You know it is always amusing and aggravating at the same time whenever I mention that someone has possibly entered hell. The religious hate it, the grace-mongers who don’t really believe that God would send anyone to hell, and anyone whose conscious is pricked by the awful reality all feel like they need to write in comments to correct and rebuke “mean ol Joel”. (That has a nice ring to it doesn’t it?) It doesn’t matter if I predicate my assumption with a disclaimer like “yet without some supernatural intervention not known by the world” that clearly says it was possible that someone ministered the truth to him and he received without us knowing it publicly, people read what they want and assume that I have acted with God-like authority and doomed him to hell. All I can do is what Jesus said to do and look at the fruit of his life and learn from what could have been.
Is constant suspicion of homosexuality and pedophilia a fruit of righteousness? Is allowing people to worship you and receive glory from man a work of the Cross? Is living in sin and blatant blaspheme of the Lord Jesus a sign of a person redeemed? Let’s get even simpler…is someone who did not profess Jesus as His Lord & Savior and the Bible the Word of God a believer going to heaven? Is a man who is known for his breakout video (Thriller) that portrays him as a demon possessed maniac from hell someone who Jesus was waiting for at the gates of heaven? I not only think not, I KNOW not!
Don’t get me wrong, if he repented and called on the name of Jesus at any time the Lord would be faithful and just to forgive him. I don’t think you can do anything in this earth but NOT call on Jesus that would keep you from the loving arms of God. But you know what? I can say these statements of faith and Biblical foundation all day and people just can’t handle the truth and reality that people are dying and going to hell by the thousands and millions every week and yet many (not everyone) are more passionate about correcting me on a silly blog than going out and saving the lost from that awful reality of hell.
Like it or not, the whole hell thing was God’s idea and not mine. He promised it in His Book, not mine. We need to make sure that we don’t go there and do all we can to reach out to others headed there. And assuming all are not going there just means we shirk our responsibility of reaching out and helping them avoid that terrible place.
My purpose in this blog as a whole and this article is to be a prophetic voice of warning to young people who could easily be deceived or drawn into the cesspool of sin without clear direction and warning from a trumpet being sounded of righteousness and standard. I leave you with a verse from Jesus, the Judge of all mankind.
Matt. 24:9-14- Then you will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be HATED all over the world because you are My followers. And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will DECEIVE many people. SIN WILL BE RAMPANT everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold. But the one who ENDURES to the end will be saved. And the Good News about the Kingdom WILL BE PREACHED throughout the whole world, so that all nations WILL hear it: and then the END will come.