Who was hell prepared for? What does Matthew 25:41 mean by 'prepared for the devil and his angels'?
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Whosoever Will, Jesus Never Told a Calvinist Parable: The kingdom was prepared for you. The fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. Not for people. Read the two verses side by side, because the difference is exact, and it sits inside the very parable quoted for double predestination, and it breaks exactly where double predestination needs it to hold. Two destinations were furnished before the foundation of the world. Only one of them was furnished for human beings. No man was made for hell. The people who arrive there arrive at a place that was never prepared for them, because they refused the place that was. In the parables, prepared-before-the-foundation language attaches to destinations, and only one destination was prepared for men. It never attaches to a roster of names. A God who had reprobated individuals from eternity had the perfect sentence available in verse 41, “prepared for you from the foundation of the world,” the mirror of verse 34. He broke the mirror instead. That broken mirror is one of the strongest statements against reprobation in the Gospels, and it has been sitting inside Matthew 25 the whole time. Scripture, King James Version: Matthew 25:41, "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:".
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This answer is the short form. The argument is made at length in Jesus Never Told a Calvinist Parable: Argument Four: The Broken Mirror of Matthew 25.