They

by Ken Pullen

Written Friday, April 5th, 2024*

They

are

greatly

deluded

as

they

jubilantly

point heavenward

saying

their

husband

wife

mother

father

son

brother

sister

daughter

aunt

grandma

best friend

is watching over them

Ignorance of the ways

Word

of the Lord

is not bliss

for there is no connection

from in this realm

to those possibly

in heaven

or hell

people miss

Never

see

an

athlete

any person ever

pointing

downward

to

hell

or

hear

anyone

say

their

dead loved one is

watching over them from the fiery depths of hell

do you?

Chasm

most possessing

spiritual spasm

deluded

the truth is never included

in the rituals of they

day

after

day

after

day

No connection

other

than

memories

for those breathing wrapped in skin

deluded

in their sin

ahh,

where to begin?

Heaven

hell

two distinct places

real

as

real can be

in

fact

they are the real reality

This

what is now seen, felt

smelt

seemingly known as reality

is but a vapor

a flash

the dash

between the dates on a headstone

Don’t

can’t

pray for the dead

get that sinful

notion removed right now

from your head

Only

possible

connection

upon

faithful inspection

reflection

if having known a Christ follower

desiring to follow them

is

to

repent

confess the every person sin

shedding everything known and believed

to be washed in the shed blood

of the Lord Jesus Christ

the

only

way

to

the

Father

and

where

He resides

from

this truth, this reality, this fact no one can

hide

If not

believing?

Well,

you may end up residing with the many

the most

who lived their lives deceiving

[unbelieving]

themselves

ahh,

so smart they were, right

in their own sight

well,

in the eternal agony

unimaginable

that

is

hell

they

will

have

a

lot

of

time

to

mull

over

what was, is right

and

how

wrong

they

were

If

truly

desiring

to

see

be

with

partake

of true joy

cease imitating the they

today

come

to the Lord

when

called

any delay no one can truly afford

They

in a certain place

like the rich man who ignored Lazarus

learn

too late

their eternal fate

parched

drying

second death dying

they

come

to

learn

of the chasm

no

chance

of rolling the dice again

as they treated this precious fragile life

like a game

they

learned

finally

too late

dear one, unknown

do not allow this to be your eternal fate

They

would

tell

you

that

if

there

truly

was

any

connection

communication

from

the spiritual realm

to this temporal skin

bone

blood

and

consciousness

realm

each

created in the image of God

What

they did such a waste

eternally

what will we do

you do

I do

given the next breath

heartbeat

before our Maker, we finally do meet?

They…

are not you

me

they

are deluded

confused

adopting the lie

hopefully

you are not as they

before you die…

* I had MLB Network on late last night. They aired a piece about a Major League manager and general manager who have been great friends for decades, and they are both working for the same baseball team. Their families were/are very close. The wives were extremely close. One of the wives, sadly, contracted a rare brain cancer and died.

Throughout the piece, the general manager, the man whose wife had cancer and died, and his best friend the manager, as well as others in the piece repeatedly spoke of how the general manager’s wife was watching over all of them. She was with them when they won the National League Peanut in 2023. And it was “she is watching over us” as if that was fact. Indisputable fact.

And, of course, she is in heaven watching over them.

If she is in heaven, with the Lord, where she is she is totally unaware of anything taking place on earth. Ever.

The spiritual realms, heaven, hell, the dimensions unseen and unknown to us in perishable skin cannot speak to us nor we to them.

They do not see us or guide us. We do not see them. They can’t hear us. We can’t hear them.

Cherish the memories. Hold them in your heart. But do not delude yourself that they are watching over you, guiding things in your life here on earth. For where they are, either in heaven or hell — it is not possible what the foolish believe. It is imperative to come to understand what God tells us plainly, and clearly of this.

If you have trouble believing this then time in God’s inerrant infallible living and active Word is required.

Begin here;

The Rich Man and Lazarus

“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’

“Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ”

Luke 16:19-31