Oh! don't you want to go there? to be granted the privilege -- once granted, never again lost -- to walk up those stairs; and, with every step, ascending . . . ascending, the power and glory and joy flooding your soul, as you begin to catch glimpses beyond the open gates of Heaven. Once you step through those gates, you are Home, forevermore! You shall not then be a visitor, nor a tourist; but this is YOUR own home! It belongs to you. Specially made, for you.
The above image is very familiar to me. I have often seen it, throughout the past couple of years at least, especially, when I have studied the subject of hell. That one picture seems to capture much--but by no means all--of what I understand about the nature of hell and of its unspeakable torments. Still, something bothers me even more than to contemplate the realities of eternal damnation:
