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On the surface to the person who knows no different, the J W's seem like Christians. We have all had JW's come and knock on our door. Some people are rude to them and then slam the door. This makes them feel like they are in the truth and being persecuted. They are used to being rejected but every now and again they meet some one who opens their door to them and wrongly invites them in.
As I have said before people often think they are just a different branch of Christianity. This lulls them into a false sense of security. J W's are normally very polite and talk of God's love. To the unsuspecting they seem to have all the answers and most importantly the J W's will tell them what they want to hear about hell. That hell doesn't exist. Now in reality Jesus warned his disciples about hell and the eternal fires many times as recorded in the Holy Scriptures. The J W's will say some thing like "A loving God wouldn't send anyone to hell". The unlearned will often agree because they haven't been shown the big picture.
The J W's message is. Become a Jehovah Witness and spend eternity on Earth in paradise or reject the J W's message and just eventually die and cease to exist. The success of the J W's is closely related to this lie. True Christianity that teaches Heaven or Hell is seen as the lie, and as the devils religion. People swallow the lie because its what they want to hear. In reality God is love and that's exactly why he punishes sin. The ultimate punishment for sin is the second death and just like the sinner was aware of their surroundings after their first death when they found them selves in the agonies of hell. They will at the last Judgment be raised in their sinful body to stand before a Holy God. According to the Holy Scriptures the Judge is the Lord Jesus. Then the books will be opened and they will be judged by their works, which is how they had lived their lives on the earth.
In their sin they stand condemned aware of all their sin and aware of all of God's Righteousness. By the end of their Judgment they are wanting to hide but cant. Then Jesus will say to them. "Away from me I never knew you, into the the lake of fire which is the second death. Now just like before they continue to be aware of their new environment as they enter the eternal agonies of the lake of fire.
Now remember Jesus doesn't want anyone man or woman to go to hell and the lake of fire for eternity. Jesus wants all men and women to know the truth and to be forgiven and be saved. This is God's love shown at the cross. Jesus died for the worlds sin. Jesus paid the debt of mans sins. Jesus died in our place so that we could all go free and enter heaven to be with our God and creator who loves each and every one of us. We are not even to try and get saved by our own human effort of being good. We are simply to have faith in the truth. Salvation is a gift by the grace of God received by us through our faith in Jesus and the blood He shed at Calvary.
If a person has faith in the biblical truth then their faith will show its self by what they do. They will call out to Jesus as their Lord God and they will ask Jesus for His forgiveness and they will repent from living sinfully in their own way and they will turn to God and surrender to Jesus and confess Jesus is Lord. They will show their faith every day as they continue to live out their lives in the love and forgiveness of God as they continue to follow Jesus by following Jesus teachings.
Isn't God good. Yes Yes Yes. God is Good. God is kind and merciful full of grace to those who accept Him in truth, but God is a God of vengeance to the wicked who continue to reject His kindness.
Consider this. A man goes into a play ground and shoots children and teachers. The police arrive he shouts you will never take me alive coppers and puts his gun in his mouth and pulls his trigger. The J W's god says he will cease to exist. The true living God sees him in hell awaiting the Judgment and the eternal agonies of the lake of fire. God is Righteous isn't He ? Lets not die in our sin, small or great and find ourselves in hell. Lets have faith.
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