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One way to recognize the different sides in this spiritual war is to focus on the nature of, and emotional response toward the actions that each opposing group utilizes to advance their cause, as well as the spiritual and physical fruit they generate. If the actions, emotions and fruit that one side generates is completely positive and full of love, kindness and mercy, it's a sure sign that God and His Angels are fighting on and for that side. This is why all believers in Christ today need to be taught, and need to remember that our Heavenly Father God is Love, and that means He never, ever hates! As it says in Scripture:
John 3:16-18 ~ “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
1 John 4:7-10 ~ “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.”Though it does not refer to Hell, John 3:18 says that those who reject Christ are condemned, and this means that they are condemned to Hell. Nonetheless, God is love, as 1 John 4:8 states, so He does not hate sinners, and He doesn't even hate Satan or his demons. But because God is holy, He hates sin and evil and the evil actions and consequences they produce, and He can't allow unrepentant sinners and inherently evil beings into His presence, or into Heaven, or into His everlasting Kingdom. This is why those who never repent from sin and evil are excluded and separated from God for all eternity.
Of course, there are those in the Body of Christ that like to throw a wrench in this argument stating that God is Love and does not hate anyone by bringing up Malachi Chapter 1, Verses 2 and 3. Here, the Prophet Malachi describes the fact that Yahweh God loved Isaac’s son Jacob but hated his fraternal twin brother Esau:
~*~ Malachi 1:2-3 ~*~
“I have loved you,” says the Lord.
“Yet you say, ‘In what way have You loved us?’
Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?”
Says the Lord.
“Yet Jacob I have loved;
3 But Esau I have hated,
And laid waste his mountains and his heritage
For the jackals of the wilderness.”
To explain what is meant by the word "hate" in the preceding Bible verses and others like it in God's Word, let me show you by the way of analogy: Say that you decide you dislike or HATE chocolate, which is made from milk or oil, cocoa powder and sugar. Does this mean you hate the physical constituents of the chocolate found in the milk, oil, sugar and cocoa, or that you hate its taste? For most people, it would mean they dislike or hate the TASTE, but not the ingredients. So let’s look at it this way: Sin tastes disgusting to God. He hates the rotting stench and taste of sin and all it produces! That is why God hated Esau and loved Jacob. Another example of this kind of hate is found in the Gospel of Luke:
Luke 14:26 ~ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.”The word translated as hate in this passage is the Greek word "miseo", which more properly means to detest or renounce, as in renouncing one's loyalty to one person or family for another. So in essence, Yahshua is saying that we must renounce our loyalty to our family in order to become part of the family of God. As Yahshua's born again disciples, we are no longer orphans, or members of an ordinary family, but are royal heirs and priests like our Messiah and King Yahshua, who is in the everlasting priestly order of "Melchizedek", meaning "King of Righteousness" - Whom Yahshua certainly is. We are fellow priests below Him in order, but equipped to do just as He did if we have faith and believe.
Luke 14:26 also asks us to hate or renounce our lives. This means that we are to forsake whatever dreams and ambitions we may have had before our spiritual conversion by faith and baptism by Yahshua's Spirit, and ask our Heavenly Father what His Will is for our lives, and what direction He wants us to take. We have to be willing to let go of everything that we previously held dear before our conversion in order to grasp the full measure of God's glorious plans for each and every one of us. We all have a potential place in God's Kingdom that we will love more than anything we could have chosen for ourselves because God loves us and knows us better than we know ourselves. We just have to trust Him with our whole hearts, and move forward in the directions that only He can take us in, and make us successful in as we listen to and heed the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit within us.
Though the Bible may say that God hated someone and loved another, and that we ought to hate others in favor of loving God, we are not to hate the person, but the lack of repentance within that person. Esau hated Jacob for his deception in procuring Esau's blessing and birthright, but God still chose Jacob because Jacob had a loving and repentant heart, while Esau had a bad character, and was unworthy to receive the honor of the firstborn. Unrepentant sinners are excluded from God's Kingdom not because God hates them, but because He can't stand to look at their rebellion and sin! Even before death, we can be separated from the light and love of God by our open rebellion against His commandments, and the only way to return to right fellowship with God so that He will hear our prayers and petitions is to repent or turn away from sin, and make amends to those we have hurt when necessary.
