Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000116
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00:01 >>THE FOLLOWING IS A PAID PRESENTATION BROUGHT TO YOU
00:03 BY AMAZING FACTS, INCORPORATED. 00:11 >>WHAT IS GOD'S REAL PURPOSE IN HELLFIRE? 00:14 HE'S GETTING EVEN WITH THESE REBELLIOUS CHILDREN SO 00:16 HE'S GOING TO TORTURE THEM THROUGH ETERNITY. 00:19 IS THAT HIS PURPOSE? 00:22 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:25 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:28 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:31 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:33 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION 00:35 OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:43 >>THE STUDY TODAY IS DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF REVELATION'S 00:46 LAKE OF FIRE. 00:47 NOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BIBLE PROPHECY AND THERE'S A LOT 00:50 OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:53 ACTUALLY, WHAT I'M GOING TO SHARE WITH YOU IS GOOD NEWS. 00:56 OF ALL THE THINGS I PRESENTED - I KNOW YOU MIGHT FIND THIS HARD 01:00 TO IMAGINE BUT THIS IS MY FAVORITE SUBJECT BECAUSE WHEN 01:05 I UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS SUBJECT IT DID A LOT 01:08 TO HELP ME LOVE GOD AND TRUST HIM. 01:11 AND YOU'LL SEE WHY AS WE PROCEED. 01:13 I'D LIKE TO BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT. 01:16 LOWEST PLACE ON THE PLANET IS THE AREA AROUND THE DEAD SEA. 01:21 IT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT 1312 FEET BELOW SEA LEVEL. 01:26 IT IS THE BASEMENT OF THE PLANET, YOU MIGHT SAY. 01:29 AND IT'S A VERY INTERESTING PIECE OF GEOGRAPHY - IT'S 01:33 BASICALLY A SINKHOLE FOR ALL OF THE SALTS AND THINGS THAT COME 01:37 DOWN THROUGH THE WHOLE JORDAN VALLEY - THEY SETTLE THERE. 01:41 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU GO OUT INTO THE WATER AROUND 01:44 THE DEAD SEA THE SALT CONTENT IS SO HIGH THAT YOU CAN FLOAT. 01:50 ANYBODY THAT CAN'T SWIM CAN FLOAT. 01:52 VESPASIAN, THE ROMAN EMPEROR, HAD HEARD THAT ONE TIME. 01:54 HE WANTED TO TEST IT SO HE WENT DOWN TO THE DEAD SEA 01:56 AND THEY TIED UP A SLAVE AND THREW HIM IN. 01:59 SURE ENOUGH, HE BOBBED TO THE SURFACE. 02:02 SOMEONE ONCE WONDERED HOW DEEP IT WAS, BECAUSE IT IS THE 02:04 LOWEST PLACE ON EARTH AND IT'S PART OF A DEEP RIFT. 02:07 IT WAS FORMED BY SOME KIND OF SEISMIC ACTIVITY - 02:10 THE GREAT JORDAN VALLEY RIFT. 02:12 AND SO A LIEUTENANT - OR CAPTAIN LYNCH FROM THE U.S. 02:16 NAVY WENT OUT THERE WITH SOME SPECIAL GEAR AND THEY SOUNDED IT 02:21 AND THEY FOUND OUT THAT THE LAKE, WHICH IS ABOUT 50 MILES 02:24 LONG BY ALMOST 10 MILES WIDE, THAT IT DOES HAVE A HOLE. 02:28 THEY WONDERED WHY NOTHING EVER RUNS OUT OF THE DEAD SEA AND 02:30 THEY THOUGHT THERE WAS A BIG HOLE IN THE BOTTLE - BOTTOM - 02:33 WHERE EVERYTHING'S JUST GETTING SUCKED DOWN, BUT IN REALITY IT 02:36 IS SO BIG THAT IT'S SIMPLY THE EVAPORATION OF THE JORDAN RIVER 02:40 THAT RUNS IN - IT EVAPORATES FASTER THAN THE WATER COMES IN. 02:45 MATTER OF FACT, THE LEVEL OF THE DEAD SEA HAS BEEN GOING DOWN FOR 02:47 SEVERAL YEARS NOW - ONE OF THE MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE 02:50 THEY'RE HAVING A DROUGHT. 02:52 JUST SOUTH OF THE DEAD SEA THEY'VE GOT A VERY INTERESTING 02:55 PIECE OF GEOGRAPHY AND IT'S BELIEVED THAT THIS IS THE AREA 02:59 WHERE SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE LOCATED. 03:02 FOUND IN THE GROUND - AND YOU SEE SOMEONE POINTING - A FRIEND 03:05 OF MINE WAS DOWN THERE. 03:06 HE GAVE ME HIS PICTURES. 03:07 HE'S ACTUALLY GIVEN ME A LOT OF THESE SULPHUR BALLS - EMBEDDED 03:10 IN THE ASH AND ROCK IN THESE HILLS ARE THESE ROUND SULPHUR 03:15 BALLS AND I - SOMETIMES I BRING THEM WITH ME AND I DEMONSTRATE 03:18 IT IN MY MEETINGS BECAUSE IT'S VERY AMAZING. 03:21 YOU JUST TAKE A MATCH, PUT IT TO THESE YELLOW SULPHUR BALLS, THEY 03:25 IGNITE - IT'S THE ONLY PLACE ON THE PLANET THAT YOU FIND THEM. 03:29 AND IT TRACES BACK TO THE STORY - I'VE GOT A PICTURE OF ONE - 03:31 TOOK A PICTURE OF ONE BURNING HERE. DO YOU SEE THE LITTLE BLUE 03:33 SPOT? IT'S ACTUALLY BURNING - YOU JUST PUT A MATCH TO IT - 03:36 IT STINKS TERRIBLE. 