The Legend of Hell

[marie glen]

I think of the biblical name of Mary, as sort of generic for all of us women. I think of the beautiful words Mary said when she went to visit Elizabeth. And at the very beginning of my discovering the New Testament, the words spoken back to her - and at the time I had no idea of context - but they seemed to have special meaning to me, "..blessed is she that believed, for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord". And forty years later I can say the words did turn out to fit.
     Then, about 33 years later, her firstborn/Jesus (all of our best friend) was executed as a criminal by false accusers. And the first one He showed himself too after resurrection, was a Mary.
     Which, by the way, He had said about false accusers "if you are angry with your brother for no reason - if you hate - you are in danger of hell fire". But lest we think hell is a place - that very ancient mythical place - the words HE used were "in danger of Gehenna fire" - which is a Hebrew idiom for judgment (and or a state of mind called misery or despair, maybe for some despots, etc. great overbearing remorse on 'day' of judgment).
     Which also, by the way, in Old Testament days, biblical prophecy of judgment was ALWAYS Earthly.
     You see it's prophesied the final showdown, man's final war, will take place in three connected valleys around Jerusalem, especially notorious concerning it, is the Gehenna Valley which is where Israel, like the nations around her, had sacrificed children and babies alive in fire to the 'god' Molech. It was one of those fertility faiths. The New Testament in one verse says the ancient 'gods' were demons, so yeah, they were pretty brutal and viscious.
     Later, in the days of Jesus, the valley having come to be very despised, was used as a city dump where even some criminal bodies were disposed of, so the fires were kept burning.
     Another time, the Lord said, if your eye causes you to sin - commit a crime - it would be better you pluck it out and throw it in the gehenna fire where the fires are not put out and the worms don't die away, than to commit the crime and your whole body be cast there. That of course was again translated to refer to the ancient king and priest / political collusion, legend of hell.
     That sounds like a good book title doesn't it? "The Legend Of Hell".
     Those haters (political) if still alive in 70 A.D. did experience Gehenna fire. (Earthly consequences. Things being let to run their course you know.)
     A year or two ago, it seemed like the line "there shall be a performance of those things told her by the Lord" came up again and seemed to have special  meaning. I took it to refer to what I have learned in my studies of Bible prophecy (called eschatology - Greek for "last things").
     One more interesting thing, to me anyway, lol. The Greek word that means 'end' is tel, from telos and telescope, and it means also "aim".
     Eschatolgy is the end/aim of this chewing on the fruit of "knowing both good and evil". Things being let to run their course you know..
     "Tel" is what prophecy is like too.. a local, smaller in scope fulfillment, and then a full scope, and collective fulfillment, much later, at the "end/aim"..
     Just some thoughts! :gsmile: "God is love" and "love never fails" any of us! (1Jn.4:8 and 1Cor.13:8)

[jugghead]

     Then, about 33 years later, her firstborn/Jesus (all of our best friend) was executed as a criminal by false accusers. And the first one He showed himself too after resurrection, was a Mary.
     Which, by the way, He had said about false accusers "if you are angry with your brother for no reason - if you hate - you are in danger of hell fire".

Loved your post MG and this just jumped out at me when I read it.

That UR is executed  as a criminal (a lie/liar) by ET'ers (false accusers)

and Mary as a representation of the immaculate conception (born from within, not of the seed of man), that UR is born from within, born of the seed of God, not from the seed of man (that seed being the doctrine of ET)

and that "hell fire" can be speaking of "the doctrine of hell", that when people are angry with other people who believe in UR, doing things that lead to killing/crucifying UR (what they believe to be a lie), they are in danger of being indoctrinated into the doctrine of hell, indoctrinated into hell fire.

Just some thoughts of mine.