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The First Vision
Gehenna
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"Now there was a rich man, and he
habitually dressed in purple and finelinen, joyously living in splendor every
day. 20"And a poor man named
Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered
with sores, 21and longing to be fed withthe crumbs which were falling from the
rich man's table; besides, even the dogs
were coming and licking his sores.Luke 16:19
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"Now the poor man died and was
carried away by the angelsto Abraham's bosom; and the
rich man also died and was
buried. 23"In Hades he lifted uphis eyes, being in torment, and
saw Abraham far away and
Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 16:22
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"And he cried out and said,
'FatherAbraham, have mercyon me, and send Lazarus so
that he may dip the tip of his
finger in water and cool off mytongue, forI am in agony in this
flame.'
Luke 16:23
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"But Abraham said, 'Child, remember
that during your life you received yourgood things, and likewise Lazarus bad
things; but now he is being comforted
here, and you are in agony. 26'And
besides all this, between us and youthere is a great chasm fixed, so that
those who wish to come over from here
to you will not be able, and that nonemay cross over from there to us.'
Luke 16:24
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And death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire.This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was notfound written in the book of
life was cast into the lake offire.
Revelation 20:14-15
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And the third angel followed
them, saying with a loud voice, Ifany man worship the beast and
his image, and receive [his] mark
in his forehead, or in his hand, 10The same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is
poured out without mixture into
the cup of his indignation;
Revelation 14:9
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and he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of theholy angels, and in the presence of
the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up for ever andever: and they have no rest day nor
night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whosoever receiveth themark of his name.
Revelation 14:10b
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The Bible speaks of two
destinations for those whohave died separated from
God. In English we use thesame word for both - Hell
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Hades is the name used for the place
that the rich man was. It was a placethat all the dead went and it had two
states. One was paradise. The other
was torment. We are told that theyare separated by an impassable
barrier. There is some
communication between the twobecause Abraham spoke with the
Rich man.
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Hades is a temporary
place the dead reside
until the finaljudgment.
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Jesus went to Hades
after he died. He
went to Paradise.
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And he was saying, "Jesus,
remember me when Youcome in Your kingdom!43A
nd He said to him,"Truly
Isay to you, today you shall
be with Me in Paradise.
Luke 23:42-43
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But he also visited the place of
those who were separatedfrom God.
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For Christ also died for sins once for all,
the just for the unjust, so that Hemight bring us to God, having been put
to death in the flesh, but made alive in
the spirit; 19in which also He went and
made proclamation to the spirits now inprison, 20who once were disobedient,
when the patience of God kept waiting
in the days ofN
oah, during theconstruction of the ark . . .
1 Peter3:18-21
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The final resting place
for those who are
separated from Godby unredeemed sin is
what Jesus calledGehenna.
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In the book of
Revelation it is
spoken of in thepassages we read as
the lake of fire.
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It is crucial to understand that
the concept of Gehenna didnot actually come into being
untilJesus. He was the onewho taught there would be
permanent, eternal
consequences to rejectingthe mercy God offered
through him.
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"But I say to you that everyone who
is angry with his brother shall beguilty before the court; and
whoever says to his brother, 'You
good-for-nothing,' shall be guiltybefore the supreme court; and
whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be
guilty enough to go into the fieryhell (Gehenna).Matthew 5:22
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"If your right eye makes you
stumble, tear it out and throwit from you; for it is better for
you to lose one of the partsof your body, than for your
whole body to be thrown
into hell. (Gehenna).Matthew 5:2918:9 & Mark 9:45
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"If your right hand makes
you stumble, cut it off andthrow it from you; for it is
better for you to lose oneof the parts of your body,
than for your whole bodyto go into hell. (Gehenna).Matthew 5:30
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"If your foot causes you to
stumble, cut it off; it isbetter for you to enter life
lame, than, having yourtwo feet, to be cast
into hell (Gehenna) Mark 9:45
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"Do not fear those who
kill the body but are
unable to kill the soul;
but rather fear Him who
is able to destroy both
soul and body in hell.(Gehenna).
Matthew 10:28 & Luke 12:5
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You serpents, you
brood of vipers, how
will you escape thesentence of hell?
(Gehenna) Matthew 23:33
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"Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites,because you travel around
on sea and land to makeone proselyte; and when he
becomes one, you make him
twice as much a son of hell(Gehenna) as yourselves.
Matthew 23:15
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I see that often the doctrine
of hell is used to venthostility towards others
who are believed to be ina different place
concerning the love ofGod.
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I once used it that way. I
would go out on thestreets to witness to
people about Jesus love.Invariably I would tell them
if they did not receive Himthey would suffer eternally
for it.
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And that is exactly true. If
we do not respond to thisgreat call of mercy to be
reconciled to God we willremain separated from
God for all eternity andthat is Hell Gehenna.
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But as I shared this horrible
truth my heart was proud.I was not a man desperate
to see people taken fromthat place. In my insecurity
Iwanted people torespond to my message.
