somewhere else. All evil is destroyed on this earth—the systems, like the prophetic beast and the false prophet; the works of evil, war machines and pollution; and individual people who did not repent and turn to God. At the end there will be only sheep and goats. Those who have not taken a stand on the side of God will perish. They will be consumed, and only ashes will remain.
Q43 What does the Bible call this fate?
This is the second death. Revelation 20:14
NOTE: We can all expect to die the death of sleep with the expectation of a resurrection. But if we are resurrected to the resurrection of damnation, we shall be given life sufficient to stand before the great white throne and face the living God. Enough life will be given to have to admit that God was right after all, and then that life will be taken away by fire. Those who were resurrected after the thousand years had not changed or repented. They were still thinking thoughts of war and attacking the things of God. They had made their choice and were still acting on it.
Q44 What does the Bible call the destruction of the ones who chose not to heed God’s calls of mercy?
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. Isaiah 28:21
Q45 What wonderful assurance does God give?
What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. Nahum 1:9,10
Q46 How fully will the perpetrators of evil be consumed by the fires?
Yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been. Obadiah 1:16
Q47 How will the punishment of the fires be measured out?
For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. Obadiah 1:15
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double. How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: Revelation 18:6,7.
NOTE: For the average person the reward will be given according to those things in the books of record. As the life has been lived so will the reward of punishment be. But for the those in the systems and establishments who have plotted against God the reward will be double. God has given warning after warning to every generation, pleading with human beings to turn to Him and avoid this end. He is a God of love and gives each one of us a choice. He knows that those who have no time for God in their short life here would never enjoy eternal life and service with Him years without end. He has not predestined some to end their lives in the fires, this while others have the delights of His new creation forever and ever. This does not bring God glory. God always allows us to choose as He did with Adam and Eve. God’s rewards are conditional. If you do this then that will happen.
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