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IS HELL
FOREVER?
Firstly we need to know that God created hell and He created it for His purpose and we need to know that God is eternal and hell is not eternal for God lives in heaven, which is eternal. Secondly we need to know that forever means forever and God is eternal, which means He lives forever, which means that hell cannot be forever because God will be all in all. This means that whatever is hell, is where God is not yet made fully manifest.
It is good at this time to pray to our Father in heaven the maker of hell and ask Him the purpose of hell so that we have a good understanding of His ways.
Pray this prayer
in the hope to know within your own heart the Truth about hell, pray from your
spirit.
" Lord Jesus the
one who died and who NOW lives forever more, the One who has the keys of Hell
and Death please teach me the purpose of Hell, AMEN."
The best definition of Hell would be our awareness of torments and spiritual tensions within our own being, which feel so overbearing that we would rather be dead and free from the bondage of corruption, which we are in. This bondage of corruption is because we have separated our lives from the life of God either willingly or unwittingly. The separation in our mind from the knowledge of God has made us form our own personal hell. The frustrating thing about this separation is that we all are connected to God in the one spirit but we don't know it. Our own mind is working against the unity of the spirit, which joins us as one in Christ. We see ourselves as individuals and we are each one of us trying to form our own destiny, which is against the will of God for our lives. The frustration comes because we don't know our true potential as Christ and we still think that we are limited and tend to work out our own plans according to our own understanding. We are spiritual beings with unlimited potential and we are contained in limited thinking because of our separation from God in our minds. The burning within us, which is spiritual torment is the true nature of Christ wanting to create what God has purposed for us but the limited carnal mind inhibits the flow of the spirit because we have not got our mind set on the spirit. We are contained by the traditions of man and the teaching of man and we are not living our true identity as Christ. We are living in a false identity, which brings hell into our lives. The carnal mind brings destruction to the flesh, where as the spiritual mind of Christ brings eternal life and this frustration of our true identity doing battle with the old nature is hell.
Hell is separation from God in our minds and it occurs in all people until we put on the mind of Christ and allow the spirit of God to flow into our vessels to bring life. Hell is even with those who have gone to the grave and who now have no particles of earth around their spirit. The dead in the grave still have their soul, which is who they are but they have lost their bodies. The souls, which are beyond this mortal plane are still in torment if they still have not set their minds on the spirit and become at one with Christ. People who are in this realm on the other side of the river of life are still alive and one day will be resurrected with a new body and judged. It is only when these dear ones put on the mind of Christ and follow Jesus that they will be made whole. In the sleep that they are in they are in spiritual torment and there is gnashing of teeth and darkness and chains because they now are in self condemnation and in hell for not listening to the truth but all will come to the truth and God will be all in all. The Bible says even if we make our bed in hell that God is there lifting us up to Himself.
So we can see that
Hell is on both sides of the river of life and Hell is really not! being in
the river of life. Hell is separation from God and when we are in hell we experience
times of torment but this does not mean that if we are following Jesus that
there will not be fire of judgement. God makes His sun to shine and His rain
to fall on the righteous and the unrighteous and no matter where we are in life
God wants to manifest Himself in us. When we go our own way against God and
when we are His enemy then we bring destruction to ourselves by the sowing from
our unregenerated minds or our carnal minds, which brings corruption to our
body or to our carnal nature. This sowing of our self nature brings hell to
us and we experience circumstances in our lives, which are destructive and depressing,
we go deeper into darkness and we become more and more alienated from God in
our minds. Hell is when our true nature is suppressed by our self nature and
we do not know the way out. Our true nature, which is Christ or the expression
of God in His creation, is really wanting to come to light in our own understanding
but we by our stubborn will and determination continue to do things our way
and we never know our true identity. It is this battle within that makes hell
for us and when we realize that we need to allow our self nature to be dismantled
and to allow our true identity to bloom, then heaven will be manifested within
us and God will be able to live in His Temple who we all are.
