Q28 What warning should we take from these words if we are still clinging to things we know to be wrong?
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17:30
Q29 What was the principal issue that decided those who should be burned?
If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive His mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: Revelation 14:9,10.
Q30 What is to be another issue in deciding who is to burned and destroyed?
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
NOTE: Many feel strongly the abuses done to our earth and the natural world. God sees this also and He will avenge.
Q31 Where will this fire be?
For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. Deuteronomy 32:22
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. Nahum 1:5,6.
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2 Peter 3:7
NOTE: These fires will take place on the earth and in the heavens. The wicked who were called to life at the end of the 1000 years were from all over world, and as the sand of the sea for number, so the fires will stretch around the whole world to wherever there has been disobedience and pollution. It will all be cleansed.
Q32 Does the Bible say these fires are burning now?
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 2 Peter 3:10
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. Luke 17:29,30.
NOTE: Everything in the Bible that speaks of these fires is set in the future—’shall be’, ‘shall it be’. The fires are not burning on the earth today. The Bible does not teach that there is any ever burning hell anywhere now at this time. Satan knows about the final |
