>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:00.12\00:01:03.56 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. >>AND THE REAL GOOD NEWS ABOUT 00:01:03.59\00:01:12.53 HELL IS GOD TELLS YOU ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO AVOID 00:01:12.57\00:01:15.44 IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THERE. HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE FOREVER. 00:01:15.47\00:01:20.34 JESUS WOULD NOT PAY AS MUCH AS HE PAID FOR YOU TO HAVE 00:01:20.38\00:01:23.38 EVERLASTING LIFE IF IT WASN'T POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO HAVE 00:01:23.41\00:01:26.21 EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:01:26.25\00:01:29.95 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:01:29.98\00:01:32.99 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:33.02\00:01:35.86 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:01:35.89\00:01:38.89 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:01:38.93\00:01:41.86 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:01:41.90\00:01:50.97 >>TODAY'S MESSAGE IS REALLY THE SECOND PART IN A TWO-PART 00:01:51.01\00:01:54.71 PRESENTATION THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT DEALING WITH THE 00:01:54.74\00:01:58.18 SUBJECT OF THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HELL. 00:01:58.21\00:02:02.18 AND IT'S A SERIOUS SUBJECT. 00:02:02.22\00:02:03.45 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD 00:02:03.49\00:02:07.26 ABOUT A PLACE THAT IS FAMOUS FOR BEING SO BAD. 00:02:07.29\00:02:11.73 BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS REGARDING THE SUBJECT BECAUSE 00:02:11.76\00:02:15.40 THERE ARE SO MANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THE REAL 00:02:15.43\00:02:19.33 NATURE OF HOW GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE WICKED. 00:02:19.37\00:02:24.17 NOW THIS IS ALWAYS A RELEVANT SUBJECT AND IT'S A RELEVANT 00:02:24.21\00:02:26.84 STUDY BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE ARE 00:02:26.88\00:02:30.61 TWO DESTINIES FOR EVERYBODY. THOSE DESTINIES ARE ETERNAL 00:02:30.65\00:02:36.18 DESTINIES. IN OTHER WORDS, ONCE THE LORD 00:02:36.22\00:02:38.69 COMES AND OUR REWARD IS FIXED - THERE'S A GREAT GULF FIXED, AS 00:02:38.72\00:02:43.96 IT SAYS IN THE PARABLE, WHERE PEOPLE CAN'T CHANGE TEAMS 00:02:43.99\00:02:46.93 ANYMORE SO TO SAY. EVERYBODY HERE IS EITHER GOING 00:02:46.96\00:02:51.87 TO BE IN PARADISE WITH CHRIST OR THEY WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING 00:02:51.90\00:02:58.04 TO THEIR WORKS IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS 00:02:58.07\00:03:01.01 SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO BE IN ONE OF THOSE TWO DESTINIES 00:03:01.04\00:03:04.31 SO IT'S A VERY RELEVANT THING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT. 00:03:04.35\00:03:07.38 A LOT OF THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT OF HOW 00:03:07.42\00:03:10.32 GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE LOST ARE VERY DISCOURAGED. 00:03:10.35\00:03:15.92 SOME OF THE GREAT ATHEISTS LIKE ROBERT INGERSOLL OR VOLTAIRE, 00:03:15.96\00:03:20.76 WHEN THEY READ IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD WAS GOING TO TAKE THE BABIES 00:03:20.80\00:03:23.90 OF LOST PEOPLE AND THEY WERE GOING TO BE TORTURED IN THE 00:03:23.93\00:03:26.30 FIRES OF HELL THROUGH ETERNITY, THEY TOTALLY SAID THE BIBLE 00:03:26.33\00:03:29.90 CANNOT BE TRUE. THEY REJECTED AND TURNED FROM 00:03:29.94\00:03:32.14 GOD ALTOGETHER BECAUSE THEY MISUNDERSTOOD THIS SUBJECT. 