{"id":1587,"date":"2011-11-13T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2011-11-13T11:19:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-13T11:19:48","slug":"perpetual-fuel-to-the-flames-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1587","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual fuel to the flames of hell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Perpetual fuel to the flames of hell!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Thomas Brooks, \u201cLondon\u2019s Lamentations\u201d 1670)<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<em>earthly <\/em>fire destroys and consumes whatever is cast<br \/>\ninto it. It turns all combustibles into ashes. But the fire of<br \/>\n<em>hell <\/em>is not of that nature. The fire of hell consumes nothing<br \/>\nwhich is cast into it. It\u00a0<em>rages<\/em>\u2014but it does not\u00a0<em>consume <\/em>or<br \/>\ndestroy either bodies or souls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen will seek death, but will not find it; they will long<br \/>\nto die, but death will elude them.\u201d\u00a0Revelation 9:6<\/p>\n<p>They shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.<br \/>\nThey shall cry to the mountains to fall upon them and<br \/>\nto crush them to nothing! They shall desire that . . .<br \/>\nthe\u00a0<strong>fire <\/strong>which burns them\u2014would consume them to nothing,<br \/>\nthe\u00a0<strong>worm <\/strong>which feeds on them\u2014would gnaw them to nothing,<br \/>\nthe\u00a0<strong>devils <\/strong>which torment them\u2014would tear them to nothing!<br \/>\nThey shall cry to\u00a0<strong>God<\/strong>, who first made them out of nothing,<br \/>\nto reduce them to that first nothing from whence they<br \/>\ncame! But \u201ctheir Maker has no compassion on them,<br \/>\nand their Creator shows them no favor.\u201d\u00a0Isaiah 27:11<\/p>\n<p>They shall always be burned\u2014but never consumed.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, how well would it be with the damned, if in the fire<br \/>\nof hell, they might be consumed to ashes! But this is their<br \/>\nmisery\u2014they shall be ever dying, and yet never die; their<br \/>\nbodies shall be always a-burning\u2014but never a-consuming!<br \/>\nIt is dreadful to be\u00a0<strong>perpetual fuel to the flames of hell!<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat misery can compare to this\u2014for infernal fire to be still<br \/>\na-preying upon damned sinners, and yet never making an<br \/>\nend of them! The fierce and furious flames of hell shall burn<br \/>\n\u2014but never annihilate, the bodies of the damned. In hell<br \/>\nthere is no cessation of\u00a0<em>fire <\/em>burning, nor of\u00a0<em>matter <\/em>burned.<br \/>\nNeither flames nor smoke shall consume or choke the<br \/>\nimpenitent. Both the infernal fire, and the burning of the<br \/>\nbodies of reprobates in that fire\u2014shall be preserved by<br \/>\nthe miraculous power of God!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath!\u201d<br \/>\n1 Thessalonians 1:10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to<br \/>\nreceive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.\u201d<br \/>\n1 Thessalonians 5:9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual fuel to the flames of hell! (Thomas Brooks, \u201cLondon\u2019s Lamentations\u201d 1670) Our\u00a0earthly fire destroys and consumes whatever is cast into it. It turns all combustibles into ashes. But the fire of hell is not of that nature. The fire of hell consumes nothing which is cast into it. It\u00a0rages\u2014but it does not\u00a0consume or destroy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-thomas-brooks","category-judgementhell-gods-wrath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}