Not everybody is getting in
Jim Wright points out something very important:
“You know you hear that, uh, that Nancy Pelosi and others say walls are unchristian. They’re immoral. If that’s true, then God’s immoral because he told Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem. There’s going to be a wall around Heaven Revelation 41 says. You know I got to preach the inauguration sermon for President Trump and I preached on Nehemiah when God selects a leader and I stopped and said, you see Mr. President, God’s not against walls.”
That’s Robert Jeffress, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Dallas Texas, Fox News religious expert, one of the most influential Evangelicals in the country.
Now, lest you think what I am about to say is an inaccurate representation of this religion, note that Jeffress has said this same bit over and over, from the pulpit, in speeches in front of colleges, and on Fox News in front of the nation.
Here he is on January 6th of this year on Fox News, and note in this clip he very specifically says, “there’s a wall around Heaven. Not everybody is getting in.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOW4KKPz4v8&fbclid=IwAR0p1XwhsTFBkDx8haB6Il0ad45UVac967DtGRXyTNd9tkCrzlo-9bgKYKM
See?
This is what shapes the Conservative worldview, right here. This horrible selfish religion. Evangelicals see America the same way they see the Christian heaven: It’s not paradise if everybody gets to go. Only the special people get in, and the very best part is sitting up there with Jesus, laughing at everybody else burning FOREVER down below.
This is exactly how they see America. Exactly the same.
Only a select few are allowed in. Build a wall and keep everybody else out. So what if they are forced back to hellish conditions in their own countries? So what? That’s THEIR fault. Why should we feel guilty about that? Let ’em burn. We’re saved. In fact, if they didn’t have it so terrible, WE wouldn’t have anything to compare our own condition to. Let ’em burn.
He’s absolutely right; it’s a horrible ungenerous cruel way of looking at things, and the fact that they ascribe it to their god is tragic. Why the hell would there be a wall in heaven? Why would a god put some people in heaven and some in hell? What do perfection and eternity have to do with walls and neener-neener I get in and you don’t?
I’m with Huck Finn. I’d rather go to hell than that loathsome heaven.
Has Jeffress even read Revelation in its entirety? That wall around Heaven is a metaphorical device to show that not one single human gets to live (un-live? afterlive?) there. In a nutshell, all the ‘saved’ will live on forever on Earth after it has been cleansed of all the wrong-uns via the Apocalypse.
No human goes to Hell, either. The unsaved will get a thousand years of oblivion in the grave, then are to be resurrected (imagine that!) and given chance to repent. If they fail to repent, or repent and then break the rules, they are to be returned to the grave for eternity, and being dead will be oblivious to the fact of being dead (basically how atheists view death anyway). The eternal lake of fire is reserved for Satan and his demons.
Sometimes I think atheists are the only people who have read Revelation in its entirety.