“The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and
I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it
like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were
darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth
and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. They
were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or
tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on
their foreheads. 5 They were not allowed to kill them but
only to torture them for five months. And the agony they
suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes. During
those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die,
but death will elude them.” Revelations 9: 1-6
The harvest of the dammed is in full bloom
at this point the scriptures. I can’t help but reflect on Deuteronomy 28:15 “…if you do not obey the Lord your
God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you
today, all these curses will come on you and
overtake you:” These curse
essentially means that everything that we try as humans will fail. These curses are more than just the removal of
blessing. It means that God is actively
working against those who reject him.
In the Revelations passage above, hell has literally broken
loose, more accurately it has been set free to inflict pain and misery. It has
limitations set by God himself. It cannot bring death and it cannot afflict those
that are sealed by God. Be assured of
this, it wants to. Men toy with Satan, sin,
and hell. They are deluded into
believing they have friends there and they will get to “Rock all Night Long”. Delusion truly describes this falsehood. A delusion is “a fixed false belief that is resistant
to reason or confrontation with actual facts”
Everywhere around us the goodness of God can be seen. We witness it in creation, in life, and in
acts of kindness witnessed among men and sometimes even animals. We also see
the death that comes about by addictions to drugs and sex and gambling and all
manner of evil that enslaves the hearts, minds and bodies of men and
women. The delusion is that the devil is
a friend. That he is the grand caterer
of good times, a “man of wealth and taste” according to Mick Jagger. The lie is found out at a scale that cannot
be fully understood in the last days described Revelations 9. It says people will “seek death, but it will “elude
them” This
limits must frustrate the Devil. He
comes to kill, steal and destroy, and God says “you cannot kill. I can hear someone asking the saying, “but
this looks worse the death” “these people want to die!” They want to die because they see death as
the end of their suffering. It is not
then end of their suffering. It is the beginning
of their suffering! The scriptures use
figurative language to describe the pains of hell, “Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not
quenched.” Mark 9:44 The Gospel’s are full of descriptions of “weeping
and gnashing of teeth”
There is no
goodness in hell. There are no comrades joined
together creating mayhem and have some laughs.
There is only oppression, and pain, and
torture. These as the attributes of evil
full grown. We deceive ourselves if we
believe anything else. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” This is
not a delusion but it is plainly seen and justifies all the judgments of God. Romans:
1: 18-20 reads “The
wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may
be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For
since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and
divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are
without excuse.” Have No Sympathy for the Devil!
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