There is a punishment of the wicked taught in the bible,I don't see the unredeemed finding salvation after death,in my own heart I question my own burden for the unregenerate.
We need to preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified to this untoward generation more than ever before.
I don't want to be too technical... but...
Salvation is designed to prevent one from experiencing the corrective torments of Hell (regardless as to how one views them). If a soul experiences Hell for any length of time, be it a year or for all eternity they didn't expeirence salvation. IF (big if here),- if a soul were to find reconciliation after a period in Hell, they will have found reconcilation, not salvation.
The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror IV, 1993
Homer is sent to hell -- the "Ironic Punishments Division". He is forced to eat all the donuts in the world! (The demon in charge is chagrined, however, when Homer isn't bothered in the least.)
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?
55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy mens lives but to save them. And they went to another village.
34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Will God do what He calls an abomination? I say absolutely not!
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?
55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy mens lives but to save them. And they went to another village.
34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to defile it. 35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.
Will God do what He calls an abomination? I say absolutely not!
And yet:
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Matthew 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
That is exactly what happened in the judgment of Jerusalem in 70 AD. NO eternal damnation here, in Matt 13:41.
That what He will say to the religious hypocrites, in that day, they will endure Ghenna purging to remove the iniquity in them.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
Matthew 25:46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
As the elect are enjoying a period of (aionion) life with the Lord, the wicked will be enduring an (aionion) period of correction. After which Jesus will surrender His sonship "that God may be all in all" to the Father, all humanity will surrender likewise to the Father, as they bow and confess Jesus Christ as Lord to the glory of God the Father.
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
As the elect are enjoying a period of (aionion) life with the Lord, the wicked will be enduring an (aionion) period of correction. After which Jesus will surrender His sonship "that God may be all in all" to the Father, all humanity will surrender likewise to the Father, as they bow and confess Jesus Christ as Lord to the glory of God the Father.
So everlasting punishment won't last forever? Sweeeeet!
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
So everlasting punishment won't last forever? Sweeeeet!
There is great evidence in the original language that everlasting is an age, a long period of time or and undetermined length of time. It is definitely not endless.
Doesn't mean it will be pleasant, is correction ever pleasant?
__________________ For it is written, "As I live, says the Lord every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall give praise to God. (Romans 14:11- NASB)
There is great evidence in the original language that everlasting is an age, a long period of time or and undetermined length of time. It is definitely not endless.
Doesn't mean it will be pleasant, is correction ever pleasant?
Does aionion mean "an age" in all of the places it's used?
1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Romans 16:26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:
And does it mean "undetermined length of time" and definitely not endless in all the places it talks about eternal life for believers?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
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