If we give any description of the doom of the impenitent which is at all true to God's Word, those who reject the Scriptures begin to cry out that we have borrowed it from Dante, or taken it from Milton! But the most awful and harrowing descriptions of the woes of the lost which ever fell from human lips, do not exceed or even equal the language of the loving Christ, Himself! Listen: "Depart from Me, you who are cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels!"
You and I can never imagine all the depths of Hell. Shut out from us by a black veil of darkness we cannot fathom the horrors of that dismal dungeon of lost souls!
Happily, the wailings of the damned have never startled us, for a thousand tempests would be but a maiden's whisper compared with one wail of a damned soul.
It is not possible for us to see the tortures of those souls who dwell eternally within an anguish that knows no alleviation. Our 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 has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man to conceive of the horrors which God has prepared for those who hate Him!
SIN, indeed, is Hell, Hell in embryo, Hell in essence, Hell kindling, Hell emerging from the shell. HELL is but sin when it has manifested and developed itself to the full!
Stand at the gates of Hell and understand how venomous is the disease for which Heaven's remedy is provided in the ignominious sufferings and death of the Only Begotten.
He is the true lover of men's souls who does not deceive them! He who paints the miseries of Hell as though they were but little is seeking to murder men's souls under the pretense of being their friend!
[Charles H. Spurgeon]
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1 Thessalonians 5:9 ... For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 5:9 ... Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Luke 21:36 ... Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.❤
Luke 21:36 ... Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.❤
