THE PLACE
CALLED HELL
Luke
16:19-31
"There
was a certain rich man,
which was clothed in
purple and fine linen and
fared sumptuously every
day.
And there was a certain
beggar named Lazarus,
which was laid at his gate
full of sores. Moreover
the dogs came and licked
his sores, And desiring to
be fed with the crumbs
which fell from the rich
man's table: moreover, the
dogs came and licked his
sores.
And it came to pass, that
the beggar died, and was
carried by the angels into
Abraham's bosom. The
rich man also died, and
was buried: And in
hell he lifted up his
eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar
off, and Lazarus in his
bosom.
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
in anguish in this
flame.
But Abraham said, Son,
remember that thou in thy
lifetime receiveth thy
good things, and like wise
Lazarus evil things: but
now he is comforted, and
thou art tormented.
And besides 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.
Then he said, I pray thee
therefore, father, that
thou wouldest send him to
my father's house: For I
have five brethren; that
he may testify unto them,
lest they also come into
this place of
torment.
Abraham saith unto him,
They have Moses and the
prophets; let them hear
them. And he said,
Nay, father Abraham: but
if one went unto them from
the dead, they will
repent. And he said
unto him, If they hear not
Moses and the prophets,
neither will they be
persuaded though one rose
from the dead.
IS
THERE A PLACE CALLED HELL?
I
wish to speak tonight on
the subject entitled
"THE PLACE CALLED
HELL". Now some
people have said that this
account in Luke's gospel
is in fact a
parable. But that is
not true. Because in the
parables that Jesus Christ
used, proper names were
never given. And yet
the Bible tells us that
there was a certain beggar
named Lazarus. There
was a certain rich man,
not just a rich man, but a
certain rich man, which
was clothed in purple and
linen, and he fared
sumptuously every
day.....and there was a
certain beggar, this
wasn't a parable, there
was a certain beggar, and
his name was Lazarus.
In
all of the 29-30 parables
of Jesus, that he shared,
not ONE time was a proper
name used. Parables never
contained proper names.
The
Bible tells us there was a
place called HELL.
And it describes it
absolutely perfectly, to a
T. The man said, I
don't want my brothers to
come to this place, this
terrible place, this place
of torments.
Now
a parable is an
allegorical representation
of something that is real,
in nature, in human
affairs, from which a
moral is
drawn. A parable is
something in real
life. Its a
representation of
something real, from the
real life which draws or
shows you a certain
moral, and its a
fictitious account.
It is something that isn't
real, but is taken from
something in real life.
The
word that Jesus Christ
used here for HELL, is the
word Gahena.. Gahena is a
Greek word and this word
means 'the place of
departed spirits'.
It is taken from the word
Hinnen, or Valley of
Hinnen. The word
Hinnen means 'wailing',
the actual meaning of the
word is 'wailing'.
The Valley of Hinnen was a
very narrow valley, that
lay south and west of
Jerusalem, and Jesus used
it as a type of eternal
punishment. The
Valley of Hinnen burned
day and night. A real
place, lying south and
west of the city of
Jerusalem, that in Old
Testament times, it was
used for sacrifice. They
would sacrifice animals
there. And when they
sacrificed the animals
there, there would be
constant bleeting and
constant howling of these
animals. This is why
Jesus Christ said in the
gospels, that there shall
be 'wailing and gnashing
of teeth'. For in
the Valley of Hinnem, in
the Old Testament times,
there was constant
sacrifice, with animals
being slaughtered.
I
don't know if you've been
near a place where many
animals are be
slaughtered, there's a
constant wailing sound
would come from that
place. And Jesus
drew upon that. He
pointed to the Valley of
Hinnem when he spoke about
Hell. Gahena, taken from
the word Hinnem, which
means
'wailing'. And
there shall be 'wailing
and gnashing of teeth'.
In
New Testament times,
Gahena was a place where
garbage was burned.
And the garbage burned day
and night. It became
the garbage dump of
Jerusalem. The Valley of
Hinnem. Whenever you
went by you would see the
fire and smoke and when
Jesus Christ spoke
concerning these men,
Lazarus and the rich man,
even if it had been a
parable, which it wasn't,
but even if it had been a
parable, what better
illustration could Jesus
have used of Hell,
than by pointing to the
Valley of Hinnem, saying
that's what its going to
be like.
Even
if these scriptures Luke
16:19-31 were a parable,
which we have proven they
were not, it still points
to eternal suffering.