00:03:32.17\00:03:35.88 AND THAT'S HOW I FELT. 00:03:35.91\00:03:37.21 I THOUGHT, IF THERE IS A GOD HE IS REALLY A MONSTER. 00:03:37.25\00:03:42.45 WHEN I LEARNED WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT HOW GOD 00:03:42.48\00:03:45.79 DEALS WITH THE WICKED - I ALSO WAS VERY HAPPY TO LEARN ABOUT 00:03:45.82\00:03:48.82 HOW HE DEALS WITH THE RIGHTEOUS. BUT WHEN I UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH 00:03:48.86\00:03:53.36 ABOUT HELL, FOR ME IT WAS GOOD NEWS. YOU KNOW WHY? 00:03:53.40\00:03:56.93 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I THOUGHT, 'I THINK I COULD LOVE A 00:03:56.97\00:04:01.30 GOD LIKE THAT.' AND IT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME 00:04:01.34\00:04:05.51 TO SEE GOD AS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BEING AND FOR ME IT WAS VERY 00:04:05.54\00:04:10.38 GOOD NEWS. AND IT JUST GAVE ME HOPE THAT I 00:04:10.41\00:04:15.28 COULD LOVE AND SERVE A GOD THAT WAS JUST IN THIS WAY AND IT 00:04:15.32\00:04:19.45 RESOLVED SO MANY AREAS OF CONFUSION. 00:04:19.49\00:04:21.46 SO, JUST A LITTLE REVIEW BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE THAT MAYBE 00:04:21.49\00:04:24.66 MISSED PART 1. WHAT IS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HELL? FIRST OF ALL, 00:04:24.69\00:04:29.73 THAT NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, WE 00:04:29.76\00:04:34.10 DISCOVERED THAT PEOPLE ARE RESERVED IN THE GRAVE 00:04:34.14\00:04:37.94 UNTIL THE JUDGMENT DAY. 00:04:37.97\00:04:39.54 THE LORD DOES NOT PUT PEOPLE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AND START 00:04:39.57\00:04:42.14 BURNING THEM THERE AND THEN A THOUSAND YEARS LATER OR FIVE 00:04:42.18\00:04:45.51 THOUSAND YEARS LATER - I MEAN, HOW FAIR WOULD THAT BE TO HAVE 00:04:45.55\00:04:49.28 CAIN BURNING FOR FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS 00:04:49.32\00:04:53.02 LONGER THAN ADOLF HITLER AND THEN YOU PULL THEM OUT IN THE 00:04:53.05\00:04:56.06 GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND SAY, 'SURE ENOUGH, YOU'RE GUILTY. 00:04:56.09\00:04:58.36 WE THOUGHT SO ALL ALONG. BACK IN HELL.' 00:04:58.39\00:05:00.73 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THE JUDGMENT AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF 00:05:00.76\00:05:02.80 SENTENCE AFTER THEY'RE BEING PUNISHED. NO COURT IN THE 00:05:02.83\00:05:07.24 WORLD OPERATES THAT WAY. SECONDLY, THE RESURRECTION 00:05:07.27\00:05:10.81 HASN'T HAPPENED YET AND PEOPLE ARE RAISED TO THEIR REWARDS. 00:05:10.84\00:05:15.31 THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE'S TWO RESURRECTIONS. 00:05:15.34\00:05:17.65 FIRST, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST. 00:05:17.68\00:05:20.65 MANY OF THOSE THAT SLEEP IN THE GRAVE WILL COME FORTH. 