Brother Nathanael describes outer darkness as a realm of unquenchable fire and chains of blindness where the unjust face perpetual torment until Christ's judgment seat. He details how two books—the living and the dead—dictate verdicts for murderers, liars, and sorcerers, condemning them to a second death while the worm dieth not. Ultimately, this stark depiction of hell serves as an urgent altar call, urging listeners to repent, research, and be baptized into the Orthodox Church before the darkness arrives. [Automatically generated summary]
It's about outer darkness, it's about hell, the land of utter starkness, the place where demons dwell, where torments by the fire that cannot be quenched burns the bodies of those who refuse to repent.
It is written in the scrolls of a hell where the worm dieth not.
Another kind of reptile not known here.
That's the sinner's lot.
After darkness, Jesus warns, is the place of another kingdom not known here.
No mingling of light there.
Crippling chains of blindness there.
A positioning, make no mistake, that excludes from Christ those whose unending regret is etched on every face.
Hell itself is chains of darkness, snares of death, distressed undiminished, reserving the unjust unto day of judgment to be perpetually punished.
The body dies, rises to the dread judgment seat of Christ.
The verdict is read.
A second death completes the thread.
There's a book, it is said.
Two books, so I've read.
A book of the living and the book of the dead.
Wailing, gnashing of teeth, a lake of fire, furnace of heat, the fearful, the unbelieving, whoremongers, sorcerers, liars, murderers, scorpions that bite, wickens, thieves, sodomites, cheats, all sorts of vermin that crawl and creep.
Well, yes, a man is known by the company he keeps.
There's a way to escape a whole new landscape.
Repent and the Lord Jesus Christ embrace, do your research, and be baptized into the Orthodox Church.
Here's my altar call.
Come up here before the day is done, for there is light, even when the darkness comes.