Think on the boiling flames of hell, the lake of fire: if I deal thus so intensely with My enemies, what then shall I do to the ones that I love? (From Tears from a Lonely God – Chapter Eight: Unshade My Light.)

As I’ve written previously on what the Bible teaches on hell, and how no one would ever want to go to there on account of its intensity, so too, I believe, heaven will be a place of similar intensity.

As hell is bad, so heaven is good.

Consider the parable of the wheat and the tares. God’s people are represented as the good and desirable “wheat,” and those that have rejected Christ’s gospel are represented by the unenviable “tares.” God then says:

Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. -Matthew 13:30

And Jesus further clarifies this parable and explains the glory that awaits us, and the terror that awaits those who were fearful and unbelieving.

The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. -Matthew 13:41-43

Did you notice a similar burning? One is a burning unto misery, and another is a burning unto joy. One is from God’s wrath in hell, and the other is from God’s communion in heaven. As the prophet Daniel has written, we will shine!

And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. -Daniel 12:3

• On Hell
• The Thing that Makes Heaven, Heaven
• Doing Our Part with God
• Dying Twice
• The Parable of the Sower and the Seed

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