03:38 THAT'S ONE REASON I DON'T ILLUSTRATE THAT. 03:40 I DID THAT ONE TIME AND EVERYONE WANTED TO RUN OUT OF THE ROOM. 03:42 IT SMELLS LIKE ROTTEN EGGS. 03:44 BUT VERY UNIQUE PLACE ON THE PLANET WHERE YOU FIND THESE. 03:49 AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SODOM AND GOMORRAH 03:53 WERE DESTROYED - THEY WERE VERY WICKED. 03:56 IT SAYS IN GENESIS 13:13, "BUT THE MEN OF SODOM WERE 04:00 WICKED, SINNERS BEFORE THE LORD EXCEEDINGLY." 04:04 AND GOD FINALLY SENT TWO ANGELS TO RESCUE LOT AND HIS FAMILY 04:08 THAT WERE THERE AND THEY WARNED THEM THAT THEY HAD TO FLEE - 04:11 THESE ANGELS CAME TO THE CITY OF SODOM WHERE LOT HAD - HE MADE A 04:14 MISTAKE BY LIVING IN THIS ENVIRONMENT BUT GOD WANTED 04:17 TO SPARE HIM. 04:19 AND THE ANGELS SAID TO HIM, 'ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE LEST YOU 04:23 BE CONSUMED.' CONSUMED. 04:27 WELL, LOT HAD FAMILY IN THE CITY SO HE WENT TO TRY TO PERSUADE 04:30 HIS SONS-IN-LAW AND HIS OTHER DAUGHTERS TO LEAVE WITH HIM AND 04:35 HE SAID, 'GET UP AND GET OUT OF THIS PLACE FOR THE LORD 04:37 WILL DESTROY THIS CITY. 04:38 WE'VE BEEN WARNED.' BUT IT SAYS THAT THEY SEEMED TO 04:42 HIM AS ONE THAT MOCKED - HIS SON-IN-LAW THOUGHT, 'OH DAD, 04:45 HE'S A RELIGIOUS FANATIC.' AND SO THEY WOULD NOT - 04:49 WOULD NOT LISTEN TO HIM. 04:50 AND THEN YOU READ ABOUT IT IN GENESIS 19:24, "THEN THE LORD 04:54 RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM 04:58 THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN AND HE LOOKED TOWARD SODOM AND 05:02 GOMORRAH" - ABRAHAM SAW FROM THE DISTANCE - "AND LO, THE SMOKE OF 05:06 THE COUNTRY WENT UP AS THE SMOKE OF A FURNACE." 05:09 IT WAS CONSUMED. 05:12 NOW, IN THE BIBLE IT TELLS US THAT SODOM AND GOMORRAH ARE 05:15 GIVEN TO US AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH 05:19 THE WORLD IN THE LAST DAYS. 05:22 MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAID IN LUKE CHAPTER 17 AND MATTHEW 05:25 CHAPTER 24, 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOT ONLY NOAH, BUT IN 05:31 THE DAYS OF LOT, SO WILL IT ALSO BE IN THE DAY WHEN THE SON OF 05:34 MAN IS REVEALED.' AND CONDITIONS IN THIS WORLD TODAY ARE VERY 05:38 MUCH LIKE CONDITIONS WERE BACK IN THE DAYS OF LOT, FRIENDS. 05:41 ALMOST RAMPANT, UNRESTRAINED IMMORALITY HAS BEEN 05:45 ENDORSED BY THE CULTURE. 05:47 THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH GOD CAN TAKE. 05:49 NOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT ABOUT WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO 05:53 AND HOW HE DESCRIBES THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED 05:55 IN THE BIBLE. 05:56 QUESTION #1 - HOW MANY LOST SOULS ARE BEING 06:00 PUNISHED IN HELL TODAY? 06:03 THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 06:04 2 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, "THE LORD KNOWS HOW TO DELIVER 06:08 THE UNGODLY OUT OF TEMPTATION AND TO RESERVE THE UNJUST TO THE 06:13 DAY OF JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED. 06:16 SO, ARE THE UNJUST PUNISHED BEFORE OR AFTER 06:19 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT? 06:22 THEY ARE RESERVED, IN THEIR GRAVES, 06:24 UNTIL THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. 06:26 HAS THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY ARRIVED YET? NO. 06:30 THEN ARE THEY BEING PUNISHED YET? THEY'RE BEING RESERVED. 06:34 ANY OF YOU EVER GONE TO A NICE RESTAURANT WHERE YOU'VE 06:36 GOT TO GET A RESERVATION? 06:38 IT PROBABLY WASN'T HUNGRY JACK, RIGHT? 06:39 YOU GO TO A NICE RESTAURANT, YOU GET A RESERVATION, YOU GET 06:42 THERE, YOU GIVE THEM YOUR NAME, THEY HOLD YOUR TABLE FOR YOU, 06:44 RIGHT? 06:46 WELL, THERE IS A PLACE THAT GOD HAS RESERVED. 06:50 THERE IS A TIME THAT IS RESERVED FOR THE JUDGMENT OF THE WICKED. 06:54 IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 06:55 A LOT OF IDEAS ABOUT HELL HAVE COME FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY - 06:58 THEY'RE NOT IN THE BIBLE. 