To: average joe who wrote (20279 ) 1/27/2012 6:02:27 AM From: Solon Respond to It is this which gives the EEeeek hope and dedication!!godspointofview.com Hell Gives Up The Wicked Dead destroy death. Evidently this Revelation passage means to tell us that hell is destroyed too, along with the devil, every evil angel, unrighteous men and every evil work (the context of Revelation 20:13-17 is works). Judgment a Part of Love, Mercy and Redemption every evil being and every evil thing will have been eliminated from existence forever. There will never, throughout all the ages of eternity, be any remembrance of evil again forever. There will be no more sin, death, sickness, pain, crying, loneliness or any other inferior thing. All of those former things have passed away. All that God has done for man, from before the world was created, was for this purpose. God saw the wicked before He ever created them. He has given them their opportunity to live on this earth, to have being and to know life such as it has been. But they have forfeited their right to go on living. Time and history is real and God reacts to it (infralapsarianism), but in His supralapsarian plan for the ages, He has control over all. God is not a fiend whose vengeance is unsatiable. He is not going to be a prison keeper who presides eternally over the torture of the damned. He is not going to be haunted forever by the terrified, agonized screams of those who will go on being tortured forever with no hope of relief. Nor did God set in motion a force, when he made man, that he cannot control or destroy. God is God, not a Dr. Frankenstein who is the helpless victim of his own creative invention and mistake. He promised man, when He made him, that he would take from him the life that He gave man, in the day that man would sin (God offered man the chance to obtain immortality, but man did not take it, and because of the Fall it was taken away). For those who do not find redemption in Christ, that is exactly what He will do.
