Mary K. Baxter's book Divine Revelations of Hell is to our modern world what Bob Dylans Gotta Serve Somebody https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/gotta-serve-somebody/id181457864?i=181457865 was to rock and roll in 1979. Whaaat? Christianity was cool enough for Bob Dylan? It certainly was, and he caught a lot of criticism and praise for it. I admire Bob for his outspokenness about things that really mattered in a time when it was so cool to escape reality rather than face it. Bob Dylan didn't take crap from anyone and was a source of higher inspiration for many lost seekers. This post isn't about Bob Dylan though... it's about truth. It's about higher understanding. It's about waking up to the fact that God is a reality that we either tune into or tune out of. I am speaking to everyone here: Christian Right, Christian Left, non Christians, atheists, agnostics (the proof of the pudding is in the eating). Politics don't define God so let's ditch the labels and get to the point.
Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God’s holy people. For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord at one time delivered his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
Jude 1:3-5
There is a misconception, a misuse and an abuse about the free will God gave to man. This misconception blazes through Christian and non Christian circles, confusing many. I know people that like to throw it around liberally that God gave man free will to do with what he likes, and this tends to insinuate that continued sin is justified because we are forgiven and now Jesus isn't looking at our sins. As though Poof! It disappeared, even though it's still happening. It's bizaar to say the least. I love you all, so my attempt here is not to judge or criticize but to bring light to the matter. To lift you higher in your awareness to do with what you will. It's between you and God. I don't think myself better than anyone and I'm certainly not trying to win "salvation points" (haha to the person who thinks that;-). I genuinly hope you can recognize the truth I'm trying to get through.
"My child," He said, "God, our Father, gave each one of us a will so that we could choose whether we would serve Him or satan. You see, God did not make Hell for His people. satan deceives many into following him, but Hell was made for satan and his angels. It is not My desire, nor that of My Father, that anyone should perish." Tears of compassion ran down Jesus' cheeks.
Jesus turned to me and said, "This woman had sinful affairs with many men, and she caused many homes to be broken apart. Yet through all this, I loved her still. I came to her not in condemnation but with salvation. I sent many of My servants to her that she might repent of her evil ways, but she would not. When she was a young woman, I called her, but she continued to do evil. She did many wrongs, yet I would have forgiven her if she had come to Me. Satan entered into her, and she grew bitter and would not forgive others. She went to church just to get men. She found them and seduced them. If she had only come to Me, her sins would all have been washed away by My blood. Part of her wanted to serve Me, but you cannot serve God and satan at the same time. Every person must make a choice as to whom they will serve."
"My child," He said, "God, our Father, gave each one of us a will so that we could choose whether we would serve Him or satan. You see, God did not make Hell for His people. satan deceives many into following him, but Hell was made for satan and his angels. It is not My desire, nor that of My Father, that anyone should perish." Tears of compassion ran down Jesus' cheeks.
These are excerpts from the book Divine Revelations of Hell. Jesus makes it very clear that there is no middle ground. You don't even have the choice of not serving anybody. It's up or down, black and white like I've been talking about in previous posts. The only neutral (gray) state any of us will ever know is this moment right now. This flash that is our human existence. Time is of the essence, and the majority are not headed to a happy place. I am thankful for Mary K. Baxter's willingness to do this extraordinary thing, and write these experiences for our benefit. This book is not scary in the keep you up at night and give you nightmares sense, but it's scary in that it WILL make you think! Please read it. It's such an easy read you could read it in an evening. Do it for you <3
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.
1 John 3:1-9
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