Poetry by Sean Morris (Elder)
"The Lake of Fire: Its eternality, experience, and justice, and, its arrival by surprise."
The wrath of God is a kindled fire,
It burns men in a blink, still standing and entire.
Simple men stand unaware,
Under falling fire with no care.
It surprises the forgetful,
Caught up in sin habitual.
The Lake of Fire is a memorial of perpetual just burning,
A meditation of everlasting gnashing and turning.
An education, a memorization, ceaseless remembrance, and timeless learning.
Consider eternity: Judgment sentences that are everlasting.
Think of it, the forfeiting of eternal delights, never to experience their perpetual basking!
Will God pronounce to you that your “everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten” (Jer. 20:11)?
Imagine hearing from the Great White Throne a voice that is like thunder, like the sound of many waters, saying, “I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten” (Jer. 23:40).
God surprises men with an eternal education with no graduation.
On earth, a devouring fire burns flesh to ash, the pain of the mind does leave in a flash.
However afterward, the soul is swallowed by hell in a dash, where there is no luxury of flesh to ash.
The senses of the flesh do have limits they can intake, the pain of burning can be quenched by shock, but soul burning is an incessant scream of limitless pains with no break, second death’s digestion of constant oppression. Truly, “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings” (Isaiah 33:14)?
There is no anesthesiologist of hell, no pain medications to numb the mind, neither is there any hope that a man can tell.
These are subjects of hell’s spell. Depression, oppression, incessantly the hatred of God becomes their obsession.
No bed for the soul, no hospital in hell’s hole. In eternal nights of sleepless misery men seek to wake up from hell’s nightmare continually.
Helplessly drowning in an ocean of lightning strikes, men seek salvation from God’s wrathful billows of brights.
No help, no air, no strength, no one to care, they have become hell’s amalgamation.
Who can understand the judgment of unceasing hellish nights? Let the earth quake at the threatenings of God who lives forever. The Lord said, “For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh” (Deut. 32:40-42).
Holy angels underwent a difficult war with devils on earth, and at times they were strained or hindered from God’s good purposes (Daniel). This is the scenery below but there is a different sight above. What think ye, thou devilish dominions and principalities, in the hour when God does look upon you? The Darkest and most fierce host of the Devil arrayed before the Almighty will then live out their lamentations which they did speak on earth, “What have we to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God? Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time” (Matt. 8:29)? Arrayed in earthly and angelic might, they all, with the renowned Anti-Christ, shall be delivered over to the exhale of God. “The breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone” (Isa. 30:33) “shall consume with the spirit of His mouth” (2 Thess. 2:8). The eyes of God which are “a flame of fire,” even they shall look upon the “sons of pride” and bring them low. The eternal hatred of God contained within the Almighty shall be let loose by a fiery, Leviathan-like exhale, and that fire that shall begin will become an eternal lake which God will keep lit by His sustaining Presence. God shall encircle and compass them for a timeless eternity, taking upon Himself the task to be their Terror and Tormentor. They wish they could but die, yet at His feet their spirits shall live to forever die, eternally cast down as flaming, wailing carcasses, catching glimpses of His burning feet of brilliant, glowing brass as He walks about their midst. Locked under the eternality of His hatred to be condemned under the infinite power of God, His limitless intellect has created an eternal dungeon of death which is the anti-art of the Garden of Eden, where every creation is the instrumentality of an excruciating execution.
The Garden of Eden did prosper as a life abounding paradise because God kept it. As “the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed,” likewise God planted a Lake of Fire to put wicked men whom He has “fitted for destruction” (Rom. 9). The Garden of Eden was called “the garden of the LORD” (Gen. 13:10) and “the garden of God” (Ezek. 31:9), a place of “joy and gladness,” “thanksgiving and the voice of melody” (Isa. 51:3), likewise there is a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 8:12). Eden was the place where the Presence of God was “walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), yet when devilish men and angels are “in the presence of the Lamb” there shall be a very different picture. The wicked “shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb” (Rev. 14:10). The presence of the Lamb was executing a very different purpose than that of Eden. The harmless Lamb has become a Lion upon His prey, seeking hurt, pain, and destruction upon everything that did hurt and taint God’s good creation. Eden was a place of blessing like the sayings of God, “I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day” (Isa 27:3). “A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end” (Deut. 11:12). Likewise, God will keep the Lake of Fire lit with His eyes that nothing will ever interrupt His enemies hurt, and “the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night” (Rev. 14:11).