Satan and his demons are allowed to promote sin and evil, and they are controlled in what they can and cannot do to humanity by God (Ephesians 6:10-13). But their promotion of sin is hated by God, and because Satan and his demons will never repent, they have and will continue to convince many to rebel against God. They do this by coaxing people to see them as Angels of Light teaching the lie that the nature of God is to give us pleasure at all costs, and without moral restrictions of any kind. So people that are thus deceived sell out to the Devil to enjoy the carnal pleasures of this life with the false notion that Hell is just more of the same carnality - for all eternity. This is why the Apostle Peter said:
“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” ~ 1 Peter 5:8But this idea that Hell is a place of pleasure is a blatant lie. The Bible clearly describes Hell as a Lake of Fire filled with brimstone that stinks with sulfur and rotting flesh infected with maggots that all unrepentant sinners are destined to spend eternity in. But it's not God that will make Hell so everlastingly hot and unpleasant, but Satan and his demons! This is because Satan hates humanity with such an enormous amount of hatred that he is willing to suffer eternal torment in a prison of his own making that is the EXACT OPPOSITE of everything that God is. God is Living Water, the Bread of Life, the Resurrection and the Life, and the Light of the World. Satan is unquenchable fire, decay and death, starvation and thirst, and everlasting darkness! This is why the Apostle John said:
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” ~ John 10:10The point I am trying to make here is that God's nature is always filled with pure spiritual Love, and He loves His spiritual children that are born again in Christ so much that He wants to defend and protect them and avenge them against all their enemies. But even so, God has stayed His hand for millennia against those who persecute and hurt those who love and follow Him and His Son. But there will come a time when He can stand no more and His wrath will be poured out on all the wicked that killed, hated, tortured, maimed, raped and mocked His children.
Because of His great mercy and love, God does not want to cast any people into Hell with Satan and his demons. In fact, this is WHY Yahweh God sent His pure and spotless Son Yahshua or Jesus to serve as our Atonement sacrifice for sin once and for all time. Christ died so that we could regain Paradise, and regain fellowship with God forever. But for those who refuse to accept Christ's perfect sacrifice, God's perfect righteousness and purity won't allow Him to stand the presence of carnality, evil or sin.
God loves all the angels and the fallen angels too, including Satan. But He is also a God of perfect Justice. The angels knew better, so the ones that chose to sin did so willfully from the beginning after knowing God fully. But they still could have been saved if they had not slept with human women and created the Nephilim monsters with demon spirits before the Great Flood, which was sent to wipe the Nephilim out and stop their genetic corruption of mankind. This infraction of God's Will sealed their fate for all eternity. God will never forgive them. It is not a matter of Hate, however, but of Justice.
For perfect Divine Justice to be met, our Father God in Heaven is going to be forced to leave those who choose to be carnal, evil and selfish to suffer in a place without His Love forever, and that horrifying place was initially created only to house the angels that sinned and the demonic Nephilim that killed and ate mankind. But for wicked people that refuse to repent, Hell will also become their final destination in eternity. Just as the actions of these angels and the Nephilim were the exact opposite of love, Hell is the exact opposite of God's Love in every respect. So we ALL need to remember that our choices on this Earth have everlasting consequences, and Hell is a real place that is filled with unspeakable hatred and evil that many will suffer in forever:
Revelation 14:11 ~ “And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.”
Revelation 20:10 ~ “And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”The two preceding passages tell us that there is a real place of fiery torment that will exist forever for those who hate God, and despise His love and light. God did create Hell, but it was never meant to punish humanity, but only the Beast, False Prophet, the Devil, the Fallen Angels, and the demonic spirits of the Nephilim. The only reason any human being will be cast into Hell is because of refusing to relinquish their rebellion against God. They do this because they have sworn their allegiance to Satan, and the darkness of sin and evil. This is why we are called to love our enemies and bless those who curse us (See Matthew 5:43-48). We are called to try and save the lost by being bold and witnessing to them. Indeed, if we don't love others that are unsaved by preaching the Gospel of Salvation to them and showing them the love of God, we risk going to Hell ourselves for being ashamed to show our faith in, and allegiance to Christ (See Mark 8:38).
DON'T BE DECEIVED! CHOOSE TO FOLLOW CHRIST, AND TO LOVE INSTEAD OF HATE ALWAYS, AND YOU WILL AVOID HELL, AND LIVE FOREVER WITH GOD ONE DAY!
Written With Love From
Your Sister in Yahshua,
Helena Lehman,
Scholar, Author and Artist for
The Language of God Book Series, and
Webmaster for the Pillar of Enoch Ministry Site
Ministry Web Site: http://pillar-of-enoch.com
Helena Lehman,
Scholar, Author and Artist for
The Language of God Book Series, and
Webmaster for the Pillar of Enoch Ministry Site
Ministry Web Site: http://pillar-of-enoch.com
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