Beyond the gates of hell… In a fiery graveyard you’ll find me, as skeletal figures dance around.
An inferno of death, and there is no escape.
No brief rest. No brief pause. An unending fiery gloom, with darkened smoke swirling around them and rising in a desert night.
A Sign for everyone to see.
Didn’t the fallen hear the Angels voices? Didn’t they hear the Angels sing?
O night divine! The night when Christ was born.
Didn’t the fallen hear the Angels voices? Didn’t they hear the Angels sing?
O holy night
The stars are brightly shining
It is the night of our dear Saviour’s birth
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Was the table set too high for them?
The blind cry out for sight but never see.
They grope about in darkness.
The ignorant cry out to hear words but never learn.
They have no understanding.
These people are shackled to UnGodly lives, and they live with a sickness of the Soul.
They are existing in the devil’s shadow
Being taught but never comprehending.
Wisdom refuses to dwell in a body indebted to sin, and the lives they lead drown out the Voice of God.
They are the walking dead.
Their suffering and confusion in this life is just a taste of things to come.
A beginning.
They have alienated themselves from Almighty God.
They have opened the door to Hell.
Ghosts dancing in the darkness. Writhing in pain.
Ghosts inhaling the second Death.
Too late. It’s all too late.
Is there no one willing to dip their finger in water and place it on their lips?
Is there no one there to help relieve their agony?
Is there no one willing to Warn their families and friends?
The gnashing of teeth… a very familiar sound.
Wailing but no tears.
No water in this graveyard of fire, where the damned are doomed to spend eternity.
The minds of men cannot comprehend the destruction and devastation.
There are no words to describe the horror.
And in the corner, in the hottest part of the graveyard you’ll find it.
Roaring in anger. Roaring in pain. A dragon no longer proud.
And not that far away demons. Who have known since the Holy One walked the earth, where they were bound.
It is now their time.
I was born in hell. Raised by the Almighty for one purpose.
I am the instrument that He chose to fulfill His Justice.
I am a flaming fire.
Enkindled by Him.
I will fulfill His Will.
I will fulfill my duty.
Deceit? Deceit is a dragon that roars throughout the world.
The world is the devil’s evil maze.
It’s a diabolical trap.
Fool’s gold and shiny objects are everywhere.
Meant to delay and confuse.
Time is running out!
Don’t be late for the wedding feast and be turned away.
If you do not find the Light of Creation in this life, you will never meet Him.
You will meet me.
I was born in the womb of darkness and cradled there.
Protected from prying eyes.
Born to do the Will of Almighty God.
I have a beginning but no end.
I am eternal.
My arms embrace warmly.
My tongue licks greedily.
I am Justice.
Like the first parents… many are fooled.
But a Light was born into the world to show them the Way. A Light was born into the world so that they wouldn’t have to grope about in darkness.
A Light of Love that would reconcile them to God.
A Light that men tried to extinguish but could not.
Man’s struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
To help them, a Savior was born.
A narrow road that leads to the Kingdom of God.
To reject that Light, is to embrace Death.
To reject that Light, is to meet me.
There is only One Way.
Rv. 21: 27 “…. Only those will enter whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Jn. 8: 12 “Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’ “
Jn. 3: 18 “Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe, has already been condemned because he has not believed in the name of the only son of God.”
1 Jn. 5: 11-12 “And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever possesses the Son has life; whoever does not possess the Son of God does not have life.”
Jn. 8-24 “I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Wisdom 1: 4 “Wisdom refuses to enter a soul devoted to evil or to dwell in a body indebted to sin.”
Heb. 12: 18-24 “You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them, for they could not bear to hear the command: ‘If even an animal touches the mountain, it shall be stoned.’ Indeed, so fearful was the spectacle that Moses said, ‘I am terrified and trembling.’ No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.”
Rom. 10: 9-10 “for, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.”
1 Cor. 15: 21-22 “For since death came through a human being, the resurrection of the dead came also through a human being. For just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life.”
Acts. 4: 12 “THERE IS NO SALVATION THROUGH ANYONE ELSE, NOR IS THERE ANY OTHER NAME UNDER HEAVEN GIVEN TO THE HUMAN RACE BY WHICH WE ARE TO BE SAVED.”
Heb. 12: 14 “Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.”
Mt. 28: 19-20 “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”
Jn.14: 6 “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”’
The Annals of Tacitus (c. AD 56 – c. 120) – Ch. 44
“For this purpose he punished, with exquisite torture, a race of men detested for their evil practices, by vulgar appellation commonly called Christians. The name was derived from Christ, who in the reign of Tiberius, suffered under Pontius Pilate, the procurator of Judaea. By that event the sect, of which he was the founder, received a blow, which, for a time, checked the growth of a dangerous superstition; but it revived soon after, and spread with recruited vigor, not only in Judaea, the soil that gave it birth, but even in the city of Rome, the common sink into which everything infamous and abominable flows like a torrent from all quarters of the world. Nero proceeded … a number of Christians were convicted …. They were put to death with exquisite cruelty, and to their sufferings Nero added mockery and derision. Some were covered with the skins of wild beasts, and left to be devoured by dogs; others were nailed to the cross; numbers were burnt alive; and many, covered over with inflammable matter, were lighted up, when the day declined, to serve as torches during the night.”
Pliny the younger’s (AD 61 – c.113) Letters – To Trajan – 96 – Book 10
“Meanwhile, in the case of those who have been brought before me in the character of Christians, my course has been …. Those who persisted, I ordered to execution. For, indeed, I could not doubt, whatever might be the nature of that which they professed, that their pertinacity, at any rate, and inflexible obstinacy, ought to be punished. There were others afflicted with like madness, with regard to whom, as they were Roman citizens, I made a memorandum that they were to be sent for judgment to Rome….”
Trajan To Pliny – 97
“You have followed the right mode of procedure, my dear Secundus, in investigating the cases of those who had been brought before you as Christians. For, indeed, it is not possible to establish any universal rule, possessing as it were a fixed form. These people should not be searched for; if they are informed against and convicted they should be punished; yet, so that he who shall deny being a Christian, and shall make this plain in action, that is by worshiping our gods, even though suspected on account of his past conduct, shall obtain pardon by his penitence….”
Flavius Josephus – (AD 37 – 100) – Antiquities Of The Jews.
“Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was (the) Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.” (Book 18, Ch. 3).
Fictional stories by John Saccone 
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