Bible Lesson 8
Who Are We?
Humans Are Perishing
If there is any idea more offensive to modern culture than Jesus being the only way to God, it is the idea that there will be eternal judgment and suffering after death. It just doesn’t fit with the kind of god people like to imagine; a god who loves everyone, all the time, no matter what, and is always willing to forgive sins (if there even is such a thing).
The stark, sobering truth, however, is that hell is real, and Jesus himself said that many people would go there.
For those who are not in Christ, the reaction to this news should be to run to him and plead for mercy; he is very ready to give it!
For those who are saved, the reaction to this news should be to do everything we can to prevent people from going there!
Hell, an illustration for Dante’s Divine Comedy. William Blake, circa 1800.
Perecemos
Salmo 103
(15) El hombre, como la hierba son sus días; como la flor del campo, así florece; (16) Cuando el viento pasa sobre ella, deja de ser, y su lugar ya no la reconoce.
Hebreos 9:27
Y así como está decretado que los hombres mueran una sola vez, y después de esto, el juicio.
Apocalipsis 20
(11) Vi un gran trono blanco y a Aquél que estaba sentado en él, de cuya presencia huyeron la tierra y el cielo, y no se halló lugar para ellos. (12) También vi a los muertos, grandes y pequeños, de pie delante del trono, y los rollos fueron abiertos. Otro rollo fue abierto, que es el Libro de la Vida, y los muertos fueron juzgados por lo que estaba escrito en los rollos, según sus obras. (13) El mar entregó los muertos que estaban en él, y la Muerte y el Hades entregaron a los muertos que estaban en ellos. Y fueron juzgados, cada uno según sus obras.
(14) La Muerte y el Hades fueron arrojados al lago de fuego. Esta es la muerte segunda: el lago de fuego. (15) Y el que no se encontraba inscrito en el Libro de la Vida fue arrojado al lago de fuego.
Traducción: NBLH
We Are Perishing
Psalm 103
Man, like the grass are his days; like a flower of the field, thus he flourishes; when the wind passes over it, it ceases to be, and it’s place no longer recognizes it.
Hebrews 9:27
And so it is decreed that people should die only one time, and after that, the judgment.
Revelation 20
I saw a great, white throne, and him who was seated on it, from whose presence the heaven and earth fled, and there was no place found for them. Also I saw the dead, great and small, on foot before the throne, and the scrolls were opened. Another scroll was opened, which is the Book of Life, and the dead were judged by what was written in the scrolls, according to their words. The sea handed over the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death: the lake of fire. And each who was not found written in the Book of Life was thrown into the lake of fire.
1. Listen to the audio as you read along with the Spanish on the left.
2. Open the English translation, and read the two side-by-side, making sure you understand the Spanish.
3. Close the English, and listen to the audio again, reading along in Spanish.
4. Close the Spanish, and listen once more. Maybe shut your eyes, and just try to understand as much as you can.