But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
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… and may go through the gates into the city. But Jesus said, this is Jesus, outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. So make no mistake, Jesus is still calling it like it is, even at the very end of the age. And he's saying, look, you don't have to be in the city. Outside the city are people who love to practice falsehood. And you and I can look around right now, look into our own hearts and see weakness where we stumble still, but we can look around us and see people who are just reveling in the wrong. And he's like, yeah, they don't want to be in the holy city and inside the gates where the tree of life is. They're gonna get what they want, but it's gonna be outside the city that I'm bringing down from heaven. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. …
… This is the heavenly city. are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters." Same list as chapter 21, verse 8. "...and everyone who loves and practices lying." They're not in heaven. Heaven's not for liars. Heaven's not for liars. Thank you. Now, this is the most significant illustration of the hatred of God that dominates the power structure in this world and this nation. They lie. They lie. They lie about everything. To cover their sin or to advance their sinful desires. To protect themselves or to make themselves rich in power and money. And again, I say what I said earlier, there's never been a time when we have been drowning in so many lies and liars. There have always been lies and liars because every person in the default position lies, But never have we had to deal with them beyond the scope of our normal relationship so that the world dumps all of its lies on us all the time. …
And so again, St. Paul, after many years of toil, refers back to a time when he had a celestial vision, anticipatory of what was to be his blessedness in the end. "I knew a man in Christ," he says, meaning himself, "about fourteen years ago, caught up to the third heaven. . . . And I knew such a man . . . how that he was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." St. Paul then, as the twelve Apostles, and as our Lord before him, had his brief season of repose and consolation before the battle. And lastly: the whole Church also may be said to have had a similar mercy vouchsafed to it at first, in anticipation of what is to be in the end. We know, alas, too well, that, according to our Lord's account of it, tares are to be with the wheat, fish of every kind in the net, all through its sojourning on earth. But in the end, "the saints shall stand before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night in His temple: and the Lamb shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters," and there shall be no more "sorrow nor pain, nor any thing that defileth or worketh abomination," "for without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie." Now was not this future glory shadowed forth in that infancy of the Church, when before the seal of the new dispensation was opened and trial began, "there was silence in heaven for half an hour;" and "the disciples continued daily with one accord in the temple, and in prayers, breaking bread from house to house, being of one heart, and of one soul, eating their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people;" while hypocrites and "liars," like Ananias and Sapphira, were struck dead, and "sorcerers," like Simon, were detected and denounced? …