June 16, 2005
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Hell and Everlasting Punishment
Part 2: Blackness of Darkness Forever“Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.” (Jude 13). God says in 1 Samuel 2:9: “the wicked shall be silent in darkness.” They will be so stunned and dumbfounded with the condition in which they find thmeselves that they will be speechless. Psalm 49:19 says, “they shall never see light.” Peter speaks concerning the wicked: “to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.” (2 Peter 2:17).
Think of a place without the sun, moon, stars: without an electric light, lamp light, or candlelight but forever darkness. Think also of people being like “wandering stars,” going round and round stumbling in the darkness, totally alone, forever and ever. Groping blindly for anything and finding nothing. This is the reservation of the wicked. Thinking of this is so awful the mind cannot dwell upon it very long.
Jesus spoke of those who “loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19), and since they hate the light and do not come into the light, they get darkness forever. Jesus also spoke of those who “shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:12).
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungoldy has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
-A.W. Tozer“The most dreadful torment of the lost, in fact that which constitutes their state of torment, will be this coming to themselves, when too late for repentance.”
-H. AlfordThe true light is shining right now, may God help us all come to it before the day is spent.
“You and I can never imagine all the depths of hell. Shut out from us by a black veil of darkness, we cannot tell the horrors of that dismal dungeon of lost souls. Happily, the wailings of the damned have never startled us, for a thousand tempests were but a maiden’s whisper, compared with one wail of a damned spirit. It is not possible for us to see the tortures of those souls who dwell eternally within an anguish that knows no alleviation. These eyes would become sightless balls of darkness, if they were permitted for an instant to look into that ghastly shrine of torment. Hell is horrible, for we may say of it, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the horrors which God hath prepared for them that hate him.”
-C.H. Spurgeon“We have underestimated the total war to which the devil has committed his horde of demons and men alike? Is it not true that cataracts have formed over our eyes (maybe with watching too much T.V.) so that we have completely misjudged the horror of that eternal hell to which at this moment millions of souls are marching? Does such a picture stir your soul and stab your conscience? Are you sleeping at the price of another’s peril? Recently, when a hunting dog ferreted into a pile of rocks and was trapped, men fought with cold, rain, and fatigue for two days and nights to find the entombed dog. Are not men more than dogs? Will men be entombed in hell forever because you were playing instead of praying?”
-Leonard Ravenhill—-
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Comments (16)
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungoldy has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
-A.W. Tozer
The Ravenhill quote is intense as well!
Yes the truth of the “darkness” of hell for unregenerate souls is very sad and stirring. I love the quotes by tozer and ravenhill that bring application and questioning into our state towards the belief of the reality of hell. We need to know about hell and preach it with tears. O God grip us!
hey, this is dima…how are you?
sorry, I am not Sasha’s wife. But Hello anyways!!
Hi Dima. I am great thats great you found my blog, I hope you are blessed and challanged by the blog posts.
“Our dear Redeemer, whose lips are as lilies dropping sweet-smelling myrrh, in great tenderness of heart warned men of the sure result of their sins; and none used stronger or more alarming language than he did concerning the future of ungodly men. He knew nothing of that pretended sympathy which will rather let men perish than warn them against perishing. Such tenderness is merely selfishness excusing itself from a distasteful duty.”
-C.H. Spurgeon
“Go and sin no more lest something worse befall you.”
-Jesus Christ
Thanks for checking my page. Glad you like my recent work. Again, it’s great what you’re posting about the subject of hell. Thanks for reading your post to me yesterday. Keep up the good work! Hope many more find your website where they can get further encouragement. =) Yay – Ukraine tomorrow!
“And what is wrong with the old method of scaring the ungodly with a sermon on hell?” Vance Havner
“There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about Him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity. I remember a man who told me he wanted to hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus. Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible! We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance.” Vance Havner
Both quotes from “HEARTS AFIRE”. quote one page 29, quote two page 106
All i know is I want to stay out of there!!!
i am wondering how are you posting from the ukraine!!
Stopped by randomly and wanted to say, ‘Awesome post’. Ravenhill quotes are always amazing—all of them are, actually. Keep pressing in and pressing on.
I need to be scared by hell so that I desire to get other people out of it and me so that I desire heaven with fervancy !!1
I am glad you are all being blessed by these postings on the blogs. Do check out http://www.sermonindex.net when you have time all the blog posts are posted there also. I will be starting again daily to post these excerpts on hell when I get back from ukraine in a few days.
Welcome back brother…look forward to hearing what you experienced the last few weeks! God bless. The brother you haven’t met, but certainly will meet one day…
How was Kiev ?
It was a tremendous time being in Kyiv, Ukraine! I am posting some updates on http://www.sermonindex.net and pictures about it. Also I am working on a slideshow for the church and I will post that also on SermonIndex.