The
garbage dump in Jerusalem
never went out, year after
year after year. In
New Testaments times
it was used as a dump,
this place of wailing,
where the fire would
constantly be stoked and
the flames would leap in
the air and the smoke
would continually rise.
And Jesus Christ spoke of
this again and again
through the Bible.
Now,
we are going to have a
comprehensive study, and I
wish to share with you
some glorious truths
concerning Hell. The
place that is called Hell.
First,
I wish to say that Death
is a sure thing...Should
Christ tarry, death is
sure. And I want to
say that every person will
die one day should
Christ tarry. People
are wondering,
"What will happen to
me, where will I go when
this life is
over." I
preached a message some
time ago entitled, What is
man? Where did we
come from, What are we
doing here, Where are we
going? These are the
3 questions that people
ask, Who am I, where do I
come from, What is my true
identity. What am I
doing here, and where am I
going when its all
over. WHERE AM I
GOING?
In
Daniel 12:8 Daniel
spoke, "And I
heard, but I understood
not: then said I, O my
Lord, what shall be the
end of these things?"
There
must millions of peple
today who wonder what's
going to be the end of
me...where will I
go. And I want to
say this, that YOU ARE
ETERNAL. You are a triune
as well as eternal.
You are spirit, soul or
mind and body. And
when you die your spirit
will never die. It
will live on and on...and
you will never die..You
are as eternal as
God. Your body will
go back to the dust of the
earth, but your SPIRIT
will stand before God for
judgment. Hebrews
9:27. And the Bible
says, "And as it is
appointed unto men once to
die, but after this the
judgment:"
What's
going to happen at the
judgment? Where do
we go from there?
What will happen after the
judgment? I want you
to know that there is a
Heaven and there is a
Hell. And I'm going to
prove it here.
One
day you will die.
You will stand
before God. But what
a joy to die with faith in
Christ. St. Paul
said, "For me to live
is Christ but to die is
gain." Again
St. Paul said in 2
Corinthians 5:8, "We
are confident, I say, and
willing rather to be
absent from the body, and
to be present with the
Lord."
FOR
TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY
IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE
LORD
I
would sooner be with the
Lord but for your sakes, I
remain here. Theres no
fear to the Christian in
death. Death has no
terror, death has no fear
for the Christian.
The Psalmist said,
"Yea, though I walk
through the valley of the
shadow of death, I will
fear no evil. For
thou art with
me. Even in
death there will be
absolutely no
fear. We can
walk through the valley of
the shadow of death and
his hand will be upon us.
We ask Christians can know
that everything is all
right. We will fear
no evil, he will bring us
through. We will
pass through the waters of
death, should Christ
tarry, and we will NOT
suffer, we will not be
afraid. He shall
bring us through and we
will see our Master.
Face
to face will I behold him,
far beyond that glorious
sky,
face to face will I behold
him,
I shall see him, by and
by.
Face
to face will I behold him
far beyond that starry sky
Face to face in all his
glory,
I shall see him, by and
by.
The
sad thing is that the
Christian church is being
corrupted and St. Paul
warned in Acts 20:29,
"For I know this,
that after my departing
shall grievous wolves
enter in among you, not
sparing the flock."
2
Timothy 3:13, "But
evil men and seducers
shall wax worse and worse,
deceiving, and being
deceived."
Also
in 2 Peter 2:1, "But
there were false prophets
also among the people,
even as there shall be
false teachers among you,
who privily (secretly)
shall bring in damnable
heresies, even denying the
Lord that bought them, and
bring upon themselves
swift destruction."
There
shall be false teachers
and false prophets, and I
have said it again and
again, if you want to draw
a great crowd you just
need to declare some
great, far out thing and
everyone will come.
Men
are falling into gross
error, and one of the
grossest error you can
find is the error where
they say, THERE IS NO
HELL. They
say there is no hell, but
they want to believe
everything about heaven.
Yes, they all believe they
are going to heaven.
The Jehovah's
Witnesses believe
they are all going to
heaven. But the
strange thing is the
Jehovah's Witnesses
thought there would only
be a few of them, so they
said there were only going
to be 144,000 in heaven,
but now they have the
144,00 so now they say the
rest have to live on the
earth. They can't
back track on that one
because the first 144,00
might not like it.
They says there is NO hell
but they say there is a
heaven. Did you know
that in the Holy
Scriptures, for every
verse that speaks about
Heaven in the New
Testament there are 10
that speak about hell.
