Tuesday; October 25
The other day I was a part of a “Question And Answer” session in a Bible Class. Now, before you ask if I have lost my mind, we didn’t take live questions from the audience, we asked that they submit them beforehand so we could be prepared. One question submitted was “What happens in hell?”. When I first thought about the question, I reflected on the obvious biblical references, including a response from one of Jesus’ parables, “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels …” (Matthew 25:41). While this sounds bad enough, I also got to thinking about another layer of hell – it is the place separated from God. Imagine, if you would, the worst and most dangerous place in the world filled with opportunists and evil people who believe in survival of the meanest. They do what they want and have no conscience nor any redeeming value. Yet, there is one more layer – there is no hope