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HELL IS REAL
INTRODUCTION Is Hell real?
The World has different views about hell. If Hell is not real therefore all the things we have been doing on earth is in vain and useless. If there is no Hell then there is no Heaven. So we can go with the saying, Eat and drink for tomorrow you die. But what if Hell is real? What if people dont care about the existence of Hell and where the wicked go after life? Hell and the Lake of Fire in the Bible are described as:
Where the wicked goes and cannot escape , Abode of the unbelieving dead, They are fully conscious, Worms and fire torments them, Weeping and gnashing of teeth, Place of sorrow, Deep, Insatiable, Never full, With gates, Outer darkness
Have you thought of yourself burning alive in a fire? What if its eternal fire? Your flesh eaten by the fire and you want to die but you cannot? That is the reality of Hell. At the last day the wicked shall be resurrected with a body and they shall be turned to the Lake of Fire which is the Second Death and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20:10 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat upon it, from whose presence earth and heaven fled away, and no place was found for
them. 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. Revelation 20:11-15 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. 3 "Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. Daniel 12:2-3
If we can only witness or see an actual vision of what HELL looks like and people being thrown to it maybe we shall be serious with our lives and with our relationship with God. It may change our views about the existence of Hell. The Richman in Luke 16:23 who died and in Hades was in torment. He thought of his brothers that they might come to the same place. He wanted someone to come back to life and warn them. Abraham said they wont believe in Hell even one rose from the dead and testify. They have Moses and the prophets and to them they should hear from. Today the same are happening to our world. People live their own lives without God. They dont think that the next life is more important than this life. We have the Preachers from God declaring salvation through the Son of God who paid for our sins and purchased for us salvation and eternal life and that whoever believes shall not perish but have eternal life. What does the Bible really teach about Hell? Is it just the grave? Is it a temporary place for the wicked dead? Is there an eternal punishment and an eternal fire?
BIBLICAL TERMS
Sheol, Hades, Gehenna & Tartaroo
SHEOL
Strong's Concordance sheol: underworld (place to which people descend at death) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: sheol Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ole') Short Definition: Sheol NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition underworld (place to which people descend at death) NASB Translation Sheol (66). Strong's Exhaustive Concordance grave, hell, pit Or shol {sheh-ole'}; from sha'al; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates -- grave, hell, pit. 1 the underworld Deuteronomy 32:22 Isaiah 14:9 Proverbs 15:24 Proverbs 5:5; Proverbs 7:27; Songs 8:6; Psalm 89:49; whither men descend at death, Genesis 37:35 (E), Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:29,31 (J), 1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Kings 2:6,9; Job 7:9; Job 21:13; Isaiah 14:11,15; Psalm 88:4, and Korah and associates go down alive by t em uj s Numbers 16:30,33 (J), compare Psalm 55:16; under mountains and sea Job 26:6 (compare Job 26:5 Jonah 2:3 (compare Jonah 2:7); with bars Job 17:16 s ve see u Psalm 141:7 Isaiah 38:10; personified Isaiah 28:15 8 as insatiable monster Isaiah 5:14; Habakkuk 2:5; Proverbs 1:12; Proverbs 27:20; Proverbs 30:16 s s u t ve t ve s es Psalm 18:6 = 2 Samuel 22:6 m e Psalm 116:3 se t e t Amos 9:2; Job 11:8; Psalm 139:8 se t ) Isaiah 7:11 (see above); dark, gloomy, without return Job 17:13 (compare Job 17:16; Job 7:9; Job 10:21; Job 16:22; all being alike Job 3:17-19; Job 21:23-26 ); without work or knowledge or wisdom according to Ecclesiastes 9:5,6,10 (compare Job 14:21 see be w yet m e Isaiah 14:9f.). 2 condition of righteous and wicked distinguished in Literature): (later than 1 Samuel 28, especially inWisdom
a. wicked Psalm 9:18 Psalm 31:18; death is their shepherd, without power and honour they waste away Psalm 49:15 tw e ve se consumes them as drought water Job 24:19; righteous dread it because no praise or presence of God there (as in temple) Psalm 6:6 (compare Psalm 88:5), Isaiah 38:18; deliverance from it a blessing Psalm 30:4; Psalm 86:13; Proverbs 23:14 I e is land below, place of reproach, abode of uncircumcised Ezekiel 31:15,16,17; Ezekiel 32:21,27 b. righteous shall not be aban-doned Ezekiel 16:10 v se t etc., Ezekiel 16:11, compare Ezekiel 17:15 s s me m Ezek 49:16 (compare Ezek 73:23; Ezek 73:25; Isaiah 57:1,2); compare Job's expectation and desire Job 14:13; Job 17:13 (compare Job 10:21; Job 19:25f.). 3 later distinction of places in :
Proverbs 25:11 see a v w e e usu y b se se s m 88 t itself as pit; words at least prepare for local distinctions of post-Biblical Judaism
4 figurative of extreme degradation in sin Isaiah 57:9; as place of exile for Israel Hosea 13:14 (twice in verse) (compare Isaiah 26:19). Englishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 7585 66 Occurrences b w 3 Occ. w 1 Occ. w 2 Occ. w 4 Occ. w 1 Occ. m w 4 Occ. w 2 Occ. 1 Occ. w 38 Occ. 9 Occ. w 1 Occ.
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HADES
Hades is not the grave or cemetery where all the dead goes. Hades is spoken of a place where the wicked go and suffer. It has two Chambers where the OT saints went after death and the OT sinners also went. The Lower Chamber of Hell is where the wicked go at death. In the Old Testament before Jesus resurrected the dead saints were at the Upper Chamber were they were comforted awaiting the resurrection of Christ. Jesus holds the Keys of Death and Hell. At the Last Day at Judgment Day Death, Hades and the Dead shall be turned to Gehenna or the Lake of Fire. The Gates of Hell shall not prevail over the Church.
Strong's Concordance hads: Hades, the abode of departed spirits Original Word: Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: hads Phonetic Spelling: (hah'-dace) Short Definition: Hades Definition: Hades, the unseen world. HELPS Word-studies
86 hds (from 1 /A "not" and idein/eid, "see") properly, the "unseen place," referring to the (invisible) realm in which all the dead reside, i.e. the present dwelling place of all the departed (deceased); Hades. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STR NGS NT 86 , , , (for the older , which Homer uses, and this from the alpha privative and , not to be seen (cf. Lob. Path. Element. 2:6f)); in the classics 1. a proper name, Hades, Pluto, the god of the lower regions; so in Homer always. 2. an appellative, Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead (cf: Theocritus, idyll. 2,159 schol. . ' . In the Sept. the Hebrew is almost always rendered by this word (once by , 2 Samuel 22:6); it denotes, therefore, in Biblical Greek Orcus, the infernal regions, a dark (Job 10:21) and dismal place (but cf. and ) in the very depths of the earth (Job 11:8; Isaiah 57:9; Amos 9:2, etc.; see ), the common receptacle of disembodied spirits: Luke 16:23; namely, , Acts 2:27, 31, according to a very common ellipsis, cf. Winers Grammar, 592 (550) (Buttmann, 171 (149)); (but L T Tr WH in Acts 2:27 and T WH in both verses read ; so the Sept. Psalm 15:10 ()); , Matthew 16:18 ( , Job 38:17; see ); , Revelation 1:18; Hades as a power is personified, 1 Corinthians 15:55 (where L T Tr WH read for R G (cf. Acts 2:24 Tr marginal reading)); Revelation 6:8; Revelation 20:13f. Metaphorically, or) to (go or) be thrust down into the depth of misery and disgrace: Matthew 11:23 (here L Tr WH ); Luke 10:15 (here Tr marginal reading WH text ). (See especially Boettcher, De Inferis, under the word in Greek index. On the existence and locality of Hades cf. Greswell on the Parables, Appendix, chapter x, vol. v, part ii, pp. 261406; on the doctrinal significance of the word see the BB. DD. [Hades] and E. R. Craven in Lange on Revelation, pp. 364-377.)
GEHENNA
Gehenna is also the Lake of Fire. It is the place for final judgment where the wicked dead shall be cast and thrown into. Its fire is unquenchable. Hades is where the souls of the wicked go but in Gehenna they shall be turned with their bodies and soul at the Last Day. The wicked at the Last Day shall be resurrected but into Judgment into the Lake of Fire which is the Second Death.
