Since the day of the death, burial, descention, resurrection and ascension of Christ Jesus all of that which was held in superstition and pagan religious rites have passed away. This includes and is not limited to the ancients belief of a after life, and the lake of judgment ablaze with Sulphur as a furnace of further purification for acceptance. To see this more clearly lets look into 1Corinthians 15 for a moment or two.
The Lake of Fire and the Second death:
1Corinthians 15:54-57, "What was spoken in Isaiah 25:8 has been finally realized in our physical death: "Death is swallowed up in victory!" Oh death where is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory? The sting of death is sin; The strength of sin is the law (Gen. 3:17-19, Ps. 90:3-11, Pro. 14:32; John 8:21, 24; It was sin that made death so frightening and the law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage.) Our victory is not a maybe or a some day kind of thing; Because of the magnanimous doing of Jesus Christ, it is a given! (But Now in a single victory stroke of Life, all three ---- sin, guilt, death -- are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank GOD!)
The picture of a Lake ablaze with Sulphur, also portrays a persuasion in conversation where the success of the Cross, in disarming principalities and powers, is endorsed. Awaiting our acceptance of realization. 1Thessalonians 4:18, "The fact that we are all deeply connected in the same source of our 'beingness' causes us to be constantly engaged in this conversation with one another." Within this conversation, every possible definition of Sin, Judgment, Death and Hades, Satan, Devil, Demons, Dragon, Beast and False Prophet-Prostitute is addressed and forever dissolved and thus rendered irrelevant! Revelation 17:14, "These join forces in that hour to wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb defeated them (ALL) since He is the LORD of lords and the King of kings. And, sharing with Him in His victory, are His kindred, recognizing their origin in this conversation; They too are now of the same persuasion (mindset). The Lamb led them into His freedom from their lost identity, and their doubts (that so easily handicapped them by their various religions)."
Colossians 1:13, "He rescued humanity from the dominion of darkness (the sense-ruled world, dominated by the Law of performance) and relocated us into the kingdom (from which our origin began) where the agape of His Son rules."
The lake ablaze with Sulphur represents the environment of a faith fellowship in the authority of light, where the reign of Agape dissolves the dominion of darkness. This is the picture that Jesus painted in Matthew 16 when he spoke about His Ekklesia, founded in the discovery that the son of man is indeed the Son of GOD and in this understanding of mankind's sonship, the Gates of Hades would be disengaged and imprisoned humanity's false mindset be set free. Jesus builds His Ekklesia [from ek, meaning of one's origin and kaleo, to surname; to restore our original identity] and the gates of Hades will not prevail against us! [The word, (H7585 שְׁאֹל, she'ôl is from H7592; G86 hadēs, not G1067 geenna, of Hebrew origin, meaning valley; from G1 (as a negative particle) and G1492 ] hades, unseen, is from the negative particle, (G1) ha, and (G1492) eido, meaning to see incorrectly.] The blindfold mode of the human race will not prevail against the revelation of the Son of man as the offspring of GOD - this is the triumph of the Ekklesia! "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?" Luke 24:32.
Remember that all the symbolic pictures of fire, referenced in the book of Revelation come from the same source, the brazen altar, the prophetic picture of the Cross - each one of the Elders also had a phialas chrusas, a golden fire-pan specifically designed to receive the sweet smelling frankincense which was lighted with coals from the brazen altar, where the sacrifice has just been presented in the outer court and then the sweet smelling frankincense was offered on the golden altar before the veil. Exodus 30:1, "You shall make an altar to burn incense upon; Of acacia wood shall you make it and overlay it with pure gold." The Acacia (from its scourging thorns H7848): shittah , from (H7850) shotet, to pierce, (H7752) to flog, a goad: - scourging (Acts 9:5) The symbolic use of the acacia wood in the building of this prophetic altar before the veil presents us with powerful imagery of the crucifixion!) (The Mirror, with editing.)
Until our next visit the LORD willing when we shall continue our deep dive look into this area again.
May the LORD of ALL bring us to our place of understanding in His light of reality and Truth.
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