Immortality or Resurrection by William West (philippa perry book txt) 📕

For you compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, you make him twofold more a son of hell [Greek-Gehenna] then yourselves." In speaking to the Pharisees, Christ said, "For you are like unto whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead man's bones, and of all uncleanness" [Matthew 23:27]. The Scribes and Pharisees made their proselytes twofold more a son of Gehenna than them selves [Matthew 23:15]. A place cannot give birth to a person. No one, not even those who believe in Hell believe Hell is literally the father or mother of anyone. To call a person a son of a place is not to say that place is literally the person’s mother, but is to say a part of his or her character is similar to the place. Gehenna was a place of filth and uncleanness. To use the metaphors "son of Gehenna" is to say they were unclean like the filthy city dump. To be a "son of Gehenna" means to be like Gehenna and the things in it: to be filthy and contemptible fit only to be destroyed. The proselytes were made twofold more unclean then the Pharisees. Because Gehenna does not literally have sons, this is a figure of speech and not intended to be taken literally not in this life or after death. James and John are called "sons of thunder" [Mark 3:17]. Thunder did not give birth to them, but a part of their character is similar to thunder. "And if a son of peace be there" [Luke 10:6], "Son of exhortation" [Acts 4:36], "Sons of disobedience" [Ephesians 2:2], "The son of destruction" [2 Thessalonians 2:3].
"The child of anything in Hebrew phraseology expressed the idea of special property which one has in the thing specified, as, for instance, children of disobedience [Eph. ii. 2]" J W McGarvey, Matthew 8:11, The Fourfold Gospel, Standard Publishing Company, 1914.
This metaphor is taken from the filth and uncleanness of Gehenna. Although this passage is repeatedly used to prove eternal torment after death, there is nothing about any torment in it, not in this lifetime or after death.
In the same address to the Scribes and Pharisees Christ gives two more examples of their uncleanness.
1. They washed the outside of the cup to make it clean "but within they are full from extortion and excess. You blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also" [Matthew 23:25-26].
2. They were like whitewashed graves "which appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead man's bones, and all uncleanness. Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity" [Matthew 23:27-28]. Matthew 23:13-39 is a list of seven woes to the Scribes and Pharisees. "Twofold more a son of Gehenna"
Matthew 23:15 is the second of the seven woes on the Scribes and Pharisees [Matthew 23:13-39].
1. Shut the kingdom of heaven against men and enter not in [Matthew 23:13-14].
2. Made their proselytes twofold more a son of Gehenna than them selves [Matthew 23:15].
3. To swear by the temple is nothing [Matthew 23:16-22].
4. Left undone the weightier matters [Matthew 23: 23-24].
5. Within they are full of hypocrisy and iniquity, cleaned only the outside of the cup [Matthew 23:25-26].
6. Are whitewashed tombs full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness [Matthew 23:17-28].
7. Are sons and partakers with their fathers that slew the prophets. "How shall you escape the judgment of Gehenna"? [Matthew 23:29-39].
[2] JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA: Matthew 23:33-36 "Fill you up then the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how shall you escape the judgment of hell [Greek-Gehenna]? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and Scribes: some of them shall you kill and crucify; and some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you slew between the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation." Christ had just told the Scribes and Pharisees they made their proselytes more a "SON of Gehenna" more unclean than themselves; then He calls them "offspring [SONS of] vipers," and "all these things (all the righteous blood from Abel to Zechariah) shall come upon this generation." Matthew 23 is a discourse about the Scribes and the Pharisees; many take one word of this discourse out of it context, and then changed this one noun to another noun, which is not in the Bible.
The Scribes and Pharisees knew the law, but did not keep it. Outwardly they were as beautiful as white sepulchers, but inwardly were full of dead man's bones. They would not escape the judgment to come. "Verily I say unto you, all these things SHALL COME UPON THIS GENERATION" [Matthew 23:36]. Matthew 24 is a discourse to His disciples about the destruction of Israel of which He had spoken of to the Pharisees in the chapter before. That generation would not escape the judgment of Gehenna. It came in A. D. 70 when some historians say Gehenna was filled with the dead bodies of Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem [See Jeremiah 19]. To the Jews, to be left unburied, to be judged as not being fit to be buried and thrown into the city dump just as they were doing to those they judged as being unfit to be buried was the worse of all insult. It was the most severe judgment of contempt upon a criminal known to the Jews. In the judgment soon to come upon them Josephus said six hundred thousand dead bodies of the Jews were carried out of Jerusalem and lift unburied.
"Condemnation," "damnation," and "damned"
Of the King James Version
The seventh woe of this lecture and warning to the Scribes and Pharisees is about the judgment coming to them and on Israel. Why did the King James translators change “THE JUDGMENT [krisis] OF GEHENNA” INTO “THE DAMNATION [krisis] OF HELL” [Matthew 23:33]?