Strong's Concordance geenna: Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: geenna Phonetic Spelling: (gheh'-en-nah) Short Definition: Gehenna Definition: Gehenna, and originally the name of a valley or cavity near Jerusalem, a place underneath the earth, a place of punishment for evil. HELPS Word-studies 1067 genna (a transliteration of the Hebrew term, Ghinnm, "the valley of Hinnom") Gehenna, i.e. hell (also referred to as the "lake of fire" in Revelation). Gehenna ("hell"), the place of post-resurrection torment (judgment), refers strictly to the everlasting abode of the unredeemed where they experience divine judgment in their individual resurrection-bodies. Each of the unredeemed receives one at the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11-15), i.e. a body that "matches" their capacity for torment relating to their (unique) judgment. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STR NGS NT 067 (others would accent , deriving it through the Chaldee. In Mark 9:45 Rec.st ), (Buttmann, 17 (15)), , (from , Nehemiah 11:30; more fully , Joshua 15:8; Joshua 18:16; 2 Chronicles 28:3; Jeremiah 7:32; , 2 Kings 23:10 Kethibh; Chaldean , the valley of the son of lamentation, or of the sons of lamentation, the valley of lamentation, being used for lamentation; see Hiller, Onomasticum; cf. Hitzig (and Graf) on Jeremiah 7:31; (Bttcher, De Inferis, i., p. 82ff); accusative to the common opinion is the name of a man), Gehenna, the name of a valley on the south and east of Jerusalem (yet apparently beginning on the Winer's Grammar, cf. Joshua 15:8; Pressel in Herzog, under the word), which was so called from the cries of the little children who were thrown into the fiery arms of Moloch (which see), i. e. of an idol having the form of a bull. The Jews so abhorred the place after these horrible sacrifices had been abolished by king Josiah (2 Kings 23:10), that they cast into it not only all manner of refuse, but even the dead bodies of animals and of unburied criminals who had been executed. And since fires were always needed to consume the dead bodies, that the air might not become tainted by the putrefaction, it came to pass that the place was called (this common explanation of the descriptive genitive is found in Rabbi David Kimchi (fl. circa A.D. 1200) on Psalm 27:13. Some suppose the genitive to refer not to purifying fires but to the fires of Moloch; others regard it as the natural symbol of penalty (cf. Leviticus 10:2; Numbers 16:35; 2 Kings 1; Psalm 11:6; also Matthew 3:11; Matthew 13:42; 2 Thessalonians 1:8, etc.). See Bttcher, as above, p. 84; Meyer (Thol.) Wetstein (1752) on Matthew 5:22); and then this name was transferred to that place in Hades where the wicked after death will suffer punishment: Matthew 5:22, 29; Matthew 10:28; Luke 12:5; Mark 9:43, 45; James 3:6; , Matthew 5:22; Matthew 18:9; Mark 9:47 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets);
, Matthew 23:33; , worthy of punishment in Gehenna, Matthew 23:15. Further, cf. Dillmann, Buch Henoch, 27, 1f, p. 131f; (B. D. American edition; Bttcher, as above, p. 80ff; Hamburger, Real-Encycl., Abth. I. under the word Hlle; Bartlett, Life and Death eternal, Appendix H.). Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 1067 12 Occurrences 8 Occ. 1 Occ. 3 Occ.
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"If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell, Mark 9:47 "But I will warn you whom to fear: fear the One who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell; yes, I tell you, fear Him! Luke 12:5
TARTAROO
Tartaroo is only mentioned once in the Bible and it is where some of the wicked spirits were kept and reserved for eternal fire.
Strong's Concordance tartaro: to cast into hell Original Word: Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tartaro Phonetic Spelling: (tar-tar-o'-o) Short Definition: I thrust down to Tartarus Definition: I thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna. HELPS Word-studies 5020 tartar properly, send to Tartarus ("Tartaros"). The NT uses 5020 (tartar) for the netherworld the place of punishment fit only for demons. Later, Tartaros came to represent eternal punishment for wicked people. "5020 (tartar) is a Greek name for the under-world, especially the abode of the damned hence to cast into hell" (A-S); to send into the subterranean abyss reserved for demons and the dead. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STR NGS NT 020 , : 1 aorist participle ; (, the name of a subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to the Gehenna of the Jews, see ); to thrust down to Tartarus (sometimes in the Scholiasts) (cf. Winers Grammar, 25 (24) n.); to hold captive in Tartarus: (which see) , 2 Peter 2:4 (A. V. cast down to hell (making the dative depend on )). Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 5020 1 Occurrence 1 Occ.
