Daily Devotional, Year 3 – February 24 (Eternal Torment? Part 17: “Torment In Heaven?”)
By admin On February 10th, 2021.
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Daily Devotional, Year 3 – February 24
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Eternal Torment?
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Part 17:
“Torment In Heaven?”
To read Part 1, click here… “September 8th (Eternal Torment?)”
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Unfortunately, today’s churches and denominations have tenaciously clung to an archaic old church-doctrine from their mother-church.
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And this apostate church long ago established the claim that somewhere in God’s creation exists a torture-chamber-of horrors…
…a “Dante’s Inferno”, in which pain and suffering and crying and sorrow and screaming and begging and intense torment go on forever, throughout all eternity…
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Hell’s Torment and Tormentor – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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INCREDIBLY BAD BIBLE STUDY
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You see, while the Bible does indeed speak of Hell, it DOES NOT speak of Hell as a place of eternal torment.
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In essence this false doctrine makes God into a liar!
After all, this passage from Revelation 21:4, 5 clearly teaches that all tears, death, sorrow crying and pain will no longer exist!
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In other words, all the torment of our present lives in this hellish world of suffering will be forever gone in the New Heavens and the New Earth.
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Nicaea icon – Wikipedia – Public Domain
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CAN’T LIFT PASSAGES OUT OF CONTEXT
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The problem is, erring theologians living in the Dark Ages, took out of context, the Parable of the Rich Man & Lazarus, along with the verse that says, “The smoke of their torment ascends up for ever and ever”.
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And then they used these two passages to ignore, canceling out all the many passages will tell us “the wages of sin is death”, and “The soul that sinneth shall die.”
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“I SHOULD HAVE SLEPT…BEEN AT REST!”
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And so, in contrast to this church doctrine, “Eternal Torment”, the Book of Job tells us…
“Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept:
then had I been at rest…
There, (in death) the wicked cease from troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.”
Job 3:11, 13, 14, 17, (Condensed)
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Nowhere in this above passage does it speak of eternal torment!
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It only speaks of death in terms of trouble-free rest!
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PAINTING – Blake – 1793 – Jobs Tormentors – Wikipedia – US -Public Domain
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NO ETERNAL TORMENT IN HEAVEN-MADE-NEW!
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But listen to this amazing promise from God’s Word…
“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes;
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pain:
for the former things are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said,
Behold, I make all things new.
And he said unto me,
Write: for these words are true and faithful.”
Revelation 21:4, 5
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These above words are “true and faithful”, as this above passage reveals!
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Heaven will not contain some Chamber of Horrors, in which 90% or more of Planet Earth’s past inhabitants will be screaming and writhing in endless torment through the ceaseless ages.
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Brooklyn Museum – The Rich Man In Hell – James Tissot – Wikipedia – US Public Domain
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FORMER THINGS PASSED AWAY
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But much to the contrary, the entire universe will then become a place of peace, and joy, and rest, and purity, and love.
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And throughout all the lush green eternal valleys and hills will be heard the echoes of innocent laughter, and singing, and unbroken liberty bells ringing-in the total and final victory over evil.
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And we will be forever young!
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And no more will there be a place of suffering and torment!
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And this Promised Land will continue on for ever, and ever…Amen!
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River of Water of Life – H. Melville – Wikimedia – US Public Domain
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TO READ PART 18, GO HERE…
April 4 (Eternal Torment? Part 18: “Stuck In The Miry Pit!”)
Gluttony – Wikimedia – Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
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TODAY’S PRAYER…
“Dear Lord, Let me not be given to a close-minded spirit. But help me to love truth, no matter if it means I will be hated by my own brethren…
Praying Hands – Otto Greiner – Wikimedia – .bassenge.com – Cropped image – Public Domain
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Planet of Rest: Doctrine of Eternal Torment,
…or you can also read this shorter article…AUGUST 19 (Apocalypse Now! Part 6: Fire & Brimstone!)
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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THE END
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TODAY’S FEATURED HEAVENLY SIGN
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ORION, THE GOOD SHEPHERD
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“The LORD is my shepherd;
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I shall not want (lack).
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He maketh me to lie
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down in green pastures:
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He leadeth me beside
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the still waters…
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I will fear no evil:
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for Thou art with me;
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Thy rod and thy staff
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they comfort me….”
Psalm 23:1, 2, 4
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ORION, THE GOOD SHEPHERD
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This star-chart from Wikipedia, has Orion sketched in by the editor of this website.
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With the addition of a single star, Theta Geminorum (the left hand of the Castor twin of Gemini)…
…the sickle in Orion, the Reaper’s hand (sketch to left), now extends the blade, thus transforming that sickle into the hook of a shepherd’s rod and staff.
And so now this little Gemini star becomes the tip of Orion’s Shepherd’s rod & staff.
Thus with this additional star, Orion the Reaper Constellation now becomes the 5th personality of Orion: The Good Shepherd (sketch below right).
Theta Geminorum is a class A3, 4th magnitude star, which means it is much fainter than either of the stars, Castor or Pollux.
But faint as This little star may be, it nevertheless presents a giant concept, turning Orion’s sickle into a shepherd’s rod.
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And this is a very wonderful and beautiful Bible truth: namely, that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, as is written…
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“As a shepherd seeketh out his flock
in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered;
so will I seek out My sheep,
and will deliver them out of all places
where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.”
Ezekiel 34:12
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And so, God has placed this Starry Shepherd in the winter-night heavens to remind us of His great love for a planet which has wandered away: just like sheep that wandered to where the grass looked greener.
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READ MORE…
To explore deeper into this subject, please read… Orion, The Good Shepherd
Question book magnify svg – Wikimedia – GNU license
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TOMORROW…
February 25 (Come Out of Her, My People! Part 40: “Christmas With, ‘Another jesus’: Babylonian Holidays”)
Santa’s Portrait by T. Nast 1881wikimedia public domain
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90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM
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ALL‘NOBLE BEREANS’ (open-minded seekers of Bible truth) ARE ENCOURAGED TO LISTEN TO THIS 90-MINUTE OPEN FORUM, A QUESTION/ANSWER CALL-IN, TALK SHOW.
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The Open Forum Harold Camping April 12, 2002 (youtube.com)
above picture: Prophet Jeremiah – www.christianimagesource.org – Public Domain