00:05:20.68\00:05:23.15 THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE. 00:05:23.18\00:05:25.05 THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION. 00:05:25.09\00:05:27.89 JESUS SAID THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS - IN JOHN CHAPTER 00:05:27.92\00:05:31.33 5 - AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, THEY GO TO THEIR 00:05:31.36\00:05:36.30 REWARD. THE WICKED DEAD ARE RAISED AT 00:05:36.33\00:05:39.27 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN 00:05:39.30\00:05:41.67 JUST A LITTLE BIT. BUT NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL NOW. 00:05:41.70\00:05:45.91 THE OTHER PART OF THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BURN 00:05:45.94\00:05:48.74 THERE FOREVER. EVERY MAN IS PUNISHED ACCORDING 00:05:48.78\00:05:52.51 TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF 00:05:52.55\00:05:55.78 OFFENSE. THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF 00:05:55.82\00:05:58.59 PUNISHMENT AND THAT MIGHT BE IN INTENSITY AND IN DURATION, BUT 00:05:58.62\00:06:02.82 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE WICKED BURN UP. 00:06:02.86\00:06:06.80 THEY CONSUME AWAY. THEY PERISH. THEY ARE DEVOURED. 00:06:06.83\00:06:10.97 THEY ARE DEAD. THEY ARE SO DEAD THEY CALL IT 00:06:11.00\00:06:13.34 THE SECOND DEATH. NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE. 00:06:13.37\00:06:16.97 I MEAN THE LANGUAGE IN THE BIBLE IS SO AMAZING THAT IT'S UNUSUAL 00:06:17.01\00:06:22.14 THAT PEOPLE WOULD GET CONFUSED OVER THIS BUT IT'S A DOCTRINE 00:06:22.18\00:06:24.78 THAT CAME FROM THE DARK AGES AND IT WAS MANIPULATED - IT WAS USED 00:06:24.81\00:06:28.08 TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE WITH FEAR. 00:06:28.12\00:06:31.05 PEOPLE WERE SO AFRAID THEY COULDN'T EVEN LIVE. 00:06:31.09\00:06:34.22 AND NOT ONLY DID IT AFFECT WHAT THEY - THEIR CONCERN ABOUT 00:06:34.26\00:06:36.76 THEIR DESTINY, PEOPLE WHO HAD LOVED ONES - WHETHER PARENTS, 00:06:36.79\00:06:42.76 SPOUSE, CHILDREN, FRIENDS - THAT DIED IN A LOST CONDITION - OR 00:06:42.80\00:06:49.00 WHAT APPEARED TO BE A LOST CONDITION - THE IDEA THAT AT 00:06:49.04\00:06:51.57 THAT POINT THEY THEN NOW WERE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THE 00:06:51.61\00:06:55.08 MOST UNIMAGINABLE TORTURE. THE WAY THAT PEOPLE HAVE TAUGHT 00:06:55.11\00:07:00.25 HELL IS WORSE THAN ANYTHING ANY MAN HAS EVER CONJURED UP. 00:07:00.28\00:07:04.85 TO JUST BE ABLE TO PERPETUALLY BURN SOMEBODY. 00:07:04.89\00:07:08.69 AND TO IMAGINE THAT WHILE YOU WALK THE EARTH YOUR FRIENDS OR 00:07:08.72\00:07:11.86 FAMILY ARE WRITHING AND SHRIEKING IN THAT AGONY - A LOT 00:07:11.89\00:07:15.93 OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN CRAZY WITH THAT THOUGHT. REALLY. 00:07:15.96\00:07:19.03 IT'S - IT JUST BREAKS THEIR HEARTS. 00:07:19.07\00:07:20.87 SOME HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY JUST COULDN'T BEAR 00:07:20.90\00:07:23.71 THE PAIN OF WHAT THEY THOUGHT OTHERS WERE GOING THROUGH. 00:07:23.74\00:07:27.74 AND SO IT'S GOOD NEWS TO KNOW THEY'RE NOT BURNING FOREVER. 00:07:27.78\00:07:31.05 AMEN? NOT BURNING THERE YET. NOBODY'S BURNING FOREVER. 00:07:31.08\00:07:34.15 LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE DIFFICULT VERSES THAT ARE 00:07:34.18\00:07:37.52 SPEAKING OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED. 00:07:37.55\00:07:39.35 FIRST OF ALL, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY 00:07:39.39\00:07:42.09 THAT THEY ARE BURNED WITH EVERLASTING FIRE? YES. 00:07:42.12\00:07:45.73 LOOK WITH ME IN MATTHEW 25, VERSE 41 - MATTHEW 25:41 - IN 00:07:45.76\00:07:51.90 THE PARABLE TALKING ABOUT THE - THE SERVANTS - SHEEP AND THE 00:07:51.93\00:07:57.71 GOATS, IT SAYS, "THEN HE WILL ALSO SAY TO THOSE ON THE LEFT 00:07:57.74\00:08:02.31 HAND - THE LOST - 'DEPART FROM ME, YOU CURSED, INTO THE 00:08:02.34\00:08:06.05 EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS:" - 00:08:06.08\00:08:09.45 'WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT, PASTOR DOUG. IT SAYS IT'S EVERLASTING 00:08:09.48\00:08:12.05 FIRE.' BUT, YOU KNOW, IT ALSO TELLS US IN JUDE CHAPTER 7 00:08:12.09\00:08:17.16 THAT SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 00:08:17.19\00:08:20.53 ARE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STILL BURNING TODAY? 