If you gain the WHOLE Entire World and are KING
of all you see, it will only be for a very short time. The flesh you
live in has a very short shelf life. For the 70 or 80 or even 90 years
you live in sin the price that will be demanded of you will be an
eternity. in HELL.
St
Theresa was shown by an Angel a glowing orange hole which was
shimmering from the heat pouring out of it. From a distance it looked
like the top of a volcano. The Angel bid St Theresa to look more
closely. Instantly, her vision refocused and she realized that there was
someone in that fearfully burning chimney protruding from the barren
landscape. Look closer still said the Angel pointing at something
scurrying frantically to and fro within the searing heat.
It
was then that St Theresa realized that the creature within the glowing
blast furnace was a man. The Angel asked St Theresa if she did indeed
now see the man within and St Theresa said Yes. The Angel informed St
Theresa that the man running and leaping trying with all his might to
escape the terrible inferno had died at the age of 57. He was a wealthy
man of his time. He amassed his fortune by brute force and with an iron
fist sought to gather as much as he could without a thought to anyone
else but himself. He had enough to last for ten lifetimes, but it was
never enough. No matter how much he had he wanted more. He never once
considered the poor, the sick, or the needy. He never gave thanks to
GOD nor ever did he listen as the FATHER sent many men and women to try
and turn him from his evil ways. The man believed that his wealth
could protect him from anything. He died counting his money. As the
pain in his chest spread to his right arm he gave no thought to GOD, to
eternity. As his life slipped from him his only thought was to clench
the gold coins on the table into his fist so that no one could take them
from him.
When
the rich man opened his eyes again he opened them here in this place.
This searing blast furnace whose walls are to high and cliffs to sheer
will be his home for the rest of eternity. St Theresa watched as the
man shrieked and wailed as the fire cooked his flesh. She saw his feet
leave charred flesh on the molten rock as he ran from one side of the
rock face to the other. She could smell the awful stench of his cooking
flesh mixed with the heavy sulfur and brmiestone. Just as the bone
would begin to show on his feet or hands his flesh would reconstitute
itself and the horrific process would begin anew.
Being
a child of GOD St Theresa asked if there was no hope for this poor
Soul? The Angel took in St Theresa's visage and replied...This man has
been here for a thousand years. For ten centuries he has run from side
to side screaming for help, ever with the hope that if he could just run
fast enough, leap high enough, that he might be able to free himself
from the roasting pit. HE will never leave this place, he will never
have rest, his torment will NEVER end because in HELL time has no
meaning.
St
Theresa shivered at the terrbile implication that for the 57 years
wasted on earth this man had traded his Soul for an eternity in HELL.
What will you trade for your eternal Soul?
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