Malachi 1:10
"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering from your hands.
The fires we light are a semblance of the lake of fire when God is not pleased with us. Yes, we don't simply light fires. We light fires when we are about to cook something. We produce fire to light up the place or keep the place warm. We don't practice all these here. Fire cooks and the food which was inedible becomes edible. Why did they light fires on the altar as in the burnt offering? To offer something to God? It was a must to offer this burnt offering in the Old Testament times. Today, we do not practice this any more. What do we do to please God with our offerings? We offer up our bodies to become the temple of God the Holy Spirit. The temple (our body) is where God the Holy Spirit dwells. He brings about full Christformation in our born again spirits, which is hidden within us. We have a secret life of obedience with the LORD. No one knows how much we obey Him in secret. Our lives comparably is no more an outward show of piety as it was in the Old Testament. That's why we have God the Holy Spirit dwelling in us. We have a secret walk with the LORD. During the Old Testament times, others could gauge our walk with God by observing our outward submission to His physical and ceremonial laws. Today, it is a spiritual walk of obedience to everything the Lord Jesus Christ has commanded. God the Holy Spirit reminds us of this within us secretly. So, our lives are no more an outward show of piety which most of the time can be interpreted as hypocrisy. We do not practice what we preach. We know that ourselves, what more others. God the Holy Spirit who dwells in us knows all the motives of our hearts. Where can we hide from Him now? We can't! He knows our thoughts and the secret intentions of our hearts and minds. He transforms our sinful mind into the mind of Christ as we obey Him. It is a frightening thing to know that God is not pleased with you or the way your life is going. We owe our allegiance to Him because He is our Creator, Provider and Perfecter. We cannot give our allegiance to obeying the sinful nature of the Devil in us. The Spirit that the Father in heaven and His Son has caused to live in us envies intensely when we give our allegiance to the Devil instead. Does the Devil deserve our allegiance to him, when he also is a created being of God? Furthermore, he is waiting to be thrown into the lake of fire with all those who follow him till the end. The LORD is a fair and just God. He gives us the choice just as He gave it to Adam and Eve.
Revelation 20:11-15
Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life.The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
