Multitudes Descending Into The Lake Of Fire

Jonathan Edwards was asked what his favorite subject was to preach to children. His answer, “Hell, because children have not yet been blinded by sin or have not become corrupted with godless living.” Innocent children are not afraid of preaching about Hell because where sin is not, the master there is no fear of Hell. It is the adults that do not want preaching about the eternal facts of Hell and the Lake of Fire. They are delighted to blame it on the children. There is a wonderful side to understanding the truth of the Lake of Fire. All sin, every expression of sin, every experience of sin, in fact all manifestations of sin will descend into the Lake of Fire. The totality of all essence of sin will be behind the walls of this horrible place for eternity. Sin will be locked in this place of brimstone and the wailing of the sinners will never be heard again. God’s New Heaven and God’s New Earth will be free of every sound, expression, and effect of all sin. How can this be? There is a simple answer, Jesus Christ, God’s Son took our place. He experienced total separation from His Father as He hung on that cross. He became our sins. Vicariously, He bore our sins and the sin principle in the universe and suffered a Hell for us. That’s when He cried, “And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). That’s what the Second Death is, it is complete separation from everything that relates to God.