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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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Four Busy Days

Have you ever wondered what went on between the time when the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) died and when he appeared to his Apostles after his resurrection?

When was the Man of Truth dead anyways?

The Man of Truth said that he would be in the heart of the Earth for three days and three nights (Matthew 12:40).  The Man of Truth was dead before sunset on the day of preparation when the Passover lambs were slain for the high Sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened bread when the Passover meal was to be eaten (Mark 15:42-44).  When Mary Magdalene arrived before sunrise on the first day of the week (Sunday) she found that the Man of Truth had already rose from the dead (John 20:1-2). 

So the Man of Truth was dead all of three nights (Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night) and all of three days (Thursday day, Friday day, Saturday day) as he had said.  He actually died on Wednesday shortly before sunset and rose again on Sunday sometime after the three AM change of the Roman guards and before Mary Magdalene arrived which was before sunrise.  

So why do people celebrate Good Friday if the Man of Truth died on Wednesday?

Good Friday was a pagan holiday that has nothing to do with the actual death of the Man of Truth.  The lie that the Man of Truth died on a Friday was made to fit a pagan calendar that came from Babylonian sun god worship.  This lie was easy to perpetrate on people that did not understand the meaning of the word "Sabbath".  Sabbath means "Ceasing", not "seventh", and any day that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) commands that people cease from their normal activity to carryout His activity is called the Sabbath regardless of which day of the week it occurs on.  It was not the regular weekly Sabbath that started on Friday night when the Man of Truth had to be buried before it started but it was instead the high Sabbath (the First day of the Feast of Unleavened bread started on Wednesday night that year) that started on the evening after the Preparation day when the Passover lamb was killed. 

This lie that the Man of Truth died on a Friday like all lies ultimately came from the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan aka The Devil) (John 8:44).  The Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) should want nothing that belongs to the Father of Lies in their lives so they can be like the Man of Truth (John 14:30).  The Father of Truth desires that the Children of Truth walk in the truth (3 John 1:4)

What happened to the body of the Man of Truth during these three days?

Notice that his body was in a grave near the surface of the Earth while he was in the heart of the Earth (Matthew 27:58-60).  The women came to the tomb at the beginning of the fourth day after the death of the Man of Truth so they could perfume the body of the Man of Truth before decay set in (Luke 24:1).  Decay does not set in until the fourth day after death in the dry climate around Jerusalem (John 11:38-39).  The body of the Son of Man did not experience any decay because he was resurrected (Acts 2:31).

What did the Man of Truth do while he was in the heart of the Earth?

When Abraham was told to burn Isaac, who was a picture to the Man of Truth, after slaying him on a platform of wood (Genesis 22:8-10).  In like manner the sin sacrifice, which was a picture of the Man of Truth, was to be burned with fire after it was slain (Exodus 29:16-18).  The Lowest Hell is a place where the Father of Truth pours out the fire of His wrath upon those that under His curse (Deuteronomy 32:22).  The Man of Truth was also burned in the Lowest Hell before he was delivered (Psalm 86:13).  Hell is down from every point on the surface of the Earth because it is in the heart of the Earth (Ezekiel 31:17).  The Father of Truth casts all into the Lowest Hell that are under His curse (Luke 12:5).  The Lowest Hell is where the rich man suffered when he looked up to see Abraham (Luke 16:22-24).  Shaul (Saul aka Paul) was willing to suffer in Hell under the curse of the Father of Truth in the place of Israel and it is not possible that Shaul loved Israel more than the Man of Truth loved the entire human race (Romans 9:2-4).   The Man of Truth was under the curse of the Father of Truth in our place because he had been hung on a tree (Galatians 3:13).  The Man of Truth went to the Lowest Hell before he ascended (Ephesians 4:9). This is how far the Man of Truth was willing to go because of his love for you.

