Hi Mike,

I may have an interesting question. Do people in the lake of fire pray?

Ybic,

T____

Hi T____,

Thank you for your question.

You ask if the people in the lake of fire pray? This is a very good question, and the answer to your question is a resounding, yes, they do! Allow me to demonstrate this Truth.

Joseph’s brother’s are the spiritual type and shadow of those who will come up in the lake of fire after having sold Christ to His crucifiers. Here is what we are told of Joseph’s brothers and their praying to Joseph. The justice, which is the lake of fire, is Joseph himself as he accused his own brothers of being spies. Here is part of that story, and here is but one example of his brothers praying to him:

Gen 44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
Gen 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
Gen 44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold, we are my lord’s servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.
Gen 44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Gen 44:18 Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.
Gen 44:19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
Gen 44:20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Gen 44:21 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him.
Gen 44:22 And we said unto my lord, The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.
Gen 44:23 And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.
Gen 44:24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.
Gen 44:25 And our father said, Go again, and buy us a little food.
Gen 44:26 And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
Gen 44:27 And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:
Gen 44:28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not since:
Gen 44:29 And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Gen 44:30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad’s life;
Gen 44:31 It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
Gen 44:32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.
Gen 44:33 Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
Gen 44:34 For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

The lies which afflict those who are in this fiery lake, are tenacious and demand just such justice as we read here to rid us all of those lies and of our pride. Here is what we are told about those who will come up in that lake which we, in Christ, will comprise:

Rev 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

The Greek word for worship in this verse has the same root as the word for pray. [Worship – G4352, same root as pray (G4336) used in Mat 5:44, Mat 6:5-7, Mar 11:24, Mar 14:32, Luk 6:12, Act 10:9, 1Th 5:25, etc. I have found at least five different Greek words translated as pray in the English, but #4336 is the most common.]  Yes, those in the lake of fire are those who, just like us when we are experiencing that same fire, pray the most fervent prayers every prayed. That is the lesson which is to be learned from what causes us to pray most fervently, and that is the lesson we should glean from Joseph’s brothers and “those who say they are Jews, and are not. They are our types, and they are our shadows of those prayers which will be prayed at that time.

I hope this has answered your question.

Your brother in Christ,

Mike