Journey to the Center of the Earth!

I wrote this for my original blog, ETVFC.blogspot.com a while back but wanted to post it because we were talking about hell yesterday and I thought this would have some helpful information.  The greatest gamble is to say Hell doesn't exist.  When you die you better have the right answer.  That ultimately is the reason for this Blog.  Hell is truth realized too late.  Far too many people end up in Hell because they said, "I will get saved someday."   Hell is full of people who were "almost persuaded to be a Christian" but to be 99.9999999999999% saved is to be 100% LOST.  Don't mess around with your soul.  If you find Jesus now, and seek a relationship with him, escaping Hell will be a fruitful by product.  Don't just come to Jesus to avoid Hell, but let the reality of Hell motivate you to consider the Bible and read it until Jesus becomes real to you.  Then 500 years from now you will be grateful you did.  In the meantime, come to Jesus and realize no sin is worth going to Hell for, and no person or religion is either. 

Blog---  Journey to the Center of the Earth

A movie came out in 2007 based on the SCIENCE fiction classic Jules Verne book of the same title.  The premise is this -- Trevor Anderson, his nephew, and a tour guide "make a breaking discovery that launches them on a thrilling journey into the UNKNOWN. On a scramble to find their WAY BACK the group travels through a NEVER BEFORE SEEN WORLD encountering creatures and objects never imagined.  Get close to the action, engage your sense of wonder and take your own journey to the center of the earth!"

      Before I begin, the first thing you need to know is you do not want to go on your own journey to the center of the earth. Had Jules Verne rejected science falsely so-called and read his bible, he would have not had to imagine what is in the center of the earth. And today he would not be in the center of the earth burning and burning.  Instead Jules would be wishing he read his Bible and not wrote a book that exchanged the truth of Hell for an action adventure your whole family would love.  Just in the brief synopsis I quoted above, there are 3 major lies expressed. 

       Lie one is that what is in the center of the earth is UNKNOWN. It is known.  Hell is in the center of the earth and it is a literal burning fire.  Preacher John Wesley from the 1700's said, "Hell - the center of the earth".  

     Lie 2 is people came back from the center of the earth to live to tell about the fun adventures they had.  You will not escape the damnation of Hell unless you repent and believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ while on this earth. There is no such doctrine such as purgatory where when you are in the center of the earth for a while you get sent to heaven once your sins are purged.  You will get out of Hell ONCE but only to face God on Judgment Day and then you are immediately cast into something far far worse, the LAKE OF FIRE.  You will never ever leave that place.  Get saved today.  You could be in Hell tonight.

      Lie 3 says the center of the earth is a never before seen world.  Christ went there to the heart of the earth for 3 days and 3 nights before he rose from the dead.  He saw Hell.

        In fact JESUS created Hell!  Ephesians 3:9 says, God, who created ALL things BY JESUS CHRIST.  Hell is part of ALL things.  He died on the cross to make a way to escape the very place he created.  He spoke of the horrors of Hell and He knew first hand how horrible it is.  The living WORD who became flesh so we could escape the horrible pit originally prepared for the devil and his angels. Man sinned and God is so holy that he must eternally punish all sin.  Jesus came to earth to die to provide a substitute for you burning forever for your sin. 

     God did not have to do anything but leave us helpless.  We are fools who don't like the idea of Hell and think we are smarter than God so we come up with another way and another god.  Most people in America know the Jesus of the Shack by their actions and deny the Jesus of the Bible.  God the Father USED GOD THE WORD to SPEAK THE WORLD into existence. Let there be light, and there was light.  Jesus made the ball of fire, the SUN, out of nothing.  It is a million times bigger than the earth.  That is power.

      That should put some fear into you.  That same Jesus is commanding ALL men everywhere to REPENT! 

        The apostle John saw the lake of fire when he was on the island of Patmos, through his visions in Revelation when God showed him the things to come.  The earth is 8,000 miles thick.  According to creationist and true scientist Henry Morris, the center of the earth would only need to be 100 miles in diameter to contain the billions and billions of lost people who were ever on this earth.

       Every lost person who ever existed has seen hell.  AND THEY ARE IN HELL RIGHT NOW, below us CRYING AND SCREAMING RIGHT NOW right under our very feet.  Begging to get out. Begging you not to come. Begging you to consider the end and listen to a REAL PREACHER and OBEY THE GOSPEL! In Luke 16, the rich man died, and was buried, and "IN HELL he lift up his eyes, being in torments. For I am tormented in this flame." He cried. (Luke 16:24)

       As far as I can tell, there were not active volcanoes in the middle east 2,000 years ago, yet the Bible describes a lake of fire which burneth with fire and brimstone. In a volcanic eruption you will find fire, sulfur and a lake of fire-- lava.  Brimstone is sulfur (see Websters dictionary) and was how the bible described hell --- "fire and brimstone". Revelation 19:20 says, These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with BRIMSTONE.

