Who is going to Hell?

Who is going to Hell? the wicked are going to Hell, people know if they are wicked, thinking wicked thoughts and doing wicked deeds. If you are one such I say STOP! repent, turn to Jesus that He might forgive you and give you a new heart.

This is a far cry from saying that everyone who has not been chosen to belong to God's church has been passed over and are doomed to spend their eternity in Hell which is what the Calvinist believes and it is a world away from saying that the untold BILLIONS of human kind who have not been reached by the church or who never yet heard the gospel of our wonderful Lord Jesus Christ will be damned which is what the Arminian believes, or even the vast numbers who when they did hear the gospel it was preached in such a cack way with no anointing that it turned you away rather than attracted you to be saved.

Hear me now, billions and billions of human souls are not going to Hell, never believe that. I challenge all Christians now to read Revelation 20 where it speaks about the Great White Throne Judgement which takes place 1, 000 years after the church has been raptured and taken to Heaven to be with Our Lord forever. Read it and see if it is a judgement unto damnation as the church has preached for centuries. It says they will be judged and all whose names are not written in the book of God and the Lamb's book will be turned into Hell. WE DO NOT KNOW whose names are written.

Again we see in the sheep and goats judgement which is the same judgement, the last judgement, who are the sheep who receive a favourable judgement? there is no way possible that these sheep are the church as has been preached for centuries, it is impossible for the church will have been raptured 1, 000 years before "so shall we ever be with the Lord." No these are judged as in Revelation 20 according to their deeds, they are not the church.

If you believe in the 1, 000 year reign of Christ on earth it must completely alter the way you interpret and understand eschatology and the things pertaining to eternal destinies.

It ought to alter the very way in which you preach the gospel for the gospel is the good news about the Kingdom of Heaven which is coming when Jesus returns. 

Did you forget that God is going to create a new Heaven and a new Earth? well who is to inherit this new Earth? our inheritance is Heaven.

"Blessed are ye who hunger and thirst for righteousness for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven"

"Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"

So we join with the Spirit in Revelation and cry "Come ye thirsty men and women, come and drink freely of the water of life"

"Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved"

 St Jerome's Missing Bride

Whether you aspire to Calvin or Arminius, Augustine or Erasmus, whether you belong to the Sovereign Grace stream of theology or the Human Freewill brigade when pushed into a corner you have to admit that upshot, the logical conclusion of what you believe is that on that great and terrible day of final judgement when final destinies are decided BILLIONS and BILLIONS of human souls must be consigned to eternal separation from God and must perish everlastingly.

This cannot be right.

In ancient Latin and Aramaic texts we read in Matthew 25

Then shall Kingdom of Heaven be compared to 10 maidens who took their lamps and went to meet the Bridegroom and the bride

Now when St. Jerome came to translate this in the 4th century Latin Vulgate he had a problem for in his mind he had already identified the faithful, the church in the 5 wise maidens in the story. We know that of the 10 5 were wise and the others not so much and he also knew that in scripture the church is the spouse, the bride of Christ. You can't have 2 churches depicted in the same parable.

So he omitted the bride.

That solves Jerome's dilemma but it forever alters the true meaning of the parable.

Now the bride is still there, made conspicuous by her absence, down through the centuries every translation of the bible has followed Jerome in omitting the bride.

But the bride is not her bridesmaids nor will she ever be required to knock in order to seek entrance to the feast which is given in her honour.... will she.

So who are these 5 maidens for they do find an entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. I say they represent a much WIDER MERCY that is generally preached and believed in by Evangelical Christians.

The "Miracle" Rally

Attended a week long "Miracle" Rally in London, it was a real old fashioned Pentecostal do, glorious worship, exquisite anointing, heavenly preaching and miracles galore. Many were saved.

The preacher had advised everybody not to expect to see any miracles on the first night, people need to be taught, when they have heards God's message then they will see miracles, if they believe.

That first night he took as his base Isaiah 53 the first 6 verses, he went back to the garden where man fell and sickness, poverty and death first entered the human experience along with sin, he went to Pilate's porch and Calvary to show how Christ was that suffering Servant who fulfilled the words of Isaiah, "He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement for our peace was upon Him and by His stripes we are healed." The sermon lasted almost 2 hours and I wished it could go no another 2.

Then the preacher closed in prayer.

Now I was in the outer circle facing the centre body, my attention was drawn to a little girl, I had noticed her before. She was a darling little blond thing about 6 years old. She had come to the meeting deaf and dumb. She wore a huge amplification device on her chest and back, it looked a little like a life preserver. By it loud noises were converted into vibration which would alert her of impending danger.

During the prayer she had become very animated, her face lit up like a little angel and she was tugging at her Nan's sleeve. Her ears had come open and she could hear the noise of people around her.

Meanwhile the preacher having dismissed the crowd with a blessing had started to walk off the platform. But he stopped and came back to the microphone, "somebody in the building has received a miracle" he declared, "Someone came to this meeting deaf and dumb but during prayer their ears came open and they are hearing normally."

Of course the little girl's Nan grabbed the child and rushed to the front, her hearing was tested on the platform and demonstrated to be perfectly normal, she also made her first sounds that night. What a precious miracle.

The next night the people came expectantly, faith was risen in their hearts. The preacher had only been preaching about 10 minutes when he said "for this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that He might destroy the works of the devil" A great wave of glory went through the whole auditorium and people started to get healed all over the place. And so it continued the whole week, the platform was filled with sticks and crutches, frames, chairs and other mobility devices as well as casts and various other medical implements. Needles used for drugs and piles of cigarettes also littered the platform as God set men and women free.

Many were saved each night to the glory of God.