~ The Greatest Prophet ~
As a Prophet Christ Spoke of Judgment
The
following is an excerpt from a book.
Now I know that we’ve had the Scripture doctored up to us
in the last hundred years or so. We’ve been saying that Jesus Christ was a meek
sort of a loving kind of a Savior, and that He didn’t talk to us about
punishment, that He didn’t talk to us about fire and vengeance like the Old
Testament did. But, my friends, get a hold of this. Jesus Christ told us more
about hell than any other prophet in the world.
Jesus Christ talked more about hell than He did about
heaven. He had the right and the authority to describe hell because He had been
on the other side of death, before birth. He was the only One who could have
come into birth and say, “I came into the world.” He wasn’t just brought into the world in the
sense that we’re brought into the world, by natural principles. Jesus Christ
came into the world in the sense that He chose to come, and He came because He
was God and was able to take upon Himself the form of a man. Now He has gone
back into heaven. When He was here on the earth He described to us the things
that are on the other side of our life. Jesus Christ was a prophet in the full
sense. Not through visions, not through ideas that had come into His head, but
because He existed on the other side of death! He could tell us what heaven and
hell were like. He knew it because He had been there. That’s what He Himself
claimed in this passage, we read, “I don’t speak for Myself,” He says, “I tell
you what I’ve seen and heard.” And in the third chapter of John, “I’ve been
there and I know what I’m talking about when I speak about hell. Or when I
speak about heavenly things, I know whereof I speak because I’ve been there.” Jesus Christ is the only One who can say
that, my friend, and that’s why His Word is so terribly important. So
terrifyingly important.
~
from “JIM ELLIOT: A Christian Martyr
Speaks to You, pgs 103-104 (ISBN: 9781615797646)
~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW
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