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One night God told me to
never come out again towitness until I could talk to
every person that I metlike I would speak to my
mother.
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I understood what He told
me that night perfectly. Itwas not the doctrine of
Hell that was the problem,it was my heart.
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Jesus warned of Gehenna
because it was a realplace that people would
end if they did not listen.Not out of a proud self
righteousness or todenounce others but out
of love.
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on May 9,1980 in the early morning fog
the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida
was crashed into by the ship Summit
Venture. This ship toppled half of it
causing rush hour traffic to plunge
suddenly into the Gulf of Mexico.
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A bus driver was unable to see the end of the
bridge and drove off the bridge into the sea.
Six other cars did the same. Thirty-five
people were instantly killed but one driver
clung in a death-defying balance on the
edge of the boat his truck had fallen ontoand survived.
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Another car having seen that the top of
the bridge was gone slammed on his
brakes and stopped 14 inches short of
the edge. The passengers got out of the
car and desperately sought to stop
traffic.
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The Pilot of the boat,
Capt. Lerro had onlyone thing on his
mind in the secondsafter the crash. He
screamed over theradio to the coast
guard:
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Lerro: Get emergency . . . all the
emergency equipment out to theSkyway bridge. Vessel has just hit
the Skyway bridge. The Skyway
bridge is down! Get all emergencyequipment out to the Skyway
bridge. The Skyway bridge is down.
This is Mayday. Emergencysituation. Stop the traffic on that
Skyway bridge!"
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Captain Lerro had the
heart that Jesus has
about warning people
of the disaster ahead ifthey do not turn from
the path they are on.
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Gehenna isseparation from
God and all that isgood.
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I
nJ
esus dayGehenna was the
city dump ofJerusalem.
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I
t got its name fromthe Hebrew words
Gai Hinnom TheValley of Hinnom.
Aramacized toGehenna.
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Because of the wickedness
practiced in the Valley ofHinnom it became a
desecrated parcel of landthat became Jerusalem's
garbage dump.
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At night the continual fires of
spontaneous combustion lit thewhole area. By day maggots
and worms openly ate the
refuse. This was the symbolJesus used for the final
condition and resting place for
those who refused to turn
(repent) from sin and turn to
Him.
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"If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it
is better for you to enter life crippled, than,
having your two hands, to go intohell, intothe unquenchable fire, 44[where THEIR
WORM DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS
NOT QUENCHED.] 45"If your foot causes you
to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you toenter life lame, than, having your two feet, to
be cast into hell, 46[where THEIR WORM
DOES NOT DIE, AND THE FIRE IS NOT
QUENCHED.]
Mark 9:43-46
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The acts which so
defiled this place
were not God'sdesire:
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"They have built the high places
of Topheth, which is in thevalley of the son of Hinnom,
to burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire, which I didnot command, and it did not
come into My mind.
Jeremiah 7:31
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Now let your faith that the
scriptures are the Word of theLiving God and can be trusted
fully take hold of your mind right
now and see what they tell us.God did not desire for people to
put their precious children on to
the altars ofBaal they erected
in the Valley of Hinnom.
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He did not desire for them to burn
them while still alive in ademonic sacrfice to a god that
was murderous. Their hearts
were so calloused by theirdeception that they could not
have compassion on the most
innocent and helpless beings
on earth..... their own children.
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The Bible says this horror did not
even come into His mind. It wasnot an act of His sovereignty. It
was not something He stood by
and did nothing about. It wasthe act of a depraved humanity
that rebelled against His will
and brought about actions
which He hates.
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It will be this image that we need
to understand if we are tounderstand the wrath of God.
He loved every single little child
that was sacrificed on the AltarofBaal erected in Gai Hinnom.
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Every soul that has lived bears a
potential of this horror inside ofthemselves no matter how
much we look on the outside. It
is the horror of sin thatseparates us from the only
source of life - God.
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When our first parents
turned from God they
were separated fromHim. This is death.
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but from the tree of the
knowledge of good andevil you shall not eat, for in
the day that you eat fromit you will surely die.
Genesis 2:17
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If we do not turn to Him
to receive the mercy Hepurchased with His
lifes blood we willremain separated from
Him forever.
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Eternally Alone
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If however we turn from
following our own waysand turn to Jesus we will
never be alone.
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I will never leave
you nor forsake
you.Hebrews 13:5
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Humans are created for
relationship:
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Then the LORD God said, "It is
not good for the man to be alone;I will make him a helper suitable
for him."
Genesis 2:18
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Of all creation Godsaid, It is good except
the man He createdbeing alone.
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This is not just
about a man andwoman.
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It is not primarily
about the need forromantic intimacy.
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It is about the
deepest need of
the human heart.
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To be in
relationship.
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To not be alone
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We are created for
relationship.
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God created uswith the need of
Him and each
other.
