HELL IS FOR REAL

HELL IS FOR REAL

OR

WHY  A GOOD GOD ALLOWS PEOPLE TO GO TO HELL

KEY CHAPTER: (2 Kings):

  One of the most used excuses for sinful lives is, A good God would not send anyone to Hell. With that said, thought, and believed; comes a ticket to sin with impunity! Why not sin, if there is no punishment? That thought is contrary to Holy Scripture and is as much of a fiction as the Easter Bunny.

  God is to be loved and feared (Deut 10:12). Morally, the Hebrew word for “fear” is “to revere” the Lord which is to honor Him. Why honor Your Honor the Lord? For the same reason that one would honor a judge in civil court – the judge holds the scales of justice, and the defendant is at his mercy.

  Why would anyone love the Lord? Because He is our Father, both in natural and spiritual aspects. He not only generated life in Adam, but did in each person as well! Why would children honor their biological father? For the same reason – his seed “breathed” life into his children.

  God expects His children to love and fear Him. As with any good father, He punishes because He loves us so (John 3:16)! Many parents have said when using corporal punishment, “This hurts me more than it will you.” That is a true statement for good parents know that they must punish to bridle the instinct in children that they go where they should not go!

  On a personal level, I remember asking Mom, “Why is their pain?” That little-educated Kentucky “hillbilly” said, “So we can avoid danger.” She then went on to tell how a burn from a hot stove warns of imminent danger. My friend with diabetes stepped bare-footed on hot pavement, and could not feel the pain. He burnt both his feet terribly, and it took years to heal. The point is that pain is necessary.

  Human nature is to avoid as much pain as people can, but they still get too close to the fire thinking, I am getting hot but will not be burned. Sin is much that way – people sin as much as they can, believing they will never be burned. Why would God warn of the “hot burner” in the afterlife? So that people would have the intelligence to avoid the “heat” in this life. That “heat” is the desire to sin. Paul referred to it when he said, “It is better to marry than to burn (with lust)” (1 Cor 7:9).
  God said right after he created man, “Thou shalt not eat of it (the Wisdom Tree): for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die” (Gen 2:7), but the Serpent said, “No you won’t” (Gen 3:4). Dying is perishing in Hell, not the death of the flesh. They never understood that, and people still don’t!
  If anyone believes God is too good to punish, then they honor the Devil. Their “god” is Baal, and ultimately, they believe what they want to believe, and are “as God” in their own eyes as the Serpent rightfully indicated (Gen 3:5).
  God indeed is Good! All that he generated was “very good” (Gen 1:31). His “goodness” was creation of the human race, and free will. God warns to not gear near the fire (temptation), or the deceived person will sin, and ultimately suffer the burn.
  There must be a place for punishment or God would be a liar. God is Truth, therefore Hell must be for real! It has a purpose as well – it’s where the unrepentant perish.
  In Kings 10, consider again biblical typology as the Old Testament is full of it! Why would the story of Jehu’s cruelty be in the Bible and why would his cruelty be ordained by God? Because it is a warning to all people; there will come a day when due punishment will come. Kings 10 presents typology of judgment and Hell. It’s not a pleasant thing to read or consider, but Hell is not a pleasant thing!
  The Bible is not only about love and reward, but crime and punishment as well. Love and reward would only be half the story, and the rest is on “page two” as Paul Harvey would say. The full-gospel is that there is a reward for trusting God, but there is punishment for failure to do so. We hear nearly every Sunday about the reward, but people won’t go to church to hear about the punishment!
  King Jehu of Israel would have dragged the worshipers of Baal to “come to church” for the “sermon” on punishment, but he used deception to get them there. He led them to believe that they were coming to worship Baal, but that wasn’t the case!
  Is it not easier to get a person to come to a celebration than a dirge? Jehu knew that. The worshipers of Baal came to party with Baal. Although “Baal” was a specific “god” (Zeus for the Greek), that word came to mean any god. Almost all gods gave pleasure, and if they were not worshiped, they withheld pleasure. Many, as was Baal, were associated with fertility.
  Baal-worship often employed sexual pleasure, and there were even male temple prostitutes for homosexual pleasure. Infanticide was how Baal worship dealt with sexual freedom. It was the earliest form of abortion. Those who loved pleasure came to worship Baal. False gods often use sexual pleasure to entice (proselytize) into their false religion.
  Jezebel had been the ultimate apostle for Baal, and she was also known for her alluring methods and beauty. Like the forbidden tree, Jezebel was pleasing to the eyes (2 King 9:3), and was a harlot (2 King 9:22). She was “queen of the heavens” in the eyes of the people of Israel.
  Jehu sorted out the people marked for extinction. He was a type of death angel much like in the exodus from Egypt. Jehu sorted out the worshipers of Baal from the worshipers of Yahweh, and tagged them for destruction.
  God judged the Baal worshipers guilty, and Jehu carried out the punishment just as Satan will do. Jehu was, however, not righteous himself; he still allowed golden calves that represented Baals to exist. He destroyed the worshipers, but not the “god” as God did with Dagon.
  That’s much what happens when sinners die – sinners perish, but Satan still lives and is there to worship again. Of course, in the end, Jesus destroyed all “Baals” when he died on the cross, and the gospel makes it clear that everyone is a Baal unless they are born again. Now examine the typology in Jehu’s destruction of the “sinners” in ancient Israel:

