How can we live joyfully, knowing a loved one may be in hell?
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Asked March 14 2014
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Michael DiSalvo
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Frederick Thomas
Though, I’m confident that the believer's families will be saved. They will accept Christ in their life even on their death bed. (foolish me)
It seems clear that those in heaven will completely forget that their sinful loved ones ever lived.
We read in Psalms 112:6 “The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.” Job 24:19-20 says, “Drought and heat consumes the snow waters: so doth the grave (Sheol, abode of spirits, not Queber-the grave in which the body is buried)-so doth the grave (Sheol) those which have sinned. The womb (the mother), shall forget him (the sinner) …He shall no more be remembered.” In Isaiah we read, “For behold I create new heavens and a new earth! And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.”
Here then is God’s own answer to this question of how anyone can be happy in heaven when some of his loved ones are in Hell.
After the unrighteous have appeared at the final judgment, and have been sentenced to the Final Hell-the lake of fire, the fact, that unrighteous loved ones ever lived, will be forever erased from the memories of the righteous.
It will affect our happiness.
Job 24:19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.
Job 24:20 The womb forgets them, the worm feasts on them; evil men are no longer remembered but are broken like a tree.
David Lawhorn
What about Rev 20:10? The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Revelation 20:10 NKJV
beatrice AARON
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE....
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it....
John 5:25 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live
Luke 23:42 And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
Luke 23:46 And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
I BELIEVE WE CAN PRAY FOR OUR LOVED ONES THAT HAVE DIED...
1 Peter 3: 18-20 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
1 Peter 4: 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.