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What Will Happen to You When You Die?

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You are going to die. Yes, it is inevitable. Your life will come to an end. If there's one statistic that's true for everyone, it's one out of every one person dies. Then what? Well, your eternal soul will go to one of two places—to heaven or hell. "But what if I don't believe in such a thing?" That doesn't matter. You can say you don't believe in Mack Trucks, but if you stand in front of one bearing down on you at 80 miles per hour, it will kill you, no matter what you believe. Just as there is judgment in this lifetime, so there is a final judgment in the life to come. How can you know that on the day of your death, you will live forever with God in heaven and not perish under His wrath in hell? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. Jesus said, "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell... Everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also w...

Did God Cause This Pandemic?

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Let's say a fatal disease or pestilence has spread around the world. That shouldn't be too difficult to imagine. Did God cause this pandemic? Well in Exodus, God sent plagues upon Egypt, including boils and the death of the firstborn. When the Israelites worshiped a golden calf, God afflicted them with pestilence. In Leviticus 26, God said if you spurn my statutes and abhor my rules, "I will visit you with panic and with wasting disease..." In 2 Samuel 24, David sinned against God, and God punished Israel by sending a plague that killed 70,000 people. In 2 Chronicles 7:13-14, the Lord says that when He sends a pestilence among His people, it's a call to repentance. Between the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel, pestilence is mentioned more than 30 times because the people did not repent. In Habakkuk 3:5, the prophet sees the Lord come in judgment: "Before Him went pestilence , and plague followed at His heels." So would God have caused this pandemi...