Your Heaven or Your Hell is Only a Heartbeat Away.

Have you ever wondered what Heaven and Hell truly are?

Why is there judgment?

What is evil and why can it never enter Heaven?

“It’s appointed man once to die and then judgment.” This must be because as long as there is evil there has to be judgment. Every sin, every wrong, every evil has to be brought to an end for without judgment of evil there can never be hope. Without judgment there would be no end to evil in the universe or in man’s heart. There would be no heaven….because heaven would then be filled with locks and prisons, hatred, violence, fear and destruction. Heaven would cease to be Heaven and would be hell instead. But there is a Heaven and there is a place of no more sorrow, no more hate, no more weeping and tears and no more pain. There must be a judgment for evil to end and for Heaven to be revealed to us. Do you see that if evil entered Heaven, Heaven would cease to be Heaven because evil would be within and the two cannot co-exist in the same place at the same time.

So who among us is evil?

Remember this from the Book of Proverbs, “All the ways of a man are right in his own eyes.”

The genocide’s of the past were right in the eyes of those who perpetrated these evils. They compared themselves and measured themselves by the standards they themselves created. Each, in his own eyes, was a good person, a moral person, a decent person, a religious person and no worse than the next person. By seeing themselves through only their own eyes they became blind. I just described the Nazis, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China but you say that there is a big difference between these people and most other people. The principle remains the same. You can never judge yourself by your own standards and your own righteousness for you will be deceived ever time.  Only the light of His righteousness is the standard by which we can see and understand our moral distance from Heaven.

Which do you think is greater, the moral distance that separates us from the most monstrous of Nazis or that which separates us from God? It is our separation from God because the first separation is finite but the second separation is infinite. What we see as the slightest of sins within ourselves appears, in the eyes of Him who is absolute goodness, as abhorrently evil just as the crimes of the Nazis appear to us. In the light of the absolute Good, our lust becomes as adultery and our hatred becomes as murders.

Who ten could stand? Who could make it into heaven? 

No one could stand and no one could make it into heaven. How far would just one sin take you away from the infinite righteousness of God? The answer is an infinite distance. 

How far are we from heaven? The answer is an infinite distance. 

How great is the judgment? The answer is infinitely great. 

How long would it take us to bridge the gap, to be reconciled to God, to enter heaven? The answer is an infinity of time, eternity. 

We would never get there. To be infinitely separated from God and Heaven is what? It is Hell, the infinite separation from God and from all things good: total, infinite, eternal judgment.

You may ask “Don't we just die?” No. 

Our soul is eternal, one way or another at the end the thousands of ages, you will still exist. 

The question becomes, where you will exist?

If the true joy of glory is being in God’s presence and in His Heaven and it is beyond our imagining, so too is the darkness and horror of being in His absence. Forever in hell. So our individual situation is graver than that of a nation in its hour of judgment. The prospect of spending eternity on the wrong side of infinite judgment is infinitely graver than any of any nation. Nations are temporary but the soul is eternal.

If you have an infinite gap and an infinite problem, what do you need? An infinite answer. Which means that the answer could not come from yourself or from the world. It could only come from the infinite, from heaven…from God, which means that any given answer, any given ideology and any given system based on the efforts of man is ruled out. This rules out every answer, every answer based on man trying to reach God, a hand reaching upward to Heaven. The answer can only come from the way, from the infinite to the finite, from heaven to earth…from God to man. A hand reaching down from Heaven.

What can answer an infinite judgment? 

An infinite mercy. The mercy of an infinite love. 

What alone can fill an infinite absence? An infinite presence.  

The infinite love of an infinite presence.

What is the answer to judgment? 

What alone can answer an infinite judgment and bridge and infinite chasm? Religion? No, religion reflects man’s search for God, no searching is required. 

Infinite love. What is infinite love? To give of oneself in sacrifice to save another. 

If God is love then what would be His ultimate manifestation of that love? 

Putting Himself in our place to receive the judgment. The infinite sacrifice. God giving Himself to bear the judgment of those under judgment if, by so doing, it would save them. Love puts itself in the place of the another. To bear the infinite judgment where all sins are nullified and all who accept are set free…saved.  You can only enter Heaven by walking through the waterfall of the living waters which is the gift of Yeshua, his real Hebrew name. Only by walking into and through the waters of His sacrifice can that infinite gap be bridged. Only by accepting the cleansing waters of life which is His infinite sacrifice of blood and death and His power to overcome can one be assured of an eternity in the presence of God. By not accepting this free gift one assures oneself of infinite and eternal separation of a Heaven your soul will always remind you is unattainable. You are one heartbeat away from finding the answer to your questions of God and you are one heartbeat away from eternity with God or an eternity in a prison of darkness and total separation.

It has always been a matter of free choice and believing what your heart and soul know but your mind doesn’t want to grasp. If you choose wrong it is forever and you will only have yourself to blame because your stubborn arrogance has never allowed you to search beyond what you can see, feel, hear and touch…there is so much more than you can ever know if only you open yourself to the possibilities of an eternity of life, either in light or darkness, it your choice. 

I must thank Rabbi Cahn for simplifying so much of this message.