07:00 I WANT YOU TO BASE YOUR UNDERSTANDING ON 07:02 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 07:04 SO MANY IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TODAY SORT OF HAVE A STEW - 07:08 THEY'VE GOT THIS POTLUCK IN THEIR MINDS OF IDEAS ABOUT HOW 07:12 GOD PUNISHES THE WICKED. 07:14 HE'S VERY JUST IN THE WAY HE DOES IT AND HE'S VERY CLEAR 07:16 ABOUT NOT ONLY HOW IT'S DONE BUT WHEN IT'S DONE. 07:19 AGAIN, CHRIST SAID - I TRUST YOU BELIEVE JESUS - 07:23 'THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE SAME WILL JUDGE HIM 07:25 IN THE LAST DAY.' THEY ARE JUDGED BY 07:28 THE WORD OF GOD IN THE LAST DAY. 07:30 THAT'S WHY I'M PREACHING TO YOU FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 07:32 IT IS THE ULTIMATE CRITERIA FOR THAT JUDGMENT. 07:36 QUESTION #2 - WHEN WILL SINNERS BE CAST INTO WHAT THE BIBLE 07:41 CALLS 'HELLFIRE'? 07:43 WELL, HE TELLS A PARABLE - JESUS - ABOUT A FARMER THAT SOWS GOOD 07:48 SEED IN HIS FIELD AND WHILE THEY WERE SLEEPING AN ENEMY, WHO 07:52 WANTED TO DESTROY HIS CROP, HE CAME AND HE SPREAD TARES - 07:56 TARES IS A HEBREW WEED - HE SPREAD THESE WEEDS OUT AMONG 08:01 THE GOOD WHEAT AND HIS SERVANTS SAID, 'LOOK, SOMEBODY SOWED 08:05 SOME TARES AMONG THE WHEAT. 08:06 SHALL WE GO AND PULL UP THE TARES?' 08:08 HE SAID, 'NO, THE ROOTS ARE KIND OF MIXED UP TOGETHER, YOU'LL 08:10 DESTROY THE CROP IF YOU DO THAT. 08:11 LET THEM GROW TOGETHER - THE TARES DON'T GET VERY HIGH, 08:14 THE WHEAT GROWS TALLER - WHEN THAT HARVEST TIME COMES 08:18 WE'LL SEPARATE THE TWO.' NOTICE THE SEPARATION DOESN'T 08:22 HAPPEN UNTIL THE HARVEST TIME. 08:24 JESUS, DESCRIBING THIS PARABLE TO HIS DISCIPLES LATER, MADE IT 08:28 VERY CLEAR, 'AS, THEREFORE, THE TARES ARE GATHERED AND BURNED IN 08:33 THE FIRE, SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD. 08:38 THE SON OF MAN WILL SEND FORTH HIS' - WAIT A SECOND, WHEN? 08:41 THE END OF THE WORLD - GOT THAT? 08:45 'THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS AND THEY WILL GATHER TO 08:48 THEM THOSE WHO DO INIQUITY AND WILL CAST THEM INTO 08:52 A FURNACE OF FIRE.' WHEN ARE THEY CAST INTO 08:54 THIS FURNACE OF FIRE? 08:56 END OF THE WORLD. 08:58 SO HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW? 09:02 WE LEARNED IN OUR STUDY LAST NIGHT ON DEATH - 09:04 WHAT ARE THE DEAD DOING NOW? 09:06 SLEEPING. 09:08 NOW, WE REALIZE WE LIVE IN THIS DIMENSION OF TIME, SO WHEN A 09:11 RIGHTEOUS OR EVEN A WICKED PERSON DIES, THE NEXT THING 09:15 THEY'RE AWARE OF IS EITHER THE FIRST 09:17 OR THE SECOND RESURRECTION. 09:19 #3 - WHERE ARE SINNERS WHO HAVE DIED NOW? 09:23 A LOT OF SCRIPTURES, FRIEND, IT SAYS, 'THE HOUR IS COMING IN 09:26 WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE.' 09:30 IS COMING - FUTURE TENSE - THEY'LL HEAR HIS VOICE - ALL - 09:33 TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS. 09:35 IT SAYS THE WICKED ARE RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION. 09:38 THERE IS A DAY - THEY'RE RESERVED IN THE GRAVE - 09:41 WHEN THEY'LL FINALLY BE JUDGED. 09:43 AND AGAIN, IT SAYS, 'YET HE WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE 09:45 AND WILL REMAIN IN THE TOMB.' SO, WHEN A WICKED PERSON DIES, 09:49 WHERE DO THEY STAY? 09:50 WHERE DO THEY WAIT? 09:52 BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE, RESERVED, REMAINS, WAITS IN THE TOMB 09:56 FOR THAT COMING DAY OF JUDGMENT. 10:00 THERE'S A RESURRECTION FOR THE JUST, THERE'S A RESURRECTION 10:02 CALLED THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION - THE RESURRECTION 10:04 FOR THE LOST OR THE UNGODLY. 10:07 QUESTION #4 - WHAT IS THE END RESULT OF SIN? 10:12 NOW THIS IS THE MAIN THING I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND 10:14 IN THIS PRESENTATION. 10:16 NOT ONLY ARE THERE NO PEOPLE BURNING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE YET, 10:21 BUT THE LAKE OF FIRE IS NOT ETERNAL. 10:27 PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED. 10:29 THERE IS HELLFIRE. 10:30 YOU ALL HEAR ME? 10:31 I BELIEVE THAT. 10:32 SOME PEOPLE SAY 'PASTOR DOUG DOESN'T BELIEVE IN HELLFIRE' - 10:34 YES I DO. 10:35 THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH IT BURNS THROUGH ENDLESS AGES. 10:39 WHAT DID JESUS SAY THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS? 10:43 SIN, WHEN IT IS FINISHED, BRINGS FORTH DEATH. 10:48 AND AGAIN, CHRIST TELLS US THERE'S TWO CHOICES. 10:51 YOU KNOW THE BEAUTIFUL VERSE, 'FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE 10:55 GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD 10:59 NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 11:02 YOU ALL HAVE TWO CHOICES. 11:03 I HAVE TWO CHOICES - LIFE OR PERISH. 11:08 NOW WHAT DOES PERISH MEAN? 11:09 IT MEANS THE ABSENCE OF LIFE. 11:11 IT MEANS DEATH. 11:13 THIS IDEA THAT GOD TORTURES THE OBJECTS OF HIS CREATION THROUGH 11:17 ENDLESS AGES HAS COME FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND I'LL TELL YOU, 11:19 SOME PASTORS, THEY WAX PRETTY ELOQUENT AS THEY DESCRIBE IT, 11:24 TRYING TO MOBILIZE PEOPLE THROUGH FEAR. 11:28 IS FEAR THE RIGHT REASON TO SERVE THE LORD? 11:31 YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER READING SOME OF THE SERMONS - EXCERPTS 11:34 FROM SOME OF THE VICTORIAN PREACHERS AS THEY WOULD WAX 11:39 ELOQUENT TALKING ABOUT HELL AND THEY DESCRIBE HOW THESE LOST 11:43 PEOPLE WERE PLUNGED BY THE LORD DOWN INTO THIS MOLTEN FIRE AND 11:47 BRIMSTONE AND AS THEY TRIED TO SWIM, BLISTERING TOWARDS THE 11:51 SURFACE, CHOKING - INHALING THIS MOLTEN MATERIAL, THAT THEY'D 11:55 COME UP COUGHING AND GASPING THE GASES AND THEY'D SCREAM 11:59 TO THE LORD, 'HOW LONG?' AND HE'D SAY, 12:01 'YOU'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN. 12:02 YOU'VE GOT ETERNITY.' AND HE'D PUSH THEM BACK UNDER 12:04 AGAIN AND WRITHING AND SHRIEKING IN AGONY - CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 12:09 THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE. 12:14 NOW, I WANT TO APPEAL TO YOUR GOOD SENSE OF REASON. 12:18 WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOUR DOG? 12:21 IF YOU HAD A BAD DOG - DISOBEDIENT DOG - REBELLIOUS DOG 12:25 AND YOU FINALLY SAID, 'I'M GOING TO KILL THAT DOG.' 12:30 WOULD YOU KEEP ON KILLING HIM? 12:32 NO. 12:34 I MEAN, I REMEMBER WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS ONE DAY, MY 12:38 CAT - I HAD A CAT THAT HE KIND OF WOULD BRING HOME SOME OF THE 12:44 LOCAL CRITTERS. 12:46 ONE DAY I WAS COOKING DINNER AND HE HAD CAUGHT A MOUSE. 12:49 BUT YOU KNOW, CATS ARE A LITTLE BIT SADISTIC - THEY DON'T JUST 12:51 KILL THEIR PREY - THEY LIKE TO PLAY WITH THEIR FOOD WHILE IT'S 12:55 ALIVE - AND SO, THIS KANGAROO RAT - CUTE LITTLE THING - 12:59 LONG FLUFFY TAIL AND HE KIND OF HOPPED AROUND. 13:02 AND HE BROUGHT THIS RAT - I GUESS HE WANTED TO SHOW ME - 13:05 HE DROPPED IT DOWN WHILE I'M COOKING - I HAVE A FIRE GOING 13:07 AND I'M COOKING MY DINNER AND HE'S BATTING THE THING AROUND, 13:11 IT WOULD RUN, HE'D POUNCE ON IT, HE'D BAT IT AND IT WAS DAZED AND 13:14 IT WOULD MAKE ANOTHER RUN FOR ITS ESCAPE AND, YOU KNOW WHAT 13:18 IT DID, AND IT'S HOPPING TO RUN AWAY AND IT HOPPED NOT INTO MY 13:22 FOOD, BUT INTO THE FIRE. 13:25 AND - LISTEN TO YOUR REACTION - 'OH, THAT POOR MOUSE - 13:32 RAT - POOR LITTLE RAT. 13:35 IT WAS TERRIBLE THOUGH, YOU KNOW, I - I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING 13:37 - IT JUMPED IN THERE - IT WRITHED AND SHRIEKED AND IT ONLY 13:40 TOOK A FEW MOMENTS AND IT DIED. 13:43 BUT, YOU KNOW WHAT? 13:43 TO ME IT SEEMED LIKE AN ETERNITY JUST WATCHING THAT POOR THING 13:47 SUFFER LIKE THAT FOR A FEW MOMENTS IN THE FIRE. 13:53 AM I MORE LOVING THAN GOD? 13:56 AM I MORE LOVING WITH A RAT THAN GOD IS TOWARD 13:58 CREATURES MADE IN HIS IMAGE? 14:01 WAYWARD CHILDREN, REBELLIOUS CHILDREN - THIS IDEA THAT GOD 14:05 TORTURES PEOPLE FOR THE SINS OF ONE LIFETIME FOR BILLIONS OF 14:10 YEARS - THINK ABOUT IT, A BILLION YEARS BURNING. 14:12 AND YOU KNOW WHAT, A BILLION YEARS AFTER YOU BURN, MINUTE BY 14:15 MINUTE, SECOND BY SECOND, YOU'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN. 14:19 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 14:21 I MEAN, WHAT IS ETERNAL - THE WAY THAT'S IT'S INTERPRETED 14:23 BY SOME PEOPLE? 