Dream 41
The river still rages in front of me like it did in the previous dream.
The notion of the severity of consequence for people who spurn love has me feeling very uncomfortable.
Uriel obviously notices because he allows me some time to think.
Me:
“I don’t always do things in love. As a matter of fact, even now I do things out of obedience because I find it so hard to love selfish people. I can forgive any sin and love any sinner as I feel that I am chief among them but forgiving and loving selfish people is a great challenge for me. A war rages inside me to not hate them, let alone love them and according to last night’s dream, if I don’t love them, I go to hell.
What is the point of serving such an impossible God? Who could ever live up to a standard like that? And under threat of hell?”
Uriel:
“Love and hate are not the war that rages inside every man, they are what manifests in the physical realm as a result of obedience or disobedience to the word. And one foolish word slipping from time to time does not make a man hateful for a righteous man will be quick to repent. But a heart given over to contestation against love will be consistently unrepentant; and in justifying the contestation will the heart become self-righteous.”
Me:
“But why something as severe as eternal fire for those who do not love. Are they not broken and just need healing? Where is grace in all of this? Why is there even hell in store for any person in mankind if we are an expression of love? It does not make sense to me. If God is love, how could hell even feature in his personality?”
Uriel:
“The lake of fire was created for the devil and his angels who contest against love itself. You have met them and conversed with them and know that they ARE hell. Their mouths unleash such pain and torment upon any listening ear that the only way to stop the torrent of abuse is to silence them. And even in silencing them will their actions inflict the same. A vast multitude of mankind do the same. They allow themselves to follow a bitter path to a place where their effects on their brethren do not matter to them. They become hell on earth, taking upon themselves the image of the deceiver, selfish and cruel, placing their desires before all else. Know this son of sorrow: The end never justifies the means. Love comes first. Always and always must love come first. Though it cost you everything, put love first.
Now the Father will never do anything to violate the free will any of His creation. For the power to choose love or hate is the full expression of love. This is why love is a command, it is the difference between life and death, heaven and hell.”
Me:
“Why does God not just reset their software. Wipe their minds and replace them with righteous ones? Or just let them sleep forever?”
Uriel:
“Angels are eternal. The Spirit of man is eternal. God is eternal. All of creation is eternal.
Neither Angel nor Spirit of man nor God sleep or slumber. Even in death does the body sleep, returning to the earth until it is awoken at the return of the Lamb but the Spirit is eternally awake.
And wiping the mind would only result in the same outcome, for the flesh is merely the manifestation of the spirit. If the spirit of man chooses to contest against love, it does so eternally.”
Me:
“What about the presence of God, what about going to heaven and experiencing the glory of the son? Won’t this serve to bring repentance? Surely that is enough to change any man?”
Uriel:
“Lucifer and his Angels were in that very glory for a large portion of eternity. Still did they choose to rebel. For to them was even God not enough. The same God in heaven is the same God on earth. Where you are one as we are one you will see this. Where there is unlimited love and resource from brother to brother you will see this. To be in the presence of even God is glorious for only as long as you love him. The bitter heart would be impressed at first but soon begin to resent the son and desire His throne.
A contentious heart has chosen contention. All hurt, all suffer but not all choose to elevate their suffering above the love of God.”
Me:
“None of this sounds very loving to me. Even if it is fair for a time, how does eternal damnation compare to a few decades of foolish decisions? It just does not make sense to me. I know that It is not my call but revelation on this matter will settle a lot in my mind about the heart of God.”
Uriel:
“Your stumbling block is the fact that you think in terms of what is deserved and what is not deserved. But this eternal separation is not about what is deserved, it is about establishing the eternal kingdom. Hell is not a result of broken law, it is a result of rejection of love. Every sin that has been and ever will be has been paid for. So hell is not for those who sin, it is for those who willingly follow the deceiver and reject the fullest expression if love who is the son.
The eternal kingdom of heaven is a kingdom of love. Those who do not love have chosen a different kingdom. For love is the clearest, fairest and simplest of all choices. And to contest against it is to contests against God. For God is love and his kingdom is love and only the darkest of hearts would reject and forsake love.
Man is without excuse. The son has paid the ransom. To reject the son as Lord is to reject the grace and the mercy of the Father.
Those who have contempt for love, grace and mercy have turned their backs upon the son, the Father and the Holy Spirit. They choose the lake of fire and all lonely desolation with it for they are hell in itself and all who live with them or know them know the heart of the deceiver.
The Father desires that none should perish. Not one. But fullness of love allows freedom of choice and to reject love is to reject the kingdom of God.”
Builder:
“In as much as man wishes that the grace of God covers even the rejection of God, must you know that judgement is according to deeds. Faith without works is dead and every man is called to good works.
The son of man has paid a dear price for the extension of the promise to Abraham and He will ask every man how that sacrifice has been stewarded. Every man is to prepare himself for the great question: ‘what did you do with what you were given?’
Those who have done nothing will be as the fig tree which Jesus cursed and will hear ‘depart from me you wicked and lazy servant’.
For all have been blessed abundantly with grace and love and forgiveness.. And all have been blessed freely. Now must all forgive as they have been forgiven, love as they have been loved and give grace as grace has been given to them.
Hear this clearly son of sorrow:
Every debt is paid in full. Now does every man start with a clean slate. The time has come for good works and the expansion of the kingdom through good deeds and the gospel which is the power of unto salvation for all who believe. And all who are ashamed of the son will be silent about the son and the son will be silent about them before the Father. Know this and be wise. For the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and those who contest against love have much to fear.
The kingdom is all, love is all and those who rebel against love are not of His kingdom.”
Uriel:
“The kingdom is all, love is all and all who serve Jesus as Lord inherit the kingdom.”
Gatherer:
“The kingdom is all, love is all and all who love love are the light of the world and the salt of the earth.”
Me:
“His kingdom is all, love is all and obedience is better than sacrifice!”
I wake up.