HEAVEN OR THE PIT
DO ALL
"LITTLE CHILDREN" AUTOMATICALLY GO TO BE WITH LOVING FATHER SON AND
HOLY GHOST IN HEAVEN IF THEY ARE TO DIE PREMATURELY BEFORE THE AGE OF
ACCOUNTABILITY,...... WHICH IS WHAT IS CONVENIENTLY TAUGHT AND ACCEPTED
DOCTRINE IN THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT TODAY?
LET`S HAVE A LOOK AT SOME SCRIPTURE:
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
"AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING, SPEAK UNTO THE
CONGREGATION, SAYING, GET YOU UP FROM ABOUT THE TABERNACLE OF KORAH, DATHAN,
AND ABIRAM. AND MOSES ROSE UP AND WENT UNTO DATHEN AND ABIRAM; AND THE ELDERS
OF ISRAEL FOLLOWED HIM. AND HE SPAKE UNTO THE CONGREGATION, SAYING, DEPART, I
PRAY YOU, FROM THE TENTS OF THESE WICKED
MEN, AND TOUCH NOTHING OF THEIRS, LEST YE BE CONSUMED IN ALL THEIR SINS. SO
THEY GAT UP FROM THE TABERNACLE OF KORAH, DATHAN, AND ABIRAM, ON EVERY SIDE:
AND DATHAN AND ABIRAM CAME OUT, AND STOOD IN THE DOOR OF THEIR TENTS, AND THEIR
WIVES, AND THEIR SONS, AND THEIR
LITTLE CHILDREN. AND MOSES SAID, HEREBY YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD
HATH SENT ME TO DO ALL THESE WORKS; FOR I HAVE NOT DONE THEM OF MINE OWN MIND. IF
THESE MEN DIE THE COMMON DEATH OF ALL MEN, OR IF THEY BE VISITED AFTER THE
VISITATION OF ALL MEN; THEN THE LORD HATH NOT SENT ME. BUT IF THE LORD MAKE A
NEW THING, AND THE EARTH OPEN HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOW THEM UP, WITH ALL THAT APPERTAIN UNTO THEM, AND THEY
GO DOWN QUICK INTO THE PIT;
THEN YE SHALL UNDERSTAND THAT THESE MEN HAVE PROVOKED THE LORD. AND IT CAME TO
PASS, AS HE HAD MADE AN END OF SPEAKING ALL THESE WORDS, THAT THE GROUND CLAVE
ASUNDER THAT WAS UNDER THEM. AND THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, AND SWALLOWED THEM
UP, AND THEIR HOUSES, AND ALL THE MEN THAT APPERTAINED UNTO KORAH, AND ALL
THEIR GOODS. THEY, AND ALL THAT
APPERTAINED TO THEM, WENT DOWN ALIVE
INTO THE PIT, AND THE EARTH CLOSED UPON THEM: AND THEY PERISHED FROM AMONG THE CONGREGATION".
NUM. 16/23-33.
"PIT", "SHe`OL",
(SHEH-OLE), HADES OR THE WORLD OF THE DEAD, GRAVE, HELL, THE PIT: (strong`s
concordance).
So,.....here we see the households of Dathan
and Abiram
"standing in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their
sons, and their little children",
(vs. 27), and then the earth opened up and swallowed them all
up,......"THEY, AND ALL THAT APPERTAINED TO THEM, WENT DOWN ALIVE INTO THE PIT". NUM. 16/33.
AND THESE PEOPLE WERE
OF "THE CONGREGATION OF THE LORD", THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: THEY
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER: THIS IS A HUGE WARNING TO ALL WHO NAME THE NAME
OF CHRIST AND CHOOSE TO GAINSAY, (JUDE 11), ARGUE, REBEL, DISOBEY, REJECT THE
WORD OF GOD: THESE FOLK WERE SWALLOWED UP, WENT TO HELL, HADES, THE ABODE OF
THE DEAD ALIVE GENTS,.........ALONG WITH
"THEIR LITTLE CHILDREN". THAT WAS LOVING FATHER`S RIGHTEOUS
JUDGMENT ON THESE FAMILIES:
And you all thought, or most of you anyway, that any child who died under the age of
accountability automatically went to Heaven:
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD: "BEHOLD THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD: ON THEM WHICH FELL, SEVERITY;
BUT TOWARD THEE, GOODNESS, IF THOU CONTINUE IN HIS GOODNESS: OTHERWISE THOU
ALSO SHALT BE CUT OFF". RO. 11/22. AND
"EXCEPT YE REPENT, YE SHALL ALL LIKEWISE PERISH". LUKE 13/3.
You might say to me, 'yeah but that was in the old Testament':.....
"REALLY"!!!!
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD:
"JESUS CHRIST THE
SAME YESTERDAY, AND TODAY AND FOR EVER": HEB. 13/8. "THE FATHER OF
LIGHTS, WITH WHOM IS NO VARIABLENESS, NEITHER SHADOW OF TURNING". JA.
1/17. "FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT"; MAL. 3/6.