And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying of the Lord, which he spake to Elijah. (10:17)

  First off, Jehu killed Ahab, who was a type of El, representing Satan, and all those who he was king over. Jesus did the same thing on the Holy Cross; he didn’t die there, but the “serpent” Judas did on another tree. Ahab is a type of Judas as well, and both types of the first Beast.
  And who did God represent in this story? Jesus, because God’s Word Is Jesus (John 1:1-3,14).

And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu shall serve him much. (10:18)

  Therein is where Jehu, working to God’s instructions, used deception to lure those who serve Baal into their temple. God often has to use deception to get people to do His Will. He allowed the Serpent to do that, He knows it works, and He created the Devil for the very purpose of deceiving. God knew that they would not come to an execution, but they would for a celebration!

Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his servants, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtilty, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal. (10:19)

  God’s intent for Jehu’s was to call sinners to come home. God called them to stay home, but Baal called them to his temple. The people were not forced, but made a decision themselves. They followed Baal and never heard the Word of the Lord who would have saved them from death by not entering in the temple.

And Jehu sent through all Israel: and all the worshippers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that came not. And they came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was full from one end to another. (10:21)

  All the worshippers of Baal came freely. All sinned by honoring Baal by coming into his “house.” Most served Baal, and only a few remained faithful to the Lord as learned elsewhere.
  This passage warns what Jesus said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 12:13-14).
  The doors to Baal’s temple was the “wide gate” of which Jesus spoke. Of course, the “strait gate” was freedom beyond the doors of Baal’s temple and was in Jerusalem. Liberty to worship the One True God is the “strait gate.” Those who served Baal came willingly and in great numbers to Baal’s house just as few today will gather in great numbers to hear their Baals, but few will ever enter into God’s House, the Church.

Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants of the Lord, but the worshippers of Baal only. (23b)

  If you remember, the “gate” to the Garden of Eden is guarded by cherubim so that those unworthy could not enter in. (Gen 3:24). Those cherubim were there to guard the Tree of Life, which we know from Revelation 2:7 is in the midst of Paradise in Heaven. Those cherubim still guard entry into Heaven, and only those faithful to the end can enter in.
  When Jehu had his soldiers guard the door to the temple of Baal, it was for the protection of God’s chosen. God keeps His people safe if they serve and honor Him! Those soldiers were the “cherubim” types. Rather than keep the sinners out of Paradise, in this case, kept the faithful out of Hell.    Cherubim, then not only guard from unworthy entrance but protect those who are worthy to enter the strait gate.

…Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out… (10:25b)

  The two-edge sword is Jesus’s tool of destruction (Rev 2:12). Christians think of Jesus as only the Savior, but he is also destroyer of those who will perish. Why love and fear God? Because Jesus will save and punish the faithful and wrong-doers, respectively. That passage represents punishment for sinners which is perishing by the Word of God. No, Jesus will not behead, as the Beast does, but his Word will (Ephs 6:17). There will be no blood shed on his part when Jesus allows sinners to perish, but the Beast will take care of that, as Jehu did.
  It is not known for certain who the “death angel” is but it makes sense that Lucifer is. Then Jehu may also be a type of Lucifer.

And they brake down the image of Baal, and brake down the house of Baal, and made it a draught house unto this day. (10:27) Thus Jehu destroyed Baal out of Israel. (10:27-28)

  That passage is typology that represents Satan’s destruction when Satan is cast into the fiery pit. It also represents, “They should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads” (Rev 9:4) when the bottomless pit is opened. Baal’s Temple, not only represents Hell but the bottomless pit. The “door” to that pit is the wide gate to destruction, and appears to be the Foundation Stone which has the “keyhole” for the keys to the bottomless pit (Rev 9:1).
  Those who served Baal would go to Jerusalem, but not for the rapture of the saints, but to ascend into Hell beneath the Foundation Stone!

… the Lord said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in mine heart… But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart (10:30a-31a)

  Jehu was like Lucifer in that he seemed to serve God because as Satan, Lucifer is Tempter. Like Lucifer who seeks God’s Throne in Heaven and is Prince of the Power of the Air, that’s what Jehu represents as bad king of Israel.
  Kings chapter ten was not written for nothing. It is a warning that God does not lie! There is a penalty for sin, and that is death. The killing of those who served Baal was immediate but their dying is still occurring even at the present time. That’s what deluded people don’t understand about death – it never ends; sinners merely cross over.