Friday, December 09, 2005
The wages of sin are death- dream
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Acts 2:17
I was outside in an open field type place where I saw many, many people tied up and getting beaten, having a whips slashed against their backs, getting knocked down only to get whipped and beaten lying motionless on the ground. These people getting tortured beyond human belief had looks of fear, pain, and regret; but the look and feeling of hopelessness seemed to be the strongest feeling in these people. But I also noticed that these people were not physically dying. With all the torture they were experiencing, you would think that they would just physically die and escape this place; and these people looked as if they longed for death, longing to cease from existance so that they would not have to endure their punishment any longer. But physical death never came for these people. It was a constant torture that never let up, and these people had no way to escape.
And then I saw a man standing beside me, and he said that the wages of sin are death. These people getting tortured and beaten were dead in their sins...a spiritual death. The man said that these people were doomed to spend an eternity in their current condition, and they would never, never escape because they sinned and they were receiving their proper wages.
Then I noticed a great multitude (though they were small compared to the number of those getting tortured) standing right beside the man that I was listening to who were dressed in white and they obviously followed the man that I was hearing. These people were not getting tortured in death like the others, but they had escaped the eternity of death and were now living following the Man.
The Man then said to me with a broken heart that He died and took the world's proper punishment of death for those people getting tortured in death. The Man then looked around the field seeing a great number of people suffering an eternity of death, fear, and hopelessness with great sadness saying that He died in their place so that they wouldn't have to face this eternity of death. But these people choose to take their punishment themselves rather than receive the man's free gift for them all.
And I vaguely remember seeing the man's hands pierced with holes. The Man had died for the world's sins, and rose again for its justification. All those who received the man's sacrifice were with him saved from the eternity of death. Those who rejected the Man's sacrifice had to face the judgment and receive the wages of death for their sins.
Need I say who the Man is?
Jesus Christ died for every single person reading this, and He died to save you from an eternity of pain, torture, death, the Lake of Fire. Will you receive His sacrifice as He died in your place or do you really want to face an eternity of paying for your own sins?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:16-18
