Hell is a Christian Hoax 15
SATAN-DECEIVER OF THE WHOLE WORLD INCLUDING THE CHURCH
Now I am fully aware of the fact that it is, "Satan which deceives the whole world" Rev. 12:9). How is this possible? How can Satan get into God's Church in order to deceive the masses? Is no one guarding the Spiritual door of the Church? I'm afraid it is too late to guard the door when we learn from what location Satan administers his worldwide deception. And from what location is that? Get ready for a real shock.
How well I remember when first I read in the Scriptures with my own eyes, exactly where it is that God identifies the location of Satan's "permanent church-age, in-house habitation." Satan's "stately seat"- a throne, his "dwelling place." But where is it? The answer is right there in your Bible, and in red letters if you have a red letter edition, signifying that these are the very words of our Lord Himself. And where does Jesus tell us that Satan dwells and has his throne and seat of authority during this Church age? Here is the answer from the Scriptures:
"And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; 'These things says He ( Jesus) which hath the sharp sword with two edges; I know thy works, and where you dwell, even where Satan's seat is ( Gk: 'thronos'- stately seat, THRONE') : and you should hold fast My Name, and have not denied My faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was My faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells ( Gk; 'to reside, that is, dwell, inhabitant, to house permanently') (Rev. 2:12-13).
Wow! The headquarters, dwelling place and throne of Satan the Devil is located IN THE CHURCH OF GOD. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of Revelation which is the "revelation and testimony of Jesus Christ" Himself, tells us this. Revelation is a short history and prophecy of the Church portraying her strengths and many shortcomings from the time of its writing until the return of Jesus Christ.
The Church is always represented in Scripture as a woman. The carnal and disobedient Church (the many called) is represented by Agar ( Hagar) the woman in bondage from Sinai and her children which answers to earthly Jerusalem in Palistine. The spiritual and obedient Church (the chosen few) is represented by Jerusalem which is above and free, which is the mother of us all ( all the chosen few believers in this Church age) (Gal. 4:21-31).
Not everyone who professes Jesus will be in the Kingdom of God at Christ's return, although all will ultimately be saved and reside in the Family of God. Remember how Jesus repeatedly stated that "MANY are called, but FEW are chosen," that is now, in this Church age. Right now there are three categories of people with respect to salvation: ( 1) The few chosen, ( 2) The many called, and ( 3) the many who are not called or chosen at this time in history. Which category of professing Christians will find themselves outside of the Kingdom at Christ's return: the few or the many?
Jesus pronounced one "woe" after another on the Jewish rulers (Matt. chapter 23), but not upon them all. There were a few who were loyal to God and to Jesus. Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews, yet he said to Jesus:
"Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God..." (John 3:1-2, 19:39).
Certainly there are Christians (the "few chosen" of the "many called") who abhor the unscriptural teaching that God will ultimately fail at saving the world, but will instead torture most of them for all eternity. Most Christians believe this evil doctrine through ignorance, but the rulers of Christendom (those who have studied the Scriptures in the ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts) know for a fact that there is no equivalent to this teaching in the early manuscripts.
Words like: "hell," "hell fire," "eternal," "everlasting punishment," etc., have no equivalent in any Hebrew or Greek manuscripts of the Holy Scriptures. When the concept of endless time is meant in Scripture, it uses phrases like "...shall have no end" or "be no end" (Psalm 102:27; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:33). See my paper: "Is EVERLASTING Scriptural?" found near the top of our bible-truths home page.
When non-ending life is meant in reference to our spiritual resurrected bodies, the Scriptures use words like: "incorruption - imperishable," "glorious," "spiritual," and "immortality" (I Cor. 15:42-44, 54). The word "immortality" (Greek, 'athanasia') means "deathlessness - immortality." It does not mean "eternal" or "everlasting." Immortality will never end and Immortals will never die. But the word itself does not mean "everlasting," or "eternal."
There is no word in Scripture which can properly be translated as "everlasting" or "forever AND ever" or "eternal." These are all perverted theological terms that originally came from such legitimate words as "aion/aionios" - an age or unknown period of time with both a beginning and an ending. (See: Whence Eternity? by Alexander Thomson, Concordant Publishing Concern, Santa Clarita, CA). No etymologist has ever found a single word in any language on earth, which stood for "endless time" before the second century, and by then the Holy Scriptures were already completed, using no such words.
So are there "many" professing Christians that will be told to depart from Jesus, because He never knew them? It's in your Bible just as it is in mine. There is no other large group of many who can fulfill this prophecy except for the members of Christendom. So what is one of these "works of iniquity" for which the "many" are guilty? Well the very worst damnable heresy of Christendom teaches that God will torture mercilessly most of the human race in a hellhole of terrorism with real fire for all eternity!
But there is a purpose for God allowing people to believe such utter unscriptural filth. People must come to the realization that they are not nearly as loving, good, and holy as they may have assumed. Hence the admonition to: "...let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall" (I Cor. 10:3-12).
This prophecy of Jesus in Matt. 7:21-23 is absolutely staggering! At Jesus' return the many believers in Jesus' name will not enter into God's Kingdom. They will have to go into God's Judgments. We are warned and admonished of this fact in numerous places. The prophetic Church is likened to the nation of Israel in the wilderness. Listen to what Paul teaches regarding this:
"And did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with MANY of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters... Neither let us commit fornication...
Neither let us tempt Christ... Neither murmur ye... Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall" (I Cor. 10:3-12).
It is this damnable doctrine being taught in the Church, that I despise with every fiber of my being. If you are one "...that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall," then it behooves you to do so. I personally have "taken heed" of this admonition of Paul's for most of my adult life. I do not want to "think" that I am in good spiritual standing with God, if indeed there is a possibility that my present understanding would cause my fall.
What if there really was such an hellhole of eternal torture and misery? Well if there was such a place as hell, it would be the greatest evil ever conceived in the universe. And since the Church teaches that the Inventor and Maker of this Christian hell is God, it would mean then that God Himself is the greatest sinner and evil in the universe. Are you ready to defend such an accusation? All the sins and evils on earth in the history of the world combined would pale to insignificance compared to this over-the-top doctrine of eternal torture.
Since the book, 23 Minutes in Hell has had the distinction of being on The New York Times best selling book list, and millions of readers and Christians believe this paganism, I will use Bill's book to help expose this ancient teaching. And just how bad is this Christian hell? Here is a thumbnail sketch of hell as Bill Wiese describes it in his book: