One night I sat up in bed in the dark at the age of five. Suddenly my room was lit up in amazing colour by a three dimensional vision! I saw people without clothes dropping into a lake of fire and watched as they were tormented in the flames, screaming silently. Galleons were also slowly crossing the lake in front of me, filled with people in torment in the flames, as more and more people dropped into the lake from above. There were horrible figures in the galleons too. The scene was horrific. This vision lasted for some time. Even though the vision was so powerful and graphic I remember that I did not feel the need to run into my parents' room for comfort afterwards.
Over the years I often thought about what I had seen as a five year old boy and told family and some friends about it. When I became a Christian in 1989 I realised that I had seen this vision of a lake of fire for a very special reason! I believe that God showed me this vision to give me a realization of the awful terror of eternal torment, for one day He would call me to preach the gospel of Christ and to warn of the reality of everlasting punishment! What of the galleons? I believe that they were there to show me as a five year old boy that what I was looking at was indeed a lake of fire, and not simply dry ground that was on fire. The Biblical lake of fire is the place of EVERLASTING FIRE that Jesus warned of, the final, everlasting, hell ....
Alex Bowler
WARNING!
We were created 'eternal' and cannot stop being eternal. If sin and death had not entered into the world in the garden of Eden could not Adam and Eve and all the animals have lived forever there? It was not to be however, for God knew that man would fall, but man's eternal spirit would always be eternal. Everlasting punishment means what it says! In Revelation we see that the false prophet and the beast are cast into the lake of fire alive. 1000 years later, when the devil is cast into the lake of fire to be tormented for ever and ever, they are still there! They were not 'annihilated' when they entered the lake of fire and neither shall anyone be! The beast and the false prophet and the devil ... and everyone else who is cast into the lake of fire will be tormented day and night for ever and ever! 'Annihilation' teaching, so loved by the false cults, is a heresy of the highest order and comes straight from the enemy, who wants to take the cutting edge off the gospel of Christ. Flee from it!
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:20
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:10
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Matthew 25:41
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: ...'
Matthew 25:46
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, ...'
Revelation 14:11
... there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:42
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 8:12
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:43-48
Over the years I often thought about what I had seen as a five year old boy and told family and some friends about it. When I became a Christian in 1989 I realised that I had seen this vision of a lake of fire for a very special reason! I believe that God showed me this vision to give me a realization of the awful terror of eternal torment, for one day He would call me to preach the gospel of Christ and to warn of the reality of everlasting punishment! What of the galleons? I believe that they were there to show me as a five year old boy that what I was looking at was indeed a lake of fire, and not simply dry ground that was on fire. The Biblical lake of fire is the place of EVERLASTING FIRE that Jesus warned of, the final, everlasting, hell ....
Alex Bowler
WARNING!
We were created 'eternal' and cannot stop being eternal. If sin and death had not entered into the world in the garden of Eden could not Adam and Eve and all the animals have lived forever there? It was not to be however, for God knew that man would fall, but man's eternal spirit would always be eternal. Everlasting punishment means what it says! In Revelation we see that the false prophet and the beast are cast into the lake of fire alive. 1000 years later, when the devil is cast into the lake of fire to be tormented for ever and ever, they are still there! They were not 'annihilated' when they entered the lake of fire and neither shall anyone be! The beast and the false prophet and the devil ... and everyone else who is cast into the lake of fire will be tormented day and night for ever and ever! 'Annihilation' teaching, so loved by the false cults, is a heresy of the highest order and comes straight from the enemy, who wants to take the cutting edge off the gospel of Christ. Flee from it!
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Revelation 19:20
And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Revelation 20:10
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Matthew 25:41
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: ...'
Matthew 25:46
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, ...'
Revelation 14:11
... there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 13:42
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Matthew 8:12
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:43-48