Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000050
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00:09 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:11 >> I MEAN, FEAR IS NOT ALL BAD. 00:14 AND THE BIBLE DOES SAY SOME THINGS THAT SHOULD 00:15 SOBER US UP. 00:17 I THINK IF A PERSON IS ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION, 00:19 THEY SHOULD NOT BE AT PEACE. 00:21 I HOPE YOU'RE AFRAID. 00:23 [MUSIC] >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, 00:28 "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 00:31 THROUGH MEDIA. 00:33 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:35 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:39 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:42 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:46 >> TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM THE 00:48 "HERE WE STAND" SERIES. 00:56 >> I REMEMBER JUST THIS LAST YEAR, WE HAD A VERY BIG FIRE 00:59 IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 01:01 AND I WAS DRIVING AROUND IN THE HILLS UP THERE BY MYSELF IN 01:04 A PICKUP TRUCK AND I NEARLY GOT CUT OFF BY THIS FIRE. 01:07 IT LOOKED LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB HAD BEEN DROPPED 01:09 IN THE MENDOCINO FOREST. 01:10 IT WAS CALLED THE HUNTER FIRE, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS 01:12 OF ACRES. 01:13 AND IT'S PRETTY INTIMIDATING, YOU GET RIGHT UP WHERE I COULD 01:17 LOOK AND SEE THE FOREST FIRE RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF ME. 01:21 AND IT SCARES YOU A LITTLE BIT, IT PUTS A FEAR IN YOU. 01:25 THIS WHOLE WORLD IS GONNA BE CONSUMED, GOD IS GONNA USE 01:28 THAT FIRE TO PURIFY. 01:31 REVELATION 20:14-15, IT ULTIMATELY SAYS, "DEATH 01:35 AND HADES," OR HELL, "WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 01:40 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 01:42 NOT ONLY IS--ARE THE WICKED GONNA BE BURNED UP IN HELL, 01:45 HELL IS GOING TO HELL TOO; ACCORDING TO WHAT 01:49 THE BIBLE SAYS. 01:49 HELL, THAT'S THE WORD IT USES IN THE KING JAMES, IS CAST 01:51 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 01:53 THAT MEANS THE GRAVE. 01:56 "AND ANYONE WHO IS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS 01:58 CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 02:00 NUMBER 8, HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED SUFFER IN THE FIRE? 02:06 NOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE THIS IDEA 02:08 OF THE EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT. 02:10 LET'S LOOK AT SOME VERSES HERE. 02:12 REVELATION 22:12, "JESUS SAID, "BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY, 02:17 AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME, TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING 02:22 AS HIS WORK SHALL BE." 02:24 NOW, DO DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT WORKS? 02:27 ARE THERE VARYING REWARDS FOR THE RIGHTEOUS? 02:31 YES, AMONG THE SAVED, CHRIST SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 02:34 GONNA BE VARYING REWARDS. 02:34 SOME ARE GONNA SIT ON TWELVE THRONES AROUND HIS KINGDOM. 02:37 IT DOESN'T MEAN--SOME PEOPLE SAY, "I'M GONNA BE IN THE THIRD 02:39 HEAVEN, YOU'RE GONNA BE IN THE SEVENTH HEAVEN." 02:41 THAT'S NOT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE, GOD'S NOT GONNA HAVE THESE KIND 02:44 OF ELEVATORS IN HEAVEN. 02:45 BUT THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF REWARDS AND PEOPLE MAY HAVE 02:48 VARYING NUMBERS OF STARS IN THEIR CROWN. 02:50 YOU'VE HEARD THE SONG, THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES 02:53 OF PUNISHMENT. 