In Isaiah, 30, 33, we read of a
terrible description of hell itself.
Truly, it is a picture of a hell
of hells with no comparison.
For tough it is ordained of old, yea,
for the king it is prepared.
He hath made it deep and large.
The pile thereof is fire and much wood.
The breath of the Lord, like a stream
of brimstone, doth candle it.
Hell is a bottomless pit, deep and large,
where hundreds of millions of the souls of
the damned suffer, as they are chained to
pilings of fire that are stoked by the
breath of the Lord, where his wrath is
poured out on sin.
Why did Christ come into the world but
to redeem his people from their sins, to
wash them in his own blood, to ransom
them out of the grip of the devil,
and to deliver them out of the kingdom
of darkness, to keep them out of a
hell of hells, that that baby in a
manger was born, so that one day he
would become the sacrifice for sin?
Jesus Christ came to earth to redeem the
elect and reconcile them back to God by
his death and with his blood.
Hell is prepared for the devil and his
angels.
We see this in 2 Peter.
For if God spared not the angels that
sinned, but cast them down to hell and
delivered them into chains of darkness to be
reserved unto judgment, hell is a region of
great darkness and a great void, for it
is entirely void of God.
Once you are shut up in hell, you
are separated from God forever.
You are an object of the wrath of
God in hell, where his fury and indignation
for sin is continually poured out like gasoline
on a fire, we read in Malachi.
For behold, the day cometh that shall burn
as an oven, and all the proud, yea,
and all that do wickedly shall be stubble.
And the day that cometh shall burn them
up, saith the Lord of hosts, that shall
leave them neither root nor branch.
As believers, we should be eternally grateful to
God for his grace in saving us, and
we should be greatly concerned for the hell
-bound around us, who perish by the minute
and who are cast into that burning region
of smoke and darkness their terrorists felt in
Isaiah 33, 14.
The sinners in Zion are afraid, fearfulness has
surprised the hypocrites, who among us shall dwell
with the devouring fire, who among us shall
dwell with everlasting burnings.
We seldom think of eternity, and we spend
too much time on the perishing things of
this world.
It is ironic that the very people many
of us put on a pedestal in worshiping
life, Hollywood celebrities, that so many of them
end up in hell.
I challenge you, friends, to get on the
internet and google celebrities that are atheists and
celebrities that are Hindu or Buddhist, and you'll
find a list of names like George Clooney,
Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, and others who will
come up on that list who don't believe
in the God of the Bible, yet we
give them our money and we give them
our time, we give them our affections.
These false role models many try to emulate
in life will only suffer the torments of
a hell of hells.
Maybe we should turn off our TVs long
enough to get on our knees and get
in our Bibles and pray for the sins
of our nation that has rejected the God
of the Bible and who spurns and hates
the very name of Jesus, who hates the
Jesus of the manger, who hung on a
bloody cross at Calvary so we can live.
Christ came into the world to be a
sacrifice for sin.
Jesus declared, for this is my blood of
the New Testament which is shed for many
for the remission of sins.