The Great Ribulation

~ EPILOGUE 17S
yet perfect, for people do not possess their perfect
resurrected bodies. It is yet incomplete. Also, in the
days of John, they cried out for God to bring His
judgment, another mark of incompleteness: “’d
they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O
Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the earth” (Rev. ,
8:10). God’s blessings in heaven are historically
incomplete.
Similarly, hell is a place of comparative grace, if
we are comparing hell to the lake of fire. In hell, people
do not possess perfect bodies to burn eternally,
only souls. God’s cursing on them is therefore limited.
Furthermore, Jesus’ story of the rich man who ‘
dies and goes to hell indicates that there is some sort
of communication between those in hell and at least
one person in heaven, “l?ather Abraham” (Luke
16:23-31). God’s cursings in hell are therefore historically
incomplete. Ailer the final judgment, there is
no more limited, “low temperature,” body-free, hell
fire. There is also no more communication with anyone
in the kingdom of God. The last traces of grace
in history are removed from the cursed, when hell,
the devil, his angels, and resurrected non-Christians
are all ceremoniously dumped into the lake of fire
(Rev. 20:14), just as the final absence of grace in history
is removed from the saints when they depart
from heaven and bodily enter the restored New
Heaven and New Earth. At that point and forever
more, those in hell can think back to th comparative
comforts of hell and correctly say of God, “No more
Mr. Nice Guy.”