02:56 BUT IF EVERYBODY BURNS FOREVER AND EVER THEN IT WOULD SEEM 03:00 THAT EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME PUNISHMENT. 03:04 AND THAT WOULD HYPOTHETICALLY MEAN THAT CAIN WHO LIVED 03:07 6,000 YEARS AGO AND KILLED HIS BROTHER, ONE PERSON THAT WE 03:10 KNOW OF HE KILLED. 03:12 IF HE DIED AND HE WENT RIGHT TO HELL WHERE HE'S BEEN BURNING 03:14 FOR THE LAST 6,000 YEARS, HE'S BEEN BURNING 6,000 YEARS 03:17 LONGER THAN SADDAM HUSSEIN OR ADOLPH HITLER. 03:21 THAT'S NOT VERY FAIR. 03:24 MATTHEW 16:27, SAYS, "HE'LL REWARD EVERY MAN 03:28 ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS." 03:31 AGAIN, AND LUKE 12:47, "THE SERVANT WHICH KNEW HIS LORD'S 03:35 WILL AND NEITHER DID ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, WILL BE BEATEN 03:39 WITH MANY STRIPES." 03:40 IN OTHER WORDS, STRIPES, WHEN SOMEONE GOT WHIPPED, IT LEFT 03:42 A STRIPE ON THEIR BACK; AND THAT WAS THE WORD THEY USED FOR 03:44 WHIPPING OR FLOGGING, THAT'S HOW THEY PUNISHED PEOPLE. 03:47 THOSE WHO KNEW GOD'S WILL AND DID NOT DO IT, THEY'LL BE 03:50 PUNISHED MORE SEVERELY THAN THOSE WHO DID NOT KNOW. 03:53 THAT'S THE OTHER VERSE, HE THAT DID NOT KNOW, AND HE COMMITS 03:56 THINGS WORTHY OF STRIPES, HE IS BEATEN WITH FEW STRIPES. 03:59 SO, AREN'T YOU HEARING THE LORD SAY THERE ARE VARYING 04:01 DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT. 04:03 IF EVERYONE'S BEING REWARDED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS, AND 04:05 EVERYONE'S GOT DIFFERENT WORKS. 04:06 I MEAN, SUPPOSE THAT SOME POOR TEENAGER, THEY'VE REACHED 04:10 THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, THEY SQUANDER THEIR LIFE, THEY 04:13 DIE IN SOME LOST CONDITION. 04:17 TO PUNISH THEM THE SAME WAY, THE SAME DEGREE AS 04:20 ADOLPH HITLER; THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THAT. 04:26 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT GOD IS JUST. 04:28 NUMBER 9, IS HELL GONNA BURN FOREVER? 04:32 WILL THE FIRE EVENTUALLY GO OUT? 04:35 JUDE VERSE 7, THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER IN JUDE. 04:38 "EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH, ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE, 04:45 SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE. 04:48 NOW, HERE IT'S TELLING US IN JUDE 7, "SODOM AND GOMORRAH 04:51 WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE." 04:53 WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 04:55 WELL, WE BETTER GO BACK IN THE BIBLE, TAKE A FRESH LOOK 04:56 AT SODOM AND GOMORRAH AND WHAT HAPPENED THERE 04:58 TO UNDERSTAND IT. 04:59 YOU CAN READ IN GENESIS 13:13 THAT "THE MEN OF SODOM WERE 05:04 EXCEEDINGLY WICKED AND SINFUL AGAINST THE LORD." 05:08 IT WAS A WICKED, SINFUL CITY. 05:11 GOD TOLD ABRAHAM HE WAS GOING TO JUDGE THE CITY, HE COULDN'T 05:14 EVEN WAIT UNTIL THEY EXPIRED NATURALLY. 05:17 THEY WERE GONNA GET EARLY JUDGMENT, BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH 05:20 AN ABOMINATION. 05:21 YOU REMEMBER THAT THE ANGELS THAT CAME TO DELIVER LOT AND 05:24 HIS FAMILY, THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY ESSENTIALLY TRIED TO RAPE 05:28 THE ANGELS. 05:31 AND FINALLY, THE ANGELS TOLD LOT WHEN HE WAS LINGERING, 05:34 TRYING TO GET HIS CHILDREN OUT OF THE CITY, THEY SAID, 05:37 ESCAPE--THIS IS GENESIS 19:17, "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE, LOOK NOT 05:42 BEHIND YOU, ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAIN LEST YOU BE CONSUMED." 05:48 WHAT DOES CONSUMED MEAN? 05:51 CONSUMED MEANS TO BE DEVOURED. 05:54 WHAT DOES CONSUME AND DEVOURED MEAN? 05:57 COOK MEXICAN FOOD, INVITE ME OVER, I'LL DEMONSTRATE. 06:02 MEANS ALL GONE. 06:05 GENESIS 19:17, "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE, LEST YOU BE 06:09 CONSUMED." 06:11 AND THEN THE BIBLE SAYS IN VERSE 24, "THEN THE LORD 06:14 RAINED BRIMSTONE AND FIRE ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH, 06:18 FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN." 06:20 NOW, THE QUESTION IS, THE BIBLE SAYS, "SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE 06:24 BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE;" WE JUST READ THAT. 06:26 ARE THEY STILL BURNING TODAY? 06:29 WERE THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ETERNAL? 06:33 HAVE THERE BEEN ANY CITIES BUILT WHERE SODOM 06:35 AND GOMORRAH IS? 06:36 HAVE THEY BEEN REBUILT? 06:37 THERE'S NOTHING, IT IS DESOLATE DOWN THERE; THEY WERE BURNT 06:40 WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 06:42 PSALM 37:10, "FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT 06:47 BE, THE WICKED SHALL PERISH." 06:50 VERSE 20, "THE ENEMIES OF THE LORD SHALL CONSUME, INTO SMOKE 06:53 THEY'LL CONSUME AWAY. 06:54 I THINK I ALREADY SHARED THIS ONE WITH YOU. 06:56 ISAIAH 47:14, "BEHOLD THEY'LL BE STUBBLE, THE FIRE WILL BURN 07:02 THEM, THEY WILL NOT DELIVER THEMSELVES FROM THE POWER OF 07:05 THE FLAME. 07:07 THERE'LL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT, NOR FIRE TO SIT BEFORE." 07:12 DOES IT BURN FOREVER? 07:13 DOES IT SAY THAT IT FINALLY GOES OUT? 07:16 FIRE FINALLY GOES OUT. 07:17 WHAT ABOUT THOSE VERSES, FOR INSTANCE IN REVELATION 14:11? 07:22 IT SAYS, "THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS UP FOREVER 07:25 AND EVER." 07:26 WELL, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THAT, IT'S JUST SAYING THAT 07:28 WHEN THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED, THEIR SMOKE ASCENDS UP OUT OF 07:31 SIGHT. 07:33 ARE WE GONNA SIT IN THE CITY OF GOD? 07:36 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN TO WHAT? 07:38 EARTH. 07:39 WE GONNA BE SITTIN' THERE ON THE WALLS EATIN' POPCORN, 07:41 WATCHIN' THE WICKED BURN? 07:43 WATCHING THE SMOKE ASCEND UP? 07:46 WHAT DOES IT MEAN, FOREVER AND EVER? 07:49 THESE VERSES HAVE BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 07:52 NOW, YOU'VE GOTTA READ A VERSE IN ITS CONTEXT OTHERWISE YOU 07:57 CAN TWIST IT. 07:58 JONAH 2:6, FOR INSTANCE, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE STORY 08:02 JONAH? 08:03 SWALLOWED BY THIS SEA MONSTER, HE'S IN THE BELLY OF THIS 08:06 GREAT FISH THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS, RIGHT? 08:09 IN JONAH'S PRAYER FROM THE BELLY OF THE FISH, IT RECORDS, 08:13 "THE EARTH WITH HER BARS WAS ABOUT ME FOR EVER." 08:20 NOW, I EXPECT, HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT MUST HAVE 08:22 BEEN LIKE TO BE JONAH? 08:25 YOU'RE IN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM OF THIS SEA MONSTER, DOWN AT 08:30 THE BOTTOM OF THE MOUNTAINS AND IT OCCURRED TO ME ONE DAY THAT 08:33 IF JONAH WAS STILL ALIVE IN THERE, THAT SEA MONSTER COULD 08:38 HAVE BEEN DINING ON OTHER THINGS BEFORE HE SWALLOWED 08:40 JONAH. 08:42 THERE COULD HAVE BEEN OTHER CRITTERS IN THERE SQUIRMIN' 08:43 AND SPOOKIN' AROUND. 08:47 AND I'VE SEEN SOME OF THESE DEEP SEA PROGRAMS, I'VE GONE 08:50 DIVING AT NIGHT WHERE SOME OF THESE SEA CREATURES HAVE 08:52 BIOLUMINESCENCE AND THEY CAN FLASH. 08:54 COULD BE IN THERE WITH THEM JELLY FISH AND SHRIMP, SQUID. 08:59 DO YOU THINK IT FELT LIKE HE WAS IN HADES? 09:04 DO YOU THINK IT FELT LIKE FOREVER? 09:06 THREE DAYS AND THREE NIGHTS OF THAT. 09:09 BUT WAS IT? 09:10 IS HE STILL THERE? 09:11 NO, BUT HE USED THE WORD FOREVER. 