Hellfire in its true connotation is a natural cause and effect. It is a step-up of suffering in the world because of sin. The nature of sin in man exposed him to experience the first cause, the first death. It is manifested in the limitations we suffer because we fail to stay connected to the life source of the Godhead. Thus, man is frequently distracted, unable to keep focus on the guiding grace of God, offered freely to everyone who cares to accept his offer for collaboration. While here on earth, the offer allows each of us the privilege to walk in his counsel, by which we avoid the dark side of life without him.

Refusal to latch on to that offer leads to most of the miseries we suffer. Ultimately, however, the rest of mankind must be brought back into alignment to make up the outer planetary arrangement of all people. The inner planets, thus, represent the harvest of God’s firstfruits characterized by the church. They are the priesthood of the new family of God in the eschatology. They, like the Aaronic priesthood, attends to the holy things, for which they were elected through the preaching of the Gospel.

The punishment is hence a decision we all make voluntarily, by which offenders must go on to experience the new world of sin in the next phase of the suffering of sin, the second death. Sin in this sense is simply a separation from God’s life source of those who walk contrary to his laws. It is a decision made by choice. Graciously, Christ ushered in the message of salvation to free man from that self-inflicted pain often referred to as eternal punishment. It is an individual’s choice from the options presented to us by God.

It was first presented to Adam; to choose life and live. But he chose death through disobedience and died. As a result, man advanced self-will, rather than work in the unity of God by which he would’ve experienced eternal life with him. Through the preaching of the Gospel, mankind is presented with yet another opportunity to escape that second level of separation from the life of God. This is the second death, a further separation from God. Hence, we are experiencing the first death in the present life. In the second death, the suffering of sin multiplies due to the separation. This is that life of sin often contemptuously misrepresented as God’s punishment, as though God is the first cause. As we have shown, it is really the free choice of our natural selection. Hence, once men are further separated from the life of God, it leads up to a higher degree of the torture of sin.

Look at it from another the point of view. Notice that the further the outer planets are located from the Sun, the stronger the darkness they endure. The sun denotes the life presence of God, which the individual could partake depending on how much we imbibe the art of righteousness and draw closer to God. Therefore, individuals make the decision of where they are located in the concentric circles traced around God’s presence, as depicted by the Solar System. You may want to read more on the CW website about how all things are eventually redeemed to God through the Jubilee event.

The purported punishment, therefore, is really about the choices individuals make by volunteering self to partake in the higher order persecution of the suffering of sin in the second death. However, in every dispensation of the judgment of sin, God has made room through the ministry of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18) to bring us back home to himself, because his mercy endures forever. Thus, death or the punishment is self-inflicted in nature, and not a deliberate act on the part of the ever-loving God; for God is love. Instead, he extends the long rope of grace that guarantees through the Jubilee event, that we could all make it back home by the individual’s exercise of free-will. As such, he gave us free-will, not so we may be punished by it, but so it enables our individual choices to freedom, depending strictly on us to make the right decision to embrace faith during our journey in the school of life. Continue here…