For the sinner, there is a day when hope ends, the day he or she passes through the portal of Hell...
Once you are in Hell, there are no grounds for appeal, no hope of release. The judge has slammed his gavel, and your case is closed forever. There are no exit signs in Hell...
They are banished from the fountain of life and joy...
How can this be? How can the presence of God be absent from Hell, and yet the presence of Jesus, who is God, be there? Certainly, there is some mystery here, and we cannot fully reconcile these two truths in our finite minds. What we can say as we let these two truths lie side by side is that God is present in Heaven to bless, and God is present in Hell to curse...
You will face your judge, the one you rejected. You will receive direct punishment from Jesus, the one you defied day after day, year after year...
The Apostle Paul writes that “there will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil.” (Rom 2:9) The Greek word for “distress” is stenochōria, a compound word which combines the words for “narrow” and “space.” Paul chooses this specific word to convey that those in Hell are confined to a narrow space...
These descriptions show that a life outside of Christ is a story that ends unhappily ever after. But the story doesn’t have to end this way. The living need not abandon all hope for they have not yet entered the gates of Hell. In fact, we have great hope because God desires all men to be saved. (1 Tim 2:4) He “has no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live.” (Ezek 33:11)...
~ Chris Gee
