The Flames of Hell

I must confess that until fairly recently, I had not given much thought to the concept of hell. I mean, avoiding it is so simple. Then someone introduced a new concept to me, the idea that GOD is to blame, and is answerable for the torment which is hell. Despite the fact that our fault is our own, and that God has interposed HIMSELF between those who trust Him and this ultimate condemnation, I have endeavored to entertain the question.

Yes, He did create hell. It's original purpose was as a quarantined disposal area for a wannabe god, the initiator of lies and murder. Hell is the permanent answer to those who would be gods, would be without God, for a deadly, all destructive illness. Every time there is sin (whatever is at cross purposes with the ultimate goodness which is God) hell is enlarged, and claims more territory.

This territory is not in spatial dimensions. It's the blinded minds of those who are enslaved. It is the darkness of the silence of conscience, in dead men still walking, THE time when the truth is finally revealed to those who have refused to see. It's suffering is the pressure of fully awakened responsibility, without hope of the satisfaction of obedience. It is the fear and terror of acutely felt, unrelieved pain, without hope of deliverance. There will be no more shelter or relief from what the lawless have done! Hell is failure without end. It is the final and irreversibly total unveiling of  HIS anger and disappointment, where the blindness of our pride and pretensions no longer shield us from who He is. Hell's utter devastation and destruction are the infinite weight of full exposure to the mourning of God, the realization of how boundless is the merit of what He has spoken! The flames of hell are His pain and grief.

Make no mistake: We live in a buffer zone, where we are protected from exposure to this suffering called hell. We are the weakness of a screaming newborn baby, being handled gently by the father.  Herein is our opportunity to learn of the only escape possible. Here in this venue, He has provided both reparation for our crimes, and freedom to learn of HIS love, the drive to a unity of giving.

God's detractors assume that everyone can be rehabilitated (choice-less is NOT love). Hell is caricatured as a medieval torture chamber, where diety tortures those helpless against Him. Who could believe in such a monstrosity? (Actually, it's much worse than that. It's what we build with our own hearts.) Those who don't even know Him presume to judge Him. They make God into a projection of the powerful hate inside themselves.

There is SO little time left. His patience is almost at an end and His children need deliverance. Please place yourself in His Hands, at His command, so He can deliver YOU, too!

Hebrews 12:29 

for our God is a consuming fire.

Revelation 14:10

He also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

Isaiah 33:14-15

Sinners in Zion are terrified; Trembling has seized the godless. “Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?” He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, He who rejects unjust gain And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe; He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

Deuteronomy 32:22

For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.