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Home / Orthodoxy / The Orthodox Faith / Volume IV - Spirituality / The
Kingdom of Heaven /
Volume IV - Spirituality
The Kingdom of Heaven
Heaven and Hell
luke The Ladder of Divine Ascent
The Kingdom of heaven is already in the midst of those who live the
spiritual life. What the spiritual person knows in the Holy Spirit, in
Christ and the Church, will come with power and glory for all men to
behold at the end of the ages.
The final coming of Christ will be the judgment of all men. His very
presence will be the judgment. Now men can live without the love of
Christ in their lives. They can exist as if there were no God, no
Christ, no Spirit, no Church, no spiritual life. At the end of the ages
this will no longer be possible. All men will have to behold the Face
of Him who "for us men and our salvation came down from heaven and was
incarnate ... who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and
was buried..." (Nicene Creed). All will have to look at Him whom they
have crucified by their sins: Him "who was dead and is alive again"
(Rev 1.17-18).
For those who love the Lord, His Presence will be infinite joy,
paradise and eternal life. For those who hate the Lord, the same
Presence will be infinite torture, hell and eternal death. The reality
for both the saved and the damned will be exactly the same when Christ
"comes in glory, and all angels with Him," so that "God may be all in
all" (1 Cor 15-28). Those who have God as their "all" within this life
will finally have divine fulfillment and life. For those whose "all" is
themselves and this world, the "all" of God will be their torture,
their punishment and their death. And theirs will be "weeping and
gnashing of teeth" (Mt 8.21, et al.).
The Son of Man will send His angels and they will gather out of His
kingdom all causes of sin and all evil doers, and throw them into
the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then
the righteous will shine like the sun in the Kingdom of their Father
(Mt 13.41-43).
According to the saints, the "fire" that will consume sinners at the
coming of the Kingdom of God is the same "fire" that will shine with
splendor in the saints. It is the "fire" of God's love; the "fire" of
God Himself who is Love. "For our God is a consuming fire" (Heb 12.29)
who "dwells in unapproachable light" (1 Tim 6.16). For those who love
God and who love all creation in Him, the "consuming fire" of God will
be radiant bliss and unspeakable delight. For those who do not love
God, and who do not love at all, this same "consuming fire" will be the
cause of their "weeping" and their "gnashing of teeth."
Thus it is the Church's spiritual teaching that God does not punish man
by some material fire or physical torment. God simply reveals Himself
in the risen Lord Jesus in such a glorious way that no man can fail to
behold His glory. It is the presence of God's splendid glory and love
that is the scourge of those who reject its radiant power and light.
... those who find themselves in hell will be chastised by the
scourge of love. How cruel and bitter this torment of love will be!
For those who understand that they have sinned against love, undergo
no greater suffering than those produced by the most fearful
tortures. The sorrow which takes hold of the heart, which has sinned
against love, is more piercing than any other pain. It is not right
to say that the sinners in hell are deprived of the love of God ...
But love acts in two ways, as suffering of the reproved, and as joy
in the blessed! (Saint Isaac of Syria, Mystic Treatises).
This teaching is found in many spiritual writers and saints: Saint
Maximus the Confessor, the novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. At the end of
the ages God's glorious love is revealed for all to behold in the face
of Christ. Man's eternal destiny--heaven or hell, salvation or
damnation--depends solely on his response to this love.
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