Not saved from hell...

I am increasingly alarmed at the fast moving and yet insidious teaching that 'now is the time to be saved from hell'. I have heard so many times this past 6 months or more of how 'God is saving people from hell every day', 'Another soul pulled from the gates of hell', 'Another one God pulled from the brink of hell today'....

In short that is a lie, straight from the pitts of hell and both catholic and baptist doctrine. It is eating up the air time of far too many Apostolics/Pentecostals in far too many countries. It is (as many traditional untruthful teachings), that which was heard, sounds good and thus repeated. It remains both unbiblical and unsound.

In long, I will explain...
God's desire, determination, intention and destination was never to save people from hell. Whilst tradition teaches hell is the great separation from God, God said different. Psalms 139:7 Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? :8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. While hell is real, it never did and never will separate us from God, and He did not say he would come save us there. He will be there anyway as it is part of His territory.

Transgression separates us from God, sin hides His face from us that He will not hear (Isaiah 59:2). Lets define Sin... It is breaking or transgressing the law of God, which the bible says is the ten commandments (1John 3:4). Sin is an archery term defining by how much you miss the target. When the arrow was shot, someone would check where it landed and call back to the archer you sinned by this much in this direction. It was to allow the archer to readjust and fire at the target again hoping this time to hit the bullseye. For us, the target is to uphold or keep the law of God, striving to hit that bullseye, and learning how far we have sinned so that we may readjust, regroup, realign and strive again.

Lets define transgression... It is a total disregard for the fact that there is a target. It says I will shoot where I will, when I will, how I will, and in this I will not miss the target because I was not aiming at it. It has such blatant disregard that it chooses random targets, random firing ranges and takes no heed for what is in its line of fire. Both Sin and Transgression lead to the same result, missing Gods set target for people. Those that profess to love Him and those that do not. Denying or ignoring the target doesnt change the penalty from a just God.

In the old testament there are multiple examples (look and you will find them) of sacrifices made to bridge the gap between God and man. Those sacrifices were never known as hell offering, they did not remove hell from ones life. They were Sin offerings, to remove the death of sin from the lives of God's people. Jesus (God in the flesh) came for the same purpose, for the saving of His people from their sins (Matthew 1:21). For the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23).

Job 10:14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity (Iniquity meaning nothingness, trouble, wickedness, affliction). The reason we obey the gospel is because we break any one of the ten commandments listed in the law of God. We sin. In order: We repent... of our breaking the law of God. We are baptised for the remission of our sins to wash away that mark which blemishes us. We receive the gift of the Holy Spirit/Holy Ghost by which God writes His law on our hearts and minds that we will be ever mindful of them (Hebrews 10:16), and HE will be our God and we shall be His people (Jeremiah 31:33).

IF when Jesus returns we are found with unremitted sins, and are separated as goats, hell is the final destination...

If there were no law, there would be no sin. If you want to discuss this further, please feel free to email me.... ajsfound@gmail.com

God bless you.