1. “Judgment of Gehenna” for Israel is changed to:
2. “Damnation of Hell” for all that “shall come upon this generation” [Matthew 23:36].
Krisis is used in the New Testament 48 times and translated "judgment" 41 times, "damnation" 3 times, condemnation 2 times, accusation 2 times in the King James Version. Did the translators think that if they put damnation with Hell that it would make the threat of Hell stronger? Krisis should have never been translated damnation or condemnation. In the American Standard Version Krisis is translated "judgment" 47 times, and "sin" one time in Mark 3:29.
THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION [krisis] (KJV), JUDGMENT [krisis] (ASV). "The resurrection of judgment (krisis)" [John 5:29] says nothing about an eternal life of torment in Hell after the judgment although this passage is continually used to prove eternal torment. The verdict of the judgment, if it be death, eternal life with torment, or what ever it maybe, the verdict of the judgment is not in this passage. In an attempt to put Hell in the Bible, the translators of the King James Version (1) changed the judgment and made it be the verdict of the judgment (2) and then made the verdict be what they needed it to be.
John 5:29
• "Unto the resurrection of damnation [krisis]" King James Version, New King James Version.
• "Unto the resurrection of judgment [krisis]" American Standard Version
John 5:24
• "Shall not come into condemnation [krisis]" King James Version
• "Shall not come into judgment [krisis]" New King James Version, American Standard Version
Matthew 23:33
• "Escape the damnation [krisis]" King James Version, New King James Version
• "Escape the judgment [krisis]" American Standard Version
John 3:19
• "And this is the condemnation [krisis]" King James Version, New King James Version
• "And this is the judgment [krisis]" American Standard Version
If "krisis" means "damnation" then we are all in trouble for "It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this comes damnation judgment (krisis)" [Hebrews 9:27]; judgment will come to all, both the saved and the lost, but not damnation. When it is applied only to the lost the King James translators translated "krisis" condemnation, but when it is applied to all [Hebrews 9:27] they translated "krisis" judgment. Just one more example of how they were willing to mistranslate to put "Hell" into the Bible. The American Standard Version and most others do not translate "krisis" into condemnation or damnation. TWO WORDS HAD TO BE CHANGED IN MATTHEW 23:33 TO PUT TODAY'S HELL IN THE BIBLE. "JUDGMENT" HAD TO BE CHANGED TO "DAMNATION" AND "GEHENNA" HAD TO BE CHANGED TO "HELL."
NO ROOT, NO BRANCH, NO HOPE OF LIFE FOR ISRAEL. Foy E. Wallace, Jr. said, "The prophet declares that 'the day shall burn as an oven' and 'it shall burn them up'--a pronouncement against the Jewish nation and governments that rejected and condemned the Christ, and persecuted his saints. The advent of the Messiah would be 'the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord'" "God's Prophetic Word," Page 545.
Krino is translated judge, judged, 86 times in the King James Version, damned 1 time, condemn 1 time, condemned 2 times, condemneth 1 time in the King James Version.
John 3:17-18
• “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn [krino] the world; but that the world through him might be save. He that believeth on him is not condemned [krino]: but he that believeth not is condemned [krino] already” King James Version.
• “For God sent not the Son into the world to judge [krino] the world: but that the world should be saved through him. He that believeth on him is not judged [krino]: he that believeth not has been judged [krino] already” American Standard Version.
Romans 14:22
• “Happy is he that condemneth [krino] not himself” King James Version.
• “Happy is he that judgeth [krino] not himself” American Standard Version.
2 Thessalonians 2:12
• “That they all might de damned [krino]” King James Version.
• “That they all might be judged” American Standard Version.
Condemnation, damnation, and damned were all taken out of the American Standard Version and most others. How many millions have been made to believe a lie by this deliberate changing of the Bible?
The language of judgment on nations in the Old Testament that the Jews would have been acquainted with. Malachi 4:1. Malachi's pronouncement is against the Jewish nation. "For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root not branch" [Malachi 4:1]. Job says when a tree is cut down there is hope that the root will sprout [Job 14:8]; there is hope of life. In the last chapter in the Old Testament of our English Bible Malachi says Israel will not be left a root to sprout a branch or a branch to sprout roots, therefore, there will be no hope for life.
Summary: JUST AS EVERY REFERENCE TO GEHENNA IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS TO A PLACE ON THIS EARTH, TO THE VALLEY SOUTH OF JERUSALEM AND IS NEVER TRANSLATED "HELL." EVERY REFERENCE TO GEHENNA BY CHRIST IS ALSO TO THE SAME PLACE ON THIS EARTH. IN THE FOUR OCCASIONS THAT GEHENNA IS USED, NOT IN A ONE IS GEHENNA SAID TO BE