Think carefully about what is stated.

Revelation 20:15 is one of the most important verses of all Scripture. The fate of being cast into the Lake of Fire is a destiny so frightful as to be far beyond our powers of comprehension. To think of being tormented with no hope for a billion years, with the prospect of a billion years yet to come! What if it were you?

Worse than this, the individual never again can be received into the Presence of His Creator. His prayers never again will be heard. God has cast him or her off forever as unworthy of joy, of peace, of love, of transformation into the image of Christ.

Never again will he see the light of the world. Never, never again will she hear the voice of children, or smell a flower, or hear someone say, "I love you."

The stench of burning sulfur and the ravings of fallen angels, demons, and lost human beings will be his home for an eternity of eternities.

The horrible truth is, there actually will be people in the Lake of Fire—the fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

What if you or I found ourselves some day in the Lake of Fire? Have you ever thought about that? Yet, we Christians are ready to assign all but a handful of people to this terror of all terrors.

If God meant for us to interpret Revelation 20:12-15 to mean every individual who is not raised in the first resurrection as a priest of Christ will be cast into eternal torment, the passage should read approximately as follows:

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.

And God said, "None of you is written in the Book of Life. To be written in the Book of Life you must receive Jesus as your Savior.

"Some of you behaved wickedly, and some tried to practice righteousness according to your conscience. Most of you never have heard of Jesus. You never heard of Jesus because the Christian people were lazy and disobedient. Even though you might have accepted Him if you had heard, it does not make any difference. The lazy and disobedient Christians are in the Paradise of God by My grace but all of you shall be cast into the Lake of Fire.

"I am a righteous God. I never want to see you or hear your voice again throughout the eternity of eternities."

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and Hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to his works.

Since no man can be saved by works, every one of them was cast into the Lake of Fire.

And death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. None of these was found written in the Book of Life; all were cast into the Lake of Fire. (Evang 1:1-5)

This is the type of logical, righteous reasoning that takes place among Christians.

To be continued.