Hell

OUR FATHER, HELL AND HEAVEN : M. M. NINAN
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1Th 4:15-17 For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming
of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of
the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
This is what we normally call as Rapture.
In this resurrection only those who are in Christ are taken.
1Co 15:51-57 “ Lo! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we
shall be changed. For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on
immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to
pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
"O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?"
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is only part of the story. The next event in history is at the end of the ages when there will be
visible appearance of Jesus on the earth to separate the rest of mankind into two groups. Thus we
have one group separated out and totally redeemed and they are part of the Son of God himself as
how the husband and wife are one. They are one body.
Eph 5:31 -32 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh." This mystery is a profound one, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church;
This is because,
Rom 8:1-2 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
Hence we see a second resurrection into life, outside of the Church and a judgment.
Mat 25:31-45
throne.
"When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious
Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the
left.
Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed
me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and
give thee drink? And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe
thee? And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee?'
And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren,
you did it to me.'
Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no
drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in
prison and you did not visit me.' Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see thee hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to thee?'
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