The only way that the "little children"
automatically go to be with Loving Father Son and Holy Ghost if they die
prematurely, is if they are "clean,....... holy", innocent, and that
can only happen if they are ignorant of Loving Father, HIS Holy Standards, the
salvation message, (John 9/41), or, they belong to a Godly family:
THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD:
"FOR THE UNBELIEVING HUSBAND IS SANCTIFIED BY THE WIFE,
AND THE UNBELIEVING WIFE IS SANCTIFIED BY THE HUSBAND: ELSE WERE YOUR CHILDREN UNCLEAN; BUT NOW ARE THEY HOLY". 1 COR.
7/14.
So,....can you see how important it is for parents to be
saved?????????? (or at least one anyway, and then only if the unbelieving
spouse is happy to stay with them). The "little children`s"
sanctification, being clean,...... HOLY,..... depends on it:
Their "little children" are dependent on them to be
so for their salvation:
Do I dare say it? If
you do not belong to Christ, if you do not serve Christ, if you do not abide in
obedience to Christ,..........then you are an infidel, pagan, an unbeliever,
under wrath, (John 3/36), AND NONE OF YOUR CHILDREN ARE "CLEAN,
HOLY", SAVED, GOING TO HEAVEN IF THEY DIE UNDER THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
UNLESS THEY ARE TOTALLY INNOCENT BY IGNORANCE BECAUSE THEY OR THEIR PARENTS
HAVE NEVER HEARD OF SIN OR THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST: JOHN 9/41, RO. 7/7.
You think I am over the top? Just have a read of what George
Whitfield, "preacher of righteousness", 1714-1770 has to say:
"Though the doctrine of original sin, is a
doctrine written in such legible characters in the word of God, that he who
runs may read it; and though, I think, everything without us, and everything
within us, plainly proclaims that we are fallen creatures; though the very
heathens, who had no other light, but the dim light of unassisted reason,
complained of this, for they felt the wound, and discovered the disease, but
were ignorant of the cause of it; yet there are too many persons of those who
have been baptized in the name of Christ, that dare to speak against the
doctrine of original sin, and are angry with those ill-natured ministers, who
paint man in such black colours. Say they, "It cannot be that children
come into the world with the guild of Adam's sin lying upon them." Why?
Desire them to prove it from Scripture, and they will urge this very text, our
Lord tells us, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye
shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." Now their argument runs thus,
"It is implied in the words of the text, that little children are
innocent, and that they come into the world like a mere blank piece of white
paper, otherwise our Lord must argue absurdly, for he could never pretend to
say, that we must be converted, and be made like wicked creatures; that would
be no conversion."
But, my dear friends, this is to make Jesus Christ
speak what he never intended, and what cannot be deduced from his words. That
little children are guilty, I mean, that they are conceived and born in sin, is
plain from the whole tenor of the book of God. David was a man after God's own
heart, yet, says he, "I was conceived in sin." Jeremiah speaking of
every one's heart, says, "the heart of man is deceitful and desperately
wicked above all things." God's servants unanimously declare, (and Paul
cites it from one of them) "that we are altogether now become abominable,
altogether gone out of the way of original righteousness, there is not one of
us that doeth good (by nature), no not one." And I appeal to any of you
that are mothers and fathers, if ye do not discern original sin or corruption
in your children, as soon as they come into the world; and as they grow up, if
ye do not discover self-will, and an aversion to goodness. What is the reason
your children are so averse to instruction, but because they bring enmity into
the world with them, against a good and gracious God? So then, it is plain from
scripture and fact, that children are born in sin, and consequently that they
are children of wrath. And for my part, I think, that the death of every child
is a plain proof of original sin; sickness and death came into the world by
sin, and it seems not consistent with God's goodness and justice, to let a
little child be sick or die, unless Adam's first sin was imputed to him.
If any charge God with injustice for imputing
Adam's sin to a little child, behold we have gotten a second Adam, to bring our
children to him. Therefore, when our Lord says, "unless ye are converted,
and become as little children," we are not to understand, as though our
Lord would insinuate, that little children are perfectly innocent; but in a
comparative, and as I shall show you by and by, in a rational sense. Little
children are innocent, compare them with grown people; but take them as they
are, and as they come into the world, they have hearts that are sensual, and
minds which are carnal. And I mention this with the greatest concern, because I
verily believe, unless parents are convinced of this, they will never take
proper care of their children's education. If parents were convinced, that
children's hearts were so bad as they are, you would never be fond of letting
them go to balls, assemblies, and plays, the natural tendency of which is to
debauch their minds, and make them the children of the devil. If parents were
convinced of this, I believe they would pray more, when they bring their
children to be baptized, and would not make it a mere matter of form. And I
believe, if they really were convinced, that their children were conceived in
sin, they would always put up that petition, before their children came into
the world, which I have heard that a good woman always did put up, "Lord
Jesus, let me never bear a child for hell or the devil." O! is it not to
be feared, that thousands of children will appear, at the great day, before
God, and in presence of angels and men will say, Father and mother, next to the
wickedness of mine own heart, I owe my damnation to your bad education of me."
Of course when they are old enough, their decision to repent
and follow and obey Christ is their responsibility to do so once they hear the
Gospel message, (RO. 10/13-17), and repent, and if they have been bought up in
a Godly household, then I believe that would be a foregone conclusion: Pro.
