God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. – 1Jn
1:5
We do not have sufficient knowledge to understand the
complex spiritual mysteries that necessitate the existence of an eternal Hell.
But, one thing we do know for sure is that it was created for the Devil
and his angels, not for us, and that God is not willing that any should go
there (Mt 25:41; 2Pt 3:9).
But Satan, trying to make the most of his damnable fate, has
spun his own narrative around Hell. Thanks to centuries of his ‘Fake
Revelation’ machinery, rather than being his place of incarceration, Hell’s now
known to be his Torture HQ. He’s turned the story round, and now he’s
the one who tortures people and he’s the one who holds the prerogative
of sending people to Hell, not God. People now fear the Devil more than they
fear God (Mt 10:28).
And for those who do acknowledge that God’s in charge of
Hell, he’s got a counter-narrative too. To them, God’s been portrayed as
sadistic and vengeful. A God who sentences people to eternal torture for the
flimsiest of reasons, (like not paying a tithe), and who’s created unique
sophisticated torture chambers of unimaginable horrors for each type of sin;
(tortures too horrendous for me to repeat in this devotional). Pause, dearly
Beloved, and think; is your knowledge of the experience of sinners in Hell from
the Bible?
This enduring image of a cruel, merciless ‘God’ – crafted by
‘Fake Revelations’ and perpetuated by unwitting Christians and preachers – is
what is keeping many people (especially atheists) away from the Church today.
We need to wrest the Infernal narrative back from the hands
of the Devil and his mendacious proxies. We need to spread the TRUE message of
the Gospel across the globe, so that everybody – regardless of their social
status or standing – should know that God’s not out to get them, but that on
the contrary He’s gone ALL-OUT to save them. He’s sent His Son to take on
Himself their just punishment; so that once purged from their iniquities, they
can now spend an eternity with Him in glory and ineffable bliss.
AMEN.
More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in
Jesus’ Name.
GREG ELKAN
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