Quotes from God and Jesus in the Apocalypse:
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
“Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
If the real meanings of words here translated as sorcerers (pharmakoi), immoral (porno), idolaters, liars are considered, it looks like we mostly all of us, or nearly all of us, probably fit the bill. Mostly the world around us brings us down to this level with its devices. But those are our doing too. Our actions perpetuate this whole depraved and evil kind of system. From the technologies of medicine to the ways porn is produced to the lying ways of the media telling what is literally true but told in a way which misleads, to collective actions which look justified on the surface but their outcomes cause misery and deaths, then more besides, we most of us get caught up in it all, and even government programmes, ostensibly for our public health, help to make sure of it. These passages of scripture tell us where it leads. We really must trust Jesus to lead us in the way which fixes our depravity soon, before we die in these ways, before we have that against us on judgement day.