14:25 LOVING GOD - NO WONDER PEOPLE HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM THE 14:28 CONCEPT OF GOD BEING A GOD OF LOVE. 14:31 A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE, INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, 14:36 HAVE BEEN TURNED OFF. 14:37 I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND I DIDN'T LIKE GOD VERY MUCH 14:41 WHEN I WENT TO CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND THEY TALKED TO ME ABOUT THE 14:43 EVER-BURNING HELL AND I EVEN VISITED SOME BAPTIST CHURCHES - 14:46 MY DAD WAS A BAPTIST BEFORE HE TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD AND, 14:50 AGAIN, FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, EVER-BURNING HELL - AND IT WAS 14:54 JUST FEAR, IT WAS ALL FEAR. 14:56 AND I THOUGHT THAT GOD WAS A SADIST. 14:59 WHEN I LEARNED WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ON THIS SUBJECT, 15:02 WOW, IT WAS LIBERATING TO ME. 15:04 BY THE WAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SURF THE INTERNET AT ALL, YOU 15:08 MIGHT JOT DOWN 'HELLTRUTH.COM' - TWO SIMPLE WORDS 'HELLTRUTH.COM' 15:15 - A LOT OF BIBLE RESOURCES THERE. 15:17 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS WHAT? 15:19 IT'S DEATH. 15:20 THE WAGES FOR SIN IS DEATH - ROMANS 6:23 - "BUT THE GIFT 15:24 OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE." 15:25 THE FIRST LIE THE DEVIL TOLD EVE IS YOU'LL NOT REALLY DIE. 15:29 YOU'RE IMMORTAL. 15:30 YOU'LL LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN OR YOU'LL LIVE FOREVER IN HELL. 15:32 IT'S A LIE OF THE DEVIL. 15:34 ETERNAL LIFE IS GIVEN TO THOSE THAT BELIEVE. 15:37 HE SAID, 'LEST' - GOD SAID, ADAM WAS EVICTED FROM THE GARDEN OF 15:40 EDEN 'LEST HE REACH FORTH WITH HIS HAND AND TAKE OF THE TREE OF 15:46 LIFE AND EAT AND LIVE FOREVER.' GOD SAID HE WAS KICKED OUT OF 15:48 THE GARDEN SO HE WOULD NOT BE AN IMMORTAL SINNER. 15:53 SINNERS DO NOT GET IMMORTALITY - BODY OR SOUL. 15:58 I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU MORE VERSES THAT MAKE IT VERY PLAIN. 16:01 WHAT WAS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 16:03 DEATH. 16:05 PENALTY FOR SIN IS WHAT? 16:06 DEATH. 16:07 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE JESUS TOOK OUR PENALTY? 16:11 IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS BURNING FOREVER AND EVER 16:14 IN A LAKE OF FIRE, THEN DID JESUS BURN FOREVER AND EVER? NO. 16:19 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 16:21 IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS BURNING FOREVER AND EVER THEN 16:23 HE DIDN'T PAY YOUR PENALTY. 16:26 BUT HE DID PAY THE FULL PRICE BECAUSE THE PENALTY IS DEATH. 16:29 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? 16:30 SEE WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS? 16:32 JUST THE WHOLE JUDICIAL UNDERSTANDING OF SALVATION 16:34 HINGES ON THIS QUESTION. 16:37 #5 - WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? 16:41 WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS. 16:42 'FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE.' 16:46 NOT BE - JUST NOT IN EXISTENCE ANYMORE. 16:50 PSALM 37, VERSE 10. 16:52 "THE WICKED WILL PERISH. 16:54 INTO SMOKE THEY WILL CONSUME AWAY." 16:57 LOOK AT HOW PLAIN THIS LANGUAGE IS. 17:00 MALACHI CHAPTER 4, VERSE 1 AND VERSE 3, "BEHOLD THE DAY IS 17:03 COMING THAT WILL BURN AS AN OVEN AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY, ALL 17:07 THE PROUD SHALL BE STUBBLE." 17:10 YOU KNOW WHAT STUBBLE IS? 17:12 WHEN YOU HARVEST A FIELD OF RICE OR CORN - ALL THA 17:14 S LEFT AFTER YOU CUT DOWN THAT WHICH IS GOOD 17:17 IS THE STUBBLE - LITTLE STALKS STICKING UP AND THE ROOTS. 17:19 NOT ONLY DOES IT SAY THAT THE STUBBLE'S BURNT UP, IT SAYS, 17:23 'THE DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN THEM UP' - 17:25 ROOT AND BRANCH IS BURNT UP. 17:29 LOOK AT THE LANGUAGE. 17:30 CONSUME, PERISH, DESTROY, BURNT UP, BE NO MORE. 17:36 WHAT DEFINITION WILL YOU ACCEPT IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT 17:39 TERMS LIKE THAT? 17:40 I MEAN HOW MUCH MORE CLEAR CAN GOD MAKE IT? 17:43 IT SAYS, 'YOU'LL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED FOR THEY'RE ASHES UNDER 17:46 THE SOULS OF YOUR FEET.' THEY'RE BURNT UP SOULS - 17:49 THERE'S NOTHING LEFT BUT ASHES. 