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THE QUESTION NOW IS HELL (HADES AND GEHENNA) ONLY THE GRAVE?
These questions must be answered.
The fact that Jesus warned us of being turn into Hell speaks of its spiritual in nature. It is not just the grave. All of humanity shall go to the grave. If Hell is just the grave Jesus would not sternly warn us the danger of being judged and thrown into Hell. Luke 16:23 is not a parable. In Jesus parables He never mentioned names of people and prophets. It is an actual event that happened in the times of the prophets. The Richman died and in Hell he was in torment. It also shows that in Hell the dead is fully conscious spiritually. The Richman suffered but Abraham and the others were comforted. This refutes soul sleep. At the resurrection Jesus went into the prison of spirits. He descended into Hell and led a host of captives free.
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servants and their brethren who were to be killed even as they had been, would be completed also. Revelation 6:9-11 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels who had seven plagues, which are the last, because in them the wrath of God is finished. 2 And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God. 3 And they sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! 4 "Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy; For all the nations will come and worship before You, For Your righteous acts have been revealed." 5 After these things I looked, and the temple of the tabernacle of testimony in heaven was opened, Revelation 15:1-5 After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God; 2 because His judgments are true and righteous; for He has judged the great harlot who was corrupting the earth with her immorality, and He has avenged the blood of His bond-servants on her." 3 And a second time they said, "Hallelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever." 4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, "Amen. Hallelujah!" 5 And a voice came from the throne, saying, "Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great." 6 Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude and like the sound of many waters and like the sound of mighty peals of thunder, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns. Revelation 19:1-6
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to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better; 24 yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake. Philippians 1:21-24
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"I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star." 17 The Spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost. 18 I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues which are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. Revelation 22:16-19
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"Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt. Daniel 12:2 Where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. Mark 9:44 "If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than to have two hands or two feet and be cast into the eternal fire. Matthew 18:8
Dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. 2Thessalonians 1:8-9 The Judgment "But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. 32 "All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; 33 and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. 34 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 'For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; 36 naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer Him, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink? 38 'And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You? 39 'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' 40 "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' 41 "Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels; 42 for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink; 43 I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in
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prison, and you did not visit Me.' 44 "Then they themselves also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?' 45 "Then He will answer them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' 46 "These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." Matthew 25:31-46 Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire. Jude 1:7
Then another angel, a third one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, 10 he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 11 "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name." Revelation 14:9-11 And the devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. Revelation 20:10
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But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly. 2Peter 3:7 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 1Corinthians 6:9-10 Then I heard the altar reply, Yes, Lord God, the All-Powerful, your judgments are true and just! 8 Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire. 9 Thus people were scorched by the terrible heat, yet they blasphemed the name of God, who has ruling authority over these plagues, and they would not repent and give him glory. Revelation 16:7-9 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." Revelation 21:8
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DO YOU HAVE:
JESUS CHRIST ETERNAL LIFE
WHAT TO DO:
ADMIT WE HAVE SINNED AND REPENT
We have sinned and we can't be changed by our own selves. There are things in our lives that are wrong and should make them right. We must agree with God and His word that we have sinned, on our way to Hell, and we should to repent.
He died for us and was raised from the dead so that we can be SAVED (Rom. 10:9). If He didn't do this, our sins could not be forgiven. Christ paid the price for our salvation and eternal life is now a Free Gift. We can now receive ETERNAL LIFE through faith in Him. He is the only way to God His Father.
Confess with our mouth Jesus is Lord and receive Him as our Lord and Savior. He has risen from the dead. He is the Lord of all and everything in us. We must surrender all to Jesus Lordship and saving grace to have eternal life.
Romans 10:9-13
that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.
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PRAYER: Heavenly Father, I have sinned. I believe that Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross, died for my sin and rose from the dead. Forgive me and wash me with the blood of Jesus. I am turning away from sin. I now invite Christ to sit on the throne of my heart and my life and received Him as my Lord and Savior. Thank You Father, In Jesus Name. Amen.
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