00:08:20.56\00:08:23.37 BUT WERE THEY DESTROYED FOREVER? 00:08:23.40\00:08:25.87 WERE THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ETERNAL RESULTS? 00:08:25.90\00:08:31.47 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? FOLLOW ME. THE NEXT VERSE IN THAT 00:08:31.51\00:08:34.31 ILLUSTRATES THAT - SAME PARABLE. LET JESUS EXPLAIN IT. 00:08:34.34\00:08:38.35 MATTHEW 25:46, "AND THESE WILL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING 00:08:38.38\00:08:42.92 PUNISHMENT, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO ETERNAL LIFE." 00:08:42.95\00:08:46.15 YOU KNOW, CHRIST COULD HAVE SAID THE WICKED GO AWAY INTO 00:08:46.19\00:08:48.62 EVERLASTING PUNISHING. DOES HE SAY IT'S EVERLASTING 00:08:48.66\00:08:52.09 PUNISHING OR AN EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT? 00:08:52.13\00:08:55.16 THE PUNISHMENT IS EVERLASTING, GET IT? NOT THE PUNISHING. 00:08:55.20\00:09:00.10 IF YOU TELL YOUR CHILD, 'YOU DISOBEY AND YOU WILL EXPERIENCE 00:09:00.14\00:09:03.10 EVERLASTING PUNISHING.' WELL, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN 00:09:03.14\00:09:06.84 SAYING, 'I AM GOING TO THROW AWAY YOUR GAMEBOY FOREVER.' 00:09:06.88\00:09:12.38 THAT'S AN EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT. 00:09:12.41\00:09:14.15 YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET IT AGAIN. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 00:09:14.18\00:09:16.62 THE DIFFERENCE? SO THE LORD IS NOT GOING TO BE 00:09:16.65\00:09:18.65 PUNISHING THE WICKED WITH EVERLASTING PUNISHING. 00:09:18.69\00:09:22.59 ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S WHAT EVERLASTING FIRE MEANS. 00:09:22.62\00:09:24.53 THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ARE EVERLASTING. 00:09:24.56\00:09:26.96 NEXT VERSE THAT'S OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD IS THE PHRASE 00:09:27.00\00:09:30.40 'UNQUENCHABLE FIRE' - UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 00:09:30.43\00:09:33.90 HERE'S WHERE YOU FIND IT: MARK 9:47 - YOU CAN READ VERSE 48 - 00:09:33.94\00:09:39.27 AND JESUS IS SPEAKING, "AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN, 00:09:39.31\00:09:43.08 PLUCK IT OUT. 00:09:43.11\00:09:44.31 IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE, 00:09:44.35\00:09:48.28 RATHER THAN HAVING TWO EYES, TO BE CAST INTO HELL FIRE" - NOTICE 00:09:48.32\00:09:53.22 - "WHERE THE WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT 00:09:53.25\00:09:55.89 QUENCHED." ALRIGHT, WHICH WORD DID JESUS 00:09:55.92\00:09:58.59 USE THERE FOR HELLFIRE? SOME OF YOU HAVE GOT NOTES IN 00:09:58.63\00:10:01.76 YOUR BIBLES, YOU'LL FIND IT'S GEHENNA. 00:10:01.80\00:10:05.10 THAT MEANS BETTER TO ENTER HEAVEN HAVING - MISSING AN EYE. 00:10:05.13\00:10:10.01 FIRST OF ALL, WILL ANYONE IN HEAVEN BE MISSING A HAND, FOOT, 00:10:10.04\00:10:12.84 OR EYE? SO IS JESUS USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE? 00:10:12.87\00:10:17.98 ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST BE CLEAR ON THAT. 00:10:18.01\00:10:18.95 SO HE'S OBVIOUSLY USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. 