17:51 NOW, NOT FAR FROM MOUNT VESUVIUS THEY DISCOVERED THE RUINS OF 17:58 POMPEII - YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ABOUT THIS ANCIENT ROMAN CITY - 18:02 IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE THE LAS VEGAS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE 18:06 AND I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN THERE. 18:08 AND WHEN THAT VOLCANO ERUPTED IN 78 A.D., IT JUST RAINED DOWN 18:14 BRIMSTONE AND HOT ASH AND GASES ON THE CITY AND, BASICALLY, 18:18 BURIED ANYBODY THAT WAS IN THE CITY AND THEY WERE ALL 18:20 ANNIHILATED. 18:22 SOME MANAGED TO ESCAPE BEFORE THEY WERE HIT BY THIS - 18:25 WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? 18:26 A PYROCLASTIC CLOUD OF HEAT AND ASH THAT JUST BURNED THE LUNGS 18:31 AND KILLED THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY. 18:32 THEY GOT AWAY BY SEA AND THEY REPORTED ON IT AND YOU CAN 18:35 EVEN READ ABOUT THAT IN PLINY'S HISTORY. 18:39 AND ALL OVER THE CITY - I KNOW IT'S NOT VERY PRETTY - 18:41 THEY FOUND THE RUINS OF ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT BASICALLY WERE 18:44 JUST FROZEN IN POSITION BY THE ASH AND IT'S KIND OF A GRISLY 18:49 THING AND IT'S VERY SOBERING TO WALK AMONG THE RUINS OF POMPEII 18:53 - SOME OF YOU MAYBE HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE - AND SEE THE WHOLE 18:56 CIVILIZATION THAT WAS, BASICALLY, FROZEN IN TIME AND 18:59 ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT PERISHED. 19:00 SOMETHING LIKE A MODERN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND 19:03 GOMORRAH - TURNED THE CITY TO ASH. 19:07 REVELATION 21, VERSE 8, SPEAKING OF THE WICKED IT SAYS, "BUT THE 19:10 FEARFUL AND THE UNBELIEVING AND THE ABOMINABLE AND THE MURDERERS 19:15 AND THE WHOREMONGERS AND THE SORCERERS AND IDOLATERS AND ALL 19:20 LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE THAT BURNS 19:23 WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE." 19:26 IS THERE HELLFIRE? YES. 19:30 IS THERE A LAKE OF FIRE? YES. 19:33 DOES IT BURN FOREVER? NO. 19:35 DO THE WICKED GO TO THAT LAKE OF FIRE? YES. 19:39 WHERE IS THAT LAKE OF FIRE GOING TO BE? 19:42 IS IT - YOU KNOW PEOPLE DIE AND YOU GO DOWN TO A CAVERN 19:45 DOWN THERE - THERE'S - WE KNOW THAT THERE'S MOLTEN FIRE. 19:49 EVEN BACK IN BIBLE TIMES WHEN THEY SAW VOLCANOES ERUPTING 19:52 MOLTEN LAVA THEY BELIEVED THAT DOWN UNDER THERE WAS FIRE AND 19:56 THEY SAID THAT WAS THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DEVIL. 19:59 SO WHERE IS HELL GOING TO BURN? 20:00 IS IT DOWN YONDER SOMEWHERE? 20:02 IT'S GOING TO BE ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH, THAT'S WHERE THE 20:05 LAKE OF FIRE IS. 20:06 WE'LL GET - I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF NOW. 20:08 IT SAYS - WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH? 20:11 NOW PEOPLE WILL DIE THE FIRST DEATH WHEN THEY JUST GET OLD AND 20:13 DIE OR THEY GET SICK AND DIE OR HAVE AN ACCIDENT AND DIE, BUT 20:17 THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED AND JUDGED AND THEY DIE WHAT DEATH? 20:21 SECOND DEATH AND THAT'S THE DEATH FOR WHICH THERE IS 20:24 NO RESURRECTION. 20:27 AS I SAID TO YOU BEFORE, IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONCE, 20:29 YOU'LL DIE TWICE. 20:30 YOU NEED TO BE BORN AGAIN - IF YOU'RE BORN TWICE 20:32 YOU ONLY DIE ONCE. 20:33 YOU GOT THAT? 20:35 #6 - WHEN, WHERE, AND HOW WILL HELLFIRE BE KINDLED? 20:42 MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 40-42, "SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END 20:46 OF THE WORLD, THE SON OF MAN WILL CAST THEM INTO 20:49 A FURNACE OF FIRE." 20:51 IT'S IN THE FUTURE AT THE END. 20:53 AFTER THE WICKED ARE JUDGED THEY'RE CAST INTO 20:55 A FURNACE OF FIRE. 20:57 REVELATION CHAPTER 20, "THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF 20:59 THE EARTH AND THEY COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT." 21:03 THEY SURROUND THE NEW JERUSALEM, THE BELOVED CITY, AND THE DEVIL 21:06 TRIES TO LAUNCH THIS ONE FINAL DESPERATE ATTACK ON THE CITY AND 21:09 PEOPLE OF GOD AT THE VERY END. 21:11 THEY ARE JUDGED AND IT SAYS, 'FIRE COMES DOWN FROM GOD 21:15 OUT OF HEAVEN AND IT GIVES THEM A BLISTER.' 21:19 IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 21:21 IT DEVOURS THEM. 21:24 IT SAYS, 'AND THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE RECOMPENSED IN THE 21:27 EARTH, MUCH MORE THE WICKED AND THE SINNER.' 21:30 SO THE RIGHTEOUS INHERIT AN EARTH MADE NEW. 21:33 THE WICKED AND THE SINNER ARE RECOMPENSED - OR REWARDED 21:36 IN THE EARTH TOO. 21:37 THIS LAKE OF FIRE IS RIGHT HERE ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. 21:40 THE DEVIL DOESN'T HAVE HEADQUARTERS DOWN 21:42 UNDERNEATH SOMEWHERE. 21:44 #7 - HOW BIG AND HOW HOT WILL BE THIS HELLFIRE? 21:49 IT SAYS THERE IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, 21:53 "THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IN WHICH 21:56 THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE AND THE ELEMENTS 22:01 WILL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT AND THE EARTH AND THE WORKS THAT 22:06 ARE IN IT WILL BE BURNED UP." 22:09 YOU KNOW, BACK WHEN THE ATOMIC WEAPONS WERE RELEASED 22:13 ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI THEY FOUND THAT EVEN ROCKS WILL BURN. 22:20 THIS WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO BE PURIFIED. 22:23 FIRE IS NOT ONLY A BAD THING, FIRE CAN BE A GOOD THING. 22:27 FIRE CAN BURN AND DESTROY AND FIRE ALSO STERILIZES. 22:31 FIRE IS A PURGING AGENT. 22:33 IT PURIFIES. 22:34 THAT'S WHY THE LORD BROUGHT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OUT INTO A 22:36 DESERT TO KIND OF CLEAN THEM UP. 22:38 HE HAD TO BRING ME OUT INTO A DESERT TOO 22:40 WHEN I FOUND THE LORD. 22:42 YOU LEARN THINGS OUT THERE IN THE DESERT. 22:44 IT'S VERY HOT - THINGS GET STERILIZED OUT THERE. 22:47 AND NOT TOO LONG AGO WE HAD SOME BIG FIRES RAVAGING NORTHERN 22:51 CALIFORNIA AND NOT FAR FROM WHERE OUR FAMILY HAS A LITTLE 22:54 CABIN UP IN THE HILLS THERE - AND I'M A PILOT AND I'VE GOT 22:58 A LITTLE PLANE AND I ALMOST HESITATE TELLING PEOPLE THAT 23:01 BECAUSE FOLKS HAVE THIS IDEA OF TELEVANGELISTS WITH THEIR JETS - 23:05 NOT A JET, FRIENDS, JUST A LITTLE BITTY PROPELLER 23:07 OUT FRONT. 23:08 AND IT'S - THAT PROPELLER'S OUT THERE TO KEEP ME COOL 23:12 BECAUSE IF IT STOPS SPINNING I START TO SWEAT. 23:17 SO I WAS FLYING ONE TIME AND THEY HAD THESE TERRIBLE FOREST 23:21 FIRES AND I HAD TO FLY AROUND IT AND IT LOOKED LIKE A NUCLEAR 23:23 EXPLOSION HAD GONE UP - A BIG MUSHROOM CLOUD AND I THOUGHT TO 23:27 MYSELF, 'WOW, THIS IS JUST ONE LITTLE ISOLATED FIRE AND WHAT 23:32 WILL IT BE LIKE WHEN THE EARTH IS ON FIRE?' 23:35 ALL THE EARTH - GOD'S GOING TO PURIFY THE PLANET. 23:39 NOW, YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT IF YOU'RE SAVED, 23:41 BECAUSE HE EVACUATES HIS CHILDREN FROM THE PLANET 23:45 WHEN HE COMES. 23:45 YOU REMEMBER WE LEARNED THAT. 23:46 WE ARE CAUGHT UP - JESUS SAID, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE AND I 23:50 WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM 23:53 THERE YE MAY BE ALSO.' WE'RE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD 23:56 WHEN HE COMES AND SO WE DON'T NEED TO BE WORRIED. 23:59 IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL? 24:03 IT SAYS THAT DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 24:07 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 24:10 NOW THE WORD HADES HERE COMES FROM - IT'S THE GREEK WORD - 24:13 IT MEANS THE GRAVE. 24:15 HOW CAN HELL BE CAST INTO HELL? 24:17 THAT WOULDN'T MAKANY SENSE. 24:19 IT MEANS DEATH AND THE GRAVE ARE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 24:22 THERE'S NO MORE DEATH - WHICH IS AN ENEMY - 24:24 GOD DOESN'T WANT DEATH. 24:25 GOD DOESN'T WANT THE GRAVE. 24:27 DEATH AND THE GRAVE ARE DESTROYED. 