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The Holy of Holies- How to escape hell?
Posted : 7 Apr, 2011 07:11 AM
Brothers,
Yesterday I talked to my brother Ahmad El Abd and we discussed with him hell and afterlife.
I said to him:
Ok, it was an interesting jointly prayer.
God knew what you said and what I told Him.
The result of this prayer you will see and I will see one day (re.: we prayed about salvation of Ahmad).
I know one thing that God is here with us in this world the
same way as He is in His Kingdom. We are able to live
here in this world like in the Kingdom of Heaven if God lives with us
and do not abandon us. The Paradise can be here on earth brought by us.
So, no matter where I will be, in hell or not, after my death, I prefer to live here and now
with God and for God and people.
Brothers, we are able to live here on our planet earth with God like in the Kingdom of Heaven!
There is no difference! God can comfort us. He can wipe out our tears. He can provide us food and happiness. But why? Because He cares about us and loves us!
But we also know if we do not live with God, then our life on earth becomes hell. Our bodies are destroyed, we suffer from illnesses and our sins and finally we face death.
God said that He will resurrect us.
Our dead bodies (note: bodies of dead Christians) will be resurrected for eternal life with Him.
According to the Scripture, these bodies will be changed and transformed to be able to live in God�s Kingdom. This Kingdom and glorious city of God is described in the last 2 chapters of the Bible (see Revelation 21; 22).
But what about rapists?
Rapists of children?
Killers?
Those who spent their lives in an idol worship?
Fornicators?
Adulterers?
Sexual immoral?
Liars?
Every sinner?
We all are sinners.
The Scripture says:
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. James 2:10
God found that we all are guilty.
We violated His 10 Holy Commandments by even violating one of them.
Let�s consider today our destination.
We all dream to get to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Originally posted by Ahmad El Abd:
Easier to God to change humanity instead of having his beloved son get killed for a naive reason.
Originally posted by Bahira Omar:
Naive reason? Reason was to save you from hell!
That's why you all Muslims enter hell deliberately! You do not need Jesus' Kingdom!
He created a wonderful world and city for you to give this Kingdom to you as to His son.
You reject Him, His city, His infinite love toward you, His heart is full of compassion and
mercy...But you insult Him for His sufferings instead of you. You chose your own world full
of suffering, unforgiveness, darkness...called hell...because God Jesus is LIGHT
and He is rejected by you. You rejected your Creator. You chose your dwelling place
which is separated by God. But I will not stop praying of you and will ask God to save you from your �chosen world�. I will ask God Jesus to turn your heart to Him.
Jesus, please save Ahmad. Amen. Amen.
Originally posted by Ahmad El Abd
�chosen world� - I chose heaven not the world.
Brothers, Ahmad chose Heaven.
By choosing Heaven We choose God�s dwelling place!
We choose God who is living there!
We choose to enter the dwelling place of God - the Holy of Holies!
Let me tell you what was the place called the Holy of Holies on earth:
Brothers, do you remember an orthodox Jew on the picture sent to you before?
He came to the Wailing Wall located in Jerusalem to find God's presence there and to ask God to listen to his prayers. Is it bad? No. He touches this wall and
kisses it because he thinks that this wall is holy.
Earlier in this Jewish Temple was a holy place were Jews placed the Ark of the
Covenant. What is this? That is a chest, described in Books of Kings/Taurat as solely containing
the Tablets of Stone on which the Ten Commandments were inscribed by God.
According to the Book of Exodus/Taurat, the Ark was built at the
command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount
Sinai. God was said to have communicated with Moses "from
between the two cherubim" on the Ark's cover.
After its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites
during their 40-years of wandering in the desert.
During the construction of Solomon's Temple, a special inner room, named Kodesh
Hakodashim (Eng. Holy of Holies), was prepared to receive and house
the Ark (1 Kings 6:19); and when the Temple was dedicated,
the Ark�containing the original tablets of the Ten Commandments�was placed
therein (1 Kings 8:6-9). Every one who touched this Ark, immediately
died. Because it was a holy place of God. His presence was there. And
only priests could carry this Ark with due respect.
There is no Ark now and no Jewish Tempel�There is only one wall. And orthodox Jews think that if God's presence was in this Temple then even outer wall (the Wailing Wall) can keep some of His presence until today.
Would Christians kiss any stone or wall? NEVER. We consider it as an idol worship.
But we also understand feelings of Jews in their search for the truth and we just look at it and know that God's presence is everywhere. He is omnipresent. He is holy and this holy God is going to judge anyone of us.
Only some of us will be able to escape His Coming Judgment. They are those who put their TRUST
in God Jesus!
Be one of them!
