April 10, 2013

  • Most people cannot understand this saying unless they are familiar of what the Bible says about life after death.

    Revelation 21:8 says that these people:

    "But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

     

    The Judgment of the Dead on Revelation 20:11-15

    "Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire."

    Those who have rejected God and His Son, Jesus, are judged by God based on the laws of God - the laws He gave to Moses known as the Ten Commandments and God's laws He gave on the Book of Leviticus

    It's saying that when the unbelievers die, God's judgment are unto them to go to the pits of hell. They will not be able to plead their case when they die. Suffering in hell is just like death the second time after dying and their souls leave this world. The people who did not accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and did not turn away from their sins or did not repent; those that rejected God and Jesus Christ will experience two deaths. 

     

    On the other hand, this is what Jesus said on John 3:3-21

    Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. ”

    “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

    Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

    “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

    “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” 

    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

     For those who are born again believers:  http://www.biblestudy.org/apostlepaul/what-did-paul-teach-about-the-law-of-god.html