These are the absolute
facts.
Did
you know that 162 times in
the New Testament the word
HELL is used. And
Jesus used the word Hell
22 times. If you think
that Jesus only spoke
about Heaven you could
learn a thing or two from
the Bible. 162 times
the word Hell is used in
New Testament. 70%
of ministers polled in the
USA some years ago, said
they didn't believe in
Hell.
Let
me read from Revelation
20:13, "And the sea
gave up the dead which
were in it, and
death and hell delivered
up the dead which were in
them, and they were judged
every man according to
their works. And
death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire,
this is the second
death."
The
Bible speaks of the SECOND
DEATH. T
Jehovah's
Witnesses call the
trinity or the triune God
the 3 headed God.
They make Jesus Christ
inferior to the Father,
when Jesus said in
Philippians chapter 2, the
Bible tells us that Jesus
Christ was in the form of
God, thought it not wrong
to be equal with God, yet
he made himself no
reputation and he came
down to earth and became a
man, so he could die for
our sins.
God
has given Jesus Christ
great glory, God has
honored him and exalted
him and given him a name
which is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus,
every knee should bow, and
every tongue confess
that Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the
Father. The
Jehovah's Witness say that
Jesus was Michael the
archangel. They will
try to persuade you that
there is no hell. There
are other cults that will
do the same. The
Jehovah's Witnesses will
come to you and they will
say, "Did you know
there are two
Greek words, Hades
and Gahena, both of them
are translated in the
English language as
hell. But really,
these two words mean
"the
grave." I am
going to refute their
error right now and you
will know without a doubt
that the TRUTH is found in
God's word and the
Jehovah's Witnesses and
other cults are in
error. They also
will tell you that the
Hebrew word, Seo, means
the grave. They
claim that the two Greek
words Gahena, Hades and
the Hebrew word Sheho all
mean 'the grave'.
And when you die, that's
it, there is no hell. But
let me share with you some
truths, some fact.
The Jehovah's Witnesses
have deliberately twisted
the original Greek.
I
have a letter in my files,
from the only living Greek
professor. scholar,
whom the Jehovah's
Witnesses quote in
their new world
translation of the
Bible. He is the
only professor who the
Jehovah's Witness quote,
that is still alive, all
the others have
died. But this man,
this eminent scholar, whom
they quote, has written a
letter refuting the
Jehovah's Witnesses, and
he says they have
deliberately twisted his
writings when they
translated the Bible from
the Greek using his
translations, in the New
World translations.
He has said they have
lied.
There
is nothing worse in
theology than a man who
deliberately twists the
meaning of the word, to
prove something that he
wants it to prove.
the
grave. When you die
that is it, there is No
hell. But let me share
some truth with you, some
fact. I have a letter in
my files, from the only
living Greek scholor has
written a letter refuting
the Jehovah Witnesses,
when they translated the
Bible, he is saying they
have lied. There's
nothing worse in theology
than a man who
deliberately twists the
meaning of the word to
prove something that he
wants it to prove.
Let
us be intellectually
honest - let us be totally
and completely
honest. Let us us
take what the Bible says
in the original Greek and
the original Hebrew and
let us believe it.
Let us NOT twist it to
prove a set of doctrines.
Here
are some facts and some
figures. There are
two Hebrew words.
The one is Queber which
means 'the
grave." There
is another Hebrew word,
Sheho, and it is 'the
place of departed
spirits.' In the
Hebrew, these two Hebrew
words deal with death and
hell. As you
study the Old Testament
scriptures you will find
these two Hebrew words
play a great part.
There are five great facts
that I want to share with
regards to these words:
FACT
1 - As you
study the of Old Testament
scriptures, you will prove
that the body never goes
to SHEHO (which the
Jehovah's Witnesses
translate 'the grave') but
the body goes to GUEBER -
this is recorded 37 times
in the Old
Testament. This is
recorded 37 times proving
the GUEBER is 'the grave'
and SHEHO is the place
where departed spirits go
after the spirit leaves
the body.
FACT
2 - SHEHO
is never upon the face of
the earth, but GUEBER is
located on the earth. We
find this fact recorded 32
times in the Old
Testament, proving that
GUEBER is the grave and
SHEHO is the place where
the spirit goes after it
leaves the body.
FACT
3 - . Man never
puts another man into
SHEHO, but 33 times we
find a man burying, or
putting another man, in
GUEBER. This proves
that a man can dig a grave
and put another man into
it, but he cannot never
put the soul or spirit of
a man in SHEHO.
FACT
4 - Man
never digs or makes a
SHEHO, but he makes a
GUEBER (we find this
recorded 6 times in the
Old Testament). This
proves that a man can make
a grave but he cannot make
a place for the soul or
the spirit,. Man can
make a place for the body,
he can dig and excavate
and bury a man in the
ground, GUEBER, but he
cannot put a man into
SHEHO, the place where the
soul goes.
FACT
5 - A man never
speaks of a man touching
SHEHO, but he touches a
GUEBER (a grave) 6 times
in the Old
Testament. This
proves that a man can
touch a casket or a grave,
but he cannot touch SHEHO
- the place where the
spirit goes.
These
are FIVE GREAT
TRUTHS.
Jesus
preached on Hell 22
times. James
preached on Hell once and
St. Peter preached on Hell
once. The Greek from
which we get the English
versions that were
translated out of the
Greek. We have now
covered the Hebrew and I
have shared with you five
great truths that prove
from the Old Testament,
from the Hebrew the word
GUEBER - which is 'the
grave' and the word SHEHO
- where the spirit
goes. The body goes
to GUEBER and the soul or
spirit goes to SHEHO.
In
the Greek, we find the 2
words, HADES & GAHENNA,
which are two
places. First let me
explain what these two
words mean: We will
begin with the word
HADES. Let me
explain with an
illustration of Hades:
HADES:
Hell is a prison, isn't
it. When a man is
caught committing a crime,
he would be apprehended
and be put into the local
jail. This criminal would
be held at the local jail
until trial, until he was
judged. The criminal would
go to trial and the court
would pass sentence and
then he would be sent to
the penitentiary. HADES is
like the local jail.
If you were to die tonight
unconverted, without
accepting Jesus Christ as
your personal Saviour, you
would go to Hades.
The word Hell comes from
the Greek word
Hades. In the
English translation for
the word Hell, we find
both the word Hades and
the word Gahenna, but we
are looking now at the
original Greek to find out
what these 2 words mean
and which word that is
translating Hell means
Gahenna and which one
means Hades. If you were
to die tonight as a
sinner, immediately your
soul would go down into a
place called Hades.
You would wait for the
Great White Throne
Judgment, and you would be
judged. And then you
would be sent to the
penitentiary forever, a
place called Gahenna, the
lake of fire, where you
would remain, forever and
ever.
Now
both of these places are
places of suffering. The
Bible says the rich man
found himself in Hades, in
hell, and he was in pain,
he was in torment.
But he had not yet been
cast into the eternal
fires, with the judgment
of God and the sentence
passed upon him.
There is no one in Gahenna
today. Gahenna is
the lake of fire, the
final death, the final
hell, the final
penitentiary. But
right now, today, there
are millions of souls in
Hades, suffering the
torments of the doomed,
waiting for the judgment
and for their sentence to
be passed.
Let
me read it to you from
Revelation 20:11,
"And I saw a great
white throne, and him that
sat on it from whose
the face the earth
and the heaven fled away,
and there was found no
place for them. And
I saw the dead small and
great stand before God,
and the books were opened,
and another book was
opened which was the Book
of Life. THIS IS THE
JUDGMENT. And the
dead were judged out
of those things
which were written in the
books according to their
works. And the sea
gave up the dead which
were in it, and death and
hell delivered up the dead
which were in them, and
they were judged every man
according to their works.
And death and hell were
cast into the lake of
fire. This IS THE SECOND
DEATH. And whosoever was
found not written in THE
BOOK OF LIFE was cast into
the lake of fire.
Now
here we find something
very beautiful, I mean,
the truth is
beautiful. The facts
are terrible, Hell is
awful, but the truth
really grips your heart.
Here it says that
DEATH is 'THE GRAVE'
and HELL is 'HADES'. They
were both cast into the
lake of fire. Death
and Hell cast into the
lake of fire. So we
have 'the grave' - that is
Death, we have Hell 'that
is Hades' were both cast
into Gahenna (or the lake
of fire), after the
Judgment. The body then,
which is in the grave, the
spirit which is in hell
are reunited to stand
trial. The spirit,
soul and body will be
reunited, that person will
stand before God.
The spirit will rejoin the
body, the spirit and the
body will be joined
together. Spirit and Body,
let me just qualify this,
Spirit which is in Hades,
joining together with the
body which is in the
grave, and the person
standing there to trial at
the Great White Throne
Judgment, being judged and
sent into eternal
fires. It says Death
and Hell were cast into
the lake of fire, this is
the Second Death.
Thats Gahenna.
I
want to warn you, this is
what will happen to you if
you don't repent. If
you do not turn to God,
your destination will be
Gahenna - the penitentiary
of the doomed
forever. After the
Great White Throne
Judgment, you will be
tried and sentenced, to be
placed in torment
forever. Let me go
over this a bit more
fully. Let us turn
to (1 Timothy 4:13) ,
"But I would not have
you to be ignorant
brethren concerning them
which are asleep, that ye
shall not, even as others
that have no hope.
For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again,
even so them also that
sleep in Jesus, will God
bring with
him." "For
this we say unto you by
the word of the Lord that
we which are alive and
remain unto the coming of
the Lord shall not prevent
them which are asleep, for
the Lord himself shall
descend from Heaven with a
shout, with a voice of the
archangel, with the trump
of God, and the dead in
Christ shall rise first,
then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught
up together with him in
the clouds to meet the
Lord in the air and so
shall we ever be with the
Lord."
LISTEN
CAREFULLY - When Jesus
Christ comes again, he
will bring with him all
the redeemed, from all
ages, he'll bring the
saved dead, he will bring
the spirits from those who
died before. The
Bible says he will bring
them with him. Jesus
Christ will descend from
Heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the
Archangel. Christ
will come. He will
wait in the air.
With him will be all the
souls of the redeemed who
have died with faith in
Christ. As he waits
in the air, their spirits
will enter the
earth. The graves
will be opened, the dead
will come alive, and they
will enter their new
bodies and rise to meet
him. We which are
alive and remain shall be
caught up to join them in
the air, and so shall we
ever be with the
Lord. We shall enjoy
the blessings of God in
heaven, in a body, we
shall be in a body, a
resurrected, glorified
body, we shall enjoy the
blessings of heaven
forever. We shall
have a new body that will
never die. But by the same
token, and the same truth
covers the unsaved.
The unsaved will die,
without Christ, who are
now waiting in
Hades. They will be
called out of Hades, their
bodies shall be
resurrected and they will
enter their bodies, and
they will stand trial in a
resurrected body that will
never die. They will
spend eternity forever and
suffer in their body
as well as their
spirit. This is why
Jesus said there shall be
weeping and gnashing of
teeth.
People
laugh at this and say, How
can a spirit gnash his
teeth? There will be
more than a spirit.
Your body shall come back
from the earth, from the
dust, your body shall be
resurrected. Sinner,
you shall be raised in the
second Resurrection.
Jesus
used the word Hades 11
times. Lets look
deeper into some of the
instances where Jesus used
the word Hades. In
Matthew 11:23, "And
thou Capernum, which are
exalted on the heaven,
shall be brought down to
hell. (to hades). From the
mighty works which were
done in thee, have been
done in Sodom, and remain
until this day.
Matthew
16:18, "And I say
also unto thee, that thou
art teacher, and upon this
rock I will build my
Church and the gates of
Hades shall not prevail
against it."
Luke
10:15, "And thou
Capernum, which are
exalted in heaven, shall
be thrust down to
Hades."
Luke
16:23, "And in Hades,
he lifted up his eyes,
being in torment, seeing
Abraham afar off and
Lazarus in his bosom.
He
was not in the grave
now. The Jehovah's
Witnesses say that hell
means the grave. How
can you be in torment in
the grave? You can't
be in torments in the
grave. If you are
dead, you are dead, you
feel nothing. The
Bible says the dead no
nothing. And yet it
says he was in
torments. It wasn't
in the grave, it was in
Hades.
Acts
2:27, "Because thou
wilt not leave my soul in
Hades."
Not my body in Hades, his
body was in the tomb, but
his SOUL was in Hades,
proving that Hell is NOT
the grave.
Acts
2:31, "He seeing this
before, spake of the
resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left
in Hades. Neither
did his flesh see
corruption."
1
Corinthians 5:15, "Oh
Hades, where is thy
sting?"
Oh
grave, where is thy
victory. You see,
there is no sting because
nothing can harm the child
of God. Nothing can
harm your spirit or your
body. Our body may die and
they may bury it, but it
will come alive as well.
The
Jehovah's Witnesses say
the grave is a quiet,
peaceful thing, that the
word Hell really means the
grave, that it is quiet
and that its
peaceful. They say
that everyone is going to
be anniliated and there is
going to be no hell, just
a peaceful rest in the
grave. And only The
Jehovah Witnesses, of
course, will enjoy heaven
and upon the earth.
The rest of us will be in
a peaceful grave and this
hell is a peaceful place -
its the grave.
But
yet Jesus used the Valley
of Hinnem to describe
Hell. Gahenna.
Why, if Hell is a
peaceful place wouldn't
Jesus just point to a
casket and say,
"That's what it is
going to be
like." Why
didn't Jesus point to a
dead man being buried and
say, "Thats it, that
is hell."
When
Jesus talked about Hell,
he pointed to the Valley
of Hinnem, where the fire
never went out. The
Valley of Hinnen where
they burned garbage and
refuse day and night,
where you could see the
flames rising there
outside of
Jerusalem. The
Valley of Hinnem, where
there was wailing in the
Old Testament times, when
they used sacrifices of
animals. When there
was wailing and terrible
commotion. And Jesus
said, "There shall be
weeping and gnashing of
teeth." He
said, "The worm will
die not and the fire will
not be quenched."
That
proves to me that its not
a very quiet and peaceful
place.
In
Matthew 5:29-30, the
Bible says, "And if
the right eye offend thee,
pluck it out. And
cast it from thee.
For it is profitable for
thee that one of thy
members should perish and
not that thy whole body
should be cast into
hell. And if thy
right hand offend thee,
cut it off and cast it
from thee. For it is
profitable for thee that
one of thy members should
perish and not that thy
whole body should be cast
into Hell."
Matthew
10:28, "And fear not,
them which kill the body,
but are not able to kill
the soul, but rather fear
him that is able to kill
both soul and body in
Hell."
If
we are going to using the
teachings of the Jehovah's
Witnesses on this, we'd
say, well don't be afraid
of the one who can kill
your body but be afraid of
the one who can bury you
in the grave. Well I
don't care who buries me
if I die before Jesus
comes. Who buries
you doesn't make the
difference.
But
Jesus said FEAR the one
who casts your soul into
hell. Don't fear the
one who can kill your
body, but fear the one who
can cast both soul and
body into Hell. But
the Jehovah's Witnesses
say that Hell is the
grave. So don't fear
the one who can kill you,
fear the one who can put
you in the grave.
Fear the undertaker.
Oh how twisted the
Jehovah's beliefs
are. Thank God for
the truth we have
uncovered here.
In
Matthew 5:22, "But I
say unto you, that
whosoever is angry with
his brother without a
cause, will be in danger
of the judgment, and
whosoever shall say to his
brother, Raca, shall be in
danger of the council, but
whosever shall say, Thou
fool, shall be in danger
of hell fire (Gahenna)."
If
I was a Jehovah Witness
I'd have to read this
scripture as, whosoever
shall say to his brother
Raca, shall be in danger
of the council: but
whosoever shall say, Thou
fool, shall be in danger
of 'grave' fire.
What kind of fire do you
find in the grave?
Its hell fire the Bible is
talking about, Gahenna
fire.
When
you take this doctrine the
Jehovah Witnesses have,
where you say that hell
means 'the grave', you
would read the above
scripture and think that
Jesus must be a nut.
You could say, "Well,
don't be afraid of the one
who kills you, but be
afraid of the one who
buries you."
Matthew
18:9, "And if thy eye
offend thee, pluck it out
and cast if from thee, for
it is better thee to enter
into life with one eye
rather than having two
eyes to be cast into hell
fire (Gahenna)."
Matthew
23:15, "Wo unto you,
scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for ye compass
sea and land to make one
proselyte; and when he is
made, ye make him two-fold
more the child of hell
than yourselves."
Matthew
23:33, "Ye serpents,
ye generation of vipers,
how can ye escape the
damnation of
hell?" What
kind of damnation is there
is the grave?
Mark
9:43-44, "And if thy
hand offend thee, cut it
off: it is better for thee
to enter into life maimed,
than having two hands to
get into hell, into the
fire that never shall be
quenched."
Where their worm dieth not
and the fire is not
quenched."
What
kind of fire is in the
grave?
