Posted on 05/01/2014 6:46:08 AM PDT by NYer
No. That is the Last Judgement.
I had a tour of a museum in France, and the museum tour guide explained a 3 panel painting from an earlier century. The right panel was full of light and a few people moving toward the high point. The middle panel was missing. The last panel was in black and white very dreary and showed many people going downwards (falling) and miserable. I don’t remember all that she said, but the picture is still in my mind as an indication of Heaven and Hell.
I had a new friend a couple of years ago that had a very serious heart attack and was in overtime that most of the medical team wanted to declare death, but the doctor continued. He recalls seeing a few happy people going upwards and many falling downwards from an out of body experience. He recovered, but his story reminded me of the painting.
I had a friend that we would discuss (argue) about politics and the Catholic Church. He had his mind made up and logic and reason didn’t seem to find an opening. He was a bapitzed Catholic, but denied God and religion. I spent time with him the day before he died and offered to have a priest visit, but was refused. I have concerns of where he is now.
I do believe in Heaven and Hell. Even with God’s Divine Mercy, there is a Last Judgment.
We can imagine the pain and suffering that Jesus went through on the cross. Do we understand the pain and suffering that he suffers when we sin and reject GOD?
What judgement did the priest experience?
How do you know? Have you had a NDE? There are people in hell ... with satan ... right now. You chose to disregard the message from St. Faustina. Stories of Hell- How the holy fear of hell has made countless Saints
You earlier states that satan is not in hell. Mt 25:41.
Mrs.Don-o
I have accepted Jesus as my one and only savior.
I admit my sins and transgressions and am trying to be a better person and Christian every day.
I am glad to read this, and humbled. Please pray for me, too, that I may be mindful of this, trust Jesus, and every day try to please Him, my Lord and my God.
Hmmmmmmmmm..... Wonder how the Lord interprets rich????
Both my in laws died in the last two years.
They taught me a bucket load, placing their fates in the hands of Jesus. Both died of terrible cancer deaths, neither needed drugs to abate any pain, there just wasn’t any.
Mom told me she’d see me soon and smiled.
Amen.
Yes, a particular judgment at the moment of your death and the final judgment when the sheep are separated from the goats.
“How do you know?”
Because the imagery in that verse is unmistakeable and matches exactly with the imagery of all the other verses that depict the second coming and the last judgement.
“You chose to disregard the message from St. Faustina.”
Not disregard it, I disbelieved it, because she contradicted the Word of God. God can’t be wrong, therefore she must have been.
“You earlier states that satan is not in hell. Mt 25:41.”
Matthew 25:41 doesn’t contradict what I said. I said Satan is not in hell, present tense. Matthew 25:41 says Satan will be in hell, future tense. There is no contradiction. Hell is prepared for Satan, but right now he is walking the Earth, as depicted multiple times in the Bible (Matt 4:1-11, Job 2:2, Rev 12:9). He will only be in hell after he is put there, which doesn’t happen until Revelation 20:10, after Christ’s return.
Ah, so you agree that Mt 25:31 depicts the last judgement, but you still question me about that when I state it? Why exactly would you do that? Just to be contrary?
I agree there are two judgments. One separates the living from the dead. Dead means annihilated.
The living go to the Great White Throne judgement. In some mysterious way what we do in this life affects our experience in the eternal life. I think that’s what the phrase “store up gold in Heaven” is talking about.
But when you die you leave this space time continuum and you don’t come back. I don’t know what these near deathers are experiencing but it’s not the death we all will face.
Thank you.
Man dies for his own sins. There is no other way.
No one is going to wind up in hell because it does not exist.
Where in the “Old” Testament does it say there is an eternal hell? It is UNBIBLICAL.
The Hebrew Scriptures came first, BTW.
Judaism came around LONG before Christianity.
If you will check the Bible you will find that hell is mentioned by Christ more than heaven is.
Don’t forget to look for
netherworld
Gehenna
Hades
Sheol
and other names for hell too.
Many of them testify that they were told it was not yet their time to die.
-— you will find that hell is mentioned by Christ more than heaven is. -—
It’s hard to see how Truth Himself would warn us of a non-existent danger.
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