00:10:18.98\00:10:21.98 HE SAYS, 'IT'S BETTER THAN TO GO TO GEHENNA.' 00:10:22.02\00:10:24.25 WHILE HE'S TALKING HE COULD HAVE BEEN WITHIN THE VIEW OF THE 00:10:24.29\00:10:26.99 VALLEY OF HINNOM - THEY CALLED IT HADES - OR TRANSLATED IT 00:10:27.02\00:10:30.46 'HELL' - 'WHERE THE FIRE DOES NOT QUENCH' - IT'S SMOLDERING 00:10:30.49\00:10:34.73 ALL THE TIME - 'THE WORM DOES NOT DIE' - IT'S FULL OF 00:10:34.73\00:10:36.93 PERPETUAL SMOLDERINGS AND WORMS. WHAT GOOD WOULD IT BE TO BE IN A 00:10:36.97\00:10:40.90 PLACE LIKE THAT WITH A FULL BODY? 00:10:40.94\00:10:45.44 BETTER OFF IF YOU WERE TO BE IN HEAVEN MISSING AN EYE, FOOT, OR 00:10:45.47\00:10:47.94 HAND. THAT'S ALL JESUS IS SAYING. 00:10:47.98\00:10:50.01 HE'S NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF WORMS IN 00:10:50.05\00:10:52.45 HELL OR THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BURN FOREVER AND EVER. 00:10:52.48\00:10:55.92 HE'S JUST CALLING IT THE CITY DUMP. 00:10:55.95\00:10:57.89 IT WAS THE PLACE OF CASTING THAT WHICH WAS UNCLEAN AND THE LOST 00:10:57.92\00:11:02.16 ARE ALL CLASSIFIED AS UNCLEAN. LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU. 00:11:02.19\00:11:07.03 IT SAYS 'THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED' - 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW DO 00:11:07.10\00:11:09.53 YOU DO THAT? THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED. 00:11:09.56\00:11:11.77 IF THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED THAT MEANS IT BURNS FOREVER.' 00:11:11.80\00:11:13.77 NO, THE WORD 'QUENCH' MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. 00:11:13.80\00:11:17.47 SO IF I LIGHT A MATCH HERE IN MY HAND AND THE MATCH IS BURNING 00:11:17.51\00:11:22.81 AND IT'S BURNING AND THE MATCH IS GETTING TOWARDS MY OTHER 00:11:22.84\00:11:26.18 FINGER, I LICK IT AND TAKE THE ASHEN PART AND I LET GO - I'VE 00:11:26.21\00:11:29.85 DONE THIS BEFORE AND THE MATCH BURNS UP. 00:11:29.88\00:11:32.79 EVERY PART OF THE MATCH THAT CAN BURN IS BURNED. 00:11:32.82\00:11:35.99 I DID NOTHING TO QUENCH IT. 00:11:36.02\00:11:38.26 THE MATCH WAS BURNED WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 00:11:38.29\00:11:40.86 ANY OF YOU EVER GET ONE OF THOSE GAG BIRTHDAY CANDLES ON YOUR 00:11:40.90\00:11:43.13 CAKE THAT YOU BLOW IT OUT AND IT COMES BACK AGAIN? 00:11:43.16\00:11:45.37 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GOTTEN ONE OF THOSE ONCE? 00:11:45.40\00:11:47.50 IT GETS OLD AFTER AWHILE, DOESN'T IT? 00:11:47.54\00:11:50.84 YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 00:11:50.87\00:11:52.24 THEY MAKE THESE BIRTHDAY CANDLES YOU PUT ON YOUR CAKE AND MAYBE 00:11:52.27\00:11:55.01 IT'S ONE OUT OF TWENTY AND YOU BLOW THEM OUT AND YOU SAY, 'OH, 00:11:55.04\00:11:58.71 I DID IT! I GOT THEM ALL!' AND THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU, 'MAKE 00:11:58.75\00:12:00.52 SURE - IF YOU WANT YOUR WISH TO COME TRUE YOU'VE GOT TO BLOW ALL 00:12:00.55\00:12:02.52 THE CANDLES OUT FIRST TRY.' SO YOU JUST REALLY INHALE AND 00:12:02.55\00:12:06.92 YOU REALLY THEN - POOF - SPRAY THE WHOLE CAKE AND THEY ALL GO 00:12:06.96\00:12:10.49 OUT EXCEPT THIS ONE THING. