master
“for ever”
(Exodus
21:6), yet
eventually
the servant
died and
the service
ended.
Hannah took her son Samuel to the temple
and was to “remain there forever” (1 Samuel
1:22), though he, too, eventually died.
(Some
Bible versions...
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master
“for ever”
(Exodus
21:6), yet
eventually
the servant
died and
the service
ended.
Hannah took her son Samuel to the temple
and was to “remain there forever” (1 Samuel
1:22), though he, too, eventually died.
(Some
Bible versions translate olam as “always”
in this passage, and not as “forever.
”) Even
Jonah said that he was in the belly of the
whale “for ever” (Jonah 2:6), yet it was only
for three days.
Jesus warned that there would be a hell-fire
“that shall never be quenched” (Mark 9:45).
But centuries earlier, warning about the fate of
Jerusalem, Jeremiah predicted that the cities of
Jerusalem would be burned in a fire that “shall
not be quenched” (Jeremiah 17:27).
The
Babylonians came and burned Jerusalem, just
as predicted, yet the fires—the fires that were
not to be “quenched”—had, in fact, burned out
long ago.
How could that be? Because with the warning
about Jerusalem, as with Jesus’ warning about
hell, the fires would not be quenc
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