Fire & Water don’t mix!
28/06/2009
By Mark Farquharson
After the Great White Throne Judgement, the people who do not get into the kingdom go to the Lake of Fire. Notice here the name of the place they go to, there are two elements, lake and fire. You can not have a actual lake of fire. There is no way you can get a lake to burn. A lake is a body of water, you can not get water to burn. You can not set fire to water, the water puts out the fire. Fire-fighters use water to put out fires. Water is not fuel for a fire, it is used to put out a fire.
This fire is not a fire that consumes flesh, such a teaching is evil, it presents an evil god, who is into evil torture. God will not torture anyone with fire that actually consumes the flesh. He will not torture anyone at all in anyway.
The living God is Love, he will not do something that is so diabolical as that. This teaching of a fire that consumes flesh is from the devil. It is not true in anyway what so ever.
Revelation 22:14 Happy are those who are rinsing their robes, that it will be their license to the log of life, and they may be entering the portals into the city." CLV
Studying the scriptures, we find that the people entering the kingdom are rinsing their robes. In the days of the temple in Israel, the priests had to rinse their robes before entering the temple. This represented spiritual cleansing, the ones in the lake have to go through spiritual cleansing, before they can enter the Kingdom.
The fire is also spiritual, it is spiritual fire. When something is heated up like a metal, the impurities can be removed. Spiritual fire removes the spiritual impurities from a person. They become spiritual pure, for it is only the spiritually pure that can enter the kingdom.
1 Peter 1:7 that the testing of your faith, much more precious than gold which is perishing, yet, being tested by fire, may be found for applause and glory and honor at the unveiling of Jesus Christ, CLV
1 Peter tells that True believers in Christ, are tested by fire. When someone becomes born again, that is spiritually born, they get tested by fire. It would be stupid to think that this is taking about a physical fire, believers are not being burned by fire. This verse is talking about a spiritual fire, believers are tested spiritually.
However when it comes to the lake of fire, priests teach incorrectly that it is a real physical fire that burns flesh. However there are different types of fire, one is the physical fire, the other is the spiritual as in 1 Peter. The lake of fire is spiritual fire, however it is not testing their faith. The fire burns up all spiritual impurities in the person, this is divine judgement in which all iniquity is burnt up.
Revelation 21:8 Yet the timid, and unbelievers, and the abominable, and murderers, and paramours, and enchanters, and idolaters, and all the false-their part is in the lake burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death." CLV
You don’t usual here about the sulphur {brimstone} that is mention in the scriptures. In medicine, sulphur is used for healing. The people in the lake are getting healed spiritually. Healing comes from the people in the kingdom, they heal the people who are outside the kingdom.
The elements are all spiritual, spiritual water, spiritual fire, and spiritual sulphur. This lake changes the person spiritually, it consumes those things that are impure, it heals the person, and cleanses the person. Once they are spiritually pure they can and will enter the kingdom.
Copyright © Mark J Farquharson 2009
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