Remorse In Hell Too Late
Celia R. Okhuysen
"And being in torments in Hades
[Hell], he lifted up his eyes…cried and said, ‘…have mercy on me…for I am tormented in this flame.’ "
(Luke 16:23, 24 –– NKJV)
For the wages of sin is death.
(Romans 6:23)
DREAM –– January 22, 1992
I was lowered into a vast dark dungeon, yet my vision was quite clear, penetrating the darkness. I came to a halt and remained suspended at approximately a thousand feet above a never-ending panorama of hooded robes. I "zoomed" my sight "in and out" in different directions near and far, and immediately noticed their condition. They were not only filthy but also badly tattered.
There was no air, and the place was stifling. The atmosphere was so oppressive and utterly depressing. This was a dreary and wretched place without a ray of light or an object of any kind. These dark gray hooded robes had nowhere to go. After a while of "zooming" my sight throughout the dungeon to observe close up details and existing conditions, I came to understand that this was a "holding place" of some kind. I also became aware of their desolation, and indescribable despondency and woe.
Many of them wandered aimlessly past each other, moving slowly––almost as if in slow motion. Many stood, slowly looking around in every direction as if in confusion or searching. At close observation, there were no discernible "body forms" within the robes. Others stood stoop shouldered with slowly shaking bowed heads. Still, others sat, hunched over while looking down at what seemed to be a bottomless pit. Interestingly, there didn’t appear to be a surface on which they stood or sat, yet they were standing / sitting on an invisible surface, or on some elevated level. There was no activity whatsoever––just slow motion movements by most.
As my sight "zoomed" up close to different hooded robes throughout, I was able to clearly sense the despair in their midst. I also saw close-ups of their deathly, hollow, sunken skeletal "faces." Their eye sockets were empty––just holes. Instead of noses, in their place were two small openings. What should’ve been skin was more like thin, cracked, dry leather. The color of their "faces" was a pale drab gray. There was no gender distinction.
Each one was completely alone. There were no couples or groups together. Although it was an enormously crowded place, I observed that they did not interrelate with each other, nor did I hear crying, wailing, screaming, sighing, moaning, or any other sounds.
I eventually focused my attention on a "face" that looked up. My sight "zoomed" close to study its expressions. Although all "faces" were identical, this particular one showed astonishing agonized expressions that did not cease for as long as I watched it. I became totally engrossed with this most unforgettable of all "faces" for a long time. Not once did it look around or down, but remained looking up while stretching its sleeved arms upward. (I saw no hands.) Its head would slowly sway in various directions. Then it would lean its head to the left or to the right for a while as it continuously looked up. Its arms remained stretched upward, which at times shook with desperate gestures, or wave, or come close together with pleading gestures. At times, it would remain standing without movement but with its arms remaining stretched upward. Through it all, its opened "mouth" continuously moved, forming wider gaping than at other times. Further words fail to graphically describe this ghastly scene. This hooded robe’s endless, desperate, pleading expressions and movements were a painful and pitiful sight to behold. I observed all this in a Godless and utterly forsaken place in total silence. It was so pathetic and just horrific.
After an endless time of observation, as I was slowly taken up, I heard a man’s booming voice say, "HELL." –– END
[NOTE: I suggest that the reader have a Bible in hand and look up the scriptures referred to throughout this document for greater clarity and understanding. For emphasis, I have also bolded, capped and underlined certain phrases / words in the following NKJV Scriptures. –– Celia]
INTERPRETATION
These multitudes of hooded robes are sinner saints who had accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior while alive, but denied His Lordship of their hearts, minds, and lives. They represent "branches" that chose not to abide in Christ and were therefore cast out into the fire.
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-- "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If anyone DOES NOT ABIDE IN ME, he is CAST OUT as a branch and is withered; and they [men ¾ KJV] gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned" (John 15:5, 6).
-- "The Son of Man will send out His angels [reapers], and they will gather OUT of His KINGDOM all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:41, 42).
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These multitudes represent apostates (deserters) who became rebellious, worldly-minded, and who renounced / abandoned their Savior, Jesus Christ (Matthew 13:3-9, 18-23). They also represent backslidden saints who through disobedience, deceitfulness, selfishness, self-righteousness, worldly compromise, lustfulness, carnality, idolatry, hypocrisy, as well as so much more sinfulness, led unholy lives. They had mocked the grace of God, did not repent before Lord Jesus, and entered into an eternity of punishing torment as described by Him:
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-- "…to be cast into hell fire––where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched’ " (Mark 9:47, 48).
[See also Isaiah 66:22-24 for an interesting revelation about the time of the Millennium, comparing vs. 24 with above quoted scripture.]
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With the exception of the Philadelphia Faithful Church, these vast multitudes represent countless numbers from the six other churches that did not repent as warned in Revelation, Chapters 2 and 3. They are as follows:
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1. The Ephesian Loveless Church |
4. The Thyatira Corrupt Church |
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2. The Smyrna Persecuted Church |
5. The Sardis Dead Church |
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3. The Pergamos Compromising Church |
6. The Laodicean Lukewarm Church |
Two thousand years ago, Jesus sent letters to "angels" (pastors) of the above churches in Asia Minor (present day western coast of modern Turkey) regarding the state of their spiritual conditions. Sadly, those same spiritual conditions still exist today throughout the worldwide Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. (Many of those pastors were failing in their spiritual leaderships as shepherds of the Lord’s Flock as many of them still are today.)