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING OUT AND 00:12:10.53\00:12:14.40 THEN IT FLICKERS BACK TO LIFE AND THEY GO, 'AH HA HA HA' AND 00:12:14.46\00:12:16.90 THEN YOU BLOW IT OUT AGAIN, IT COMES BACK TO LIFE AND IT'S LIKE 00:12:16.93\00:12:19.03 AN UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. YOU CAN PUT THEM OUT, BY THE WAY. 00:12:19.07\00:12:25.07 BUT QUENCH MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. THERE WILL BE NO FIREMEN IN THE 00:12:25.11\00:12:30.85 LAKE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING ANYTHING. 00:12:30.88\00:12:33.21 LET ME GIVE YOU BIBLE SUPPORT FOR THIS NOW. 00:12:33.25\00:12:35.72 WHAT DOES UNQUENCHABLE FIRE MEAN? 00:12:35.75\00:12:37.39 LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE IN JEREMIAH 17:27, "BUT IF YOU WILL NOT HEED 00:12:37.42\00:12:41.96 ME TO HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY, SUCH AS NOT CARRYING A BURDEN 00:12:41.99\00:12:46.39 WHEN ENTERING THE GATES OF JERUSALEM ON THE SABBATH DAY," - 00:12:46.43\00:12:49.50 HE TALKS ABOUT PRETTY CAREFUL SABBATH KEEPING THERE - "THEN I 00:12:49.53\00:12:52.50 WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN ITS GATES," - MEANING THE GATES OF 00:12:52.53\00:12:55.64 JERUSALEM - "AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF JERUSALEM, AND IT 00:12:55.67\00:12:59.64 SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." NOW, JEREMIAH MADE A PROPHECY 00:12:59.67\00:13:06.41 THAT IF THEY WOULD NOT REPENT, BABYLONIANS WERE GOING TO COME 00:13:06.45\00:13:09.32 ALONG AND BURN JERUSALEM AND IT WOULD BE BURNT WITH AN 00:13:09.35\00:13:11.59 UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. DID THE PEOPLE REPENT? NO. 00:13:11.62\00:13:16.29 WAS JERUSALEM BURNED? THE GATES AND PALACES? YES. 00:13:16.32\00:13:20.96 AND YOU'LL FIND THAT, BY THE WAY, 2 CHRONICLES 36 - IT SAYS 00:13:20.96\00:13:24.47 THE CITY WAS BURNED TO FULFILL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY JEREMIAH 00:13:24.50\00:13:29.24 AND IT LEFT IT DESOLATE. THE GATES WERE BURNED. 00:13:29.27\00:13:31.94 THE PALACES WERE BURNED. IS IT STILL BURNING TODAY? 00:13:31.97\00:13:36.48 WERE THERE ANY FIREMEN? ANY BABYLONIAN FIREMEN PUTTING OUT 00:13:36.51\00:13:39.78 THE FIRE? IT WAS UNQUENCHABLE. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. 00:13:39.81\00:13:44.52 'PEOPLE MUST BE BURNING IN HELL NOW BECAUSE OF THE PARABLE OF 00:13:44.55\00:13:47.12 THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.' TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - LET'S READ IT 00:13:47.16\00:13:49.46 FIRST AND WE'LL LOOK AT SOME POINTS. LOOK AT LUKE 16, 00:13:49.49\00:13:52.76 VERSE 19 - LUKE 16, VERSE 19. THERE'S A CERTAIN RICH MAN WHO 00:13:52.79\00:13:58.47 WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN AND FARED" - THAT MEANS HE 00:13:58.50\00:14:02.24 FEASTED - "SUMPTUOUSLY" - LUXURIOUSLY - "EVERY DAY. 00:14:02.27\00:14:05.97 BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS, FULL OF SORES, 00:14:06.01\00:14:10.81 WHO WAS LAID AT HIS GATE," - A SICK BEGGAR - "DESIRING TO BE 00:14:10.85\00:14:15.18 FED WITH THE CRUMBS WHICH FELL FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE. 00:14:15.22\00:14:18.69 MOREOVER THE DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. 