Great Gulf Fixed

Could the Great Gulf Fixed be somehow relating to Babylon? Let's examine.

SETTING - TORMENTED IN FLAME: DEATH OF THE CHURCH IN JUDGMENT?

Lu 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a GREAT GULF FIXED: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

Lu 16:24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in THIS FLAME.

La 4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a FIRE in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

Isa 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with FLAMES OF FIRE.

Re 9:6 And in THOSE DAYS shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

Ro 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Job 3:20-21 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;… Which long for death, but it COMETH NOT; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

La 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man BREAKETH IT unto them.

Am 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a FAMINE in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:

Re 18:8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and FAMINE; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Eze 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the SWORD, and the FAMINE, and the noisome BEAST, and the PESTILENCE, to cut off from it man and beast?

GREAT GULF FIXED: UNSAVED CHURCH THAT IS BABYLON – IN CONTEXT OF SEPARATION?

Lu 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a GREAT GULF FIXED: so that they which would pass from hence to you **cannot**; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

Job 19:8 He hath fenced up my way that I **cannot pass**, and he hath set DARKNESS in my paths.

Ho 2:6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with THORNS, and make a wall, that she shall **not find her paths**.

Ge 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden CHERUBIMS, and a FLAMING SWORD which turned every way, to **keep the way** of the tree of life.

Ex 14:20 And IT came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a CLOUD and DARKNESS to them, but it gave light by night {}: so that the one **came not** near the other all the night.

Isa 59:2 But your INIQUITIES have **separated between** you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Eze 42:20 He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make **a separation between** the sanctuary and the PROFANE place.

Mt 25:32 And before HIM shall be gathered all nations: and he shall **separate them one from another**, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the GOATS:

Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very GREAT VALLEY; and half of the mountain shall **remove** toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Ex 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a DOG move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth **put a difference** between the Egyptians and Israel.

Le 10:10 And that ye may put difference between holy and UNHOLY, and between UNCLEAN and clean;

La 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I **cannot get out**: he hath made my CHAIN heavy.

Eze 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of BONES,

Eze 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these BONES, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Eze 37:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these BONES; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

GREAT GULF FIXED: THE EARTH (BABYLON) OPENING HER MOUTH:

Lu 16:26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a GREAT GULF FIXED: so that they which would pass from hence to you **cannot**; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

Nu 16:31 And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that THE GROUND clave asunder that was under them:

Nu 16:32 And THE EARTH opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

Nu 16:33 They, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and THE EARTH closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation.

Nu 16:34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest THE EARTH swallow us up also.

Re 12:16 And THE EARTH helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which THE DRAGON cast out of his mouth.

SUMMARY CONCLUSION

The Bible appears to be associating Great Gulf Fixed to Babylon used of God to bring about a separation. Babylon is the actual cause for the lack of salvation in a time when men are seeking death (salvation) and cannot find it. So when God unleashes the false prophets in judgment, it creates a gulf, chasm, gaping, valley where it becomes impossible to go from darkness to light and vice versa.