09:14 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN FIND MANY, MANY TIMES IN THE BIBLE 09:16 WHEN THEY'VE USED THE VERY SAME PHRASE, FOREVER AND IT 09:18 DESCRIBES SOMETHING THAT DID HAVE AN END. 09:21 FOR EXAMPLE, EXODUS 21:6, SPEAKING OF A SERVANT WHO 09:27 COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO HIS MASTER, HE'D GO THROUGH 09:29 THIS RITUAL AND IT SAID, "HE WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER." 09:32 WELL, WHAT DID THAT MEAN? 09:33 EVEN IN HEAVEN OR UNTIL HE DIED? 09:36 IT MEANT HE'D SERVE HIM 'TIL HE DIED. 09:37 WHEN HANNAH BROUGHT SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE AND DEDICATED HER 09:40 SON TO THE LORD'S SERVICE. 09:42 "HE'LL REMAIN THERE AT THE TEMPLE FOREVER." 09:46 QUESTION: IS SAMUEL STILL THERE TODAY? 09:49 NO, IT MEANT FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE UNTIL HE DIED. 09:52 AND AGAIN, 1 SAMUEL 1:28, AS "LONG AS HE LIVES." 09:56 HOW LONG WOULD SAMUEL BE THERE? 09:58 HOW LONG WAS THAT FOREVER? 09:59 AS LONG AS HE LIVED. 10:00 THE WORD FOREVER, IN GREEK IT COMES FROM THE WORD EON. 10:04 AND YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE SAY, "I HAVEN'T SEEN THEM IN EONS?" 10:08 IT MEANS FOREVER, IT'S BEEN FOREVER. 10:10 IT'S OFTEN USED THAT WAY AND YOU DON'T REALLY MEAN 10:12 A BILLION YEARS FROM NOW. 10:16 AND YET, PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN THAT AND APPLIED IT TO THE TEACHING 10:18 OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED AND THEY'VE TURNED GOD INTO 10:21 A TYRANT AND A SADIST FROM TWISTING THE SCRIPTURES. 10:25 MATTER OF FACT, DONALD BARNHOUSE 10:27 ON HIS COMMENTARY TALKING ABOUT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS. 10:30 HE SAID, "WE CANNOT FAULT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS FOR 10:32 BELIEVING THIS, BECAUSE AFTER ALL, MANY OF FOUNDERS OF THE 10:35 CHURCH BELIEVE THIS WAY AS WELL. 10:38 NUMBER TEN, WHAT WILL BE LEFT WHEN THE FIRE GOES OUT? 10:45 DOES IT CONTINUE TO BURN? 10:47 ANSWER, MALACHI 4:3, IT SAYS, "'THEY'LL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED 10:52 FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET 10:58 IN THE DAY THAT I DO THIS,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 11:01 IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THE REDEEMED GO FORTH FROM 11:03 THE NEW JERUSALEM, AFTER GOD'S CREATED THIS 11:05 NEW HEAVENS AND THIS NEW EARTH. 11:07 THERE'S GRASS GROWING ON THE GROUND AND UNDER THE GRASS IS 11:10 THE WICKED. 11:13 THE WICKED WHO OPPRESSED AND PERSECUTED THE CHRISTIANS 11:15 WILL ULTIMATELY BE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF OUR FEET. 11:19 AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE SCREAMING, OUCH. 11:21 AND YOU KNOW, THAT HURTS, AS YOU WALK AROUND. 11:24 THEY'RE NOT CONSCIOUS. 11:26 ISAIAH 47:14, THERE WILL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT NOR A FIRE 11:31 TO SIT BEFORE. 11:32 SPEAKING OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED, "THEY'LL BE BURNT 11:35 UP AND IT GOES OUT." 11:37 2 PETER 2:6, TURNING SODOM-- THIS IS ANOTHER VERSE 11:41 ON SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 11:43 "TURNING SODOM AND GOMORRAH," INTO WHAT? 11:46 "ASHES CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM 11:51 AN EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTERWARD LIVE UNGODLY." 11:55 SO, IF WE'RE WONDERING WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED, 11:58 SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE SET FORTH AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S 12:02 GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED SO WE CAN UNDERSTAND THIS." 12:04 I MEAN, FEAR IS NOT ALL BAD AND THE BIBLE DOES SAY SOME 12:09 THINGS THAT SHOULD SOBER US UP. 12:12 I THINK IF A PERSON IS ON THE WAY TO DESTRUCTION, 12:13 THEY SHOULD NOT BE AT PEACE. 12:15 I HOPE YOU'RE AFRAID. 12:18 YOU EVER READ THE BOOK "PILGRIM'S PROGRESS." 12:20 THERE IS PART OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE IS TO GET UP AND FLEE 12:22 FROM THE WRATH TO COME. 12:25 WE NEED TO FLEE TO THAT CITY OF REFUGE. 12:28 BUT YOU'RE RUNNING FROM WHAT YOU'RE AFRAID OF, YOU'RE GOING 12:31 TO THE ONE YOU LOVE. 12:35 AND THOSE WHO GO TO CHURCH EVERY WEEK AND THEY'RE AFRAID 12:37 OF GOD AND THEY RESENT HIM, THAT'S THE WRONG KIND OF FEAR. 12:43 AND YET SO MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING MANIPULATED BY RELIGIOUS 12:46 LEADERS BECAUSE OF THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THIS 12:48 TEACHING. 12:49 I HOPE YOU GO TO THAT WEBSITE, HELLTRUTH.COM. 12:52 I'M JUST COVERING THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG OF SCRIPTURES 12:55 THAT ARE THERE. 12:56 THIS IS VOLUMES AND VOLUMES OF INFORMATION. 13:00 NUMBER 11, WILL THE WICKED ENTER HELL IN BODILY FORM 13:04 AND BE DESTROYED BOTH SOUL AND BODY? 13:06 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "YEAH, IT'S TRUE THAT THE BODIES ARE BURNT 13:10 UP BUT THE SOULS BURN FOREVER AND EVER." 13:13 OR PEOPLE SAY, "ONLY THE SOULS ARE PUT IN HELL." 13:15 WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 13:16 MATTHEW 10:28, CATCH THIS. 13:20 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE JESUS? 13:23 IF YOU FORGET EVERYTHING I SAID TONIGHT AND YOU BELIEVE THIS 13:25 ONE VERSE FROM JESUS, IT IS SO PLAIN IT CAN NOT BE 13:27 MISUNDERSTOOD. 13:29 JESUS SAID, "FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY BUT ARE NOT 13:32 ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL." 13:33 A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED THROUGH THE AGES. 13:35 JESUS SAID, "DON'T BE AFRAID OF WHAT THEY MIGHT DO TO YOUR 13:37 BODY, STAND FOR THE TRUTH." 13:39 AMEN. 13:40 SAY, "HERE I STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD, YOU MIGHT BE 13:43 PERSECUTED." 13:43 DON'T BE AFRAID IF THEY EVEN TORTURE YOUR BODY, "BUT RATHER 13:47 FEAR HIM, MEANING THE FATHER, WHO IS ABLE TO DESTROY SOUL 13:53 AND BODY IN HELL." 13:56 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, IT'S JUST THE BODY THAT BURNS UP, 13:58 BUT THE SOUL BURNS THROUGH EVER AND EVER" AND THAT'S NOT WHAT 14:01 IT SAYS. 14:03 IT SAYS, "SOUL AND BODY ARE BURNT UP; THEY'RE DESTROYED." 14:07 IF YOU WERE GOD, AND YOU WERE TRYING IT COMMUNICATE TO HUMANS 14:09 WHAT THE FATE OF THE WICKED IS, WHAT WORDS COULD YOU USE 14:12 OTHER THAN WHAT I'VE ALREADY USED? 14:15 BURN UP, DESTROYED, SECOND DEATH, PERISH, CONSUME, INTO 14:20 SMOKE, NOT EVEN WARM, ANYMORE, SHALL NOT BE. 14:24 I MEAN, HOW MUCH--IF YOU'RE GOD AND YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT 14:27 CLEARER THAN THAT, WHAT MORE COULD YOU SAY? 14:31 MARK 9:47 AND 48, AGAIN, JESUS, "AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO 14:37 SIN, PLUCK IT OUT, FOR IT'S BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER 14:39 THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE THAN HAVING TWO EYES TO BE 14:43 CAST INTO HELL FIRE." 14:44 IT SAYS, YOU'VE GOT YOUR BODY IN TACT, THE WICKED ARE THROWN 14:46 INTO HELL FIRE WITH THEIR BODIES. 14:48 HAVING TWO EYES BE CAST INTO HELL WHERE THEIR WORM 14:51 DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE'S NOT QUENCHED. 14:54 NOW, I PROBABLY NEED TO STOP AT THIS POINT AND EXPLAIN THAT. 14:59 "WAIT, PASTOR DOUG, IT SAYS, 'THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.' 