Sunk down into bottom of universe

(here's the conclusion to yesterday's post and new article tomorrow)

God delivered Israel from Egypt in Exodus 14. His delivering them from Pharoah is a picture of how He’s going to deliver Israel from satanic bondage in the ages to come.

Exodus 15: [1] Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

That thing down at the bottom is called the sea. Verse 17, talking about Israel: [17] Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

When’s that going to happen? That’s the kingdom. When He brought them out of Egypt, His goal was to bring them into the land of Palestine; plant them in that land where God said, “That’s my sanctuary.”

Israel had a sanctuary in the holy of holies in the tabernacle where God dwelt and there’s going to be one in the earth. Piece of ground, Palestine.

So in this song in Exodus 15 they’re really looking; they see what’s happening with the Exodus as a part of the bringing them in at the end. You see a picture here of the Second Coming of Christ to deliver them.

[21] And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

By the way, Pharoah wasn’t riding on a horse; he was riding in a chariot. So who’s the horse and his rider?

In Revelation 6 you’ll see those four horses that come when He begins to open the seals and they have one rider. We’re talking about the Antichrist.

When the Lord Jesus Christ comes, He’s going to take Satan and the man of sin, the son of perdition, and cast them down into the bottomless pit and that’s what this is a picture of.

Exodus 15: [4] Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.
[5] The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

That’s not their body; that’s got to be their soul because in Exodus 14:30 they SEE the dead Egyptians on the seashore. But their soul has sunk down into the pit, as Psalms calls it, into hell.

[6] Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
[7] And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
[8] And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.
[9] The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
[10] Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

When they came out of Egypt, He opened up the Red Sea and they went right across one of those openings that goes right down into hell and Israel passed over it and when Pharoah and his crowd went over they went down into hell; cast into the pit.

Over and over in Scripture in typology, the seas down here. The punishment of the lake of fire is down here. Just as hell is in the center of the earth, down as far as you can go in the earth, the lake of fire’s going to be down at the bottom of the universe.

In Job 9, Job asks the question, “How shall a man be just with God?” That’s the question of the ages.

[3] If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
[4] He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
[5] Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
[6] Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
[7] Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
[8] Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.

By the way, when it says “shaketh the earth,” something’s already taken place. Verse 9: [9] Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.

So when he talks about the starry heavens up here that God made, He said there’s also some chambers, holding places, in the south. Follow that?

Job 26: [5] Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
[6] Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

If he stretches out the north up here, where must the empty place be?

In Job 38 God is describing how He created the heaven and the earth; what it looks like, what He did. He’s explaining to Job what Job already knows about creation.

He says to him in verse 16: [16] Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

[19] Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
[20] That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?

Notice it’s a place; it’s got doors and gates. “Where is the way that light dwelleth?” Isn’t that a strange way of talking? Where does light dwell? In the light bulb? Ha. It doesn’t dwell anywhere. It travels at the speed of light, but there’s a way, a path, a roadway where light dwells.

Notice, when it comes to darkness God’s got a house that has a pathway to it where the darkness is going to dwell. In chapter 9 he calls it the “chambers of the south.”

My point is, when you begin to study these things, you begin to realize that where the lake of fire is is going to be down here in the place of darkness.

Jude 6-7: [6] And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
[7] Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

When Paul talks about things in heaven and things on the earth and things under the earth confessing that Jesus is Lord, the things under the earth, the confession of Him as Lord, takes place at the Great White Throne Judgment when they’re cast down into the lake of fire, which is at the bottom of the universe, the chambers of the south.

He talks about how that is “the second death.” Your body goes to the grave, your soul goes to hell.

Matthew 10 Jesus said don’t fear him that can destroy your body but fear him who can destroy both your body and soul in hell.

Your soul can be destroyed like your body can be destroyed.

Mark 8:36: [36] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
[37] Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

There’s something about the judgment associated with Christ’s return. How do you lose your soul?

Mark 9:43: [43] And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
[44] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

You see that expression “the worms dieth not”? That’s what happens in hell. Verse 46:

Verse 48: [48] Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

In hell your worm doesn’t die and the fire isn’t quenched. You say what does that mean? In Psalm 22 when Jesus is hanging on the Cross and makes that cry, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” in verse 3 He explains why: “For thou art holy.”

God can’t look at sin, so He turned His back on His Son. Verse 6, Jesus cries on the Cross, “For I am a worm and not a man.”

When God made Him to be sin for us, a curse for us, He suffered in His soul the transforming destruction that the Bible calls the “second death.” He literally became your sacrifice and your payment and suffered your second death and He describes it as, “I’m a worm and not a man.”