6/21/2005

It was Zoro's idea

Tuesday June 28th, Revelation 20: They marched across the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of God's people, the city he loves. But fire came down from heaven and devoured them. And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. It is tempting to carry in the image that all the evil people in the world will end up in the lake of fire. Tempting, but not true. It is also a problem as that goes back to that first temptation in the garden about wanting to be in control and playing god. First the lake of fire was a development in the concept of hell which goes from not being mentioned in the Old Testament to being fully developed into a 7 level system of heaven and hell some time later. Dante in “The Inferno” and Mills in “Paradise Lost” seem to have more to do with our modern idea of hell than does scripture. Most of the concepts of hell, including the burning lake of fire in Revelation, come from an earlier religion called Zoroastrianism which developed in what is now central Iran. As for the message in Revelation, it is something like this. God is in charge, don’t mess, Get it!!!! All else is window dressing.

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