Peeps. If you are sitting on the fence about eternal judgment, and you still aren’t sure. If you are seeking truth with your heart and seeking it with all integrity … but you are still confused … this post will help, a lot. 😊💪
Remember, Facebook theology wants us to believe that every time Jesus was talking about hell and eternity to the Jewish people, He was talking to them about the literal burning, smelly city trash dump called Gehenna (which is actually the smoking chamber of Sheol). 🤮
Yet all one has to do in order to see what Jesus was truly saying is by reading His own words about the end of the age, and the sheep and goats in Matthew 25:31-46.
Here are the highlights …
“Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.”
Matthew 25:32-33
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed (kataraomai - doom) into the eternal (aiōnios) fire 🔥 prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Matthew 25:41
“And these (goats) will go away into eternal (aiōnios) punishment, but the righteous into eternal (aiōnios) life.”
Matthew 25:46
aiōnios:
without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be
without beginning
without end, never to cease, everlasting
Very simple. ☺️
The sheep enter a life that has no beginning and no end, and the goats enter a punishment that has no beginning and no end.
Parable and analogy wielding Jesus didn’t suddenly become literal when talking about eternity, rather He is talking about everlasting punishment or glory.
There are sheep.
There are goats.
There is no 3rd choice.
Jesus Himself destroyed unbelieving Israel in the desert, and the same will be true of the unbelievers (goats) at the end of the age (Jude 1:5).