by Joshua Hester | 21 December 2022 | “My life has never been sadder, yet I’ve never been happier.” These words were spoken during an 80th birthday party of a woman of my acquaintance. She’d lived a long life of pain and hard work—a life I’d have thought had been overfull and difficult. Somehow, though, […] Source: https://atoday.org/open-your-eyes-to-see-the-light-a-prescription-for-a-happy-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-your-eyes-to-see-the-light-a-prescription-for-a-happy-life
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The news media pumps out sadness day after day. Our emotions are bombarded with images of war, forecasts of imminent economic crises and reports of humanitarian disasters. Our sensibilities are overshadowed by the politics that dominate major events, and our journeys by plane, car and train are hindered by increased security checks, staffing strikes and overzealous environmental campaigners. This is most keenly felt during the festive season. Indeed, as I write this article, our NHS is in…Source: https://adventist.uk/news/article/go/2022-12-21/1424/
Thursday: The Second Death
God is leading human history toward its end-time climax. At the end of the millennium all the wicked dead are raised from their graves to receive their final punitive sentences (Revelation 20:5, Revelation 20:11-15). Then, when the whole judging process is completed and nothing else can be added to it, the wicked will acknowledge God’s justice. “With all the facts of the great controversy in view, the whole universe, both loyal and rebellious, with one accord declare: ‘Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of saints.’” And Satan himself “bows down and confesses the justice of his sentence.” — Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, Pages 670, 671.
Read Malachi 4:1; Revelation 20:14-15; and Revelation 21:8. How effective will be the “lake of fire” and the “second death”?
The final destruction of Satan and his angels and all the wicked will cleanse the universe from sin and its consequences. And yet, even the final destruction of the wicked is an act of God’s love, not only for the saints but also for the wicked themselves. They would rather die than live in the presence of God who is a “consuming fire” for sin (Hebrews 12:29).
“They [the lost] would long to flee from that holy place. They would welcome destruction, that they might be hidden from the face of Him who died to redeem them. The destiny of the wicked is fixed by their own choice. Their exclusion from heaven is voluntary with themselves, and just and merciful on the part of God.” — Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 543.
Thus, the final annihilation of sin and sinners — in contrast to the unbiblical theory of their everlasting sufferings in hell — provides a just and proportional punishment for whatever evil people had committed. It also confirms that sin had a beginning and will have an end. Then the whole universe will return to its original perfection, before sin, evil, and disobedience arose mysteriously and without any justification.
Praise the Lord that He, as our “righteous Judge” (2 Timothy 4:8, NKJV), will make the fair decision of granting immortality to the righteous and eternal destruction to the wicked.
What would be wrong with the idea that God saves everyone in the end? Why is that such a bad idea? |
13.5 The Second Death – THE JUDGING PROCESS | Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
Series ON DEATH, DYING, AND THE FUTURE HOPE with Pastor Kurt Piesslinger, M.A.
13.THE JUDGING PROCESS
One day there will be justice…
Memory Text: 2 Corinthians 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.
13.5 The Second Death
There is no burning hell in eternity but extinction forever.
My God bless you today and always.
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