Mark
9:45-46, "And if thy
foot offend thee, cut if
off: it is better
for thee to enter halt
into life, than having two
feet to be cast into hell,
into the fire that never
shall be quenched:
Where their worm dieth
not, and the fire in not
quenched."
All
of the ancient
translators, said that the
word "worm"
meant the memory.
The MEMORY never
dies. Where your
memory will never die,
where you will remember
all the opportunities you
had to be saved, when you
will remember this
message, when you will
remember reading these
words, when you will
remember the Gospel, when
you will remember the
alter call... When you
shall REMEMBER, when the
memory dieth not.
If
hell is a peaceful, quiet
place, and it is a grave,
what is the fire doing
down there, what is the
memory doing down there?
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."
James
3:16, "For where
envying and strife is,
there is confusion and
every evil work."
He
talks about the tongue
being a fire of
hell.
2
Peter 2:4, "For if
God spared not the angels
that sinner, but cast them
down to hell, and
delivered them into chains
of darkness, to be
reserved unto
judgment;"
He
talks about the fallen
angels being cast into
darkness, and that place
of darkness for the fallen
angels is called Tartarus,
a special place for the
fallen angels.
I
am going to wind up this
message reading from
Matthew 7:13, "Enter
ye into the strait gate;
for wide is the gate and
broad is the way that
leaded to destruction, and
many there be which go in
thereat:"
If
destruction is the grave,
why doesn't it say, and
ALL GO IN THEREAT.
Why many? Because
some of us are
saved. Hallelujah,
and we are not going to
that way of destruction.
Matthew
13:40, "As therefore
the tares are gathered and
burned in the fire; so
shall it be in the end of
this world."
If
the end of the world is
just people being put in
the grave, why does it
talk about the wicked
being burned up with
un-quenching fire?
Un-quenching fire that you
can't stop. Not a
fire that is once over, 60
seconds and with a poof
you are gone, but the fire
will be un-quenching.
Did
Jesus actually mean these
words? Of course he
did.
Matthew
13:50, "And shall
cast them into the furnace
of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of
teeth."
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:"
People
will argue with that
saying, "Well the
fire is everlasting, but
not the
torment." Well
read on for the truth.
Matthew
25:46, "And these
(the wicked) shall go away
into everlasting
punishment: but the
righteous into life
eternal."
The
everlasting fire is the
everlasting punishment
that it speaks of it
Matthew 25:40.
"And the wicked shall
be cast into hell."
Mark
16:16, "He that
believeth and is baptized,
shall be saved; but he
that believeth not, shall
be damned."
To
go to the grave, does that
mean to be damned:?
Of course not. To be
damned means to be cast
into hell.
John
3:36, "He that
believeth on the Son hath
everlasting life: and he
that believeth not the
Son, shall not see life;
but the wrath of God
abideth on him."
John
5:28, "Marvel not at
this: for the hour is
coming, in the which all
that are in the graves
shall hear his voice, And
shall come forth; they
that have done good, unto
the resurrection of life;
and they that have done
evil, unto the
resurrection of
damnation."
The
wrath of God abides, it
doesn't just come for a
little while, it stays
there, it abides.
The
Holy Bible provides the
answers. The
atheists don't have the
last word, the Jehovah's
Witnesses don't have the
final say, the modernists
who say there is no hell,
have no leg to stand
on. When we go right
back to the original Greek
and Hebrew, the Greek in
the New Testament and the
Hebrew in the Old
Testament, I promise you
they have to melt before
us, they have to bow
before us, they have to
wilt before us. We
preach the truth, then we
see the demonstration when
the demons come screaming
out.
If
you die in your sin, they
will take your body down
to the undertaker, and
they will put you in the
ground. Your loved
ones will weep and cry
over you. They will
cover you up with six feet
of earth. But your
spirit or soul will go to
stand before God. If
you are a sinner, your
spirit or soul will go
down into Hades to
await in the place of the
doomed. You would
wait in suffering and
agony and remorse. Your
spirit would be bound in
prison until the Great
White Throne
Judgment. Then your
body would be raised in
the second
Resurrection. Your
spirit would enter your
body and you will stand
before God to be
judged. Then you
will be sent to the final
penitentiary, the final
prison called Gahenna to
be doomed forever.
You will be lost without
any hope, throughout the
eons of eternity.
There
is still an opportunity
today for you to be saved.
Jesus died for your
soul. Jesus died to
save you. Jesus came
to save the
In
the Old Testament, Hades
was described as being in
two parts