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[QUOTE: "(1) A local application to the churches in John’s day. The letters portray actual conditions in seven local churches. This is clear from the messages themselves. (2) A prophetical application to the churches throughout this dispensation [up] to the Rapture, revealing spiritual conditions in local churches and in individuals in churches. (3) An individual application, so that the individual in any church in any generation may be warned and [may] profit by the failures of the [six] churches."
¾ SOURCE: Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, Revelation 1:20, note "c"]~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The hooded robes in this dream are quite similar to those described in a previously posted dream, "THE RAPTURE!" ––
http://www.etpv.org/2003/therap.html. The difference in that particular dream was that those hooded robes were only heavily earthen soiled in appearance after having rested in the soil for an unknown time. They were not at all filthy, and in some cases, severely tattered in appearance as great numbers are in this dream. The color and decayed condition of these particular hooded robes symbolize the spiritually corrupt condition of their hearts upon entering eternal darkness. They had not worked out their salvation with fear and trembling (Phil. 2:12), and remained unfaithful.As revealed at the end of the dream, this "holding place" is Hell. These sinner saints will be resurrected as revealed in Revelation 20:11-15. They, along with all the rest of the lost souls who never knew Jesus Christ of Nazareth as their Savior and Lord, shall stand before Almighty, Sovereign, Righteous, Holy God on Judgment Day and be judged according to their sins and their deeds. God will review each one of their lives on earth and pronounce His judgments upon them. Then they will be cast "into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth" (Matthew 13:42).
The hooded robe that I focused on is a remorseful sinner saint. In a state of utter anguish, it seems as if it could almost be crying out those distressing and pleading words of Psalm 88. [See also Luke 16:19-31] Tragically, its remorse in Hell is too late. Its anguished plea for deliverance from Hell’s eternal torments is hopeless since its name had been blotted out (Exodus 32:33; Deut. 29:20) and was not found in the Book of Life (Revelation 20:15). This sinner saint is eternally banished from the presence of God.
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-- …in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those [backslidden Saints] WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD and from the glory of His power… (2Thess. 1:8, 9).
-- By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of His anger they are consumed (Job 4:9).
-- For our God is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29).
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COMMENTARY
This dream scenario is in total contrast to what I witnessed in Glory after the Rapture, as revealed in the abovementioned Rapture dream: GRIEF vs. JOY.
I have read many accounts of people dying and going to Hell where some had seen much torment in Hell’s flames, while others did not. Here, I was not shown Hell fire. The true purpose of this dream is to communicate to the Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth the harsh and painful reality of a possible and eternal separation from Him because of disobedience through unholy living and unfaithfulness to Lord Jesus. The apostates will receive their just rewards through God’s pronounced judgments at His Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). I believe that of all classes of sinners, the apostates will receive the severest of God’s punishments because "to whom much was given, much was required." (Luke 12:48)
In the final end, as Scripture teaches throughout the Bible, eternal separation from God and unimaginable grief and torture in eternal tormenting Hell fire is the guaranteed punishment for mocking God’s Love, Grace and Mercy. (John 3:16-21) Therefore, it was not necessary for Lord Jesus to bring Hell’s flames into focus in this dream since Scripture declares it an assured reality. I urge the Born Again Christian reader to slowly read and carefully study the following scriptures. (If the reader has never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, you are not Born Again and cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:3-8) Log onto "I AM IN CONTROL" ––
http://www.etpv.org/1999/control.html, and read in particular the sections on "In Search of God" and "The Sinner’s Prayer.")~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- For IF WE SIN WILLFULLY AFTER WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain FEARFUL EXPECTATION OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY [burning; scorching] INDIGNATION [righteous anger] which will devour the adversaries [enemies of God]. … Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he [the rebellious Christian] be thought worthy WHO HAS TRAMPLED THE SON OF GOD UNDERFOOT, counted the blood of the covenant [Matthew 26:27, 28] by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, " ‘Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,’ says the Lord." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD (Hebrews 10:26, 27, 29-31).
-- Then the Lord said to me, "Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. CAST THEM OUT of My sight, and let them go forth. And it shall be if they say to you, ‘‘Where should we go?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord: "Such as are for death, TO DEATH…" ’ " (Jeremiah 15:1, 2).
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This dream and interpretation is a harsh and grievous message to the Lord’s Church that causes much sorrow in my heart. However, God’s call upon me to be a Watchman, and to bring ST-R-O-N-N-NG WARNING THROUGH GOD’S WORD to His Saints is just that––God’s call. (Romans 8:28: …to those who are THE CALLED…) I am anointed to operate thusly in the Spirit of the Lord, and I continue to be about God’s call of ministering His warnings through His Word to His Saints for their spiritual benefit and eternal welfare as well as for His glorious kingdom and HIS glory.