Hell is really the friction that comes as Christ makes Himself in us. It is the heat caused by the change, we are in the midst of that changing process and God is the potter putting us in the kiln of life fashioning us into a beautiful vessel worthy of His eternal habitation. In an earlier study I pointed out that God makes us in two stages first the Adamic man or the natural man made of the dust of the earth who has a soul or container and who is feminine in nature spiritually. Then He makes us into His sons or He pours His spirit into us from within and fills the vessel or soul with His own substance. This spirit of God comes into the vessel by the receiving of the Word, which is Jesus Christ and the incorruptible seed of promise is conceived in the womb of our mind and believed in our heart as we acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord of our life. This seed is the engrafted Word able to save our soul and it is the very life essence within our being which will grow into a large tree of life bearing good fruit for the Kingdom of God. The seed needs a lot of heat and watering to be in the ideal conditions for germination and it is in the furnace of God and in the torment of our trials that the heat comes into our lives, which is able to crack the outer case of that seed and enable it to burst forth into new life within our vessel. The Bible says that Jesus is the true light that lights every man woman and child who comes into the world and in a dormant state Jesus is in us in our natural state or our Adamic state. When we receive, conceive and believe that God raised Jesus from the dead into eternal life and that we are to follow Him and become as He is in this world as we eat of His divine nature and feed off His life-giving spirit then we also will know who we are and life will pour into our own soul and restore eternal life in us.
So hell has a purpose
and it is to turn us to God as we realize our wayward ways and separation from
God in our minds. It also is part of the plan of God to provide the right conditions
for the germination of the promised seed within our vessel of clay. The fire
of judgement is different when we willingly come to God to offer a burnt offering
and it is only when we do not know God that the fire of judgement is hell. God
is a consuming fire and He consumes all of the worthless things in our lives,
things which are temporal, things which can not stand the test of time. It is
only the things of God's nature that are eternal and we have in our minds many
things which are not eternal but rather, are vain imaginations from self. These
graven images in our minds need to be burned in the purging fire of God's judgement,
we are to willingly judge ourselves with the judgement of God to be made pure
and to be restored to the image of God.
It is when we can willingly walk
into the fire without fear and ask God to consume everything that is not of
Him that we will see who we really are. The will is the fulcrum point of life
and death for us and we need to align our will with the will of God and this
happens as we surrender all sovereignty to God and say Lord have Your will in
my life and show me who I am as you live in me.
The only barrier between our true identity and our self made identity is the veil of Sin in our lives or the guilty unworthy and shameful opinion we have of ourselves, which we have believed within ourselves as others have spoken words of destruction to us. When this barrier of Sin consciousness comes down within our own mind then we will be able to reconcile ourselves with God and realize our true identity as a son of God and the Christ or the presence of God will be made manifest in our vessel, which is the Temple of God to show His glory in the earth.
It is the false
concepts of hell, which keep people in fear of hell fire and brimstone and eternal
judgement. All of these words are fabrications of man and mistranslation of
Holy scripture to serve their own purposes in controlling the people and in
keeping God's people in bondage to carnality. There has been a doctrine of eternal
damnation spoken in Churches for many centuries and it was never spoken in the
early days of the Church. It is translation error that has caused this false
concept and it is utterly ridiculous to even accept it without question.
When we look at what the word eternal
means we find that it is a timeless word, which means the ultimate or the very
pinnacle of perfection and is indeed timelessness, it is the state from which
all is created and everything is Holy, righteous and Just within eternity or
heaven. When we compare this to the word hell, we see that in hell it is not
perfect or holy or just but in fact it is about opposite to heaven or eternal
nature. So hell can not exist in eternity because it is not perfect in nature
nor is it timeless. God will be all in all, which means that what
is in hell will also change and be in heaven. The words that describe hell and
ages and worlds are all time related words, which mean that the times will end
because in heaven there is only timelessness and at the end of the ages God
will be all in all as Jesus hands up the Kingdom of Christ to the Father.
We need to know in our minds that
God has created time as a womb for the making of His offspring and that time
will pass into timelessness as we all manifest the presence of the eternal God.
There has been much confusion in the understanding of the Church on the lake of fire and hell and what it all means and so we need to personally have a good look at what is meant in the Bible and not lean on our own understanding or believe the teachings of man on the subject because we all have been deceived and fall short of the glory of God. The best way to know what is meant is to ask God for yourself and study the words in the Bible, which raise question in your own mind. When you do a word search go to the concordance and see what the root words mean in the native language and also see how these words have been used in recorded history in the day. Language is in transition and what was written in the days shortly after Christ may have been perfectly understood by the reader then but today we find that there is a completely different understanding or even a completely different word used to express the meaning. The word used in translation, is one chosen by the translator and it may have a personal application according to his own knowledge or understanding or doctrinal belief. The new testament was not written at the time of Christ and in the early days of the Church, men received direct revelation from the Holy spirit or directly from Christ, who is the Holy spirit now and they wrote the Bible from what they heard in their spirit. So in a sense we have the scriptures for teaching and reproof and instruction and rebuking of lies but we do not receive revelation from them, only confirmation. We know from the Bible that the letter kills us and the spirit gives us life and so it is good to ask God about any questions that arise in your spirit concerning doctrines and come out of doubt and fear. If we stick to doctrines of men and remain in bondage to doctrines and men, then we quench the spirit, which can give us life and lead us out of darkness and into Christ life. The only place that Satan can have any ground in us is in areas of our mind, which are not surrendered to Christ, so if you still have a battle going on in your mind ask God to identify the ground that satan uses in you and ask God to consume it by His fire, His sulfur and brimstone of purification.
