A large part of the torment to come will take place in the memory of those who lived in sin. The abortion doctor will have a long, long time in which to gaze at the mutilated fetuses as they pass in review before him and there is no escape! He will see them now as happy boys and girls playing in the garden of God, realizing it was he who prevented their becoming what would have been true had they been allowed to live their allotted time on the earth. This is true not only of the doctor but of all who by their words and actions contributed to his practice, even at the governmental level.

We are not suggesting that someone who has engaged in an abortion judged by a competent committee to be a medical necessity will burn in Hell forever. Rather our point of view is that the taking of human life is an awesome responsibility. When it is practiced for no reason other than to participate in "reproductive freedom" or to earn money, then those who participated should be warned they will face an angry Creator some day. The experience will be so terrifying they will wish they never had been born.

Anyone who has ever had anything to do with such a thing should repent right now and ask God's forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

The writer had the briefest of glimpses (hardly even that) of a supremely holy garden in which were resident, I believe, aborted fetuses. God is so holy, so loving, that these were in His very Heart. No human being could view this part of Paradise without being destroyed emotionally. Too holy for us to experience!

The scenario we have just presented will prove to be true of all who have chosen to satisfy their own appetites at the expense of others. We selected abortion but we just as easily could have spoken of the man (or woman) who leaves his family and runs off with a woman with whom he has become infatuated. He will have a long, long time to review the consequences of his behavior on the family he deserted through his own selfishness and lust, his lack of honor and integrity, his treachery.

In America of today it is "cute" to sin, and the churches throw a very feeble light. They hardly utter a whisper of protest against their own sins and then wonder why the secular community does not tremble with fear when the churches express their indignation against what the unsaved are doing. Do the Christians expect the unsaved to act righteously while they themselves wallow in bitterness, unforgiveness, lust, criticism, slander, and gossip?

In keeping with our "expansion" theory the question was raised concerning how our inner possession of resurrection life, the Life of the Father, could be maintained after we die, in anticipation of the coming Day of Christ.

I am not certain. Either it will remain with our bones, which is unlikely perhaps but not at all impossible (remember Elisha's bones?) or kept in God's memory, ready to be reassigned to our remains when the hour of resurrection comes.

In either case, we know that if we sow to the Spirit of God we will reap eternal life in the Day of Resurrection. If we live after the flesh we will reap corruption. This is true of Christians and was written to the church in Galatia by the Apostle Paul.

For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. (Galatians 6:8)

Isn't that neat?

To be continued.