Hell Assistance Is Real

We continue with the parable Jesus told about a rich man and a beggar called Lazarus and the outcome of the lives of each one of them, after they both died. I must say that when I came to write this, it hit me like a ton of bricks, how very foolish I and many of us are. We spend so much time on this present life, to ensure that we do so many good things for ourselves and our families. This earthly life consumes us, whether we care to admit it or not. However, we spend not even the minimum requirements, thinking seriously about our life to come. Do I, do you truly believe in life after death? And if you and I do, do we honestly believe in a sure heaven and a sure hell? Hmmm! I don’t know if we do, for our plans, desires, hopes and efforts are never for heaven’s life but for earthly living.

Is my name Nabal? Is your name Nabal? Abigail, the wife of Nabal, tells David this about her husband. He is just like his name – his name means Fool, and folly goes with him. 1 Samuel 25: 25b. Your name and mine may not exactly be Nabal, but are we living out the meaning of his name, when it comes to our preparations for this life and the life to come? Has not Jesus said, Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Matthew 6: 25. Have we not ears to hear, eyes to see and minds to understand that Jesus’ emphasis is on the life to come and not on this life? Is that not why He has come as the Life, so that we can know abundant life in Him? So why worry about the things of this life?

May God, the Holy Spirit teach us the fear of the Lord and grant us new focus. Amen!

We continue looking at how real hell is, as we review the given text. And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. Luke 16: 23 KJV

Hell Assistance – He lift up his eyes

Hell dwellers need assistance or help. In a place of perpetual torments, to know relief and rest must be a huge, crucial, ongoing, daily desire. I must say that when I saw these five words, He lift up his eyes, my mind went to the Psalmist, who says, I will lift up my eyes to the hills – from whence comes my help? My help comes from the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121: 1 – 2 NKJV. Here is the Psalmist, who needs assistance from God, for all that has been plaguing his life. The Psalmist is telling us many things about God, the Father and Creator of all. Among the many things he is broadcasting and publishing about the One True God are these. He is broadcasting aloud that:-

In his times of need, he will remove his eyes from himself and cast his eyes upwards.
In his days and moments of helplessness, he will lift his eyes to the high, created places, which put him directly in tune with the Creator.
In his human weakness, he remembers that God, who made heaven and earth, is the Person from whom his help comes.

Is the Psalmist in some sort of hell place? Is he a resident of the kingdom of hell? This is quite curious and a bit disturbing, if you ask me, for here Jesus tells us of a resident of hell, being able to look up. He looks up, meaning he also cast his eyes beyond and above himself, to be able to see heaven dwellers.

The word assistance has been deliberately handpicked, because even in hell, God is still in command and control. Have you ever thought about this?

The hell dweller is assisted by Creator God to be able to look beyond the confines of hell. He lift up his eyes.
The hell dweller is able to look to the goodness of God, to be able to look up from his hell place. The sad, but true story, is that in his lifetime, he did no looking up, for perhaps he thought, and foolishly so, that all was well with him and his way of living. Now, in hell, he has no choice but to look up. He lift up his eyes.
The hell dweller is free to look up. God the Father and Creator of all, gives the gift of beyond sight to hell dwellers, to see heaven dwellers. He lift up his eyes.
The hell dweller has ready eyes, not heavy, dim, weighed down with sleep eyes. God has freed the hell dweller from blinded eyes to be able to see the Promises and Word of God as true and real, for he looks up and sees. There is no problem with distance, for God has given the hell dweller perfect vision to be able to see the dwellers in heaven. God is LORD. He gives sight to all. He lift up his eyes.

Where are you with this? This is all very new and arrestingly interesting to me. Only God has given me the eyes to see and the ears to hear this Word of His. I am shown that God and God alone, gives such sight to people. I am also shown that the distance to be spanned, is not a problem to God, for He gives powerful, telescopic range to hell dwellers, to see heaven dwellers, people afar off.

Spiritually Charged

Are you able to see, look up and see dwellers of the Kingdom of Heaven? You know that such sight is only given by Creator God. However, the question is this? From which place are you seeing this? Is this from the kingdom of hell or the Kingdom of Heaven?