Death is the fear of nearly everyone. Tribulation enables people to welcome death for death is the escape mechanism to avoid trials and tribulations. However, it is also a mechanism to continue in tribulations, or “torments” as Hell is called (Luke 16:23).
It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment, so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him, He shall appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (Heb 9:26-27)
Recently a famous Christian actor,
Kirk Cameron, denied the existence of Hell. For those who are not Christians, once
dead, he believes; always dead. That state of “existence” is just
non-existence.
Once dead, according to the lost,
all the faculties just dissipate as if the dead ones never existed, having no
signs of them forever after. It would be like the process of fission wherein
matter is converted into energy which just dissipates itself.
However, if scripture is examined,
the rich man of whom Luke wrote was in a state of torments, to wit: “In Hell he
lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in
his bosom” (Luke 16:23).
Luke wrote that there was a “great
gulf” in heaven between Hell and the Bosom of Abraham (Paradise). Heaven is characterized
by the Hebrew letter qof. Qof reveals the whole divided into two. Hence,
qof separates visible reality from invisible reality and is very descriptive
of “heaven.”
Now for more about death and dying… John envisioned the second death:
The fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev 21:8)
Cameron is partially correct; since annihilation is burning and so is death, then the process is like annihilation with one exception… eternity. Jesus said this about death and Hell:
And if your hand offend
you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter into life maimed, than having
two hands to go into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where
their worm dies not and the fire is not quenched.
And if your foot offend
you, cut it off; it is better for you to enter halt into life, than having two
feet to be cast into Hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched, where
their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
And if your eye offend you, pluck it out; it is better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into Hell fire, where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched. (Mark 9:43-48)
Jesus was implying that pain here
is nothing compared to pain in death. He indicated that the Kingdom of God is
painless (even pleasurable) but Hell is both fire and forever.
(In other words, Eden was Paradise
in both realities but sin qof’d them.)
Hell is not just annihilation but always
undergoing the process of annihilation and never achieving complete
annihilation. How could that be? Torments are neither energy or matter;
torments are thoughts that are transmitted by energy.
Have you ever suffered pain in
your dreams? Have you ever awakened in fear or even pain? Have you experienced terrible
things time after time in your thoughts or dreams. If so, those are torments.
Severe burn victims, it is said, experience
the burns over and over again. Torments are anguish; “extreme pain,
distress, or anxiety”
The rich man in Hell revealed
that his mind lived on there; he saw and recognized both Abraham and Lazarus in
heaven. Think of his anguish; he was in Hell, even if it is a mental
state, but he could see others in comfort, or even pleasure.
Not only that, but since he could
not stop his own torments, the rich man worried about his brothers who were
still alive. He knew they would join him there, but Jesus could not comfort his
agonizing over his lost brothers.
Imagine yourselves… envision
yourselves in Hell but seeing your children bound for the same place. Although
you are in pain, your agony for your family would torment you day and night
forever, and their own deaths would agonize you even worse in Hell where the
soul never dies. Your soul is immortal and the only way for you to burn eternally
has nothing to do with your bodies, but your souls in their terrible mental
state.
God cautioned Adam about sin; “But
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in
the day that you eat thereof you shalt surely die” (Gen 2:17). They ate and
they seemed to have not died. How can that be? Hidden in the
English translation is a very crucial bit of knowledge. “Surely die” is
mistranslated. Literally, “You shall die, die” (mut; mut). God was
validating two deaths: mortal death and spiritual death. The idea of the
second death comes from the creation epic.
The body will die once but the
soul lives on. Just what is it that Jesus saves? At “the end of your faith,
even the salvation of your souls” (1 Pet 1:9). That new incorruptible flesh is
not the corruptible flesh that you wore to exist on planet Earth (Gen 3:17),
but immortal flesh for pleasure in heavenly Paradise for only those who are
going there.
Both Christians and
non-Christians will sacrifice their fleshes but both will retain their souls.
The first death is of the flesh, but the second death is not just dying,
but forever undergoing annihilation by a fire that never ceases to burn for the
flames are mentally as real as real fire.
Where Cameron gets it wrong is that
the annihilation, like the ancient fire on the altar of God, never goes out: “The
fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out” (Lev 6:13).
The fire was for the sacrifice of animals. Animals are beings without souls. The
fire of the altar symbolized the burning of Hell fire which will never go out.
Scientifically, fire requires material
to burn. Once the material is consumed, the fire goes out. Perhaps Hell fire is
not the burning of bodies, but immortal souls which burn but are never
consumed.
Christians should not fear the
first death for that is their means of escape from the second death. Paul
called death for himself, “gain” (Phil 1:21). Why so? Because he would miss the
second death of which God warned Adam.
The first death is temporary because
the body decays and then it is over. The second death is wherein the fire never
goes out, because anguish cannot be extinguished. Hell-fire is perhaps not real fire but a
mental state.
My own father knew a man who
suffered fire as he was dying. Although the fireplace was nearby, he said that
he felt Hell burning. It was not that the flames were engulfing him, but that
in his mind, he was already, as a wicked man, approaching the flames of Hell,
and even said so in some of his last words. He was not experiencing flames but
the soul undergoing an annihilation that would never end. That may be “Hell.”
Generally, Hell is ambiguous for
translators. With that problematic, the best thing to do is to look at the
ancient Hebrew pictographs for “Hell” (She’ol in the Hebrew).
