagine what that state is like is frightening and beyond human comprehension.
- As good as God is, so bad is hell.
- God is love. Hell is hate on steroids.
- God is holy. Hell is evil and disgustingly filthy and degraded beyond degree!
- God is the God of all comfort. Hell is the absence of any and all soothing, ease, relaxation or rest.
- God, the balm in Gilead, is our Healer. Hell is the maximum of suffering and pain, disease and illness without relief of any kind continuously forever.
Existence without God is hell!
At its worst, life on earth cannot be compared with the suffering and torment of hell when God is not present in any dimension at all. It is God Himself, Creator of the universe, who governs what goes on here, moderated by the free will He gave mankind.
How people squander the gift of eternal life God offers them for their immortal souls! Yet, the majority of people on the globe today reject God's grace and forgiveness. Listen to what Jude says about those who are hell's destined population:
"Behold the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him. These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage." verses 14-19
What a description of the men, women and young adults who scoff at the mention of Jesus and God and are a law to themselves. They indulge their own desires without considertion of God's word and purposes, trampling the blood of Jesus under their feet. It is this crowd that is destined for hell.
But hell is not the final end of those who choose to not bow to Jesus while they are alive on this earth. Soon, everything God prophesied in His Word will culminate.
First, the devil will be thrown into the lake of fire revealed in Revelation 20. Then, those individuals who hated God's Son, the means of their salvation, will be resurrected from hell to stand trial before Jesus at the Great White Throne judgment.
All their words and actions against Him, recorded in the books of heaven during their lifetime, will be brought to testify against them to their own condemnation. Like worthless trash, the Bible says they will be thrown into that same lake of fire that burns forever and ever.
Currently we dwell in the closing days of this dispensation called God's grace. At that unknown moment when the last trumpet blast is sounded, Jesus' bride will be caught to join Jesus in the clouds in what is called the Rapture. Only the Heavenly Father knows when Jesus will return for His bride. We need to be ready and watching for Him, because if we fail to be prepared, we will be left behind just like the five foolish virgins in Matthew 25. Satan will have a last heyday on earth with all the people who did not hear Jesus' call.
They will taste God's wrath that up to the present moment has been withheld from sinners and the world at large. The book of Revelation discloses the severity of the suffering people will endure and yet they will not be humbled by it. Instead, they will curse God and refuse to repent of their sins. The few who do bow their knees to God and are saved will suffer a martyr's death.
Right now, dear reader, if you are lost and without hope in Jesus, if you are outside the cleansing of salvation through His blood, your ultimate end is to spend your eternity in that lake of fire that will burn forever! No one now or ever has known the degree or severity of being separated from God's presence absolutely. But if and when you wake up in hell, it will be forever too late to change your mind. Do not let that happen to you! Repent of your sins and ask Jesus to save you from the wrath to come! He is your only Hope. Call on Him NOW!