Lake of Fire: Where? When?

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Echoing across all the ages of mankind,

Ponderings, wonderings and questionings:

Is the lake of fire real, a metaphor, a paradigm?

Doubters may ask, ‘Why all the quibbling?!’ ¹

Is it…

Somewhere on or deep inside the Earth?

Or perhaps somewhere in outer space?

A destination for folks who’re cursed?

‘Hey, we heard God was a God of GRACE!’ ²

Here’s a key point I cannot overstate,

About how to read The Bible, strategically:

With The Mind of Christ let us satiate,

Then connect dots between verses, concomitantly. ³

To the key question, ‘Is that lake real?’,

It either is, or perhaps not yet!

This is what The Bible reveals:

That doesn’t mean about it we shouldn’t fret!

To the questions, ‘When and where will it be?’,

This is what key Bible verses reveal:

Where: Before The Lord in eternity.

Before the anti-Christ, its HEAT will FEEL! ⁴

Breaking that down…

The lake will be wherever The Lord designates,

Likely on the new Earth noted in Revelation 21,

Somewhere outside New Jerusalem’s pearl gates.

It will be His place for un-repentant folks and lying demons.

In his closing, Isaiah gives a gruesome hint,

That the lake of eternal fire will be …an open pit,

Where righteous saints will clearly see, no need to squint,

ALL sinners, forever alive - body, soul and spirit!

This is what The Holy Bible declares:

The only way to avoid a hellish destination,

Is repentance of our sinful affairs,

And avail ourselves of The Lord’s plan of salvation.

The full price of our sins, He has paid in full,

When on a rough cross, He bled to death.

God’s ‘sacrificial lamb’ for our acquittal,

So we can avoid that lake's fiery depths!

With predictions of this place, become acquainted,

And how to avoid it, become well-informed.

To us, a life to decide is allotted. ⁵

My prayer…

May our decisions, with wisdom, be adorned.

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¹ Paradigm - a typical or representative instance or example of something.

  Quibbling - raising concerns about a trivial matter

² He is, indeed. But folks who accentuate The Lord God as only Love and Grace, are in for a real shock when He introduces Himself as Judge Potentiate and Ultimate.

³ Concomitant - existing or occurring with something else, as a related feature. For example, connect the dots between Revelation 22:15 and Isaiah 66:24, both of which obviously occur ON the new Earth, and both refer to the residents of the lake of eternal fire ON the new Earth! 

⁴ See: Revelation 14:9-11 and 19:19-21. In Revelation, the 'beast' is the final anti-Christ. I strongly intuit the brimstone-lit lake of fire might be the entire southern hemisphere of the MASSIVE, new, eternal Earth. I hope to share more on this later, in a subsequent post. 

⁵ Within ‘the parentheses’ of this earthly life…