Since punishment was tied so closely to crime and sin it was only natural that this concept should extend from the temporal world into the spiritual world. God meted out His own punishment to those who broke His moral law, notably against Sodom and Gomorrah and the Hebrew people wandering in the wilderness. - Gen. 19:12-29; Num. 14:26-35 -
In the New Testament the concern with temporal punishment became secondary to Christ's message of redemption. An eternal spiritual punishment falls upon those who refuse to accept God's message. Everlasting punishment is the final judgment of God upon the wicked. The classic example of eternal punishment in the Old Testament is the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. - Gen. 19:12-29 - While speaking about wicked angels who are being held in "everlasting chains" the letter of JUDE in the New Testament likened these wrongdoers to the wicked men of Sodom and Gomorrah who "are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire".
Next let me remind you of the angels who had supreme authority but did not keep it and left their appointed sphere; he has kept them down in the dark, in the spiritual chains, to be judged on the great day. The fornication of Sodom and Gomorrah and the other nearby towns was equally unnatural and it is a warning to us that they are paying for their crimes in eternal fire. - Jude 6-7 -
The apostle Paul wrote about the final judgment. He explains that those who do not know God "shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power".
God will very rightly repay with injury those who are injuring you and reward you who are suffering now, with the same peace as he will give us, when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven with the angels of his power. He will come in flaming fire to impose the penalty on all who do not acknowledge God and refuse to accept the Good News of our Lord Jesus. It will be their punishment to be lost eternally, excluded from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength on that day when he comes to be glorified among his saints and seen in his glory by all who believe in him; and you are believers, through our witness. - 2Thes. 1:7-10 -
This same idea was expressed by Jesus in the parable of the sheep and the goats. After separating the two, Jesus blessed the sheep - those who have cared for the unfortunate and poor. Then he pronounced judgment upon the goats - those who did not have compassion: "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire". - Matt. 25:31-46 -
The essential meaning of the everlasting punishment involves banishment from the presence of God and Christ forever.
Then I saw the beast with all the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to fight the rider and his army. But the beast was taken prisoner, together with the false prophets which had worked miracles on the beast's behalf and by them had deceived all who had been branded with the mark of the beast and worshipped his statue. These two were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. All the rest were killed by the sword of the rider which came out of his mouth and all the birds were gorged with their flesh. - Rev. 19:19-21 -
It is already done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give water from the well of life free to anybody who is thirsty; it is the rightful inheritance of the one who proves victorious; and I will be his God and he a son to me. But the legacy for cowards, for those who break their word or worship obscenities, for murderers and fornicators, and for fortune-tellers, idolaters or any other sort of liars, is the second death in the burning lake of sulphur. - Rev. 21:6-8 -
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!
I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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