MIKE BALLOUN | HEBREWS CHAPTER 12:7-13 PURGATORY? [PART 2]

Mike teaches today. 06-20-20.
HEBREWS 12:7-13 PURGATORY? [PART 2]
Subtitle: God’s Chastening Before and After Death

Verses: Luke 16:19-41; Revelation 2:23; Matthew 5:25-26, 10:38-39; 1st Corinthians 15:54-55; Ecclesisates 12:7

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It will be discovered by any truth seeker that Scripture does not teach we Christians go directly to Heaven when we die. Scripture will be found to teach that everyone continues (as it has been since the first man, Adam, died) to be carried into or directed into Hades/the intermediate place of the dead at the time of death, to be detained there until resurrection. Scripture teaches that man is a triad being. He is a living soul, (Genesis 2:7) he has a spirit, and a body. The soul and body have self-consciousness and with the spirit, man has God-consciousness. (Hebrews 12:9) Scripture teaches us that this union is “life”, and death is its separation. Man having died, Scripturally means that these three parts separate; the body goes back to the dust, where we await its resurrection, the spirit goes back to God who gave it, (Ecclesiastes 12:7, Luke 23:46) and then the soul (the essence of us) goes to the Intermediate place of the dead; or Sheol in Hebrew. The Old Testament declares it (according to our count) 65 times in several different versions; the word Sheol is translated hell or grave equally and pit three times. The New Testament word, in Greek, for the same place is Hades; it is used 11 times, and 10 times it is translated “hell” and “grave” once. For a total of 76 times we are informed in Scripture about Sheol and 22 times in the Old Testament we are told it is down where we go when we die. “But those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth.” [Psalm 63:9] “Let death seize upon them and let them go down quick into hell (Sheol).” [Psalm 55:15] “…that her guests are in the depths of (Sheol).” [Proverbs 9:18] “For I will go down to (Sheol) to my son mourning”. (Genesis 37:35) “They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.” [Job 21:13]
 
It is here where we can briefly examine what Scripture says on the subject of the intermediate place of the dead. We have before established from Scripture that death in itself has no magical effect on our character. We are what we were when we arrive in Hades. We are tainted with sin and death when we are here on the earth and we are yet tainted with sin and death after we die. First, it is important to note that it is not the Christian’s sins per se that will be dealt with by corrective or instructive chastisement after death, because the days of our response to these unto worthiness of the First Resurrection in faithful fruitfulness have passed, in that a dead branch cannot produce fruit no matter how much it is beaten. Therefore, it is instead the Christian’s punishment after death (as opposed to a Christian’s chastisement while alive, when they could have still produced fruit). In his punishment, the Christian would have the sorrowful realization of how it was his unwillingness to be purged through the conscience, the Word, and Holy Spirit from the works of the carnal nature that created the “debt” now owed to God, which he must now pay the consequences for in full. (Matthew 5:25-26… “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.” See also Matthew 18:34-35…“And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, - till he should pay all that was due. SO SHALL ALSO MY HEAVENLY FATHER DO UNTO YOU, IF YE FORGIVE NOT EVERY ONE HIS BROTHER FROM YOUR HEARTS.” See also James 2:13, “…for judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy”.
  
When we are dead, we are no longer in the position (to acquire mercy and grace) for cleansing or purging from our sins that we might be found and judged as faithful and fruitful. Only while we were alive were we able to approach the throne of grace to receive grace and mercy to cover our sins after regeneration. The cleansing process is likened unto mowing the grass, as the mowing equates to cleansing from sin “...let us lay aside ever weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us…” that we might stay in communion/koinonia with God....

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