Hummm. So the death of the Christ is nulled now? All will we fine in the end? There is no propose to faith? Better yet, so the death of the Christ is nulled now?
No it is not nulled. It is what changes you now, because you embraced the change, instead of later in a lake of fire, because you rebelled against it.
It is a lake, as if to indicate that one will be immersed in it.
It is a lake, as if to indicate that the only turbulence comes from those within.
It is a lake, as if to indicate that one can see their reflection in it.
It is fire, a witness to one's wrongs. Sins revisited sevenfold, to utter completion, the amount necessary to bring unwanted correction.
It is fire, as with Meshach and company, the burning bush, the brass legs of Yeshua, consuming anything that is not Set Apart.
It is a touchstoning, a continuing cycle of refining and testing unto purity.
We are told elsewhere that it is unquenchable, meaning one cannot stop the process.
That does not mean the fire can't run out of fuel. The source of the unburning entity concept is generated by the prerequisite mistranslation of "forever."
And when it says, in the presence of the messengers, I unfortunately cannot convey this experience, except to say that it goes to the very core of one's being, stripped totally naked.
And as a fulfilled prophecy:
The smoke (tool of concealment, signaling, and choking) of that touchstoning process, ascends beyond comprehension right now and for many previous years with the widespread misunderstanding of the process.
If I come through fear, that's enough to make me call upon Jesus, I don't need to believe in something as overboard as eternal torment, which is proposed to be the outcome if I were to call "unfair. I disagree with my having been created.", try to escape unsuccessfully by suicide and be resurrected into eternal torment anyway.
Which is what I believe men will cry during their lake of fire experience, wishing they had not been created, unable to do anything about it till it's over.
If it makes any middle ground, I don't doubt for a moment that the lake of fire experience won't
feel like an eternity. I can't imagine the terror of having my own sins revisited to me one by one, as if I were emotionally and physically injected into the perspective of my victims. After the first few, I believe I would begin screaming "uncle", "Jesus", etc, but, according to scripture, again it is unquenchable. So if the words "eternity" and "torment" must be preserved as such, they may still be said to apply in this viewpoint.
Or who knows, it might be a cakewalk? Not what I've been reading by far.
"universal reconciliation" is the term I use, rather than "universal salvation"
Peace.
