THE WICKED - NYOBS 28.33

RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 28 - IMMORTALITY

The Wicked - Rabbit Trail

• Scripture does not support the Wicked having “Immortal Bodies”, but indicates they will retain their personal existence in Hell. – NYOBS 06.22 Hell Rabbit Trail
• Anyone’s name not found written in the Book of Life will be thrown into this lake of fire.
• They will be cut off from the living – They will receive everlasting contempt and destruction and be shut out from the presence, power and majesty of God.
• Death is separation, not annihilation. - The Greek word for destruction means “ruin”, not extinction. – The wicked are NOT instantly annihilated, they will not burn up or cease to exist. - They will be tormented with unquenchable fires of burning sulfur day and night; endlessly FOREVER.

• 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 with a conscious experience that is 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 they know that they did not listen to God’s word, and have a hopeless desire to warn their families still living back on earth.

•  In Hell, you are in the gloom of darkness, separated from the face of God. - In attendance will be Satan, his fallen angels, a gaggle of demons and the entire bunch of unbelieving wicked which includes the disobedient from among His chosen covenant people Israel.  

• The lake of fire was not prepared for man, but for Satan and the fallen angels. – Those that reject Jesus Christ as God’s Son will also go there and receive God’s full retribution.

Ps 52:5 – The wicked will be cut off from the living

5 Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living. 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

Rev 20:10 – Satan and Antichrist 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

Rev 21:8 – The Lake of Fire

8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death." NIV

Rev 20:15 – The unredeemed are thrown into the lake of fire

15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. NIV

2 Thess 1:8-9 – Unbeliever’s will receive everlasting destruction

8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

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

Dan 12:2 – The unbeliever awakens to everlasting contempt.

2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. KJV

Rev 14:9-11 – Tormented with burning sulfur day & night forever

9 "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand,

10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angles.

11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night "NIV.