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The rich man depicted in Luke 16:19-31 isn't alone down there in Hades.
According to Luke 13:22-24, Matt 7:13-14, and Matt 22:14 the majority of
the world's responsible souls haven't been making it to safety when they
cross over to the other side.
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
Bear with me while I flesh this out.
According to the US Census Bureau: as of Jan 17, 2022 @ 12:23 pm New
York Time, the resident population in the United States was approximately
332,439,700 with a death rate of approximately one every 11 seconds;
which translates to an average of 7,854 American deaths of all ages, races,
and genders during just one 24-hour calendar day.
According to 2009 US Census data; roughly 27.3% of America's daily deaths
were under the age of 19, which would indicate that approximately 5,710 of
the current daily death rate per 24 hours are adults.
Giving the "many" the benefit of the doubt by limiting their maximum
percentage to 51%, would indicate a minimum of 2,912 American adults
transferring to perdition every day: which translates to roughly 121 per
hour.
That's a very conservative estimate as Christ didn't really specify exact
percentages to represent the quantities of "few" and "many". But just think:
by the time CBS completes its half hour evening news report, a bare-bones
minimum of 61 Americans become new arrivals in the fiery sector of the
netherworld.
Using the ratio of 2,912 condemned souls per 332,439,700 population:
computing the number of condemned souls worldwide from a currently
estimated global population of 7,872,203,606 people, would suggest
something like 68,956 new arrivals in the fiery sector of the netherworld
every 24 hours; which translates to roughly 2,873 souls every sixty minutes
on the clock.
Yankee Stadium's football seating capacity is 54,251. At the rate of 2,873
souls per hour, those seats would be filled in roughly 18 hours and 53
minutes. In other words: by 00:53 am tonight the stadium's seats would be
maxed if the world's daily number of condemned souls started filing into the
stadium at 06:00 am this morning.
Christmas and New Year are even worse. A study done of 26 years of death
certificates shows that coronary fatalities are, on average, 11.9% higher on
those days than any other days of the year; with non-heart deaths spiking to
12.2% higher.
The netherworld never closes; no, not at all: it's open for business 24/7/365
nonstop and indifferent to climate change, Wall Street crashes, massive
layoffs, outsourcing, high school shootings, terrorism, tsunamis,
earthquakes, hurricanes, storm surges, nuclear meltdowns, air, water, and
soil pollution, freeway pile-ups, brown-outs, the price of oil, election fraud,
pipelines, student debt, GMO, trade deficits, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, North
Korea's nukes, Federal debt, overpopulation, desertification, genocides,
revolutions, civil wars, Covid-19, acid rain, road rage, oil spills, conscious
decoupling, ISIS, LGBT marriage, blood diamonds, fracking, twerking,
and/or US President Joseph Biden's mandates.
If standard Christianity's perception of Jesus Christ and the hereafter is
correct; then it's apparent that souls never stop cascading down there to the
rich man in an endless procession like the unbelievable millions of poultry
broilers passing annually through Tyson chicken-processing plants on their
way to Wendy's, McDonalds, Carl's Junior, Jack in the Box, Burger King,
Chic-fil-A, KFC, A&W, Arby's, Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, et al; and to
supermarkets and restaurants all over the USA and wherever else Tyson
vends its meats. The slaughtering and the butchering never stop.
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