So then Hell is God's plan, for all things are of God and there is nothing made, which is not made by Him. We all came from eternity into this vessel of clay and we have a battle with our true identity. Sin is the barrier and we are in Hell fighting to know our true identity. Sin is thinking with a separated mind and not allowing our true identity to flow into our vessel to glorify God. Jesus has removed our consciousness of SIN, so we had better realize that and allow the life now to flow into us. Hell is on both sides of the river if we choose to remain in separation from God. Our inheritance is on this side of the river as we realize our true identity and allow the spirit of God to flow into our vessel and convert the dirt into Holy ground.
If you have been
in a fire of affliction and you are not sure how to come into the presence of
God, if you have been fighting the liar instead of lighting the fire, then it
is time to come out of Hell and come into heaven where the fire is welcomed
and joyful as you feel the shackles fall to the ground and you fly into another
dimension of life in the spirit. There is a prayer for those who feel the fire
burning within them to know their true identity and for those who want to receive
Jesus as Lord of their lives. At the bottom of this page click on the link and
speak out your prayer of confession to your Father God of belief in His Son
Jesus as Lord and saviour of all.
Ps 86:13
13 For great is thy mercy toward
me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
(KJV)
Ps 116:3-9
3 The sorrows of death compassed
me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
4 Then called I upon the name of
the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous;
yea, our God is merciful.
6 The LORD preserveth the simple:
I was brought low, and he helped me.
7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul;
for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
8 For thou hast delivered my soul
from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
9 I will walk before the LORD in
the land of the living.
(KJV)
Ps 139:8
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou
art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
(KJV)
Prov 15:11
11 Hell and destruction are before
the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
(KJV)
Prov 27:20
20 Hell and destruction are never
full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
(KJV)
Isa 5:14-16
14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself,
and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude,
and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
15 And the mean man shall be brought
down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be
humbled:
16 But the LORD of hosts shall be
exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
(KJV)
Jonah 2:2-4
2 And said, I cried by reason of
mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried
I, and thou heardest my voice.
3 For thou hadst cast me into the
deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows
and thy waves passed over me.
4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy
sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
(KJV)
Matt 10:28
28 And fear not them which kill the
body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to
destroy both soul and body in hell.
(KJV)
Matt 16:18-19
18 And I say also unto thee, That
thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto thee the
keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall
be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed
in heaven.
(KJV)
Matt 23:33
33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers,
how shall you escape the sentence of hell?
(NAS)
Acts 2:25-31
25 "For David says of Him, "I SAW
THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT
BE SHAKEN.
26 "THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND
MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;
27 BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY
SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.
28 "YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE
WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.'
29 "Brethren, I may confidently say
to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his
tomb is with us to this day.
30 "And so, because he was a prophet
and knew that GOD HAD SWORN TO HIM WITH AN OATH TO SEAT {one} OF HIS DESCENDANTS
ON HIS THRONE,
31 he looked ahead and spoke of the
resurrection of the Christ, that HE WAS NEITHER ABANDONED TO HADES, NOR DID
His flesh SUFFER DECAY.
(NAU)
James 3:6
6 And the tongue is a fire, the {very}
world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles
the entire body, and sets on fire the course of {our} life, and is set on fire
by hell.
(NAS)
Rev 1:18
18 I am he that liveth, and was dead;
and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of
death.
(KJV)
Rev 20:13-15
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.
14 And death and hell were cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written
in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
(KJV)
The lake of fire
is what the judgement of God will become as all people allow the spirit of God
consume their flesh or worldly minds. This lake started as a few tougues of
fire in Jerusalem as the power of God descended from on high to those waiting
and now the whole earth will be filled with the glory of God as His fire engulfs
the whole world and consumes it. All elements will melt and we all will only
see the true creation that God has made as we all know our true identity as
Christ. God will behold His creation through us and we will be with Him in our
own bodies as one body of Christ on this earth. The lake of fire will put death
to death and all people will be purified and live in heaven on earth. We all
go through hell to get to heaven but along the way we wake up and co operate
with God and allow ourselves to be consumed, which reveals who we really are,
Christ, His SON.
HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD, CHRIST THE BAPTIZER BY FIRE, COME AND CONSUME ME NOW.