The stock market in hell shows sales of fire extinguishers and charcoal on the rise. The devil is selling charcoal and fire extinquishers to the slaves of religion. The real last supper of the Church religion is a divine barbecue at the Devil’s Deep Down Shindig. Is it not written in the BBQ version of the Bible?
Hellfire and brimstone is history’s most successful advertising campaign and corporate recruitment propaganda. The ones claiming to save us from hellfire are the ones selling the charcoal and kerosene and lighting the matches.
God loves us, and for sure does punish men and chastise them from time-to-time, not out of spite, but in order to break man’s pride and open his eyes to see what is true. God’s favorite pre-Christian man, King David of Jesse, was punished with death and war and conflict in his house, not because God was angry at him, but because God loved him and wanted to shape him through the adversity. God put David through hell to save him and a nation from hell.
In short, this world is the real hell, the humiliating place of death and agony from which God is slowly saving us. And it is a hell of our own making.
The men who cooked up the eternal hellfire myth are hateful and don’t know God at all. The ones squawking the loudest about God’s love are the furthest from it. They know nothing about divine justice or divine retribution, nor of its scope and purpose, which is to save:
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.”
King David did a hypocritical thing when he orchestrated the murder of Uriah. God loved David, and ensured David would not ever be a hypocrite again. God hates hypocrisy, yet he loves David so much that the throne of heaven is named for David–the Throne of David, or the House of David. Yet God allowed great calamity to come upon David to make David grow through the heat and pressure. But God never designed to burn souls for eternity.
“They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind …”
The idea of burning people never even ‘came it into my mind …’
The textual critic should understand that when Jehovah says something never came into his mind that he means such a thing is never to happen or be done. For in the Beginning, God formed his mind into the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was divine, his divine plan of what is to be done. Since burning children never entered into his mind, he is revealing that the idea of literal hellfire is nowhere in his Word, or his Plan.
God does talk about burning people, METAPHORICALLY, but not literally:
“For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:”
He compares Egypt to an “iron furnace” in which he is forging his weapons, his people, as weapons of truth and righteousness to slay the darkness. This is metaphor, and has nothing to do with literally burning souls in torturous fire.
The lake of fire prophesied in Revelation is also metaphorical:
“And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”
In this verse the ‘lake’ is in Greek also the word for a ‘crucible’ or a ‘forge’ and means a ‘pool’ of molten metal. The brimstone is sulphur, and is used to remove the impurities from the precious metal. The Greek word for ‘tormented’ actually means tested by a touchstone, to assay the purity of the gold or silver being tried in the fire. The phrase translated ‘for ever and ever’ does NOT mean eternity, but means, ‘the age of ages’ which is a long age broken up into shorter ages of time, with a definite END and conclusion. In short, God is saying he will carry the beast and the false prophet forward into an ‘age of ages’ to purify out the gold.
The hitch is this: the world is currently in the lake of fire and brimstone, now, today. The world is burning with the beast and the false prophet. The insanity of mankind has been at a fever pitch for centuries. Yet in the middle of this from time to time we witness people who against all odds stand up against the world religio-fascist order and expose it for what it is, and glorify the true God instead of the false god of the religion.
So the Church teaches a literal barbecue pit or divine Auschwitz as the fate of those who don’t submit to the CHURCH. This is wicked nonsense. The Divine Creator never devised such a wicked plan.
Malachi tells us: “And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.”
This is the metaphor of the refiner’s fire trying the precious metal, burning out their sinful nature and refining their character through adversity and suffering. Man is proud, and refuses to change of his own accord, so the Creator allows man to suffer so his pride can be broken. And that is happening in this world, in this age of ages, not some future date. We are all suffering in our mortal state, to break us, not as ‘punishment’ but so we learn not to fall into the same pit again. So we get wrecked and destroyed, over and over again for centuries, through wars, famines, conflicts, oppressions, and disasters of our own making, because mankind refuses to believe what God has said about the ages.
And thus it is written,
“Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
The word translated, ‘eternal’ actually means ‘ages’. So the correct translation would be:
“And to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, is honour and glory — to the ages of the ages! Amen.”
Here again we see the Greek phrase, “ages of ages” which is in reference to the divine clock, or the houses of the zodiac. In several places the bible reckons time by the zodiac. Ancient synagogues were decorated with zodiac mosaics on the floors and the walls. Men were reckoning the Old Testament prophecies based upon the solar houses of the zodiac. The Christian Church has completely hidden this from its victims, teaching them to believe in endless torture worse than any Auschwitz. Then they say, “And God loves you.”
This recking of ages by the celestial lights is integral to the creation of God:
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.” (Genesis 1:14-18)
“… and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years …” is in reference to the zodiac and scheduled stellar events. It is not in reference to the mere cycle of day and night as Christians suppose, but for the reckoning of long ages of time, or as it is written:
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” (Psalms 90:4)
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” (2 Peter 3:8)
Now we might presume in our ignorance that, ‘a thousand years’ is an exact and literal thousand solar years. But this is not always so. The word, ‘thousand’ is often used anciently the way we say, ‘zillion’ today. It does not necessarily refer to an exact cardinal thousand. The Bible also tells us this, that some of the ages (days) will be, ‘shortened’:
“And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” (Matthew 24:22)
So we see that Jesus says a day can be shorter than a day in the zodiacal reckoning of time.
The early Christians taught that when Jesus will return to establish dominion over the whole creation that he will change the sun and moon and the zodiac to reckon time in a new way–hearkening back to their understanding of the, ‘times and seasons’ demarcated in Genesis chapter one.
The Christian Church religion knows nothing about these things as it has been the chief opponent of the good news of Jesus, replacing it with the terrible news of eternal hellfire, something that never entered into the mind or heart of God. This theocratic capitalism has enabled the religion to extract trillions of dollars of wealth from its victims over the centuries, and taught the people to submit to illegitimate rulers who have extracted even trillions more. Thus the beast and the false prophet continue to work together to rob, steal, and kill, and to try mankind in the furnace of fire. God is letting mankind punish himself with his own delusions then men have the pluck to complain that God is neither just nor fair:
“Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die … Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin … For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.”
God is telling us that our own wickedness is destroying our societies and nations. We are doing it to ourselves collectively, then men have the gall to blame the one who gave us life and consciousness in the first place, raised us above animals and angels, and sent us the sacrifice of the only truly good man who ever walked the earth. Mankind is proud, and the Church religion is hypocritically proud, and he will be broken by the end of the ages.