The end game of the unseen powers behind the corruption of the world is now becoming clearer. It is to turn this world into an outpost of hell. We have the idea that hell is place of torment and cruelty, darkness and fire and suffering. So it may be in one sense but that is not a definition of hell that encapsulates what it really is all about. Hell is separation from God.
A deluded individual may be in a kind of hell and not realise it. If he is physically comfortable and entertained or distracted in some way, he may be oblivious to the fact that he is in spiritual darkness. You might ask if that matters if he is happy and content. But he is neither happy nor content, not really. He is just numbed to truth and goodness and exists in a kind of emptiness that he may not recognise with his surface mind but the effects of which will be gnawing away at him inside because his spiritual self will be ignored and suppressed. He may not even know he is suffering but he will be suffering just as so many are today.
For several centuries there has been an ongoing attempt to detach man from his spiritual roots and to remake him as a purely material being. This has been planned with precision. Matter became more important than spirit which, as a result, eventually was denied altogether. But the natural man still existed. Now, however, we are in the process of deconstructing even the natural man with the transsexual agenda just the latest twist in a story which has taken in feminism, same sex marriage and so on, all steps in the dismantling of the human form which, let us remember, was made in the image of God.
But the story does not stop there. The aim is not just to separate man from his spirit but to separate him from his body as well. This is the purpose of transhumanism in which man and machine are melded with consciousness uploaded into an artificial construction which, in theory, could be made immortal. This nightmare would potentially involve consciousness being trapped on the physical plane. If that happened hell would have arrived on earth.
I don't believe it will happen because the spiritual powers would step in. But the process might be allowed to run quite a long way before they did to give human beings, or as many of them as possible, the chance to turn away from evil to good. Even now there is a growing repugnance to what is taking place in the world. The problem is people don't know where to turn because so many avenues, of religion, of proper spirituality, of good traditions and common sense, are being closed off. The young are targeted what with non-education (i.e. programming children instead of teaching them how to think for themselves), trashy entertainment, corrupt music, computer technology and hysterical scare stories that distract them from real problems. However, the human spirit cannot be denied and I believe will triumph in the end. What those of us who are alive to the situation of today, and who know that the solution is in God and Christ, must do is keep some kind of flame burning in these times of darkness. Yes, I know that's a cliché. It's no less true.
The scenario I have depicted sounds grim but it is important to have no fear. Take refuge in God and there is nothing that can harm you. Whatever transpires in the world, you will be secure. And even the world will be restored to truth at the end of it all. The darkness of the present time can never stand against the light of Christ.
Good stuff.
ReplyDeleteI would add that in This era separation-from also means active-opposition-to - that is part of 'coming to a point'.
Yes, you're absolutely right. It's not just a detaching from truth but an outright attack on it.
DeleteGood post. I wonder to what extent we can really separate ourselves from God though. God is love and His love reaches everywhere. So even if you turn away or ignore it or reject it, the love is still there and you'd be aware of it. The Bible speaks of God's love as a consuming fire. And it may be the nature of our own orientation towards (or away from) God that frames our experience of God's love. So those who totally reject Him would experience it as hellish and perhaps tormenting (yet cannot escape it completely because God cannot not love) and those who accept Him would welcome the fire to come into them and purify them even if it's unpleasant at first. This understanding also leaves room to turn back towards God at some point after physical death since the fire of God is always continually working on you, by His very nature.
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That seems about right, Andrew. It may be a slight technicality though for if we don't accept God into our hearts then we have effectively rejected him even though he is always there. So we can't truly be separate from God, he is our life after all, but we can separate ourselves in consciousness.
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ReplyDeleteI suspect that a vital part of freedom in an eternal context is the capacity to make 'permanent'decisions' - so that we can make a permanent eternal commitment to God, to Love, to Heaven and specific personal relationships. Thus it is possible for Men to become eternally and indestructibly Good, and to rise eventually to divine status.
(We will not lapse, we will not reverse our commitment.)
If so, it seems that the opposite choice must also be possible; a permanent rejection of God.
This is how I understand Satan and demons to be possible, a permanent enemy.
It is not that God ever blocks repentance, or sets a time limit, or imposes eternal punishment for those in Hell; but that some souls have permanently rejected God.
Does this make sense to you?
Yes it does, Bruce, and it's why I am very dubious about the Universalist idea which says that eventually everybody will be saved. I think that some people just won't want to be saved and they will prefer to remain permanently enclosed in their own separated self-nature. The Satanic scenario of better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. This is also why Jesus says that much will be forgiven those who have loved much
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