Perdition's Population Clock

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● Isa 14:12-17 . . For you said to yourself: I will ascend to heaven and set my
throne above God's stars. I will preside on the mountain of the gods far away in
the north. I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.

. . But instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its
lowest depths. Everyone there will stare at you and ask: Can this be the one who
shook the earth and the kingdoms of the world? Is this the one who destroyed the
land and made it into a wilderness? Is this the king who demolished the world's
greatest cities and had no mercy on his captives?

In context; that passage targets an ancient Babylonian king, but serves to illustrate
an important point: Hell is a level field. Look around you at the celebrities, the
socialites, the news anchors, the politicians, the stock brokers, the empire builders,
the financial giants, the television moguls, the movie-makers, the civic leaders, the
entrepreneurs, the fashion leaders, the intellectuals, the best-sellers, the Rock and
Roll Hall of Famers, the Olympic stars and professional athletes, the winners of
Oscar, Tony and Grammy awards. In Hell, those kinds of people are just one more
skull in an ever-growing population of losers.

● Luke 16:19-23 . .There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen
and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus,
covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the
dogs came and licked his sores.

. .The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's
side. The rich man also died and was buried. In hades, where he was in torment, he
looked up and saw Abraham in the distance, with Lazarus by his side.

Can you just imagine that rich man's chagrin to see that homeless bum, who at one
time dumpster-dived the garbage, now in comfort while he himself is in misery?
Isn't it interesting that the bum's name is given, but the rich man's isn't. Likely
because he's now a forgotten man who no longer matters.

● Ps 73:2-17 . . I came so close to the edge! My feet were slipping, and I was
almost gone. For I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their
wickedness. They seem to live such a painless life; their bodies are so healthy and
strong. They aren't troubled like other people or plagued with problems like
everyone else. They wear conceit like a jeweled necklace, and their clothing is
woven of cruelty.

. .These fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for! They scoff and
speak only evil; in their arrogance they seek to crush others. They boast against
the very heavens, and their words strut throughout the earth . . Look at these
arrogant people-- enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply . .Then one day
I went into your sanctuary, O God; and I understood their destiny.

NOTE: People aren't eo ipso wicked because they're successful. It's success to the
exclusion of God that's wicked. Compare Luke 12:15-21 where a successful man is
depicted as totally involved with his enterprises while not lending a single thought
to the brevity of life and/or his prospects in the hereafter.
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● Jude 1:7 . . Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar
manner to these, gave themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh

The Greek word translated "fornication" basically means to be utterly unchaste.

A lack of chastity is exemplified by a broad spectrum of unholy carnality including,
but not limited to adultery, incest, living together, casual sex, swinger sex, wife
swapping, sex between consenting adults, sex between consenting minors, sex
between teachers and underage students, sex with a sex toy, sex with a mannequin
and/or sex with an inflatable doll, etc. To be "utterly" unchaste implies not just a
preference for those kinds of sexual behaviors, but an addiction to them.

The word for "strange" basically means other or different, i.e. out of the ordinary,
viz: men sleeping with women isn't strange. But men sleeping with men, and/or
women sleeping with women, is abnormal, i.e. deviant.

* Mr. Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty got himself in hot water for taking a stand
against certain kinds of sexual conduct. Though his comments were politically
unacceptable, Mr. Robertson is on good solid Christian ground because LGBT are
depicted in the Bible as shameful, indecent, and unnatural.

● Rom 1:26-27 . . God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also
abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one
another. Men committed indecent acts with other men.

● 2Pet 2:6 . . He turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes-- condemned
them to destruction --making them an example to those who afterward would live3
impiously.

● Rev 21:8 . .The vile and the sexually immoral-- their place will be in the fiery lake
of burning sulfur. This is the second death.

The Greek word translated "vile" basically pertains to that which is repulsive and
disgusting. (Pride is definitely the wrong name for an LGBT event.)
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FAQ: Are animals considered unbelievers? And if so, will they go to Hell?

REPLY: Neither aqua life, winged life, nor terra life were created in the image and
likeness of God. Only man has that distinction. And whereas we are told man has a
conscience, we are not told the same about the Earth's lower forms of life so I think
it safe to assume the Earth's lower forms of life are amoral.

FAQ: According to Gen 9:5, animals that kill people have to be put down. Doesn't
that prove they can be charged with murder?

REPLY: Man can kill as many animals as he likes, but animals are not afforded the
same liberty because man is their superior.

● Gen 1:26 . . And God said: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and
let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and
over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth
upon the earth.

POP CLOCK UPDATE: 40 days have transpired since beginning the thread. If the
figures in post No.1 are within reason, then something like 3,070,080 new arrivals
have checked into the fiery sector of Hades since Dec 15, 2024.
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Many years ago-- when I was a young single guy in my early twenties, living alone
in a cheap rental --as I was listening to a radio preacher talk about the afterlife,
something in my mind took over; and I had the strangest sensation of falling off the
earth into an abyss and nobody cared, nor did anybody miss me, nor did my
disappearance cause any alarm nor make any difference.


The freeways remained busy with frustrated drivers and honking horns, people still
got up to go to work, shoppers crowded the supermarkets and department stores,
kids caught their buses to school, birds kept right on chirping, grass kept on
growing, ocean waves went on rolling onto the beach, trains kept running, airlines
kept flying, clouds moved across the sky; and all that.

My absence changed nothing nor disturbed anyone nor anything. The world kept
right on turning, clocks went on ticking; and nature and man went right on with
their business as usual without the slightest hiccup. At that moment I realized just
how disconnected and how obscure people must feel when they exhale their final
breath and cross over to the other side.

Back in March of 2015, Andrew Getty, an heir to J. Paul Getty's oil fortune, died at
the age of 47. In life, Andrew had many friends. You know how many accompanied
him on his journey across the great divide? Nary a one.

You gotta walk that lonesome valley,
You gotta walk it by yourself.
Nobody here can walk it for you,
You gotta walk it by yourself.
(Woody Guthrie)
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There's coming a day when every knee will bend in reverence to Christ.

● Phlp 2:10 . . At the name of Jesus every knee should bow-- of things in heaven,
and things in earth, and things under the earth.

Now watch for the missing element in this next item:

● Col 1:20 . . Having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to
reconcile all things unto Himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or
things in heaven.

Every knee everywhere will bend, but not everyone will be reconciled, i.e. "things
under the earth" is missing from Col 1:20 and that's because God has no intention
of reconciling with folks down there, viz: it's game over for them. Their feet are set
in concrete and now there's no going back.
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