HEAVEN OR HELL, YOUR CHOICE, GOD'S DECISION: Yes Virginia, There is a Heaven and There is a Hell

By ELIZABETH M. WASHINGTON

What is awaiting you after you close your eyes to open them in the eternity? What is awaiting you after your body returns to the dust of the earth? Is there a heaven and is there a hell that awaits your destination? Discussions concerning is heaven real or is hell real has become “void” in the church’s pulpits today. Many that

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Aug 2, 2018
• ISBN: 9781949502404

ELIZABETH M. WASHINGTON

She knew that this book would be very beneficial to those that have accepted the Lord and confessed to walked with the Lord for the rest of their lives. There is too much confusion and doubt in society today. This book will allow you to walk through each circumstance of life with your head up and not down with fullness of peace seasoned with freedom. You will obtain the knowledge to know your enemy, satan, and his dirty tactics that will try to stop and block your progress through the gates of life. They that walk with the Lord still goes through changes in their lives because you are still in the flesh. No matter how stressful or what the circumstances of life presents to you, Lifecycle Gates in a Christian's Life will address the issues and give you the staying power not to give up on the Lord. Her approach is to help each reader to relate to each gate and know that the Lord is right there because of His promise that He will never leave you nor forsake you, HEBREWS 13:5.

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Heaven Or Hell, Your Choice, God’s Decision

Yes Virginia,

There is a Heaven and There is a Hell

Elizabeth M. Washington

Copyright © 2018 by Elizabeth M. Washington.

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This book is dedicated to my husband,

Elder Oscar Washington, Sr., and the Bethel of Truth Church Congregation,

whose love, support, and dedication to the Lord

made this book possible.

Also

Women of God who mentored her for

Pastoral Ministry,

To Pastor Mary Wilcox, Calvary Temple Holiness Church, Bossier City, La, and

To the late Pastor, Evangelist, Teacher and Prophet, Virginia Bailey, Knowledge in The Word of God.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Heaven

Chapter 2 Hell

Chapter 3 Your Choice – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Chapter 4 God’s Decision

Chapter 5 Escape The Wrath Of God

Introduction

Life and Death involves everyone having their first hello, and everyone having their last goodbye. You will have your sun rise and then you will have your sun set. It is just a matter of time. You will greet life with a hello and death with a goodbye. Good life or bad life is how you live yours, Proverbs 18:21 – Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Which fruit of life will you eat? Fruit that will able you to enter Heaven or Hell? The good fruits have a fresh smell and healthy and full of life, however, bad fruit is dry, smelly and spoiled inside and out. Everyone will have an eternal resting place, heaven or hell. Heaven is the resting place for the people of God, Job 3:17 – There the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest. Is there a resting place for the wicked? Yes, it’s called hell.

This book was written to scare the hell out of some people. The hell is how people are acting and the nonbelief concerning hell, that will cause them to miss heaven. The book is biblically written to establish faith, Romans 10:7 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, that there is a heaven and there is a hell. The Word of God will let you know that there is a heaven to gain and a hell to shun. The church world and the circular world are living off stale bread that has lost its palatability. The Word of God in people’s lives today has lost its meaning concerning heaven and hell, Matthew 4:4 - But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God. The Word of God has not changed, II Timothy 3:16 – All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and the God that wrote the Bible has not changed, Malachi 3:6 – For I am the Lord, I change not. Since the fall of mankind, this is an important question to find the answer to, is there a heaven and is there a hell? What you do in life echoes in eternity, Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Transition between life and death is fast, James 4:14 – Whereas ye know not what shall be on tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeared for a little while, and then vanished away. Somebody said, Here today and gone tomorrow, not knowing that they were talking about life and not money. This book is scriptural because the Bible gives us steps through our lives for how to make it to heaven and how to escape hell. Are you living to enter heaven’s gate for eternal life or are you living to enter hell for eternal damnation, John 5:29 - And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Everyone today is talking about heaven is not going and everyone thinking there is no hell, oh well! There is an awakening moment, don’t let it be said too late. Heaven is an uncomplicated subject to talk about today because that is where everyone is going. However, hell is an intense subject to talk about because of none belief in the subject matter.

