From the Pastor’s Desk
For some reason the topic of “Hell” is not often taught throughout the churches today. Most people, especially Christians, feel uncomfortable when that subject is even mentioned. Yet, the very One we worship, Jesus, the Messiah/Christ chose that subject on which to speak more than any other subject – Even more than the Kingdom of Heaven. If Jesus chose to speak so much on this topic, maybe, we should follow suit. Jesus made a statement in Matthew 7:13-14, Jesus said, “Narrow is the gate that leads to life and few that find it”. Thus, most people, according to Jesus are headed to distruction. So, what does destruction look like? Jesus called it “Hell”. He also called it the eternal fire and/or eternal punishment. He said, it was a place of outer darkness and He even compared it to an eternal garbage pit called in Hebrew “Gehenna”. Most of what the world thinks about “Hell” is not necessarily scriptural. Our concept of satan and hell mostly comes to us through a book written by a man by the name of Dante (Dante’s Infernal). Today, let us look at what the scriptures have to say concerning the reality of a place called “Hell”.