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Perhaps one of themost horrible
experiences of life is tobe alone.
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Loneliness can hurt sodeeply that it can scar
us for life.
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When we do notunderstand Gods love
for us we can be drivento doing anything to
keep someone in ourlife.
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The list of activities thatgrow out of this deepest
need is so long it wouldtake weeks to discuss
them.
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But the foundation of all
of them is met in Jesusfirst and then in loving
those who He calls usto love.
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No matter how few ormany people we have
in our lives that love usHe always does.
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Even when our parentsare gone or do not love
us He is there.
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Though my fatherand
motherforsake me,the LORD will receive
me.
Psalm 27:10
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Even if the dearestfriend we have ever had
fails in their love for usHe will not.
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I will never leave
you nor forsake
you.Hebrews 13:5
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The heart of the gospel
message is the love ofGod shown on a cross.
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The primary reason for
the cross is found in thepassage we read from
John 15..
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Greater love has no one
than this, that one lay
down his life for his
friends.
John 15:13
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Having spent time on
earth giving away his
life he completed thegiving by dying for his
friends including youand me.
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This is the mystery of
fulfillment that the world
has no conception of.
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Jesus who gave the
most of Himself was the
least alone person in
the world.
The one who selfishly
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The one who selfishly
looks out only for hisown interests and takes
for himself withoutgiving back to God and
others grows more andmore isolated.
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It is actually very simple
to see and understand
yet it leaves many
totally baffled.
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So the mystery ofbelonging is
unveiled.
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When I selfishly take for
myself from others I end upfurther and further into the
place of aloneness andalienation.
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WhenI
give my life forJ
esusand others I grow deeper and
deeper into His love that
cannot be measured.
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I believe aloneness isthe essence of
Gehenna The Lake of Fire
Hell.
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Aplace where the eternal partof the human who has never
allowed itself to be given back
to God spends in an eternal
separation from God and
others.
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A place that will be fully
revealed in the end of timebut is seen and felt in every
act of selfishness andunkindness.
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A place of
EternalA
loneness
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Ifirst came to understand thiswhen I was just beginning my
relationship with the Lord.
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I was going through a time ofdeep humbling in my life in
facing what I had done before
and afterI had found Jesus.
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Iknew so well the reality ofsin and felt keenly that it
needed to be radically
removed from my life.
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Ihad not yet found the powerto overcome some of the
terribly ingrained habits that
had been imprinted on my life
before receiving Jesus.
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For several weeksI
wasasking God to help me hate
sin.
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Night after night
Iprayed forhours that God would free me
from the evil in my heart.
Night after night I grew more
convinced that I could not just
will it away.
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My friends at the church I
attended cautioned me that Iwas getting too concerned about
this. After all, they said, your
sins are forgiven. But the cry of
my heart was not that my sins
would just be forgiven but that Iwould truly change.
O i h I i I
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One night as I went to pray again I
pressed into God with all my heart.Suddenly it was as ifI was taken
into a very dark room. It seemed like
the darkness fell over my wholebeing. Then I saw what seemed like
fire that began to spread across the
whole of my vision.
A it f d it
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As it came more focused it was a
lake of fire.Ibegan to panic. Mywhole body began to shake and I
felt fear like I had only once before
had known. I was paralyzed in itsgrip. The inferno seemed white hot
and raging like no fire on earth that I
have ever seen.
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It was as ifI was moving along just
above the surface of it but nothingwas visible except the fire so I could
not really know which way I was
traveling.
At th d f i i i
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At the edge of my vision in
front of me I saw a figure inthe fire. I began to look
carefully and the figure
became clear.
To m horror I sa m self
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To my horrorI saw myself
crying in torment. I wasscreaming so hard yet no one
came to help. I realized that in
spite of the great heat I wasnot burning up. I watched in
sheer terror for what seemedto be a long time.
To my horror I saw myself
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To my horrorI saw myself
crying in torment. I wasscreaming so hard yet no one
came to help. I realized that in
spite of the great heat I wasnot burning up. I watched in
sheer terror for what seemedto be a long time.
With each moment the
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With each moment the
absolute finality of my fategripped my soul with
unimaginable fear.
I had joked with my friends
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I had joked with my friends
before being saved that I waswanting to go to hell since that
was where all my friends were
going to be.
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I had flippantly said that
hell would be where theparty was but there was
no laughter here.
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Screaming out in
absolute pain I knewthere would be no relief
for me.
N ld b i i
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No one would bring a sip
of water to cool mytongue. There would be
no sleep to hide from theterrible flames.
Et l k f l d
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Eternal wakefulness and
eternal torment. Day andnight forever. No one to
help me. No one to takepity on me. Eternal
aloneness.
Wh I th ht I ld
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When I thought I could
stand no more but woulddissolve into the lake of
fire myself the visionceased.
I l th fl
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I lay on the floor
weeping. Then the voiceofJesus spoke, This is
what I saved you from.