I came across a website www.wake-up.org

and threw browsing I found this page: http://www.wake-up.org/daystar/Ds1996/DEC96B.html

Your website states
2. God is fair. (Psalm 89:14) God does not torture people forever just because they lived in rebellion for a few years. Eternal punishment for 70 years of rebellion is not fair. A judicial system is fair if it upholds the principle that punishment is commensurate with the crime. (Matthew 7:1,2) Does God do less? No! Should King Saul be tortured with fire for billions of years when he only lived a mere 61 years? No. In fact, the Bible says that God will not torture the wicked for eternity, but instead reduce the wicked to ashes. (Malachi 4:3)

And though I agree that God is 100% fair, that unfortunately is the only statement I can agree with.

I sent the owner of the website an email, explaining to him that taking one verse from the bible and saying that hell is not eternal, is mixing God's words. And GOD doesn't mince words, he is direct-to the point.

Though, I never claimed to be a biblical scholar, I knew there was something very wrong with his statement. There are numerous versus throughout the bible indicating that HELL IS ETERNAL.

Here is just a few:
everlasting fire — Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment — Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains — Jude 1:6
eternal damnation — Mark 3:29
eternal judgment — Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire — Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire — Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched — Mark 9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
fire unquenchable — Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever — 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever — Jude 1:13

So knowing there was something wrong with www.wake-up.org statement, I asked my pastor what he thought the meaning of Malachi 4:3 was.

My pastor sent me this information.

In regards to Malachi 4:3, it is talking about the Second Advent of the Lord, especially the judgment aspect of it. After Christ appears in the clouds and the Church is rapture, then comes the Great Tribulation, where there’s going to be trouble all over the world. Towards the end of the Tribulation, when the Antichrist persecutes the Jewish people and Jesus descends to destroy the enemies of Israel and saves them, He brings them to the Millennium to reign over them for a thousand years. Israel is going to see what’s left of those that tried to destroy them, and they are actually going to walk over the ashes of the enemies and understand that it is the Lord, who is called “the Sun of righteousness, that arises with healing in his wings”

I have to say that I agree with my pastor 100%. And he also states; there is so much more Scriptures that helps put together all these prophecies of the coming events and one cannot isolate a scripture to know its meaning.

It is as I stated, you cannot pick one verse from the bible and proclaim to know what it means without putting together other versus and what our Savior Jesus Christ, states will happen during the end times and tribulation.

I have prayed to God to give me understanding of his words.

God Bless!


Gloria