15:02 " THE WORD THAT JESUS USED THERE FOR HELL, WHERE HE SAYS 15:05 THAT IT'S BETTER TO GO INTO HEAVEN MISSING AN EYE OR 15:09 MISSING A HAND OR A FOOT THAN TO GO INTO GEHENNA. 15:13 THE WORD HE USED IS GEHENNA, WHERE THE WORM DOESN'T DIE 15:17 AND THE FIRE'S NOT QUENCHED. 15:18 ALSO USES THAT SAME TERMINOLOGY IN ISAIAH. 15:21 OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM--FIRST OF ALL, IS ANYBODY GOING TO HEAVEN 15:25 WITHOUT AN EYE, A FOOT OR A HAND? 15:28 OKAY, SO RIGHT AWAY WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT JESUS 15:30 IS SAYING THERE? 15:32 HE'S ILLUSTRATING SOMETHING. 15:34 RIGHT OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM IS A VALLEY CALLED THE VALLEY OF 15:37 HENNA, THAT'S THE EXACT WORD THAT JESUS USED THERE. 15:40 BETTER TO GO INTO HEAVEN MISSING A EYE, HAND OR A FOOT 15:42 THAN TO GO INTO GEHENNA WITH YOUR WHOLE BODY. 15:46 IT WAS THE DUMP, IT WAS A DEEP, VERY STEEP AREA, IT WASN'T 15:51 CONVENIENT FOR BUILDING, 'CAUSE IT WAS SO STEEP. 15:53 OUTSIDE JERUSALEM, STILL THERE TODAY, THEY FILLED IN IT OVER 15:55 THE YEARS, IT'S NOT QUITE AS STEEP NOW. 15:57 AND THEY USED TO THROW ALL OF THE UNCLEAN ANIMALS THAT DIED 16:00 AND THE BROKEN BASKETS AND THE POTTERY AND THE GARBAGE AND IT 16:05 WAS FULL OF DEAD CARCASSES AND OF ANIMALS AND THINGS THEY 16:12 DIDN'T WANNA BURY. 16:13 IT WAS PUTREFYING, SO THEY TRIED TO KEEP IT BURNING. 16:16 IT WAS FULL WORMS AND IT WAS SMOLDERING, IT WAS THE MOST 16:19 OBJECTIONABLE PLACE AROUND THE CITY, THE CITY DUMP. 16:23 I REMEMBER I USED TO DRIVE AROUND TEXAS AND EVERY 16:26 10 MILES THEY HAVE A CITY AND EVERY CITY HAD THEIR OWN DUMP 16:30 AND PEOPLE USED TO BURN THEIR TRASH AND THEY'D GO OUT AND 16:32 SOMETIMES THE TRASH WASN'T COMPLETELY--THE FIRE WASN'T OUT 16:35 AND THEY'D DUMP THEIR TRASH IN THE DUMP AND THEY WERE ALWAYS 16:38 SMOLDERING, ALWAYS BURNING. 16:41 YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKIN' ABOUT? 16:42 SOME OF YOU WHO'VE LIVED BY THESE TOWN DUMPS. 16:44 THAT'S WHAT JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S THE EXACT WORD 16:46 HE USED. 16:48 BUT WHAT ABOUT THE PHRASE WHERE IT SAYS UNQUENCHABLE? 16:51 MATTHEW 3:12, "HE WILL THOROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR 16:55 AND GATHER HIS WHEAT INTO THE GARNER, BUT HE'LL BURN UP THE 16:58 CHAFF WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE." 17:00 PEOPLE SAY, "SEE, FIRE NEVER GOES OUT." 17:02 ALL THAT MEANS IS THAT THERE'S NOBODY EXTINGUISHING. 17:06 TO QUENCH MEANS TO EXTINGUISH; IT'S A VERB FOR THAT. 17:09 NO ONE'S GOING TO BE EXTINGUISHING THE FIRES 17:11 OF HELL. 17:12 JEREMIAH 17:27 IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS, "IF YOU WILL 17:16 NOT HARKEN UNTO ME, TO HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY AND TO BEAR, 17:20 NOT TO BEAR A BURDEN, EVEN ENTERING IN AT THE GATES OF 17:24 JERUSALEM AT THE SABBATH DAY, THEN I'M GOING TO KINDLE A FIRE 17:27 IN THE GATES THEREOF, AND IT WILL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF 17:31 JERUSALEM, AND IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." 17:34 JEREMIAH FORETOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM BY 17:36 NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 17:37 AND PART OF THEIR--ONE OF THEIR SINS WAS THEY WERE BEING 17:40 SLOPPY ABOUT SABBATH KEEPING. 17:42 DID IT HAPPEN? 17:43 IT DID HAPPEN. 17:44 WAS JERUSALEM DESTROYED? 17:45 YES. 17:46 DID THEY BURN IT? 17:46 YES. 17:47 HE SAYS IT WAS GONNA BE BURNT WITH FIRE THAT WAS NOT 17:49 QUENCHABLE. 17:50 DID ANYBODY QUENCH IT? 17:52 NO, IT BURNT UNTIL IT BURNT IT UP. 17:54 IS IT STILL BURNING TODAY? 17:56 NO. 17:57 IS THAT CLEAR, FRIENDS? 17:59 IT JUST MEANS THERE'S NO FIREMEN RUNNING AROUND IN THE 18:01 LAKE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING THINGS. 18:05 NOBODY'S QUENCHING IT. 18:07 MATTHEW 5:30, AGAIN JESUS SAID, "IT IS PROFITABLE FOR THEE THAT 18:11 ONE OF THY MEMBERS SHOULD PERISH, AND NOT THAT THY WHOLE 18:14 BODY SHOULD BE CAST INTO HELL." 18:16 SO, IT IS THE WHOLE BODY CAST IN HELL. 18:19 EZEKIEL 18:20, NOT ONLY DOES THE BODY DIE, BUT IT SAYS 18:23 "THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE." 18:28 IS THAT CLEAR? 18:29 SOUL AND BODY DYING. 18:31 NUMBER 12, WILL THE DEVIL BE IN CHARGE OF HELL? 18:35 HA! 18:37 THERE IS SO MUCH MYTHOLOGY ON THIS SUBJECT. 18:39 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THESE STORIES BEFORE 18:43 ABOUT THE DEVIL? 18:44 YOU KNOW, HE'S IN CHARGE OF HELL. 18:45 HE'S GOT THE HORNS, HE'S RED, HE'S GOT THE RED LEOTARDS, THE 18:50 TAIL WITH A POINT ON THE END, AND HE'S HOLDING A PITCH FORK 18:54 OR A TRIDENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 18:56 AND HE'S IN CHARGE OF HELL AND USES THE PITCH FORK TO MAKE 18:58 SURE PEOPLE ARE COOKING EVENLY ON BOTH SIDES, I GUESS. 19:02 I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT'S FOR. 19:03 CAN YOU TRUST THE DEVIL TO BE IN CHARGE OF HELL TO MAKE SURE 19:06 PEOPLE GET FAIR PUNISHMENT, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY PUNISHMENT? 19:10 THAT'S LIKE PUTTING THE FOX IN CHARGE OF THE CHICKEN COOP; 19:14 YOU CAN'T DO THAT. 19:15 IN ALL OF THESE MEDIEVAL IDEAS ABOUT THE DEVIL THEY CAME FROM 19:18 PLUTO AND GREEK MYTHOLOGY. 19:20 YOU DON'T FIND ONE PLACE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT HE'S GOT 19:23 A PITCH FORK AND HORNS AND LEOTARDS AND BAT WINGS 19:25 AND A GOATEE. 19:27 AND SO THERE'S ALL THIS MYTHOLOGY AND THE SAME 19:29 MYTHOLOGY ABOUT THE DEVIL HAS STUCK WITH HELL. 19:33 IT'S STILL IN THE CHURCH TODAY, BECAUSE RELIGIOUS LEADERS CAN 19:37 EXPLOIT IT TO GET A LITTLE MORE OFFERING OR TO PAY FOR 19:41 SOMEONE TO GET OUT OF PURGATORY, YOU LISTENING TO 19:42 ME? 19:44 IT'S NOT TRUE. 19:46 REVELATION 20:10, DEVIL'S NOT IN CHARGE OF HELL, THAT'S WHERE 19:49 HE'S GOING. 19:51 "AND THE DEVIL THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF 19:53 FIRE AND BRIMSTONE." 19:56 EZEKIEL 28:18-19, IT SAYS, SPEAKING OF THE DEVIL, 20:00 "I'LL BRING THEE TO ASHES ON THE EARTH AND THE SIGHT OF THEM 20:03 THAT BEHOLD THEE. 20:04 ...AND NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE." 20:07 IF ANYBODY DESERVES TO BURN FOREVER, WHO IS IT? 20:10 IT'S THE DEVIL. 20:11 BUT EVEN SATAN IS GOING TO BE BURNT UP. 20:15 AND IT SAYS, "HE'S GONNA BURN DAY AND NIGHT." 20:18 I MEAN, HE'LL BURN LONGER THAN ANYONE ELSE. 20:20 IF EVERYONE IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS, 20:21 WHO DESERVES THE WORST? 20:23 THE ONE WHO INSTIGATED THE WHOLE REBELLION, RIGHT? 20:25 SO, WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG SATAN'S GONNA BURN, BUT IT'S 20:27 GONNA BE LONGER THAN JONAH WAS IN THE BELLY OF THE FISH. 20:31 REVELATION 20:15, "AND WHOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN 20:35 IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 20:38 DO WE BELIEVE IN HELL FIRE? 20:40 YES. 20:41 HERE IT IS. 20:42 IT'S GOING TO BURN ON THE EARTH AFTER JESUS COMES AND JUDGES 20:46 THE WICKED, AND WE'VE GOT A SUBJECT ON THIS. 20:49 THE WORD HELL HAS OFTEN BEEN MISUNDERSTOOD. 20:52 YOU FIND THE WORD HELL EIGHT TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 20:54 WHAT IS THE REAL PURPOSE? 20:56 NUMBER 14, WHAT'S THE REAL PURPOSE FOR HELLFIRE? 