[102]. A MESSAGE FROM A POEM – GOD SENDS NO ONE TO HELL
The Introduction for this poem is longer than average.
So as not to be misunderstood, the title of the poem does not mean God has no control over hell. He certainly does but just so that you don’t miss the message of the poem, I need to say the following.
People confuse hell and the lake of fire (Gehenna). They are two vastly different things. In our current Church age hell is where the unsaved are. There are two destinies for all people at this time. One is heaven and the other is hell. There are two paths – you are travelling towards hell or you are journeying towards heaven.
Mankind is on a journey from birth to death. It begins with being born into sin and iniquity and that journey continues until death and the path does not deviate. Only IF the Lord intervenes, will that path be turned 180 degrees and the journey then tracks to heaven.
In this Church age all the unsaved who are alive, are heading to hell. My poem is not that God is selecting people to cast them into hell, because without Christ, that is happening automatically. I think the poem makes that clear as does my extra information.
It is too great for the scope of this poem, but God ACTIVELY consigns to hell at the Second Coming. I think I will write a whole message on this, but not here. A very significant verse to apply at the Second Coming, His Coming in Glory, is this one – {{Matthew 25:31 “When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.”}}. THEN Jesus judges the nations (sheep and goat nations), and individuals (the tares/darnel) sending the goat ones to hell.
It is exactly the same as the wheat and the tares. The tares were not plucked up but allowed to grow UNTIL THE HARVEST. The Second Coming is the harvest when Messiah will take out all unrighteousness from His Kingdom. All unrighteousness ends in hell.
Hell is not the FINAL destiny for the unredeemed because all there are called to the great white throne judgement – Revelation 20:11-15 - and end in the lake of fire. Hell then will be no more – {{Revelation 20:14 “and DEATH AND HADES WERE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. This is the second death, the lake of fire.”}}. Hades is the Greek for hell.
I hope this is clear. In this current age God is not actively throwing people into hell because God is NOT WILLING that any should perish but all should come to repentance. However people are heading to hell because that is the path they are on. I can’t make it clearer than that.
Here is some more:
“God will send you to hell,” a small boy said to one he did not like. Does God send people to hell?
Here is a verse that is not always properly understood – {{1 Timothy 2:4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”}}. The image of God grabbing people and throwing them into hell is wrong FOR OUR OWN TIME (in the Church age, the age of grace). Incidentally Paul mentioned “hell” not once in his letters. God wants no one to be there.
The fate of the Antichrist and False Prophet will be different – {{Revelation 19:20 “and the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image. THESE TWO WERE THROWN ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE which burns with brimstone,”}}. These two will be the first two to enter the lake of fire.
The bible is very clear about the existence of hell. This also is an informative verse which happens at the Second Coming, and not before that – {{Matthew 25:41 Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.”}}. Hell was prepared for the devil and his demons, not people, but it is man’s abode if man is not saved.
The message in the poem is that God is NOT ACTIVELY selecting anyone to throw into hell because that is where people are heading all by themselves. It is not God’s conveyer belt; it is people’s own direction. It is their decision! Is that what God wants? NO – {{John 3:16 “for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life”}}
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GOD SENDS NO ONE TO HELL
God sends no one to hell.
They gain it for themselves.
Neglect and carelessness in life,
Is where the matter dwells.
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Now see it for yourself,
No greater contrast there,
Than Lazarus and Dives in hell -
A gulf you can’t compare.
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Rejection of the Lord,
Will be the certain way,
To let that one way ticket stand,
That will be paid one day.
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God sends no one to hell.
To finish there is not
What God intended for each one -
Eternal death their lot.
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Receive the Saviour now;
Then all with you is well.
The path you once were travelling on,
Will then not lead to hell.
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October 2000 R E Ferguson 6-6-8-6