I will examine you carefully and hold you to the terms of the covenant.38 I will purge you of all those who rebel and revolt against me. I will bring them out of the countries where they are in exile, but they will never enter the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord .
Hell is real, and really important. I remember a professor in college who taught a lecture on the doctrine of hell. He whole premise was that without a real hell, God is not just, and thus not perfect. A perfect God cannot be in the presence of sin so therefore there must be a consequence. That consequence is God's judgment and subsequent hell.
I loved this passage in Ezekiel because it was a little raw. - "I will...hold you to the terms of the covenant...and purge all those who rebel...Then you will know I am the Lord."
I am glad I worship a perfect God who keeps his end of the bargain. Otherwise he wouldn't be God.
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