This is an email a friend sent me today:
Dear Dan:
This work is by Mr._______ (names have taken out of this email to protect the guilty and my friend). It gives a view of what happens after one dies. He uses the parable of Lazarus and the Rich man to show how ALL parables are figurative, not literal. Many verses in the Bible document that one "returns to where he came from" when he dies. That place is the dirt of the Earth. Death is "Sleep" as Christ Yashua told His diciples. Once gone, nothing is felt, seen, or known till Yashua returns to resurrect us. Thus the phrase "Rest in Peace."
Mr.______ has MANY such articles, really "short books," on similar Bible topics.
His views on Heaven and Hell as destinations are interesting also.”
This is my reply:
Mr. ______:
I read some of Mr. ______ paper and I understand this is a very volatile and deep subject and those who weigh in on it better know what they are taking about.
That said, I must add this, I too was as confused as Mr. _____ on this subject, you know you might have taken Drivers Education in High School. Like me you sit in the class and watched all the videos of car wrecks and hurt and mangled people as well as mangled automobiles. Which was to impress upon our young minds bad things can happen, to people who drive automobiles. But like some of the kids you kind of laughed it off (with a nervous laughter), you see all we wanted to do was get behind the wheel of the car and turn the radio up and pick up chick’s. We studied the textbook we saw the films we drove around with the instructor and then came the day that we passed our drivers test.
Let me jump ahead, some where down that road we were on, came what we just heard about, the real in your face their fault / our fault wreck. Let me tell you the reality was nothing like the movie or what the teacher said or what the book said. You see _____ I know that the dead don’t just go to sleep and then wake up when Jesus returns, because once you have (and I have) been to Heaven and talked to them and seen those sites no one can convince you differently (no one can tell you they lay around asleep).
Once you have been to Hell and heard their screams and felt the total and complete loss of Hope and seen the effect of the fire and the heat no pompous person is going to convince you that there is no such place no matter how reasonable it sounds and no matter how he can twist the Holy Scripture.
You see _______ Hell was not created for man it was created as a place of torment for the fallen angels, demons and spirits, but since man in the garden chose to follow Satan instead of the Creator then the Creator allowed man’s free will to send him to where all the fallen angels were to go. And believe me there are a lot more going their then Heaven. When Moses told the Hebrews (Numbers Chapter 21) who were bitten by the serpents and were dieing to look to the brass serpent he set up on a pole and they would live, the ones who refused to look died, the ones who looked lived. Well that’s how it is today, the Serpent is still biting and people are still dieing and going to Hell there are so few who will keep their eyes on the Cross and go to Heaven.
You know after you have that wreck that the Drivers Ed teacher tried to tell you about, and if some one you loved died because of it or you have to live in a wheelchair because if it. You want to return to that class you were in and pay closer attention to what is being said to you, but you can’t take back that time. You want to walk into a class today and grab everyone of those students shout at them or shake them or even Heaven for bid slap them and tell them wake up and pay attention you only got one chance at this don’t let it pass you by…
You who are reading this post, What do you think!
Dear Dan:
This work is by Mr._______ (names have taken out of this email to protect the guilty and my friend). It gives a view of what happens after one dies. He uses the parable of Lazarus and the Rich man to show how ALL parables are figurative, not literal. Many verses in the Bible document that one "returns to where he came from" when he dies. That place is the dirt of the Earth. Death is "Sleep" as Christ Yashua told His diciples. Once gone, nothing is felt, seen, or known till Yashua returns to resurrect us. Thus the phrase "Rest in Peace."
Mr.______ has MANY such articles, really "short books," on similar Bible topics.
His views on Heaven and Hell as destinations are interesting also.”
This is my reply:
Mr. ______:
I read some of Mr. ______ paper and I understand this is a very volatile and deep subject and those who weigh in on it better know what they are taking about.
That said, I must add this, I too was as confused as Mr. _____ on this subject, you know you might have taken Drivers Education in High School. Like me you sit in the class and watched all the videos of car wrecks and hurt and mangled people as well as mangled automobiles. Which was to impress upon our young minds bad things can happen, to people who drive automobiles. But like some of the kids you kind of laughed it off (with a nervous laughter), you see all we wanted to do was get behind the wheel of the car and turn the radio up and pick up chick’s. We studied the textbook we saw the films we drove around with the instructor and then came the day that we passed our drivers test.
Let me jump ahead, some where down that road we were on, came what we just heard about, the real in your face their fault / our fault wreck. Let me tell you the reality was nothing like the movie or what the teacher said or what the book said. You see _____ I know that the dead don’t just go to sleep and then wake up when Jesus returns, because once you have (and I have) been to Heaven and talked to them and seen those sites no one can convince you differently (no one can tell you they lay around asleep).
Once you have been to Hell and heard their screams and felt the total and complete loss of Hope and seen the effect of the fire and the heat no pompous person is going to convince you that there is no such place no matter how reasonable it sounds and no matter how he can twist the Holy Scripture.
You see _______ Hell was not created for man it was created as a place of torment for the fallen angels, demons and spirits, but since man in the garden chose to follow Satan instead of the Creator then the Creator allowed man’s free will to send him to where all the fallen angels were to go. And believe me there are a lot more going their then Heaven. When Moses told the Hebrews (Numbers Chapter 21) who were bitten by the serpents and were dieing to look to the brass serpent he set up on a pole and they would live, the ones who refused to look died, the ones who looked lived. Well that’s how it is today, the Serpent is still biting and people are still dieing and going to Hell there are so few who will keep their eyes on the Cross and go to Heaven.
You know after you have that wreck that the Drivers Ed teacher tried to tell you about, and if some one you loved died because of it or you have to live in a wheelchair because if it. You want to return to that class you were in and pay closer attention to what is being said to you, but you can’t take back that time. You want to walk into a class today and grab everyone of those students shout at them or shake them or even Heaven for bid slap them and tell them wake up and pay attention you only got one chance at this don’t let it pass you by…
You who are reading this post, What do you think!
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