Proverbs 1:27: Oh, hell

[Wisdom will laugh] “when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.”
-Proverbs 1:27

I don’t like talking about this. I don’t. But I’m going to, because it’s true. Because it’s important.

There is a hell. It is a place of eternal torment and eternal death. And people are going there. And because I know it’s true, then I have to speak of it, because this is too important to not say.

When we were made in the likeness and image of God, we were given souls that do not perish. That part of us is eternal. We will live forever. Period. The question is not IF we will live, but WHERE.

The two options are that we will live with God or without Him. Anyone would prefer heaven to hell (despite what some may claim), but there’s a problem.

We are in rebellion against God. He is perfect, Holy, righteous, and just, and we do not follow His Law. We do not consider Him worthy of praise, even though He created everything. We do not follow Him, but we follow our own devices instead.

And because God is just, He cannot let these transgressions, what the Bible calls “sin,” go without punishment.

There’s no fine we can pay. There’s not a prison we can go to for a few years. The price for rebellion, for treason, has always been the same: death. Without blood, there is no forgiveness of sin.

Revelation 20:15 says this: “And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

No one is righteous, not even one. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. You have sinned. I have too. We have both rebelled against God. We have both fallen short. We both deserve the lake of fire.

Take a look at this verse from Proverbs. It’s one of many biblical descriptions of what is to come. Terror, calamity, distress, and anguish. That is what we deserve for our treason.

There is only one way to escape this fate. The debt is too high for us to pay, but the Son of God can to earth in human form to pay the debt for us. He died upon the Cross to pay for our sin. In Him, we may have life.

Nothing you can do can earn it. It is His gift if you would take it. Lay down your arms; renounce your rebellion. Repent, repent, repent, and ask for His mercy.

There is no other way. Christ told us this: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). He is our source of life. Religion cannot do it; being a “good person” cannot do it. Only Him. Repent to Him, for He is our only hope.