HELL - NYOBS 06.22

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 6 - DEATH

HELL RABBIT TRAIL

• Hades (Greek), Sheol (Hebrew for Hades), Hell (Hebrew), and Gehenna (Greek) all symbolize the same thing – Gehenna was a valley outside Jerusalem where garbage and dead bodies were thrown with gnawing worms eating the rotting putrid flesh. It burned and smoked day and night.  It is symbolic of Hades.  In the Old Testament scriptures, Hell was referred to as going down to “the pit” or “the grave”.
• Hell – The lower parts of the earth holding the wicked dead till the end of the millennium when it and its contents will be thrown into the Lake of Fire and tormented forever.  It is an un-seen world of disembodied spirits that are full of remorse, fear, and despair; with memories of what they should have done and didn’t; full of sorrow for their bad examples, and with a hopelessness of escape and in a state of regret over doing evil deeds that cannot be recalled.  In despair that they did not listen to God’s word, and aware of their families on earth, and have a hopeless desire to warn them somehow.

•  In Hell, you are in the gloom of darkness, away from the face of God, with a bunch of demons, Satan and his fallen angels, and the entire unbelieving bunch of wicked folks, plus you have the ordinary run of the mill burning fire and sulfur to walk around in.   There’s not much love in Hell. 
• In Hell, you are NOT instantly annihilated, but are tormented in the unquenchable fires that go on endlessly, and it gets worse.  At the return of Christ, Hell is thrown into the burning Lake of Fire and Sulfur forever. – Hell was not prepared for man, but for Satan.
• Muslims believe in error - Sura 32:13 – Allah sends to hell whomever he wants.  He created a multitude of spirits and men specifically for the purpose of sending them to hell.
• Allah is NOT the Jehovah God of the Christian.  Muslims claim that they along with the Jew and the Christian worship the same God of Abraham, but are just on different paths. - NOT
• The Bible teaches; Life is Choice Driven, no one is created to go to hell, it’s a choice.  You can not be neutral – Being neutral is a choice to reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

2 Thess 1:9 – Removed from the presence of God forever.

9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power 

Rev 20:10 – Tormented day and night

10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. NIV

Matt 25:41 – Hell was not created for man, but for Satan

41 "Then he will say to those on his left, `Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. NIV