24:29 SO THERE'S ONLY LIFE - NO PAIN. 24:31 AND ANYONE WHO'S NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE 24:34 IS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 24:37 FRIENDS, THERE'S REALLY TWO CHOICES: NEW BODIES - 24:40 EVERLASTING LIFE OR - AND, BY THE WAY, YOU'VE ALSO GOT TWO 24:45 CHOICES, EITHER JESUS TAKES YOUR SIN AND YOU ACCEPT HIS SACRIFICE 24:48 IN YOUR BEHALF AND YOU LIVE A NEW LIFE AND GET A NEW HEART 24:51 OR YOU THEN WILL BE JUDGED FOR YOUR SIN. 24:55 NOT ONLY DO I NOT WANT TO LOSE HEAVEN, I DON'T WANT 24:59 TO PAY FOR WHAT I'VE DONE. 25:01 I DON'T WANT TO SEE IT PAID FOR TWICE. 25:03 JESUS HAS ALREADY SUFFERED FOR WHAT I'VE DONE, IT WOULD BE A 25:06 SHAME FOR ME TO ALSO SUFFER FOR IT, WOULDN'T IT? 25:09 ISN'T THE BIBLE CLEAR? 25:11 'EVERY MAN IS REWARDED ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS.' 25:13 ISN'T THE BIBLE CLEAR THAT JESUS PAID FOR OUR SIN? 25:17 IS THERE ANY SIN IN THIS LIFE THAT'S WORTH MORE TO YOU 25:19 THAN JESUS? 25:21 ANY SIN THAT'S MORE PRECIOUS TO YOU THAN EVERLASTING LIFE? 25:25 DON'T BE FOOLED FRIENDS. 25:28 >>STAY TUNED, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:30 SPECIAL OFFER. 25:39 >>WHAT IS GOD'S REAL PURPOSE IN HELLFIRE? 25:42 HE'S GETTING EVEN WITH THESE REBELLIOUS CHILDREN 25:44 SO HE'S GOING TO TORTURE THEM THROUGH ETERNITY. 25:46 IS THAT HIS PURPOSE? 25:50 THIS WHOLE IDEA THAT GOD IS A SADIST IS SO OPPOSITE. 25:53 IT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE DEVIL WANTS PEOPLE TO THINK. 25:59 FRIENDS, THE STORY OF HELL IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS. 26:05 >>EVERY DAY PEOPLE SPEND ABOUT 7 HOURS AND 45 MINUTES SLEEPING, 26:09 17 SECONDS BRUSHING THEIR TEETH, 1 HOUR AND 15 MINUTES EATING, 26:13 4 HOURS AND 50 MINUTES WATCHING TV, AND 33 MINUTES ON THE PHONE. 26:17 WITH ONLY 24 HOURS IN THE DAY, WHERE DOES GOD FIT IN? 26:21 MOVING MOUNTAINS. 26:22 A NEW DAILY DEVOTIONAL. 26:23 IT'S ABOUT UNDERSTANDING GOD AND BUILDING YOUR FAITH. 26:26 WITH 366 SHORT STORIES TO INSPIRE AND ENCOURAGE, 26:29 YOUR DAY WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. 26:31 AFBOOKSTORE.COM. 26:33 LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES. 26:36 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 26:40 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH 26:43 DAY OF THE WEEK. 26:45 NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 26:49 WHAT HAPPENED? 26:50 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 26:53 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 26:56 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 26:58 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 27:01 VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 27:09 >>FRIENDS, THE TOPIC OF HELLFIRE HAS TROUBLED PEOPLE 27:11 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 27:13 HOW COULD A LOVING GOD BURN PEOPLE FOREVER? 27:16 WHAT HAPPENS TO DISOBEDIENT CHILDREN? 27:18 DO THEY FACE THE SAME JUDGMENT AS A CRUEL DICTATOR? 27:21 IT'S MY PRAYER THAT AS WE'VE OPENED UP THE SCRIPTURES TO YOU 27:23 DURING THIS PROGRAM, YOU'VE SEEN THAT SATAN HAS DISTORTED 27:27 THE TEACHING ON HELL TO MAKE GOD APPEAR INCREDIBLY CRUEL. 27:30 THE TRUTH IS THE LORD WILL DEAL WITH SINNERS IN A WAY THAT 27:32 IS BOTH JUST AND FAIR. 27:35 OUR OFFER TODAY IS A STUDY GUIDE THAT WILL EXPLAIN THIS TOPIC. 27:39 IT'S ENTITLED 'IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL?' 27:42 AND WE'D LOVE TO SEND IT TO YOU ABSOLUTELY FREE. 27:44 JUST CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER 27:47 #119 OR YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 27:54 WELL, TIME'S UP FOR THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 27:57 WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME. 27:59 >>THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS WEEK'S 28:02 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 28:03 THERE IS NO COST OR OBLIGATION. 28:05 JUST CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND BE SURE 28:08 TO NOTE THE OFFER NUMBER WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR REQUEST. 28:23 >>THE PRECEDING WAS A PAID PRESENTATION BROUGHT TO YOU BY |
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