With that in mind I had CoPilot
AI create the following chart for me.
(It interprets the Hebrew pictographs into a literal definition of Sheol
which is interpreted “Hell” in English.)
As you can see, literally translated “Hell,”
it is a consuming fire (primal energy) which is all encompassing (controlling).
The lamed (staff) points toward another realm from Earth to the heavens.
As Enoch saw it, Hell is in the
third heaven, hence Sheol is not through the ground but into another
realm where the fire burns forever. Fire on Earth consumes organisms, whereas in
Heaven, things exist but are never consumed (in the manner of fallen angels).
According to Jesus (Luke 16),
Hell is for real, albeit it is not a real state as defined by science. Since
the souls of men never die, then neither do their minds.
As you could detect by both the
rich man and Lazarus, although their bodies were here, their minds were elsewhere,
in Hell and Paradise, respectively. The fires always burning will always be
living flames because in the other realm there is no matter as we know it here.
The flames there burn but never annihilate.
Now, we shall tackle the literal
meaning of “die” (mut; מוּת); mem – vav – chet).
Using the same process as AI,
let’s do so for mut (pronounced mooth).
The letter mem represents
many things: water, blood, genetics, scatter, and so forth.
Vav is a connector (a tent
peg) between things: heaven and earth, then and the future, God as Yahweh compared
to God as the Messiah, as well as man as a soul verses a physical man.
(The dot changes the sound from waw to oo.)
The letter chet provides
the “th” sound and means “separation,” among other things.
Recall a previous commentary
wherein I defined the worst separation of all — apostasy from God. In science,
it is called “quantum decoherence” and in the context of creation, the
separation of realms. Hence, death is transference from one realm to another,
and since chet comes at the end; that is the end of the end in the
second of the two deaths (mut’s).
“Decoherence” is a collapsing of
one state to another in passing from this world to another. In other words, the
body gives up the Holy Ghost as it often says in scripture, as the states of
man collapse into one state in another realm; either Paradise of Hell which are
both in “heaven” as Enoch saw it.
Paul offered some clues about the
heavens: “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the
body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knows);
such an one caught up to the third heaven” (2 Cor 12:2).
Paul was not sure that man, whoever
he was, was in heaven or on Earth. However, Paul knew that he was in the third
heaven. In like manner, from The Book of Enoch, Enoch saw the third heaven
as one place but in different realms. However, Enoch realized that heaven was Paradise
or Hell without regard to physics. In other words, Hell is not on Earth but is
as near as your location wherever you are.
Going to heaven, either Hell or
Paradise, is just passing through the eye of the needle (the Hebrew letter qof).
That letter represents two existences as one characterized by a circle split by
a line. In the context of creation qof represents beyond observable
reality, implying that heaven is for real but not observable to the naked eye.
That Adam was naked and not ashamed
(Gen 2:25) may imply that he could see beyond the physical realm of heaven, and
indeed, the sacred Book of Adam and Eve supports that idea.
In like manner, after sin, they
were naked and ashamed (Gen 3:7), perhaps implying that they had lost their
bright eyes and could not see beyond the real estate. Sight of half the Kingdom
of God was lost to them.
Because of sin, neither can
sinners see unto the heavens. Heaven is
for real — both Hell and Paradise in heaven. Tribulation in this realm, as Jesus
indicated, is not even a fragment of what it will be like in the other realm.
Jesus will come for the rapture
of Christians. Him and Him alone will translate the souls of those in Christ
unto another realm to Paradise. Those left behind can plan their trip as well,
because on judgment day, their crimes against God will be revealed to them
before they die the second death.
That Kirk Cameron dismisses Hell
so flippantly, makes God a liar, and Satan the objective truth. What would
Satan want you to believe? Any fool can see; Satan would not want you to believe
in a real Hell.
Now close your eyes and think about
a Hell that is simply complete annihilation. That means that the human soul is
not immortal and that once dead, you would no longer exist in either mind,
body, or spirit. The rich man realized that his mind would never die, hence his
mind was more spirit than flesh, or even his brains.
The brain is made up of flesh,
but it just holds the cognitive network. Hence, the brain is just a vessel for
cognition to exist within, and it is protected by the cranium; and it is the
shield here on Earth. The mind is not real estate at all by an electronic network.
While dying, the brain dies, an example of “quantum decoherence,” as the
cognitive network changes states wherein the body and brain are both dead but
the mind lives on in another state of being.
I imagine heaven in this manner: a mind within a vessel that resembles yourselves. From where did that silly (sic) idea come? When Jesus was baptized with the Holy Ghost:
The Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a Voice came from heaven, which said, You are My beloved Son; in You I Am well pleased. (Luke 3:22)
Note that the motion was
dynamic like a dove, but the Spirit was in the bodily shape of the man, Jesus. That
Spirit would have contained the Goodness (Virtue) of God — Good Thoughts. Jesus
may have been imbued with the whole Mind of God at His baptism.
Jesus did not suffer death while
on the Cross. The crucifixion began with agony, not for Himself but for us.
Jesus suffered Hell for us so that we need not. Thus, Jesus annihilated both
death and Hell.
“The Place of the Skull”
(Golgotha) was not just coincidental, but that the Cross was the shield of God (Calvary,
or cranium in the Latin.) Jesus had been the “Cup” or “Shield” who had
the Mind of God within. Like the soul, the mind never dies, but both the soul
and mind, decoherent to the body. Paul saw that happen with some man!
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