22/6.
Still don`t believe me?................. Don`t believe
me,....BELIEVE HOLY WRIT, IT IS WRITTEN, THE SCRIPTURES, THE HOLY WRITINGS, THE
BIBLE:
Let`s look at some more:
"THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, I REMEMBER THAT WHICH
AMALEK DID TO ISRAEL, HOW HE LAID WAIT FOR HIM IN THE WAY, WHICH HE CAME UP
FROM EGYPT. NOW GO AND SMITE AMALEK, AND
UTTERLY DESTROY ALL THAT THEY HAVE, AND SPARE THEM NOT; BUT SLAY BOTH MAN AND
WOMAN, INFANT AND SUCKLING, OX AND SHEEP, CAMEL AND
ASS". 1 SAM. 15/2-3.
"INFANT", "OLAL", (O-LAWL0), A SUCKLING BABE, YOUNG CHILD, INFANT, LITTLE ONE. (strong`s concordance).
Now this scripture does not say that these
"infants" went to hell,... but how could you not say that that is so
when the "little ones" of Dathan and Abiram "went down alive into the pit" when they
were part of the congregation of The Lord, and these were pagans, infidels,
unbelievers, in the words of the Jews, dogs? You should also be aware that
these people "put forth their hands to touch the Lord`s anointed", (1
Sam. 26/9,11,23, 2 Sam. 1/1-16), chosen people, the "apple of HIS
eye", (Zec. 2/8, Deut, 32/9-10, Ps. 17/8, La.
2/18), and were judged accordingly as the Amalekite
in 2 Samuel chapter 1/1-16 was Amen:
"AND IF THE
RIGHTEOUS SCARCELY BE SAVED, WHERE SHALL THE UNGODLY AND THE SINNER APPEAR?"
1 PET. 4/18.
THUS SAITH THE LORD
GOD: "FOR IF GOD SPARED NOT THE
NATURAL BRANCHES, TAKE HEED LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE". RO. 11/21.
"FOR IF GOD SPARED
NOT THE ANGELS THAT SINNED, BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL, AND DELIVERED THEM INTO
CHAINS OF DARKNESS, TO BE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT; AND SPARED NOT THE OLD WORLD,
BUT SAVED NOAH THE EIGHTH PERSON, A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, BRINGING IN THE
FLOOD UPON THE WORLD OF THE UNGODLY;" 2 PET. 2/4-5.
You might say to me that Jesus said "suffer the little
children and forbid them not, to come unto me:" Math. 19/14, Mk. 10/14,
Luke 18/16.
You might say to me that Jesus doesn`t reject any child from coming
to HIM from reading the above scriptures: THAT`S RIGHT, HE DOESN`T............IF
"THEY COME UNTO HIM" (John 6/37) AND ARE PERMITTED, ALLOWED, DIRECTED, SENT BY THEIR PARENTS,........FOR THAT IS WHAT THE GREEK WORD FOR
"SUFFER" (APHIEMI) IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE MEANS;.......AND IF
THEY ARE NOT FORBIDDEN TO DO SO, OR
HINDERED, OR RESTRAINED, OR PREVENTED FROM
DOING SO BY THEIR PARENTS, OR ANY ADULTS FOR THAT IS WHAT THE GREEK WORD
FOR "FORBID" (KOLUO) IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE MEANS:
ANY PARENT WHO DOES NOT GIVE THEIR LIFE TO CHRIST, BY THEIR
VERY ACT OF STUBBORNESS AND REBELLION ARE TRAINING UP A CHILD IN THE WAY IN WHICH HE/SHE SHOULD NOT GO,
AND ARE "FORBIDDING", HINDERING, (Math. 23/13), RESTRAINING,
PREVENTING THEM FROM COMING TO CHRIST:
You might say to me Jesus said "for of such is the
Kingdom of Heaven". Yes HE did, HE said "except ye become as one of
these, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven"............. How did HE
address the Apostles in John 21/5?
"CHILDREN,HAVE YE
ANY MEAT?"
STILL GOING TO TICKLE
ITCHY EARS WITH THE HERESY THAT ALL CHILDREN
UNDER THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY IF THEY DIE PREMATURELY GO TO HEAVEN, EVEN IF THEIR PARENTS ARE NOT SAVED, BORN
AGAIN?
AGAIN,..........."BEHOLD,
THE GOODNESS AND SEVERITY OF GOD". RO. 11/22.
(Of course it goes without saying I hope you realise, that if
the parents and the children have not heard of "the law or The gospel of
Jesus Christ", then Loving Father Son and Holy Ghost does not hold them to
account since they would not have knowledge of either: John 9/41, Ro. 7/7).
Bevan Kluver, Straight Talk Ministries,
Ph/Fax 07 55452874,
www.straighttalkmin.org
bevan.kluver@bigpond.com
"speaking the truth in love, in the spirit of meekness,
earnestly contending for the faith";
HELPING HIM PREPARE A
BRIDE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE:
HATING EVEN THE GARMENT
SPOTTED BY THE FLESH: