What is Your Destiny?

© 2018 by Tom Boynton (editing by Kathy Boynton)

There are at least two groups of fallen beings:  Humans and Fallen Angels.

When the Devil rebelled and fell, he convinced many other angels to follow.  God never offered them salvation.  Instead He prepared an eternal place of torment for them which causes them to tremble in perpetual dread.  (James 2:19).

God, who created angels also created mankind.  Though God warned Adam to avoid rebellion (Genesis 2:16‑17), the Devil approached Adam and Eve as a serpent.  He convinced them to also rebel (Genesis 3:1‑24).  This brought immediate spiritual death, and eventual physical death, upon them and all their descendents (1 Corinthians 15:22).  Consequently, all of humanity deserves the same eternal punishment prepared for fallen angels.  Scripture indicates that many will receive exactly that.

“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:” (Matthew 25:41)

Scripture also describes this place as a place of “outer darkness” (Matthew 8:12, Matthew 22:13, Matthew 25:30).  In this place, no light will be available for festive occasions.  The eternal fiery darkness of God’s immense wrath will prevail with no hope of ever finding relief.

Mankind doesn’t deserve forgiveness any more than the angels.  We probably deserve it less because we were created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), and defiled it with sin!

But God chose to save some of fallen humanity.  Though many think that people can earn their own salvation through good works, God declares otherwise.

“But we are all as an unclean thing , and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” (Isaiah 64:6)

The price of redemption was far beyond fallen man’s ability to pay.  So God the Father sent God His Son, Jesus Christ, to become sin bearer for His people (Matthew 1:21).  Jesus died and rose again.  There is no other means of salvation.  Jesus told His disciple, Thomas,

“…I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6)

Will you admit your fallen, sinful condition, and beg Him for mercy to save and cleanse you?  If God has so moved your heart, have you a sense of urgency to warn others?

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