In at least two movies, the phrase noted in the title of this article, has been dramatically spoken by actors/characters. The first is Gladiator and the second is the new movie Sisu: Road to Revenge. In Gladiator, Russell Crowe/Maximus Decimus Meridius, commands his troops, “At my signal, unleash Hell!” Stephen Lang/Igor Draganov in Sisu: Road to Revenge declares the same: “Unleash Hell!”. We make no distinction between actors and their characters when spiritual matters are at play! To these boys, their directors and their producers, I say Hell is not yours to unleash! Hell is the Lord’s Jesus’! Moreover, what you are unleashing is hardly Hell! Your biggest bombs and missiles are microscopic firecrackers, and fireflies compared to Hell! The firepower of God’s Hell is unlike any of man’s weaponry! Further, unleashing speaks of that which is of an appropriate size to unleash. Something relatively small is unleashed! You unleash your pit bull! The point is that the bigness of Hell does not allow for, or facilitate, its unleashing! Notwithstanding, God’s absolute and limitless power overrides this generality! To the massive, unbelievers are escorted after sentencing! They go to it! It does not come to them! Much of the world does not and will not believe the Bible and the God of it! Hell is therefore appropriately BIG to receive the BILLIONS that descend into it!
Isaiah 5:14: “Therefore Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.” Matthew 3:12: “Whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” These verses reveal so much about Hell:
1. Hell gets bigger. Hell has enlarged herself! Men build more prisons, God makes His bigger!
2. Hell opened her mouth without measure - without limits/without boundaries. It is indeed massive!
3. Hell receives their multitude/billions!
4. The character of those there and going there are their glory, their pomp, and he that rejoices.
These descriptors speak of self-importance, self-centeredness, and an arrogant, “know it all” attitude, and those that rejoice in the demise and pain and suffering of others. These speak of self-sufficiency and knowing more and better than God Himself!
5. Hell is not unleashed. People descend into it!
6. Hell has unquenchable fire. What they are unleashing in those movies fizzles out and freezes over in mere moments.
It is a revealing thing when screenwriters and actors misuse and misapply God’s Word or elements of it; it exposes gross unbelief! All players in the process are equally guilty, not just the writers and those who speak it. In our world, a person does not have to shoot and kill another to be justly found guilty of murder; all he/she has to do is be the getaway driver! God will not be toyed with, and His Word will not be minimized and trivialized without deadly eternal consequences! “The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness” (Proverbs 15:2). The tongue of the wise uses knowledge right! But the mouth of these fools, all of them, Russell Crowe, Stephen Lang, Ridley Scott, Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Jalmari Helander, Petri Jokiranta, Mike Goodridge et al., pours out foolishness! We encourage you, again all of you, to read God’s statute, the Holy Bible, with fear of Him and Him alone, to first and foremost come to a saving knowledge of Him and secondarily to properly and truthfully reflect His truth in your movies, should you go there in them! Psalms 119:155: “Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.” “The wicked” are unbelievers! Psalms 115:13 declares, “He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.” You are the latter and you are most definitely included! “Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil” (Proverbs 3:7).
I have always loved movies. I have thoroughly enjoyed Gladiator each time I have watched it, and I’m sure I will enjoy Sisu: Road to Revenge (saw “Unleash Hell!” in its trailer)! I greatly appreciate excellent actors such as those mentioned in this write-up! They have brought many happy moments in my life as I watch them in their element dispensing their craft! I have even fantasized playing a role in such movies and would gladly take the opportunity to do so should I be given it! As a Bible-believing Christian and Minister, with the fine filter of God’s Word part and parcel of my brain, I am constantly seeing it play out with absolute precision and accuracy in our world, and being alerted to error! The Lord Jesus commanded and counselled: “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell” (Matthew 10:28). Notice the somberness and seriousness with which the King speaks of Hell! He is the One who destroys both body and soul in Hell! This is the only tone and terms with which Hell must be spoken! Luke 12:5: “But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear Him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear Him.” Notice as well, people are cast into Hell! Hell is not unleashed! Do you suppose God will excuse saying, “well, it’s only his character saying those words”? To those mentioned by name in this article, we warn of, not wish, God’s Hell! To forewarn is to love!
Further, countless religions believe that bad people go to Hell. But this is “bad” as defined by man and as per man’s self-righteous standards. “Bad” to God are those who do not believe Him! Bad to God are those who believe and worship the other gods of the major world religions! Bad to God are those who deny the death, burial, and bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus! Bad to God are those who believe the theory of evolution, which is diametrically opposed to, and denies, Genesis’ creation account! Bad to God are those who believe that the impotent/dead gods of the other religions will take those adherents to Heaven; even those who claim to be Christians believe this nonsense! Of course that would be just a claim, as those are NOT real Christians who believe this horse hooey! Bad to God are those who do not believe that the Lord Jesus is the ONLY way to Heaven! God sums it up beautifully: “Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God” (Hebrews 3:12). Bad to the God of the Bible is possession of an evil heart of unbelief. Hell, then, is a place for good people, people who are so good in their own eyes as per their morality and good social deeds that they do not need to believe the Bible and its Saviour! Those who, in grand disbelief, make light of Hell’s colossal and deadly reality go there!
Passionately well written!! God's Hell is no joke!