What would be the judgment of a garbage dump? More likely the Greek means Justice (as the Vulgate translated it)
Yes but you still think the GARBAGE dump was the judgment. At least you understand what others do not, that the garbage dump is significant to something, it is not hell (as translated by KJV) or Sheol or any other place of the dead. I recommend you read Jeremiah, 2 Kings and Isaiah.
It is not a judgment of a garbage dump. It a judgment that came out of the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is why it was turned INTO a garbage dump by Josiah as he descrated the high places to Molech to remind Israel and Judah of the judgment proclaimed against it.
2 Kings 23:10-11, 15-20, 26-27
He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.He removed from the entrance to the temple of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melech. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.
Even the altar at Bethel, the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin—even that altar and high place he demolished. He burned the high place and ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole also. Then Josiah looked around, and when he saw the tombs that were there on the hillside, he had the bones removed from them and burned on the altar to defile it, in accordance with the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who foretold these things.
The king asked, "What is that tombstone I see?"
The men of the city said, "It marks the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and pronounced against the altar of Bethel the very things you have done to it."
"Leave it alone," he said. "Don't let anyone disturb his bones." So they spared his bones and those of the prophet who had come from Samaria.
Just as he had done at Bethel, Josiah removed and defiled all the shrines at the high places that the kings of Israel had built in the towns of Samaria that had provoked the LORD to anger. Josiah slaughtered all the priests of those high places on the altars and burned human bones on them. Then he went back to Jerusalem.
The JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke him to anger. So the LORD said, "
I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, 'There shall my Name be.'"
Note, of course, the similarity between Krisis and Crisis in English... perhaps it can also mean the crisis of Gehenna. Gehenna was the threat parents would tell their children: "If you misbehave you will be thrown into the garbage dump" That wold certainly be a crisis for a child.
From this, you have demonstrated a huge misunderstanding of Gehenna. It has not entered the mind, nor has God EVER commanded to throw anyone to the fires of Gehenna. It was NOT God who did this.
Even though you are correct concerning it being a garbage dump. It was the place where criminals who broke the Law's bodies were thrown, it was not always meant in this manner. It all depended on the context and the audience Jesus was talking to. In Matthew 5, it was talking about a garbage pit. In Matthew 10, it was talking about what the Apostate Jew did and in Matthew 23, it was talking about the judgment that came out of what the Apostate Jew did.
It was not, "If you misbehave you will be thrown into the garbage dump." It was, "Because Israel and Judah have sinned by throwing their children in to the fires of Gehenna, I will cut you off and reject you, the city and the temple!"
The judgment that came out of Gehenna was as 2 Kings mentioned: Because of their sin, "
I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, 'There shall my Name be.'"
Let us read more...
Jeremiah 7:31
They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire,
which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind.
The JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA
Therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.
Jeremiah 19:14-15, 3-6
The JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD'S house and said to all the people: Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.'
'Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, "Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.
Because they have forsaken Me and have made this an alien place and have burned sacrifices in it to other gods, that neither they nor their forefathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent and have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal,
a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind; therefore, behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.
Isaiah 28:14
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers,Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol (grave) we have made a pact the overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by,for we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception."
The JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level;
Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the secret place. Your covenant with death will be canceled, and your pact with Sheol (grave) will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through, then you become its trampling place.
"As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning after morning it will pass through, anytime during the day or night, and it will be sheer terror to understand what it means."
Isaiah 30:33, 33:10-14
For Topheth has long been ready, indeed, it has been prepared for the king he has made it deep and large, a pyre of fire with plenty of wood; The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.
"Now I will arise," says the LORD, "Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up. You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire. The peoples will be burned to lime, like cut thorns which are burned in the fire. You who are far away, hear what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge My might."
Sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has seized the godless, "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with continual burning?"
Now jump to Jesus in
Matthew 23:29-39
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. And you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your forefathers!
"You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being the Judgment of the Gehenna? Therefore I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
I tell you the truth, all this will come upon this generation.
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.
Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'"
Now go back to Jeremiah 7
Jeremiah 7:28-33
THE JUDGMENT OF GEHENNA
Therefore say to them, 'This is the nation that has not obeyed the LORD its God or responded to correction. Truth has perished; it has vanished from their lips. Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights,
for the LORD has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.
The Valley of Slaughter "'The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. Then the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away. I will bring an end to the sounds of joy and gladness and to the voices of bride and bridegroom in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem,
for the land will become desolate.
It is not the Garbage Dump, it is the Judgment that made it a Garbage Dump. It was defiled in order to remeind Judah, Israel, Jerusalem and the Temple, that they will be CUT OFF and REJECTED.
The judgment starts when God sends to them a Rock, a Cornerstone, a tested Stone. That Rock was and is Jesus Christ. Jesus is the Judgment of Gehenna, He was the one who came to baptize in Fire.
Now read Romans 9-11 and discover that Paul knew when Gehenna Judgment (the lake of Fire) occurred. It was in 33 AD, in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. When the Old Covenant was made obsolete and the New one was put into action. It was in that day, that Salvation had come to the world.
Romans 11:28-32
As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable. Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you. For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
Through the Judgment of the Gehenna, Israel was cut off and Salvation has come to the Gentiles! Universal Reconciliation, through Him all things are reconciled!
) and there will be those who will be spared.
