Jesus appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of Himself and just as it is appointed for mortals to die once and after that the judgment. –Hebrews 9:26B-27 (NRSVCE)
- Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near. –Matthew 3:2
“It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone
but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'” –Matthew 4:4
For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him may not perish but may have eternal life.
Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through Him. –John 3:16-17
For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, “Short and sorrowful is our life and there is no remedy when a life comes to its end and no one has been known to return from Hades (Hell). For we were born by mere chance and hereafter we shall be as though we had never been, for the breath in our nostrils is smoke and reason is spark kindled by the beating of our hearts; When it is extinguished, the body will turn to ashes and the spirit will dissolve like empty air.
Our name will be forgotten in time and no one will remember our works; Our life will pass away like the traces of a cloud and be scattered like mist that is chased by the rays of the sun and overcome by its heat. For our allotted time is the passing of a shadow and there is no return from our death because it is sealed up and no one turns back.
“Come therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist and make use of the creation to the full as in youth. Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes and let no flower of Spring pass us by. Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. Let none of us fail to share in our revelry; everywhere let us leave signs of enjoyment because this is our portion and this is our lot. Let us oppress the righteous poor man, let us not spare the widow or regard the gray hairs of the aged but let our might be our law of right for what is weak proves itself to be useless.
Let us lie in wait for the righteous man because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against The Law and accuses us of sins against our training. He professes to have knowledge of God and calls himself a child of the Lord. He become to us a reproof of our thoughts, the very sight of him is a burden to us because his manner of life is unlike that of others and his ways are strange. We are considered by him as something base and he avoids our ways as unclean; He calls the last end of the righteous happy and boasts that God is his Father. Let us see if his words are true and let us test what will happen at the end of his life; For if the righteous man is God’s child, he will help him and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries. Let us test him with insult and torture so that we may find out how gentle he is and make trial of his forbearance. Let us condemn him to a shameful death for according to what he says, he will be protected.”
Error of the Wicked
Thus they reasoned but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hoped for the wages of Holiness, nor discerned the prize for blameless souls; For God created us for incorruption and made us in the image of His own eternity but through the Devil’s envy death entered the world and those who belong to his company experience it. –Wisdom 2:1-24
For the wages of sin is death but the Free Gift of God is Eternal Life
in Christ Jesus Our Lord. –Romans 6:23
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