“He crouched, He lay down as a Lion, and as a Great Lion: who shall stir Him up” (Num. 24:9)?
"The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul." (Proverbs 20:2)
It is the end, an eternal end, and now these pitiless criminals who are so vile in existence, these men and women who are the horror of heaven, now and forever they will suffer under the merciless rage of God.
When God emerges from silence it will be with incomparable violence,
Like a Lion upon its prey He will be the victor on Judgment Day.
It is a crime to have compassion when the Most Just massacres men.
Families will be seized with teeth gnashing cries, mothers, brothers, and sisters will look on with no earthly ties,
This Lion-like God will ignores all their cries and every heavenly dignity will shout Alleluia as every malefactor dies.
The passion of Christ the world thought was nice, they neglected it for pleasure and now they pay the price.
Eden was Eden because God walked in the midst of it in the cool of the day, but the Lake of Fire is the Lake of Fire because God walks in the midst of it in the heat of His fiery wrath. Behold the goodness and the severity of God, to them in Eden there was goodness, while they continued in his goodness, but who can endure the severity of the Lake of Fire? Behold God’s goodness and severity, Eden and the Lake of Fire, and under the tent of time in this low earth every generation did learn of His two fold purposes for all men – “the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy” and the power of His wrath assailing upon “vessels of wrath fitted to destruction” (Rom. 9:22-23), that through all ages and throughout time these purposes alone would make up the two piece garment of His glory.
“The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handywork” (Ps. 19:1), so the atmospheric art of erupting clouds of smoke do surround the servants of the Devil. These thick clouds are God’s glorious curse upon sinners, suppressing any hope of light or so much as a single breath of relief while under the endless glory of God’s wrath in fire. The collision of God and sinners results in the black clouds of punishing misery and lifeless suffocation. Nay, the faithful and sweet welcome of the morning sunshine of God’s warm love to all creatures, the ever faithful rays that pierced through the night and arose upon all darkness bringing life, hope, and a future, all these days on earth have been sinned away. They spent away all their days on earth discounting the firmament of brilliant colors and marvelous, artistic mixtures in their earthly sky, till the mist of their life evaporated into the volcanic atmosphere of God’s handiwork in horror, maximized under smoking suffocation and clouds of torment.
The wrath of God is a kindled fire,
It burns men in a blink, still standing and entire.
Simple men stand unaware,
Under falling fire with no care.
It surprises the forgetful,
Caught up in sin habitual.
The Lake of Fire is a memorial of perpetual just burning,
A meditation of everlasting gnashing and turning.
An education, a memorization, ceaseless remembrance, and timeless learning.
Consider eternity: Judgment sentences that are everlasting.
Think of it, the forfeiting of eternal delights, never to experience their perpetual basking!
Will God pronounce to you that your “everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten” (Jer. 20:11)?
Imagine hearing from the Great White Throne a voice that is like thunder, like the sound of many waters, saying, “I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten” (Jer. 23:40).
God surprises men with an eternal education with no graduation.
On earth, a devouring fire burns flesh to ash, the pain of the mind does leave in a flash.
However afterward, the soul is swallowed by hell in a dash, where there is no luxury of flesh to ash.
The senses of the flesh do have limits they can intake, the pain of burning can be quenched by shock, but soul burning is an incessant scream of limitless pains with no break, second death’s digestion of constant oppression. Truly, “Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings” (Isaiah 33:14)?
There is no anesthesiologist of hell, no pain medications to numb the mind, neither is there any hope that a man can tell.
These are subjects of hell’s spell. Depression, oppression, incessantly the hatred of God becomes their obsession.
No bed for the soul, no hospital in hell’s hole. In eternal nights of sleepless misery men seek to wake up from hell’s nightmare continually.
Helplessly drowning in an ocean of lightning strikes, men seek salvation from God’s wrathful billows of brights.
No help, no air, no strength, no one to care, they have become hell’s amalgamation.
Who can understand the judgment of unceasing hellish nights? Let the earth quake at the threatenings of God who lives forever. The Lord said, “For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever. If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh” (Deut. 32:40-42).
