The Earth is not Hell, thought it certainly feels like it a lot of the time. Hell is a Greek concept. It is not scriptural.
We live in a world where people lie, cheat and steal from each other, where women are raped, children are molested (often times by so-called spiritual leaders), and where theft and war have been “legalized” in the form of taxes and war.
We live in a world that Lucifer/Satan/the devil/red-dragon/serpent and the spirit-Beings (souls/angels) who fought with him (
Rev. 12:3-4) were banished to after the war (
Rev. 12:7-9), and where Satan is the temporary ruler (
John 12:31,
14:30,
16:11); at least for a little while longer (
Rev. 12:12). A world where virtually everyone is listening to and obeying Satan rather than obeying Father (God, "I AM") and His Perfect Law.
We live in a world where over 99.998% of the population have voluntarily chosen of their own free-will to be criminals, and to join Satan in The Fire on Judgment Day, which is why all but “the Elect” are referred to as the “dead” (spiritually) throughout Scripture (e.g.
Ps. 115:17,
Prov. 21:16,
Matt. 8:22,
Luke 20:34-38). How could the
physically “dead” bury the dead? How obvious does it need to be that this is “the place of the (
spiritually) dead, the grave” (sheol)? The underworld?
Genesis 1:6-8 (compare with
Rev. 12:7-9)
1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the “waters”, and let it divide the “waters” from the “waters”.
1:7 And God made the firmament,
and divided the “waters” which [were] UNDER the firmament from the “waters” which [were]
above the firmament: and it was so.
1:8 And
God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the Second Day.
The “waters” are defined in Scripture as
the people.
Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me,
The "waters" which thou sawest, where the "Whore" sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Isaiah 17:12-13
17:12 Woe to the
multitude of many people, [which] make a noise like the noise of the
"seas"; and to the rushing of nations, [that] make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
17:13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
We are also told repeatedly throughout Scripture that this world is a
PRISON.
See:
Enoch 18:15,
Psalms 69:33,
Psalms 102:20,
Psalms 142:7,
Psalms 146:7,
Eccl. 4:14,
Isa. 14:17,
Isa. 24:22,
Isa. 42:7,
Isa. 61:1,
Lam. 3:31-34
Psalms 142:7 Bring my soul
out of prison, that I may praise Thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for Thou shalt deal bountifully with me.
Isaiah 42:7 TO OPEN BLIND EYES, TO BRING OUT
THE PRISONERS FROM THIS PRISON [planet], [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.
We're even literally told this
IS hell.
Psalm 16:10-11
16:10 For Thou wilt not leave my soul
IN HELL (planet Earth); neither wilt Thou suffer Thine Holy One to see corruption.
16:11 Thou wilt show me the path of Life: in Thy presence [is] fulness of joy; at Thy right hand [there are] pleasures for evermore.
The
FACT that this place (planet Earth)
IS hell is
NOT a “Greek concept”; it is completely Scriptural. The flames that people have associated with hell are simply reserved for the Last Day, when the “Dead” will be judged and cast into The Fire, along with Satan.
Revelation 20:12-15
20:12 And I saw the "Dead", small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another Book was opened, which is [the Book] of Life: and the "Dead" were judged out of those things which were written in the Books, according to their works.
20:13 And the "sea" gave up the "Dead" which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their WORKS.
20:14 And death and hell were cast into the "Lake of Fire".
This is the second death (the death of the spirit-Being/Soul; the “root” -
Mal. 4:1)
20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the "Lake of Fire".
The closest Scriptural concepts are Sheol, (NOT Hell, literally, "the place of the dead, the grave"); Gehenna, Roman-Era Jerusalem's trash dump that was practically always on fire; and last but certainly not least, "The 2nd Death," which has yet to occur. For any of us.
As above please. The Scripture is crystal clear about where we are and what we should be doing. Hopefully you are among the Living and will appreciate being corrected on your errant views.
And it's called death for a reason. You'll be resurrected, judged, and if not saved by Messiah's Blood, thrown in the Lake of Fire that was designed for the rebellious angels and where rebellious humans who were recently resurrected to be judged and found unclean by the Blood will die again. The angels' torment may go on for ever and ever, but not yours.
We have all, with the exception of Christ (
John 3:13) and Enoch (who was "translated" to the Last Day -
Heb. 11:5), been here in hell for thousands of Earth years. God does
NOT keep good people in prison; Earth/hell is a training ground for the faithful; a prison reform school for the criminally insane (
Gen. 1:26).
If you're having difficulty accepting that, please consider that we are all sinners, i.e. people who break The Law (
1 John 3:4) that God gave us to protect us from evil and to set and keep us free from all satanic influence. How could unrepentant habitual criminals possibly be considered to be "good people"? A sinner is someone whose actions are
evil (bad).
Christ's Second Coming just before the Last Day (Judgment Day) is to gather the "Elect", i.e. to resurrect the "Living" from among the "Dead". The "graves" we have made for ourselves are of and by our own
sinful actions. We need to purify our "selves", stop listening to Satan and all of his satanic nonsense (which he disguises in our minds as our "opinions", e.g. that this isn't hell) and learn to crucify the "self"
DAILY as we've been repeatedly warned to do if we are to have any hope of surviving Judgment Day (
Matt. 10:38,
Mark 8:34,
Luke 9:23,
Luke 14:26-27,
Gal. 2:20,
Sura 6:162).
This is what most Christians, particularly Protestants, hate. NO ONE IS SAVED YET. THE DEBT HAS BEEN PAYED, BUT IT HASN'T BEEN DELIVERED YET. The "credit" has yet to appear on any of our bills.
Agreed. Anyone who claims to already be "saved" is
WRONG. We do
not mark our own tests. Only the Lord marks
our tests (
John 5:22) and none of us will have
any say in it on the Last Day. That's why we would all do well to learn some fresh and
real humility and start again, this time
DOING what the Lord says and
not what any of us decide for ourselves (
Deut. 12:8). The “Self” has to be “
crucified DAILY” until it is
DEAD and the only desire is to
serve God and the
common good,
keeping the
COMMANDments;
Covenants; His Laws and Ways and
NOT our own.
The debt has already been paid for our
PAST sins,
NOT to give us the freedom to sin with impunity, which would make the world (hell) even more evil than it already is.
Romans 3:25 Whom God hath fore-ordained [to be] an atonement through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins
THAT ARE PAST, through the forbearance of God;
It's up to each and every one of us to empty our minds of all of the pre-programmed satanic nonsense, particularly
ALL of the egotistically driven religious superstitions involved in
ALL organized religion. Those who accept the truth of our
spiritual reality and learn
The Way home will avoid the "second death". Those who don't, won't.
