The word Hell should not be in our English bibles, basically it is a deliberate, erroneous miss-translation, purposely put there by Catholicism to inject fear into people’s hearts. The word Hell has been translated 54 times in the King James Bible, in Hebrew the word should be properly translated as SHEOL and in the Greek HADES, TARTARUS and GEHENNA. The Hebrew word SHEOL and the Greek word HADES have the exact same meanings and should be correctly translated as GRAVE; never does it denote a place of punishment; it simply means a place where the SOUL of the deceased goes when the body dies, whether that soul being GOOD or BAD makes no difference.
TARTARUS
is only used once in the New Testament, in 2: Peter 2:4, where it speaks of the angels who rebelled and that God has cast them into gloomy caverns of Tartarus, where they are kept waiting for chastening judgement.
GEHENNA
is derived from the name of the narrow, rocky valley of Hinnom just south of Jerusalem, which was basically the city’s dump, where the bodies of criminals, the poor who had no money left for burial, along with dead animals and the trash of the city was burned; a place where the half burnt bodies of corpses would be continually consumed my worms and maggots as the bodies were piled up day and night. Never did the Lord Jesus state GEHENNA was a place of everlasting punishment, but spoke about the seriousness of sin, when He said “if your hand offends you, cut it off, It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into GEHENNA , into the fire that never shall be quenched where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched” Mark 9:43, 44.
JUDGEMENTS
The trouble with the word “judgement” it has always been interpreted in a negative sense, primarily at the judgement it’s either heaven or hell, depicting an up or down scenario. The Lord will judge the living and the dead 2 Tim 4:1 and 1 Peter 4:5, the word judge in Greek is krinō a verb, which means to consider, decide, and determine and not to condemn or denounce as some would have us believe. For one to judge in the sense of the word is to give their opinion or decision concerning anything or a situation. When a person visits a doctor, he listens to their symptoms, examines and upon his diagnoses he makes his judgement on what the treatment should be. Scriptures portray the Lord as the great Physician; all His judgements are corrective and remedial in their purpose and application.
Will the Lord really say, depart from me I never knew you?
It would be a complete oxymoron for the Lord to say “I never knew you” as the Lord knows all things, Jeremiah states: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. Paul writes: The Lord knows them that are His 2 Tim 2:19. David declares: You know when I sit and when I rise, you perceive my thoughts from afar Psalm 193:2. Jehovah knows the thoughts of man, that they are vanity. Psalm 94:11. In the general context, flow and tide of the whole bible it clearly reveals God is, Omniscience, Omnipresent and is a God who is all in all.
So how do we interpret Mathew 7: 22-23?
The word “know” in the original Greek is ginōskō which can also be translated: to perceive or to acknowledge. Rotterdam’s Emphasized Bible renders: And then, will I confess unto them, never have I acknowledged you,—depart from me, ye workers of lawlessness!
To take the Lords name in vain is a serious thing; to take His name in vain doesn’t mean to swear, curse or blaspheme. In the context of doing the Fathers will, for a Christian to embark on a ministry that is not orchestrated by the Lord nor has its origin in Christ is a work of pure vanity and wallowing in arrogance, egotism and self-effort. The gifts of the Spirit are irrevocable and the Lord will honour His name in the healings and miracles administered, but He will never acknowledge the ministers that perform them; indeed, to take the Lords name in vain is a serious mistake and will have severe consequences with a weighty time of chastisement; hence the culprits will be cast for a time into outer darkness, until the completion of remediation, after which they’ll fall into the arms of a loving Saviour.
Psalm 9:8 He shall judge the world in righteousness; He shall judge the peoples in uprightness.
Psalm 98:9 before Jehovah; for He comes to judge the earth; with righteousness He shall judge the world and the peoples in uprightness.
Acts 17:31 Because He hath appointed a day, in which he will judge all the earth, with righteousness, by the man whom he hath designated: and He turneth every man to faith in Him, in that he raised Him from the dead.
The bottom line is “Hell” has been turned into an industry, both in the promotion of it and in the deliverance from it,. both ends are charged with propaganda, rhetoric and emotional manipulation, It has nothing to do with the Gospel, It has to do with profits and greed. The trouble is that the purveyors of this perverted apostate system believe in it and they think it works, yet it presents to us a different Christ and another Gospel.
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