       Today's study is not going to look much at the difference between the Lake of Fire and Hell Fire.  They are similar but located in different places.  The lost are in Hell right now until Judgment Day.  After the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-12), death and HELL were cast into the Lake of Fire. (Rev 20:15).  Why?  Revelation 21:1 says, for the first heaven and first earth were passed away.  God destroys the earth when everything is said and done, and hell will perish right with it.  Yet the LOST will live on in torments.

        The watering down of the doctrine of Hell is one reason why America is headed for Hell.  The Bible says the wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God.  The main problem with America is this --- Surely the FEAR of GOD is not in this place. (Genesis 20:11).  America has been doing it's own thing the last 100 years or so and it has no fear of God because the fear of God has been taken out of our country.  NO FEAR is our cry. We don't fear any consequences for our actions, but God will punish all sin whether we believe that or not.  Most Americans think of God as this jolly Grandfather of the sky, winking at sin, and saying HAVE IT YOUR WAY!

       However, the fear of God was FIRST REMOVED FROM OUR PULPITS.  Before LOST and SAVED alike feared God and society was contained.  Just like removing the tooth of the law has criminals being more daring than ever, removing the fear of God unleashes the worst in mankind.  Christians are in the closet and sodomites are out.  Pedophiles are pushing for the same degree of toleration. They are taking the same steps the sodomites did, portraying themselves born just a little different and being the underdog deserving of acceptance.
      
Sin is now relative when you take THOU SHALT NOT out of the equation and the 10 Commandments from our nation.  Now this country is spiralling out of control and getting sicker and more twisted every day.  We are like an out of control mach truck flying down a mountain road with no brakes.   Yet America's brakes went bad decades ago.

      Most guilty are the preachers who quit preaching on the fear of God, the holiness of God, and the wrath of God. If you preach warm and fuzzy Joel Olsteen happy thoughts you will have happy campers warming your pew and they will be happy filling the offering plates.  They want their ears tickled and most churches want their wallets padded.

      Yes, God is love, but if you remove the Holiness of God and a fear of God and "trembling at his word" his LOVE is corrupted.  It is likened to the judge in Colorado telling the Batman Murderer James Holmes, "I love you! Especially your red hair.  Yes, you murdered 12 people, but I see your heart meant well.  Look at all the people you didn't murder! Who am I to judge you?  You are free to Go.".  He would be a wimp and a coward and a corrupt Judge.

        A loving Judge is a JUST one, a one who punishes to the full extent of the Law and not swayed.  We think because God is loving and kind that he is a pushover and lets us live how we want.  That is a false view of God brought on by decades of false teaching.

        Until about 1950, it was accepted by Christians that hell was a literal place with literal fire.  Compromisers like Billy Graham have come on the scene, and have deluded millions with false teachings like Hell is the grave, or Hell is a state of mind, or Hell is just separation from God.   Modern Bibles change the truth about Hell for a lie. The NIV and New KJV use the words GRAVE, SHEOL, HADES, and death to replace Hell most of the time.

        Dr. Peter S. Ruckman said, "Hell is down under your feet. There is no doubt WHERE HELL IS.  It was in the heart of the earth where Christ went after he died. (Act2:31, Acts 2:27) The plainer words the Bible teaches on this is so clear you would have to go to the greek or hebrew to get rid of it."  And that is what the scholars have done to cast a doubt on the truth of God's word.

        America has lost it's fear of God as Preachers quit preaching on the fear of God.  The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom says the Bible.  Is it any wonder why common sense today has fallen out the window? The average high-schooler today knows more about getting to the next level in his video game than getting to the next level in life. 

         Americans do not think today, they merely parrot what the media and Hollywood and TV program wants them to say. If someone dares to stand out and speak against something that Hollywood or the Media love, then everyone jumps on the bandwagon.  Chick-fil-A takes a stand against sodomy, and every pervert and politician and musician and movie star raises up and is ready for a fight.

          Hell has been removed and the fear of God is exchanged for a lie, and the average Christian won't turn off the TV to do a single thing about it.  America is going down the tubes because Christians care more about the TUBE than about TRUTH.  Hell is TRUTH realized too late.
 
          Evangelist and preacher Oliver Greene said, "Hell is a place, not a state of mind, and the terms used in the Bible prove this statement beyond any shadow of doubt."   Hell is a real place.  You can be cast into prison, or cast into a pool. Don't be cast into hell.  You would be wise believing the Bible instead of a fictional piece of literature. 

           Journey to the center of the earth?  Don't go there.