"LEFT BEHIND"
Gospel Leaves Behind the Doctrine of Hell!
Quotes from another segment of the
gospel message that used to be on the official "Left Behind" website
are indented below:
The Plan
Man chose to disobey God
"For all have sinned; all fall short of God's glorious standard. (Romans
3:23) & For the wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:23). It was man's
voluntary choice to rebel against God. As a result God placed the entire
universe under a curse causing suffering, destruction, violence, evil
and death. People receive eternal death and punishment for their sins.
The result of this is seen in the illnesses, pain, suffering and death
that all living creatures experience. Violent and destructive natural
phenomena, pollution of our environment and the death of ecological
systems are also the result of God's curse, not the complaints of some
earth goddess named "Gaia." (Quote source: The Plan from
leftbehind.com)
"People receive eternal death and
punishment for their sins." Here we have the horrifying reality of hell
left out of the "gospel" message! Eternal death and punishment is
a non-specific phrase chosen to describe the punishment that awaits those who
die while lost in their sins. The Lord Jesus Christ warned about hell and any true gospel presentation must
include a warning about hell.
First the leftbehind.com writer left out the reality of a holy God and now
we learn that he left out
the fact of hell as well. Instead, he mentioned "eternal death and
punishment." It is no wonder because a holy God made
hell for the unholy devil and his angels as
well as those who follow the course of this world, which is under the
control of the evil one. God's holiness demands eternal punishment in
fire that never shall be quenched. See Matt. 5:22, 5:30, 10:28, 11:23,
18:9, 23:15; Mark 9:43, 9:45, 9:47, etc. There are at least 24
references to hell in the New Testament. This is the wrath to come.
What is the opposite of wrath? Salvation! "For God hath not appointed us
to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ," Christians,
those who are saved by the blood of the lamb, are not appointed to
wrath. Everyone else is appointed to wrath!
Torment with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels and of the Lamb will be unleashed upon those who "shall drink of
the wine of the wrath of God."--see Rev. 14:10
The Bible says, "For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the
children of disobedience:"--Col. 3:6 Again we see the Bible teaching us
the wrath of God is for the lost--the children of disobedience. This
truth is
repeated in Ephesians 5:6
The wrath of God abides on those who have not the Son of God: "He that
believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."
Jesus died to save us from our sins (the penalty and power of our sins)
so we won't receive the wrath of God--eternal hellfire--justly due to
us!
Wrath is for those who are lost in their sins, not the saved. Why does the Left Behind
website's gospel message leave out hell, which is the fate of the lost,
who are in fact, "vessels of wrath fitted to destruction"? (See Romans 9:22)
The fact that the triune nature of God and the title of his only
begotten Son, " the Lord Jesus
Christ" has not been mentioned in this fake gospel presentation is
bad enough, but consider who they chose to replace Jesus Christ. The
false goddess, Gaia—who many New Agers believe is the true creator—is
included in this segment of leftbehind.com's counterfeit gospel
presentation. None of the names of the God of the Bible or even the
title, "Lord Jesus Christ" is mentioned
in the leftbehind.com's version of the gospel. Instead, they choose to
mention the name of a specific demon god(dess): Gaia.