Flee to Christ from the Wrath to Come!

We like to talk about heaven, I personally love to talk about heaven, I love to think about it, and what it will be like. I look forward to it with eager anticipation. But the bible doesn’t only talk about heaven as a final destination for the departed, does it? It also talks about hell. Now personally, I don’t like to contemplate or talk about hell, but the fact is my Lord and Savior Jesus speaks of hell and warns of hell, more often than he speaks of heaven. And he uses shocking imagery when he does so. It is in every sense the polar opposite of heaven. He says it will be a place of everlasting punishment, a place where the worm does not die and the fire is not quenched, a place of outer darkness and weeping and gnashing of teeth. It is a place where no one should want to go and yet it is the end of the broad path that most people are traveling on. Some in fact are not just walking towards it, they are sprinting towards it, and as they do so they have nothing but contempt for offers of mercy, and nothing but scorn for warnings of what is to come. You’ve probably met people like that, you may even be related to them, or you may well be one of those people yourself...