Furthermore, it is thusly so with His called ministers (Ephesians 4:11-16) and servants (1Corinthians 12:1-11) who are boldly operating with daily empowerment and anointing by the Holy Spirit, and with His help and guidance. They are increasingly operating in numerous spiritual dimensions while ministering / serving the Body of Christ throughout the world as well as preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a dying world during these few remaining moments before God’s wrath and judgments strike this corrupt and sinful generation. (Matthew 7:15-20) In these last days, God is also pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh (Acts 2:17-21).
Beloved of God, pray fervently for your loved ones and others, and do not forget to pray for the Saints in the Church of the Lord (James 5:16). The enemy and his horde prowl like roaring lions, seeking those they may devour (1Peter 5:8, 9). Also, do not forget to pray for all the missionaries throughout the world, and especially for all pastors and chaplains in the worldwide Church of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All these have always been, and still are the primary targets in the Lord’s Church. They truly, and some desperately, need your prayers now in this spiritually alarming and evil end time climate we are living in.
It is the Lord’s heart’s desire that each Saint of God who reads this dream about the fate of the sinner saints in Hell humble him or herself now before Him, asking Him to reveal any hidden sin in the heart (Jeremiah 17:9). Holy Spirit will help you recognize all hidden sins that Lord Jesus will reveal to your understanding so that you may quickly repent before Him.
Draw closer to Him through prayer and repentance daily. Worship Him, praise Him, daily tell Him you love Him, daily thank Him for your salvation, daily fellowship with Him through reading or studying the Word, forsake worldly pleasures, and sanctify yourself to Him by surrendering your full life to Him. Love mercy [Matthew 5:7], do justly, and walk humbly before God (Micah 6:8). Serve the Lord as He calls you to lift Him up before all men (John 12:32).
HONOR HIM –– OBEY HIM
Finally, Beloved, GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY (Isaiah. 42:8) IN ALL THINGS, seeking none for yourself. MAGNIFY HIS GLORIOUS AND HOLY NAME (Psalm 34:3), and BE FOUND FAITHFUL (1Cor. 4:2).
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-- And do this, knowing the time, that NOW it is high time to awake out of sleep [lack of spiritual vigilance]; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. THE NIGHT IS FAR SPENT, THE DAY IS AT HAND. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. BUT PUT ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts" (Romans 13:11-14).
-- Beware, brethren, lest [for fear that] there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in DEPARTING from the living God; but exhort [encourage] one another daily, while it is called "Today," lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin (Heb. 3:12, 13).
-- LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).
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[THIS DREAM COMPLETES WHAT HAS BECOME A FIVE-PART DREAM SERIES OF THE RAPTURE, THE SLEEPERS IN JESUS, AND THIS DREAM. THE OTHER FOUR ARE LISTED AT THE END OF THIS DOCUMENT.]
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SCRIPTURES (NKJV) ON "HELL"
Deut. 32:22 –– "For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell." [Ps. 139:8]
Psalm 9:17 –– The wicked shall be turned into hell…
Psalm 11:6 –– Upon the wicked He will rain coals; fire and brimstone and a burning wind…
Psalm 37:20 –– But the wicked shall perish…into smoke they shall vanish away.
Psalm 55:15 –– Let them go down alive into hell…
Isaiah. 33:14 –– dwell with the devouring fire –– dwell with everlasting burnings
Mat. 3:12 –– "…but He will burn up the chaff [sinners] with unquenchable fire."
Mat. 5:22 –– "…shall be in danger of hell fire."
Mat. 10:28 –– "…fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
Mat. 13:42 –– "…and shall cast them into a furnace of fire."
Mat. 13:50 –– "…and cast them into the furnace of fire."
Mat. 18:8 –– "…to be cast into the everlasting fire."
Mat. 18:9 –– "…to be cast into hell fire."
Mat. 23:33 –– "How can you escape the condemnation of hell?"
Mat. 25:41 –– "Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil…"
Mark 9:47 –– "…to be cast into hell fire…"
Luke 3:17 –– …He will burn with unquenchable fire.
Luke 16:24 –– "…for I am tormented in this flame."
John 15:6 –– "…and throw them into the fire, and they are burned."
James 3:6 –– …and it is set on fire by hell.
2Peter 2:4 –– …but cast them down to hell…
Jude 7 –– …suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Rev. 1:18 –– "And I have the keys of Hades [Hell] and Death."
Rev. 9:2 –– …opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace.
Rev. 14:10 –– He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone…
Rev. 14:11 –– And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever…
Rev. 19:20 –– These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Rev. 20:10 –– The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone…
Rev. 20:15 –– …was cast into the lake of fire.
Rev. 21:8 –– …in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone…
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VARIOUS WEB SITES ON "HELL"
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THE TERRORS OF HELL |
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO HELL? |
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THE TORMENTS OF HELL |
IS THERE A REAL HELL FIRE? |
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THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL |
OLGA’S VISIT TO HELL’S ENTRANCE |
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PREVIOUS "RAPTURE" POSTS
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1. RAPTURE PREPAREDNESS |
3. RAPTURE AFTERSHOCK |
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2. THE RAPTURE! |
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Post Date: June 29, 2003