The high priest of Israel entered the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle / Temple with a rope tied to his foot and/or with bells around his waist. If the High Priest's sins were not atoned for properly, he would die in the presence of the shekinah�the Glory of God�that filled the Holy of Holies. He would die because God is HOLY and He can allow to approach Him only FORGIVEN people! Since nobody else could enter that part of the Jewish Temple without also dying, the priests felt they needed a way to retrieve the body of the High Priest, if necessary. The bells jingling would be the sign that the priest had fallen to the ground dead.
This is a powerful reminder of God's holiness and how we should approach Him.
God Jesus gave us the direct access to God's throne!
When Jesus died on the cross then a veil separated the Holy of Holies�the earthly dwelling place of God�s presence at the Temple-was torn in two!
Why?
A veil separated the Holy of Holies from people- sinners!
Man was separated from God by sin.
Only the High Priest was permitted to pass beyond this veil once each year to enter into God's presence for all of Israel�s sake and make atonement for their sins.
But now there is NO VAIL separating the Holy God and us sinners.
�And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom� (Matthew 27:50-51a).
God forgave our sins through FAITH in His Son Jesus!
There is no Temple anymore to offer God animal sacrifices.
But God offered us His Lamb- His Son- to die instead of us and to enable us FREELY to enter the Holy of Holies- His dwelling place.
That�s why those who approach God is able to do it FREE of charge.
Through FAITH in God Jesus.
Those, who do not need God, will be left alone without God.
These people will find themselves in destruction by their sins and this dieying world.
What will be their destination?
Sheol- the �grave�, or �pit� or �abyss�.
In Judaism, it is a place of darkness to which all dead go regardless of the moral choices made in life and where they are "removed from the light of God".
The word Hades (= underworld) was substituted for �Sheol� when the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek. English translations of the Hebrew Scriptures have variously rendered the word Sheol as �Hell�or �the grave�. In the Hebrew Bible (Torah/Taurat), the word �Sheol� occurs more than 60 times. It is used most frequently in the Psalms, wisdom literature and prophetic books. Those in Sheol awaited the resurrection for Judgment of God Jesus either in comfort (in the place called the bosom of Abraham- or in other words paradise) or in torment (or in other words in hell).
Jesus who is God explained us what is the place the Bosom of Abraham and what is the place of torment. Let�s listen to Jesus now:
Luke Chapter 16
The Rich Man and Lazarus
�There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man�s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham�s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
�Then he cried and said, �Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.� But Abraham said, �Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.�
�Then he said, �I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father�s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.� Abraham said to him, �They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.� And he said, �No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.�
But he said to him, �If they do not hear Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.��
Brothers, Ahmad, God raised One Man from the dead. His name is Jesus.
He was the Son of God dwelling among us.
He is the Son of God coming to Judge us.
He is God who justified all our sins.
He does not kill people in hell.
He saves them from hell of their lives!
You reject to be with Him. You want to worship your own god in your religion. But God is ONE and He never was in Islam or in any other false cult or religion. If you want to find Him and be with Him, then He is God Jesus waits and seeks for you.
If you do not need Him then righteous wrath of His Presence like Fire and Flame will devour you because God is a consuming Fire!
He is HOLY.
His nature is Justice.
He cannot dwell with you if your sins remain on your hands!
His HOLY place cannot allow to dwell there with Him rapists, killers, shahyds who exploded buses with Jewish children and sexual immoral people!
Get rid of your sins by being forgiven by God Jesus!
Then His HOLY presence will accompany you on earth in your body and heart.
Then you will see His presence in His dwelling place.
Then you will see your God before your Judgment.
Sheol/hades is a temporary place where the souls of unbelievers are kept as they await the final resurrection and judgment at the Great White Throne Judgment. God Jesus will judge them. May be you will be among them.
The souls of the ex-killers/sinners who are forgiven by God Jesus through their FAITH and holy life go directly into the presence of God� heaven/paradise/Abraham�s bosom and they will be justified during the Judgment Day because Jesus was killed instead of them.
There is the lake of fire also, mentioned only in Revelation 19:20 and 20:10, 14-15.
It is the FINAL DEATH.
The lake of fire is the final destination of every unbeliever who rejected God Jesus.
The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
The Great White Throne Judgment
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death.
And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Brothers, your names will be written in the Book of Life. Just Believe that Jesus is God. Repent of all your sins. Abandon them. Turn from them to God. And confess all your sins to God in a prayer. When you will finish praying you will be accepted by God and even adopted by Him.
�Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life,
but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God�s wrath remains on him� (John 3:36).
Then Jesus said these words:
"I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
and whoever lives and believes in me will never die."
John 11:25
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