Sunday, October 13, 2013

Chamber of Horrors

What is the scariest place ever?

Every year in October in the Tulsa area, we are flooded with enticements to go to the various venues, designed to scare people.  There have been haunted houses, that feature all kinds of mayhem and spooky stuff.  There have been exhibits, showing the horrors that people afflict on themselves, through foolish actions like drinking and driving.  There has been a haunted forest, where people ran for their lives from axe wielding maniacs and the like.  There just seems to be no end to the imagination of people, to create macabre themed events and places in the Tulsa area.

One of the most interesting one, is the haunted castle in Muskogee.  There are witches, knights and other appropriately themed characters throughout the village.  The center piece is a replica of a Medieval castle that features a torture chamber like those used in Europe in the days of old.  You can learn about the many terrible torments, that people were put through in the Dark Ages of Europe through re-enactments.  It is all part of the experience.

These Medieval tortures were on par with the most brutal tortures of other times and places.  Like the brazen bull of ancient Greece, where people were roasted alive, or Ling Chi of China, where people died from a thousand cuts.  Of course, there was also crucifixion, which the Romans rated as the most terrible of all tortures.  They should have known, since they pretty much practiced every form of torture ever known to man.

As scary as the Haunted Castle and some of the other venues have been at times, there has been one venue, that has eclipsed all others in the Tulsa area.  That was the Nightmare in its original incarnation.  During its first year, people fainted from fright, and there was even at least one report of a heart attack, brought on by fear.  The city of Tulsa made the organization running the Nightmare tone down their activities in the following years, due to the effects that the Nightmare was having on people.

The original Nightmare may have been the most popular horror fest ever.  It seemed as if every young person in the Tulsa area, wanted to go the Nightmare, just to show that it did not scare them.  I went to go to it with my brother-in-law, but we kept having car trouble, and arrived later than we wanted.  However, there were still over three thousand people in line in front of us, with an estimated three and half hour wait to get in, when we arrived at 10:30 p.m., so we ended up not going in.

What was it, that made the original Nightmare scarier, than being chased through the dark woods by axe murderers, or re-enactments of Medieval torture?  The original Nightmare gave people a real you-are-there sense of the most terrible place imaginable, and the fate of those that went there.  The original Nightmare gave people a glimpse of what it was like, to be one of those trapped in the Chamber of Horrors.

The Chamber of Horrors is so terrible, that those who go there like Judas, would have been better off, if they had never been born (Mark 14:21).  The tortures there are so much worse, than any that have ever been exacted anywhere else (Luke 12:5).

Every torture ever devised by man, cannot compare to the Chamber of Horrors, because eventually death will bring an end to that suffering, while this suffering will never end (Matthew 10:28).  Those who come there, will be tormented by the tormentors, that inhabit that place, to torment all who come there, until they have paid off a debt, that they can never pay off (Matthew 18:32-35).

The Chamber of Horrors is a place where sorrows surround those in it (2 Samuel 22:6).  There is nothing but trouble and sorrow for those that enter there (Psalm 116:3).  This place is never satisfied with suffering no matter how long those trapped there have suffered (Proverbs 27:20).  Every moment there will seem like an eternity and there will be an eternity of moments.

People who enter into the Chamber of Horrors do so after their body dies but they are still conscious of their torment (Luke 16:22-24).  They will seek mercy and no one one will be able to help them because they were unmerciful in this life towards others (Luke 16:25-26).  They will seek to keep their loved ones from suffering unending torment with them (Luke 16:27-28).

Those trapped in the Chamber of Horrors are still conscious even though their bodies are dead (Isaiah 14:9). Those that enter the Chamber of Horrors go to live with those that have been there from the ages before they were born (Ezekiel 26:20).  Those that are already there will speak to those that enter after them (Ezekiel 32:21).