The Man of Truth was not just a tourist in Hell - he was there on a mission.  All that time the Man of Truth trusted that the Father of Truth would not leave him in Hell (Psalm 16:10).  The Man of Truth came to Hell to end the captivity of the Children of Truth in the Upper Hell so that the Father of Truth might dwell among them (Psalm 68:18). While the Man of Truth was in the Lowest Hell he could see the righteous in the Upper Hell where the Children of Truth waited (Luke 16:25-26).  This is the paradise where the repentant thief went to after he died (Luke 23:41-43). While the Man of Truth was in the Lowest Hell he preached to the spirits of the Angels of Lies that were destroyed before the flood of Noah (1 Peter 3:19-20). The Man of Truth then preached the Gospel to those that had died and were in the Upper Hell so that they could believe the Gospel (1 Peter 4:6).

Once the work of the Man of Truth in Hell was over, the Father of Truth called him home to finish the job of saving the human race.  The Father of Truth released the Man of Truth from Hell when He raised him from the dead (Acts 2:24-27).  When the Man of Truth left Hell he took those that had been held captive in the Upper Hell with him (Ephesians 4:8).   The Man of Truth took the keys of death and Hell with him when he left Hell (Revelation 1:18).

When did the Man of Truth appear to the Apostles?

The Man of Truth did not show himself to his Apostles until the fourth day was ending (Sunday evening) (John 20:19).

What did the Man of Truth do between when he rose before sunrise of the fourth day (Sunday morning) and when he showed himself to his Apostles (Sunday evening)?

The Man of Truth waited for his Apostles to leave the tomb (John 20:10).  Then the Man of Truth revealed that he had been resurrected to Mary Magdalene shortly after sunrise when the gardeners showed up (John 20:14-16).  The Man of Truth would not let Mary touch him because he had to ascend to where his father was to finish the job of saving the human race (John 20:17). The Man of Truth had to ascend to the Highest Heaven just as he had descended to the Lowest Hell so he could fill all things (Ephesians 4:10).  When he ascended into the Highest Heaven he entered the Holy Place to pour out his own blood to complete our redemption from sin (Hebrews 9:11-12). The Tabernacle and the two Temples had only been copies on Earth to mirror the real Temple in Heaven where the blood of the Man of Truth would permanently remove sin instead of only temporarily covering sin up (Hebrews 9:23-26). Every burnt offering from Abel forward was only a demonstration on Earth of the offering that the Man of Truth would make complete in Heaven (Hebrews 12:22-24).

Was this resurrection of the Man of Truth a one time event or is there more to come?

The Father of Truth made sure that everyone understood that the Man of Truth had freed the Children of Truth from death.  The Father of Truth resurrected some of the Children of Truth that had been buried in Jerusalem after he had resurrected the Man of Truth (Matthew 27:52-53).  These were probably ones that had died recently like Lazarus and the repentant thief since David, who had died about a thousand years earlier, was not resurrected (Acts 2:29).  All of the Children of Truth will be raised from the dead so that death will be completely swallowed up in victory (1 Corinthians 15:54-55).  Since the Man of Truth was resurrected all the Children of Truth go to Heaven to be with the Man of Truth when they die instead of being held captive in the Upper Hell (2 Corinthians 5:8).  The Man of Truth had died to destroy the power of the Father of Lies to hold people captive by the fear of death (Hebrews 2:14-15).  The Man of Truth was only the firstborn of those that will be resurrected from the dead (Colossians 1:18).  One day, all the Children of Truth that have died will also be resurrected right before those Children of Truth that are still alive are given an incorruptible body without first dying (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17).  Finally, those that Children of Truth that come into the House of Truth afterwards will be resurrected right before the Man of Truth begins his reign over the Earth as the last phase of the first resurrection (Revelation 20:4-6).

Sadly, there is another resurrection for those that do come into the House of Truth and remain there (Daniel 12:2).  This resurrection is for those that neglect to come into the House of Truth after all that the Man of Truth has done to save them (Hebrews 2:2-4).  This resurrection is for those that remained Children of Lies so that they can spend eternity with the Father of Lies because they would not come into the House of Truth (Revelation 20:10-15).

Which resurrection will you have?

You can have the first resurrection if you will come into the House of Truth by giving the Man of Truth control over every aspect of your life because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-11).  You can have the better resurrection if you will refuse to leave the House of Truth under any circumstances (Hebrews 11:35-36).

Come into the House of Truth.


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