Heaven or hell, yes, it is your choice, however, everyone talking about heaven is not going because they forgot, "it’s God’s decision", if you will enter heaven or hell. Some will ask, why is it God’s decision? What if there is no God? It is God’s decision because he is God, Romans 1:19-20 – Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse. Learn to read the Bible with wisdom and get an understanding, Proverbs 4:7 - Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. Understand life and death, they walk together every day with you. However, one day they will part company and death will walk alone, then you will find out there is a heaven and there is a hell. Everyone will pass from time of life to eternity of death. You will find out it is your choice by your decision in time where you will spend eternity. Today is to be lived, however, tomorrow is not promised. God gave man the choice because God is an equal opportunist, however, the final verdict is God’s decision. Many say that God tries; God does never try to do anything, God does whatever He wants to accomplish. You must remember, nothing surprises God, Ezekiel 12:25 - For I am the

Lord

: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord

God

. God is going to tell you something and enjoy the journey as you read, Heaven or Hell, Your Choice, God’s Decision!

Pastor Elizabeth M. Washington

Chapter 1

Heaven

Let God be true and every man a liar, Romans 3:4. It is a 100% guarantee that there is a heaven and it is a 100 % guarantee you will miss going to heaven if you are not prepared to be judged for the occasion. Heaven is a beautiful place with a great change that will befall you, I Corinthians 15:52 - Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Everyone talking about heaven is not going to make heaven all because it is a beautiful place beyond imagination and some will not believe there is a heaven. Man has made heaven a place of a fairy tale environment and not real. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people that one day will meet God and desire to live with God.

Some believers and nonbelievers believe you can go into heaven with sin in their lives, Romans 6:12 – Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin. Nonbelief will keep you out of heaven and make you believe there is no God who made the heaven and the earth, Job 38:4-7 - Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou know? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? Where were you? Just like there is a thin line between love and hate; there is a thinner line between heaven and hell, Psalms 118:20 - This is the gate of the LORD; The righteous will enter through it. The path to heaven is a narrow and straight path and you are blessed when you fine it, Matthew 7:13-14 - Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. A few will find the straight gate which leads to eternal life and a place in heaven. Why is the path so straight because the path changes into a highway and that highway is holy? There is a highway that you must travel while you are alive, Isaiah 35:8 - And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. Everyone wants to go to heaven but want to try to enter in other ways. You cannot form your own conclusion on how to enter heaven. Your education cannot show you the way to heaven. Your financial wealth cannot pay your entry into heaven, Ephesians 2:8-9 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. If you don’t enter in the strait gate, you enter in as a thief and a robber, John 10:1 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entered not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbed up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. Jesus is the only way because He is the way, the truth and the life, John 14:6, and Jesus is the Good Shepherd, John 10:7-10 - Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enters in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. Have you confessed Jesus as Lord, Romans 10:9 - That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved, of your life? Do this and you are on your way to heaven without a doubt because Jesus said, that you will be saved.

WHAT IS HEAVEN?

Heaven is a place of peace and eternal rest, Job 3:17 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. All that you heard in church by the preacher and different conversations with others and even to yourself makes your heart skip when you talk about heaven and seeing Jesus, the One Who died for your sins, Acts 1:9-11 - And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven. When your mind thinks about heaven, no one can convince you there is no heaven. You want to see Jesus the man from Galilee that set you free from the world of sin. You desire to see the new earth and the new heaven John talked about, Revelations 21:1 - And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. Earth is just a temporary place for man to live but heaven was created by God for His glory and a place for mankind to spend eternity. You sometimes yearn for your heavenly home, especially during hard times of heartaches and pain, II Corinthians 5:2 - For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. You one day will enter God’s Kingdom, free from earthly pains and sorrows. The glory of God will surround you and you feel no pain but complete peace, joy and happiness, Romans 14:17 – The kingdom of God is not meat or drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Rather you live in a big house on the hill or rent a small room apartment, this will be changed because it is temporary, Matthew 6:19-21 - Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Keep your mind and your thought processes, Philippians 4:8 - Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things and Colossians 3:2 - Set your minds on things above, not on earthly