Those trapped in the Chamber of Horrors are completely weak and continually eaten by worms (Isaiah 14:10-11).  Those on the outside in the New Earth will view those trapped in the Chamber of Horrors and will be more sickened by the sight of their ghastly existence than anything that people can see today on Earth (Isaiah 66:22-24). 

The Chamber of Horrors burns with a fire fueled by the anger of the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) against all that reject His ways (Deuteronomy 32:22). The Chamber of Horrors is deeper than any dungeon for its cages are far below the bottom of the mountains (Jonah 2:6).  It is in the center of the Earth that is farthest below every point on the surface of the Earth (Ezekiel 31:16).  Those that are held in this prison are without any hope of escape (Job 17:15-16).

The Chamber of Horrors is a real place and not some pagan myth.  The first one to speak of it was Moses about those that turn aside to worship pagan idols (Deuteronomy 32:16-22).  The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) says that people are burned with fire in the Chamber of Horrors (Matthew 5:22).  He says that the entire body will suffer (Matthew 5:29-30).  He says that the fire there is everlasting (Matthew 18:8-9).

The Chamber of Horrors was not create originally for human beings but for the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) and the Angels of Lies (Matthew 25:41).  It was created because they tried to overthrow the Father of Truth (Isaiah 14:12-15).  It has to be enlarged for every human being that enters just like a graveyard that grows in size as people die (Isaiah 5:14).

The Spirits of Lies (devils aka demons aka gods aka unclean spirits) do not inhabit the Chamber of Horrors today but know that they will do so one day (Matthew 8:29).  They know that the Man of Truth will cause them to enter there (Mark 5:6-8).  They know that he will cast them out of the Earth and into this place of torment (Luke 8:27-29). 

Those people that align themselves with the Father of Lies because they do no honor the Father of Truth with their actions will also go into the Chamber of Horrors (Psalm 9:17).  The Father of Truth would not be just if he cast the Angels of Lies that rebelled against Him into the Chamber of Horrors but did not cast all that rebel against Him into the Chamber of Horrors (2 Peter 2:4).

The Man of Lies (The Antichrist aka The Beast) that will soon lead the world into open rebellion against His rule will enter there also (Isaiah 14:16-19).  The Man of Lies will be thrown into it when the Man of Truth comes to reign (Revelation 19:16-20).  The Father of Lies will join him in his fate at that time (Revelation 20:1-3).  A thousand years later the Man of Lies and those that are with him will still be suffering because the torment never ends in the Chamber of Horrors (Revelation 20:7-10).

There are no second chances for those that are trapped in the Chamber of Horrors.  Those that dwell in wickedness in this life will dwell forever with the wicked in the Chamber of Horrors (Psalm 55:15).  Those that go down into the Chamber of Horrors have no hope of ever knowing the truth that only comes from the Father of Truth (Isaiah 38:18).  People remain wicked forever if they die without repenting in this life (Revelation 22:11).

The Father of Truth takes no delight in sending people to the Chamber of Horrors (Ezekiel 18:23).  He longs for people to repent instead (Ezekiel 18:32).  He longs for all of the Jews to repent instead of dying the second death (Ezekiel 33:11).  He longs for all of the Gentiles to repent as well because He is not willing that any should perish in the Chamber of Horrors (2 Peter 3:9).

The Father of Truth sends dreams and visions to keep people from going to the Chamber of Horror (Job 33:14-18).  The Chamber of Horrors is so terrible that He will chastise people with sickness and pain to bring them to repentance so that they can be ransomed from it (Job 33:19-24).  He chastises them to save them from going to there (Proverbs 23:14).   He is will use any means necessary to keep people out of the Chamber of Horrors (Job 33:29-30).

Those that refuse to repent no matter how they are chastised will end up in the Chamber of Horrors (Proverbs 15:10-12).  Some may deny the existence of the Chamber of Horrors or believe that they will not end up there regardless of how they live as if they had made some sort agreement with it (Isaiah 28:15).  They will still end up there because they did not repent (Isaiah 28:18).  Those on Earth that will not listen the Word of Truth spoken through Moses and the Prophets will not be persuaded to repent to escape entering the Chamber of Horrors even though the Father of Truth has raised the Man of Truth from the dead (Luke 16:29-31).

