This message is in response to ademega 's post which he ended by asking a question who is going to heaven'
I ll give my response to his questions by titling my message 'who is going to Hell.'
Pls be patient with my long write up and disect each part as I post. God bless u.


In recent months in Nigeria, there have been these
videos going around in which some women
supposedly went to hell after dying, on a kind of
guided tour of the place, and I guess also of heaven.
After some time they were revived and they reported
their encounters. Their report has had a lot of people
scared and many are changing their ways.
Now, I believe there is a hell and also a lake of fire of
eternal damnation (I am not at this time making a
distinction between the two); God prepared this place
(s) for the devil and his angels (Matt 25:41). From the
context of the passage in Matthew’s gospel, we know
that God not only sends the devil and demons there
but also anyone who rejects His will in his or her lives.
For this reason it is necessary to fear lest one finds
himself or herself thrust into such a place. It has to be
a fearful place. Whether the fire is literal or figurative
is secondary to the fact that it is an established place
of torment, and it is to be feared.
Some have argued that a good God will never send
people to hell; that argument is very faulty since we
know that a good judge on the earth has to send
criminals to prison. The question is whether people
deserve it or not, not at all about the goodness of God.
For what the devil and both his spiritual and human
follows have done, they will be sent to hell, and it is
right. The goodness of God does not mean He should
shy away from applying punishment when necessary;
He must still do that which is right and just. His
goodness only means He shows a righteous form of
compassion.
To be continued...

Compassion is what makes God warn people about
these things and to provide the remedy so that all who
desire it may be delivered from the judgment to come.
“And the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to
them again and again by His messengers, because He
had compassion on His people and on His dwelling
place; but they continually mocked the messengers of
God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets,
until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people,
until there was no remedy.” 2 Chron 36:15-17 NASB*
God will send you to hell if you qualify; He won’t feel
good about it but, trust me, He will do it.
Having established the above I wish to comment on
the videos making the rounds and the response of
people to them. I have not seen any of the videos (I
don’t even know how many they are), I am therefore
only commenting on what I hear people say about
them, and what changes I have heard people make as
a result of watching the video.
I wish these videos had been generating the true fear
of God in people, but unfortunately they have not. All I
have seen is confusion created in the lives of many.
I heard it said that one of the hell visitors also went to
heaven and in heaven found very few women; when
she wondered why, she was told that it was because
of the make-up (cosmetics) most women apply to
their faces, the wearing of jewellery, together with the
use of artificial additions to their hair (attachments,
weave-on’s) and such things. For this reason many
women, upon watching these videos, have discarded
the use of all these things so they can ‘make’ heaven.
My wife told me of a woman she knows, who when
she saw recently was hard to recognize for her. The
young woman had transformed and now went without
any adornment of any sort. Her clothes had increased
markedly in length. All her adornments, jewellery and
all, had been set on fire, all so as to make heaven. I
also heard of a woman who burnt her entire set of hair
dressing equipment (she was hitherto a hair-dresser)
so as to avoid hell fire.
A number of people have come to me to ask questions
as a result of seeing both the videos themselves and
the effect in the lives of people as narrated above. As
a matter of fact, I initially didn’t feel this thing was
worthy of my comments, but since people keep asking
I decided to give a simple answer from the Bible.
To be continued....


THE BASIS OF DOCTRINE IS THE WRITTEN WORD

First of all let me say this: Doctrines are never to be
built on personal experiences. No matter the vision or
the person, doctrine must be built on the word of God.
Paul said ‘all scripture… is profitable for doctrine’ (2
Tim 3:16). The following verses of Paul are also
instructions to bear in mind.
“But even though we, or an angel from heaven, should
preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have
preached to you, let him be accursed.” Gal 1:8-9
“Don't be so easily shaken or alarmed by those who
say that the day of the Lord has already begun. Don't
believe them, even if they claim to have had a spiritual
vision, a revelation, or a letter supposedly from us.” 2
Thess 2:2-3 NLT
Visions can only confirm what is written in the word of
God. Anyone may have a vision, but it must align with
the written word of God for us to even consider acting
upon it. At least, it should not disagree with the word
of God. I don’t care who the people are; in fact the
Lord Jesus told us that it is not really necessary to
send messengers from heaven or hell to people on the
earth because there are enough preachers and
scriptures around to help people believe if they are
willing to believe (Luk 16:31). What I hear of these
recent accounts of visits to hell disagree with the word
of God.
WHEN JUDGING, GOD LOOKS HERE
Next I wish to show how God judges people.

Whenever God wants to judge, He looks at the heart.
“…for God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the
outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."
1 Sam 16:7-8
“But I, God, search the heart, and examine the mind.
“I get to the heart of the human.
“I get to the root of things.
“I treat them as they really are,
“not as they pretend to be.” Jer 17:10 THE MESSAGE
If anyone tells you that God judges and sends people
to hell because of their clothes, jewellery and make-up,
then the fellow is not talking about the God of the
Bible, the Father of our Lord Jesus. Listen, God will
NEVER send any person, man or woman, to hell
because of their outward appearance. God judges
people for having a heart of disobedience toward Him
and for the heart of wickedness in relating with their
fellow human beings.
You will not find even one place in the whole Bible,
especially in the words of Jesus, where people were
sent into damnation because of what they wore or the
jewellery they used. Anointing of faces (creams and
make-up) is not a new thing; it was practiced in the
days of Jesus, Paul and Peter and they NEVER said it
is a reason why God sends anyone into damnation.
When Peter spoke in 1 Pet 3, he was saying true
Christian beauty is not about external appearance but
the inward quality of a godly heart; it was not a ban on
dressing of hair.
Christians are supposed to dress decently and
modestly. We are to look good but not ‘sexy’ or
expose parts of our body so as to seduce people
(some parts of the body are called private for good
reasons). The Bible talked about the attire of a harlot
(Prov 7:10) and a good Christian woman will avoid
such. Once you don’t have ‘sexy’ in your heart, trying
to show us your body or vainly displaying your wealth,
then augmenting your face, using jewellery are not at
all against modest dressing (Ez 16:10-14). The
virtuous woman was described as being very well
dressed (Prov 31:22). Again let me state – the most
important dressing for a woman, and anyone for that
matter, is a fine character (Prov 31:30). I am
emphasizing however that it is not against the will of
God for a woman to be adorned externally. Decency
and modesty are the watch words of Christians. God
never said women should not wear jewellery and
therefore will not send them to hell for it. Whoever
said God told her He sent people to hell for wearing
weave-on or jewellery saw a God that is not the one of
the Bible.

To be continued...

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