Holy angels underwent a difficult war with devils on earth, and at times they were strained or hindered from God’s good purposes (Daniel). This is the scenery below but there is a different sight above. What think ye, thou devilish dominions and principalities, in the hour when God does look upon you? The Darkest and most fierce host of the Devil arrayed before the Almighty will then live out their lamentations which they did speak on earth, “What have we to do with Thee, Jesus, Thou Son of God? Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time” (Matt. 8:29)? Arrayed in earthly and angelic might, they all, with the renowned Anti-Christ, shall be delivered over to the exhale of God. “The breath of the LORD like a stream of brimstone” (Isa. 30:33) “shall consume with the spirit of His mouth” (2 Thess. 2:8). The eyes of God which are “a flame of fire,” even they shall look upon the “sons of pride” and bring them low. The eternal hatred of God contained within the Almighty shall be let loose by a fiery, Leviathan-like exhale, and that fire that shall begin will become an eternal lake which God will keep lit by His sustaining Presence. God shall encircle and compass them for a timeless eternity, taking upon Himself the task to be their Terror and Tormentor. They wish they could but die, yet at His feet their spirits shall live to forever die, eternally cast down as flaming, wailing carcasses, catching glimpses of His burning feet of brilliant, glowing brass as He walks about their midst. Locked under the eternality of His hatred to be condemned under the infinite power of God, His limitless intellect has created an eternal dungeon of death which is the anti-art of the Garden of Eden, where every creation is the instrumentality of an excruciating execution.
The Garden of Eden did prosper as a life abounding paradise because God kept it. As “the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put the man whom He had formed,” likewise God planted a Lake of Fire to put wicked men whom He has “fitted for destruction” (Rom. 9). The Garden of Eden was called “the garden of the LORD” (Gen. 13:10) and “the garden of God” (Ezek. 31:9), a place of “joy and gladness,” “thanksgiving and the voice of melody” (Isa. 51:3), likewise there is a place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth” (Matt. 8:12). Eden was the place where the Presence of God was “walking in the garden in the cool of the day” (Gen. 3:8), yet when devilish men and angels are “in the presence of the Lamb” there shall be a very different picture. The wicked “shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb” (Rev. 14:10). The presence of the Lamb was executing a very different purpose than that of Eden. The harmless Lamb has become a Lion upon His prey, seeking hurt, pain, and destruction upon everything that did hurt and taint God’s good creation. Eden was a place of blessing like the sayings of God, “I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day” (Isa 27:3). “A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end” (Deut. 11:12). Likewise, God will keep the Lake of Fire lit with His eyes that nothing will ever interrupt His enemies hurt, and “the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night” (Rev. 14:11).
“He crouched, He lay down as a Lion, and as a Great Lion: who shall stir Him up” (Num. 24:9)?
"The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul." (Proverbs 20:2)
It is the end, an eternal end, and now these pitiless criminals who are so vile in existence, these men and women who are the horror of heaven, now and forever they will suffer under the merciless rage of God.
When God emerges from silence it will be with incomparable violence,
Like a Lion upon its prey He will be the victor on Judgment Day.
It is a crime to have compassion when the Most Just massacres men.
Families will be seized with teeth gnashing cries, mothers, brothers, and sisters will look on with no earthly ties,
This Lion-like God will ignores all their cries and every heavenly dignity will shout Alleluia as every malefactor dies.
The passion of Christ the world thought was nice, they neglected it for pleasure and now they pay the price.
Eden was Eden because God walked in the midst of it in the cool of the day, but the Lake of Fire is the Lake of Fire because God walks in the midst of it in the heat of His fiery wrath. Behold the goodness and the severity of God, to them in Eden there was goodness, while they continued in his goodness, but who can endure the severity of the Lake of Fire? Behold God’s goodness and severity, Eden and the Lake of Fire, and under the tent of time in this low earth every generation did learn of His two fold purposes for all men – “the riches of His glory on vessels of mercy” and the power of His wrath assailing upon “vessels of wrath fitted to destruction” (Rom. 9:22-23), that through all ages and throughout time these purposes alone would make up the two piece garment of His glory.
“The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handywork” (Ps. 19:1), so the atmospheric art of erupting clouds of smoke do surround the servants of the Devil. These thick clouds are God’s glorious curse upon sinners, suppressing any hope of light or so much as a single breath of relief while under the endless glory of God’s wrath in fire. The collision of God and sinners results in the black clouds of punishing misery and lifeless suffocation. Nay, the faithful and sweet welcome of the morning sunshine of God’s warm love to all creatures, the ever faithful rays that pierced through the night and arose upon all darkness bringing life, hope, and a future, all these days on earth have been sinned away. They spent away all their days on earth discounting the firmament of brilliant colors and marvelous, artistic mixtures in their earthly sky, till the mist of their life evaporated into the volcanic atmosphere of God’s handiwork in horror, maximized under smoking suffocation and clouds of torment.
