february 29

February 29, 2012
Numbers 14-15; Psalm 90
It is truly a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God! Especially when He is angry. The Israelites discovered this truth when they had finally went too far. His anger burned for forty years. Yet, even in this, they were still able to realize His grace. As the Psalm says, with the Lord a thousand years is but a day. When their punishment would come to an end, they could take comfort in knowing that their children would inherit the promised land. In this short span of time, God's anger would cool. He does not stay mad.

Could this possibly mean that Edward Fudge is right in his theory of what hell and eternal judgment is all about? Perhaps we have a glimpse of what is to come. The Israelites knew what they were being denied, and there was nothing they could do about it. All they had to look forward to was death, and that death would be final. It would never be reversed. I suppose that it would be hell to know what the glories of heaven are to be, while being denied those privileges, with only an eternal destruction in the lake of fire for your future.