Those that continue in rebellion after they have refused to repent have aligned themselves by their actions with the adversaries of the Father of Truth and should expect to enter the Chamber of Horrors (Hebrews 10:26-27).  The judgment that will fall on them is more sure and severe than that which came upon those that did not obey Moses (Hebrews 10:28-29).  His judgment that is meted out there is a real cause for fear (Hebrews 10:30-31).

Others go the Chamber of Horrors because they are lead away from the truth by the religious professionals (Matthew 23:15).   It has always been religious professionals that persecuted those that the Father of Truth sent to tell others to repent and they will end up there for opposing the message of repentance (Matthew 23:31-33).  Every religious professional that teaches people that they can continue in sin and be saved from the Chamber of Horrors will end up there themselves (2 Peter 2:1-3).

The truth is that it is better to lose body parts in this life in order to repent than to enter the Chamber of Horrors and suffer forever (Mark 9:43-48).  The Father of Truth will later return to health those that have repented to escape entering the Chamber of Horrors (Job 33:25-28).

The truth is that all of us have rebelled against the Father of Truth and deserve to go to the Chamber of Horrors (Psalm 14:3).  Both Jew and Gentile have rebelled (Romans 3:9-12).

The Good News is that the Father of Truth has made a way for you to never enter the Chamber of Horrors (Psalm 86:13).  Those that are willing to repent in this life will never enter there (Proverbs 15:24). The Father of Truth has provided a means for you to separate you from your sins so that you can escape going to the Chamber of Horrors (Isaiah 38:17).

The Man of Truth went to the Chamber of Horrors on your behalf (Psalm 16:10).  He did not remain there but instead was raised from the dead before his body began to decay in the grave (Acts 2:30-32).   He came to save those that were doomed to go there because His Father is not willing that any should perish there (Matthew 18:11-14).

It is not enough to admit that we have sinned to avoid going to the Chamber of Horrors but we must also repent and change our actions (Matthew 3:6-8).  Not even the Jews can escape going there without repentance for the Children of Abraham are those that act like Abraham (Luke 3:7-8).  The Man of Truth suffered so that the Gentiles could also have the opportunity to repent and escape going there (Acts 11:18).  It is not enough to be sorry for our rebellion for there is no salvation without repentance (2 Corinthians 7:10).

We cannot repent from our hearts on our strength alone.  The Spirit of Truth (HaQodesh HaRuach aka the Holy Spirit aka the Holy Ghost) must come to live in us for us to repent from the heart (Romans 8:9).  The Spirit of Truth must write the will of the Father on our hearts instead of upon tablets of stone so that we can have a repentance that everyone around us can see (2 Corinthians 3:2-4). We must have the Torah (the Law that the Father of Truth gave Moses) written on our hearts so we can obey the Father of Truth from our hearts (Hebrews 8:8-10).

We can only have the Spirit of Truth come into our heart if we come into the House of Truth by putting our trust in the Man of Truth (John 7:39). We must come into the House of Truth and submit to the Man of Truth in total surrender because we believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-10).  We can only come into the House of Truth where our actions are different if we have faith that He will save us from the Chamber of Horrors when we repent (Hebrews 11:6).

You may think that I'm trying to scare you into coming into the House of Truth by telling you about the Chamber of Horrors.  You bet I am.  It is like the slogan of the original Nightmare: "It will scare the Hell out of you.".  I have compassion on the lost and some people have the good sense to be afraid enough of the Chamber of Horrors to come into the House of Truth when they learn how to avoid going there (Jude 1:22-23).

Everyone is going to live forever somewhere whether it is with the Father of Truth in the New Earth or with the Father of Lies in the Chamber of Horrors (Daniel 12:1-3).

Come into the House of Truth.





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