G-d also gave us another FREE gift besides our salvation. It is called FREE will. We get to use it for good or evil, right or wrong, G-d’s ways or satan’s ways, and choosing between heaven or hell. 

Understand that if you don’t choose G-d’s camp, you are drafted into satan’s camp by default. Here’s a little story to help you remember this.

There was a large group of people . On one side of the group stood Yeshua . On the other side of the group stood satan .

Separating them, running through the group, was a fence .

The scene set, both Yeshua and satan began calling to the people in the group and, one by one - each having made up his or her own mind – each went to either Yeshua or satan . This kept going on .

Soon enough, Yeshua had gathered around Him a group of people from the larger crowd, as did satan . But one man joined neither group . He climbed the fence and sat on it .

Then Yeshua and His people left and disappeared . So too did satan and his people . And the man on the fence sat alone . As this man sat, satan came back, looking for something, which he appeared to have lost . The man said, "Have you lost something?"

Satan looked straight at him and replied, "No, there you are . Come with me . But", said the man, "I sat on the fence . I chose neither you nor Him . "

"That's okay," said satan . "I own the fence!

The fact is; G-d loves us so much that He continues to delay His promised return so that more people can be atoned from satan’s grip.

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord isn't really being slow about His promise to return, as some people think . No, He is being patient for your sake . He does not want anyone to perish, so He is giving more time for everyone to repent .

I need to stop here and remind you that G-d, through His chosen men, wrote every word of the Bible!

Deuteronomy 30:19 "Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses . I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make . Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live!

I can hear it… Are you kidding me, do you expect me to believe there is a real place called hell? Let’s get that doubt out of your mind now, so we can further understand satan, his job, his powers and his limitations and also how we as believers can overcome him. Yeshua said that hell was created for satan and his fallen angels.

Matthew 25:41 "Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, 'Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his demons! 

You may have heard people say “I would rather go to hell since that’s where all my friends will be partying”. Well let me tell you if there is any party going on, it is satan rejoicing at the number of people he deceived. Read this sobering account about hell as told by Yeshua Himself.

Luke 16:19-31 Yeshua said, "There was a certain rich man who was splendidly clothed and who lived each day in luxury. At his door lay a diseased beggar named Lazarus.  As Lazarus lay there longing for scraps from the rich man's table, the dogs would come and lick his open sores.  Finally, the beggar died and was carried by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, and his soul went to the place of the dead. There, in torment, he saw Lazarus in the far distance with Abraham.  "The rich man shouted, 'Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in these flames.'  "But Abraham said to him, 'Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish.  And besides, there is a great chasm separating us. Anyone who wanted to cross over to you from here is stopped at its edge, and no one there can cross over to us.'  "Then the rich man said, 'Please, Father Abraham, send him to my father's home. 

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