Monday, January 18^th, 2010 There are no animals in hell or the lake of fire! Luke 16:23-31

But, there are cats, horses, farm animals and more in heaven. I oft times have wondered why people who so love animals, who will care for them here on earth, even substituting them for children, never give their lives to Christ therefore assuring themselves of an eternity of not only severe and never ending pain and torment, but an eternity totally devoid of any and all animals.

First let me prove my case about animals in heaven. We shall start with my personal favorite, horses.

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called The Word of God.

And the armies which were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. Revelation 19:11-16

Yes the rider of that first white horse is non other than the Lord God of creation, Christ Jesus, and with Him, the armies of heaven including me and all the other Born Again Washed in the Blood of the Lamb saints. You could be part of this army, but not by sitting on the side lines waiting for heaven only knows what.

And there are cats and farm animals. In talking of a time after the seven years of tribulation, God Himself has told us about some of the animals in that time.

And there shall come forth a Rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; And shall make Him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears: But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.

And righteousness shall be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 11:1-9 A special note to those of you who have not given their lives to Christ, God is not describing hell or the lake of fire here.

Yes, the pronouns He and Him refer to my Lord and Saviour Jesus The CHRIST. And since I have given my life to Him I will ride those horses, I will play with those cats, dogs, sheep, lambs, cows and lions. I will ride on and/or play with every animal God has ever created. For I shall be in heaven with Him. But for those who have rejected Him, they will forego, by their stubborn foolishness, ever seeing, touching, hearing, or even smelling any animal ever again. For in hell, as in the lake of fire, there are no animals, there is no joy. There is nothing but desolation, pain, suffering unbearable heat and eternal torment.

Let me give you a momentary glimpse of what is in store for you if you do not give your life to Christ. For here below is one illustration Jesus has given you concerning your eternal life after death.

And in hell one condemend to eternal damnation lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeing Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’

But Abraham said, ‘son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.’

Then the damned said, ‘I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’

Abraham saith unto him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’

And the condemned by his own actions, the one eternally damned said, ‘Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.’

And he said unto him, ‘If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.’ Luke 16:23-31

Every man woman and child is going to die, and they are going to spend eternity either with the Lord in heaven or sadly in eternal torment in the lake of fire. There is no other choice, there is no second chance. In heaven they will ride horses and giant dinosaurs, great fish and huge flying birds. They will join me in frolicking with great big golden retrievers without bad breath. By rejecting Christ’ offer to be Born Again, one chooses to suffer eternal loss of animal and human fellowship, selecting instead eternal pain, suffering and torment in the lake of fire. It is your choice, it is not between me and God it is between you and God. The entire Old Testament points to the Lord Jesus, the entire New Testament is a map to salvation, explaining the plan of salvation. It is an encouragement for you to pick the path of salvation, the path left behind by what Christ did in His 33 years here on earth. But ultimately it is between you and Christ. You will either, like me give your life to Christ or remain a slave of satan.

For salvation you must choose while you are alive for the default is not salvation, but damnation.

*All Scripture, unless otherwise noted, is from the ACP/KJV

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