20:59 IS IT SO GOD CAN GET EVEN WITH PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T ACCEPT HIM? 21:02 YOU BETTER LOVE ME OR YOU'RE GONNA GET IT. 21:05 IS THAT HOW GOD GETS OUR LOVE? 21:08 NO, THAT'S NOT HOW YOU GET LOVE. 21:10 IT'S PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL. 21:13 MATTHEW 25:41, DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED INTO EVERLASTING 21:17 FIRE. 21:18 WHO IS IT PREPARED FOR? 21:19 FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 21:23 REVELATION 20:9, SAYS, "THEY GO UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH 21:27 AND THEY COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND FIRE 21:30 COMES DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND IT DEVOURS THE 21:33 WICKED," IT CONSUMES THEM, THEY'RE BURNT UP. 21:38 IT'S THE SECOND DEATH. 21:39 DOES THE LORD ENJOY THE WORK OF PUNISHING THE WICKED? 21:44 NO, IT'S ONE OF THE HARDEST THINGS IN THE WORLD FOR HIM 21:46 TO DO, IT'S BREAKS HIS HEART. 21:48 NUMBER 15, ISN'T THE WORK OF DESTROYING SINNERS FOREIGN 21:51 TO GOD'S NATURE? 21:53 THE SON OF MAN DID NOT COME TO DESTROY, BUT TO SAVE. 21:57 2 PETER 3:9, THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 22:03 HE DOESN'T WANT ANYONE TO PERISH, BUT HE WANTS ALL TO 22:06 COME TO REPENTANCE. 22:09 THE LORD WANTS TO SAVE AS MANY AS HE CAN. 22:11 ISAIAH 28:21, "THE LORD SHALL BE WROTH THAT HE MIGHT DO HIS 22:16 WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK AND BRING TO PASS HIS ACT, HIS 22:21 STRANGE ACT." 22:23 IT'S A STRANGE ACT. 22:25 THERE'S CERTAINLY NO JUSTICE IN THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE ARE 22:28 GONNA BE TORTURED THROUGH ALL ETERNITY IN HELLFIRE. 22:34 WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS IN THE CAVE, 22:36 MY CAT CAUGHT A MOUSE ONE DAY, I WAS COOKIN' MY DINNER. 22:40 AND YOU KNOW, CATS ARE SORTA SADISTIC, AREN'T THEY? 22:43 AND THEY DON'T JUST KILL IT AND EAT IT, THEY LIKE TO PLAY WITH 22:46 THEIR FOOD. 22:48 AND THEY CAUGHT A LITTLE KANGAROO RAT, THE POOR THING 22:50 WAS SO DAZED, HE'D CATCH IT, LET IT GO, CATCH IT, LET IT GO, 22:52 IN ONE DESPERATE, FINAL ATTEMPT TO BOLT FOR FREEDOM, THE THING 22:56 HOPPED INTO THE FIRE. 23:00 LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ALL GO, "OH." 23:04 AND REMEMBER I'M TALKIN' ABOUT A RAT. 23:08 THERE'S NOT A PERSON HERE THAT CAN BEAR TO THINK OF A RAT 23:11 BURNING FOR 3 SECONDS. 23:14 AND YET, WHAT DO WE PUT ON GOD WHEN WE SAY THAT HE'S GONNA DO 23:18 THIS TO HIS REBELLIOUS CHILDREN THROUGH ETERNITY? 23:22 EZEKIEL 33:11, THE BIBLE SAYS, "AS I LIVE SAYS THE LORD GOD, 23:27 I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN--" THE WHAT OF THE WICKED? 23:30 "THE DEATH OF THE WICKED." 23:32 WHAT ARE THE TWO OPTIONS WE ALL HAVE, FRIENDS? 23:35 LIFE AND DEATH. 23:38 WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER OPTIONS. 23:40 IT'S COME TO JESUS AND GET EVERLASTING LIFE. 23:44 IF WE NEGLECT THAT OPPORTUNITY OUR OPTION IS DEATH. 23:47 LUKE 9:56, JESUS SAID, "FOR THE SON OF MAN IS NOT COME TO 23:53 DESTROY MEN'S LIVES, BUT TO SAVE THEM." 23:57 IF HE JUST WANTED PEOPLE TO BE DESTROYED, HE DIDN'T NEED TO 23:59 COME AT ALL. 24:00 WE'RE ALL UNDER A DEATH SENTENCE, HE CAME TO SAVE US 24:02 FROM THAT. 24:05 YOU WOULDN'T DO IT TO YOUR DOG, YOU WOULDN'T DO IT TO A 24:08 RAT, AND JOB ASKS THIS PENETRATING QUESTION, "SHALL 24:12 MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?" 24:15 ARE YOU MORE LOVING? 24:16 YET WE'RE ALL SELFISH SINNERS, ARE WE MORE LOVING THAN GOD? 24:21 MORTAL MAN. 24:22 WE WOULDN'T EVEN DO THIS TO OUR ANIMALS AND YET PEOPLE ARE 24:26 PAINTING GOD WITH THIS DOCTRINE. 24:30 WHAT ARE GOD'S PLANS FOR THE EARTH AND HIS PEOPLE AFTERWARD? 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