"There is no heaven with a little of hell in it.” — Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
The deadbolt on the door of devilry will fail and the gates of Hell will not prevail. They will give way before the glory of the Lord. The gates of gross will not be able to successfully keep any of God's goodness out. The darkness will not retain a corner of corruption so that not even a sliver of sin will make it in. Satan will not be able to smuggle any secrets into the open air of God.
1 Peter 4:3-5
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you: Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.
Do not daydream about the nightmare that was your life before Christ. Do not scrapbook your days in Egypt. Forget about the leeks and onions of your days in the dark. Nothing good will come out of providing quarter to yesterday's evils.
Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Death and Hell will someday be shut out from the light of day. They will be no more.
1 Corinthians 15:24-26
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
No enemies will remain. Some will be converted to friends while the others will be confined to the lake of fire, but none will retain any presence of power in the kingdom of Christ going forward.
Revelation 21:25-27
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
The gates of glory shall welcome in every repentant friend of God: every friend being a former enemy and every enemy being kept from coming in. No speck of hellish dust will find its away into the streets of Heaven. No pinch of impurity will linger in paradise.
1 Corinthians 3:12-15
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
The gates of Heaven will burn away any dross that knocks at the door and all the chaff will be blown away so that only a harvest of pure gold will enter into glory.
Revelation 22:14-15
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
The tree of life was kept from Adam and Eve after they fell for sin will not live forever; but they were sent out from the Garden of Eden with a promise of a serpent-slayer who would someday secure for them safe passage back to the Tree of Life. In the end, sinners will be sanctified and the fruit of the Tree of Life will be enjoyed by His saints forever and ever, world without end. And amen.
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