The concept of God allowing people to be in eternal torment is a hard teaching. For those who reject Messiah there will be a Judgement at the great white Throne at the end of the Millennial Reign of Christ on Earth. This is when the Devil is thrown into to Lake of Fire and those who did not bow the knee to Messiah and take the free gift of Salvation offered. The reason it is eternal punishment is a sober realisation and a gristly fact.
Every being ever born into the Earth will receive a Heavenly body. This will be an eternal body and those who accepted Messiah will live forever in this body. There will be no more pain, fear, illness etc. However a little known or realised fact is that those who rejected Messiah also get eternal bodies. You cannot stand before a Throne in heaven without a body. These bodies can never be destroyed and the sinner will experience the new body immediately prior to being thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Unless you have already guessed, here is the sobering and harrowing truth:
The bodies of the unsaved person will be in the lake of fire yet keep regenerating as they dwell in that horrific place. It was made for the Devil and the demonic realm yet those who reject the free gift of Salvation by ignoring Messiah also have to legally be assigned to the same place. Legally their Father is Satan because they didn't take the adoption that God offered.
Another thing that makes Hell Hell is another realisation. Each person getting judgement will see the radiant Glory and beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ then realise their own arrogance and love of self turned away from him. The response the Lord needs is for us to get before him and lay our lives down for him so he can shape us to be a person who can example Christ and have him work through us to save the lost.
Help me Lord to be such a person that you can save people through me.
Gary Ward
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