00:14:18.72\00:14:23.36 SO IT WAS THE BEGGAR DIED, AND WAS CARRIED BY THE ANGELS TO 00:14:23.39\00:14:25.96 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. THE RICH MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED. 00:14:25.99\00:14:30.57 AND BEING IN TORMENTS IN HADES, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND SAW 00:14:30.60\00:14:34.80 ABRAHAM AFAR OFF, AND LAZARUS IN HIS BOSOM. 00:14:34.84\00:14:38.11 AND HE CRIED" - NOW, HERE YOU'VE GOT HELL IS GOING ON AND HEAVEN 00:14:38.14\00:14:41.21 IS GOING ON AND THEY'RE TALKING TO EACH OTHER. 00:14:41.24\00:14:43.45 IT SOUNDS LIKE IT HAPPENS AS SOON AS YOU DIE. 00:14:43.48\00:14:47.28 - "THEN HE CRIED AND SAID, 'FATHER ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON 00:14:47.32\00:14:49.32 ME, AND SEND LAZARUS THAT HE MAY DIP THE TIP OF HIS FINGER IN 00:14:49.35\00:14:52.29 WATER AND COOL MY TONGUE; FOR I AM TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME.' 00:14:52.32\00:14:57.99 BUT ABRAHAM SAID, 'SON, REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU 00:14:58.03\00:15:01.33 RECEIVED YOUR GOOD THINGS, AND LIKEWISE LAZARUS EVIL THINGS; 00:15:01.36\00:15:05.03 BUT NOW HE IS COMFORTED AND YOU ARE TORMENTED. 00:15:05.07\00:15:08.44 AND BESIDES ALL THIS, BETWEEN US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF 00:15:08.47\00:15:12.44 FIXED, SO THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO PASS FROM HERE TO YOU CANNOT, 00:15:12.47\00:15:17.25 NOR CAN THOSE FROM THERE PASS TO US.'" - DON'T MISS THAT POINT. 00:15:17.28\00:15:22.52 GREAT GULF FIXED - THERE IS NO CHANGING SIDES ONCE PEOPLE DIE 00:15:22.55\00:15:30.06 AND THEY GET THEIR REWARDS. IT'LL BE FIXED. NOW THE DOOR OF 00:15:30.09\00:15:34.13 MERCY'S OPEN. THEN THE RICH MAN, IN TORMENT, HE SAYS, "...'I 00:15:34.20\00:15:38.40 BEG YOU THEREFORE, FATHER THAT YOU WOULD SEND HIM TO MY 00:15:38.43\00:15:40.60 FATHER'S HOUSE,'" - FURTHER PROOF LIFE IS STILL GOING ON ON 00:15:40.64\00:15:43.37 EARTH WHILE HE'S SUFFERING IN HADES - HE SAYS, 'WELL TELL HIM 00:15:43.41\00:15:46.07 TO GO BACK TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - "'FOR I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS, 00:15:46.11\00:15:49.94 THAT HE MAY TESTIFY TO THEM,'" - HE AT LEAST HAS A HEART - 00:15:49.98\00:15:52.78 HE'S WORRIED ABOUT HIS BROTHERS. 00:15:52.81\00:15:54.52 HE THOUGHT, 'IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT OF THE 00:15:54.55\00:15:56.85 WICKED I WOULD HAVE LIVED DIFFERENT. MAYBE I CAN WARN MY 00:15:56.89\00:15:59.25 BROTHERS. I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS. GO TELL THEM' - "'LEST THEY ALSO 00:15:59.29\00:16:02.59 COME TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT.' AND ABRAHAM - 00:16:02.62\00:16:06.06 IT'S NOT JESUS TALKING NOW, IT'S ABRAHAM - "ABRAHAM SAID TO HIM, 00:16:06.09\00:16:09.16 'THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; LET THEM HEAR THEM.'" 00:16:09.20\00:16:14.77 WHO DO YOU THINK'S REPRESENTED BY THE FIVE BROTHERS? 00:16:14.80\00:16:17.67 YOU KNOW ALL THE JEWS BELIEVED IN THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. 00:16:17.71\00:16:20.41 ALL THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES - EVEN THE SADDUCEES 00:16:20.44\00:16:22.71 AND THE PHARISEES - THEY DISAGREED ON MANY THINGS BUT 00:16:22.74\00:16:24.95 THEY AGREED ON THE PENTATEUCH - THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. 00:16:24.98\00:16:28.25 THEY'VE GOT THE WORD OF GOD. "AND HE SAID, 'NO, FATHER 00:16:28.28\00:16:32.59 ABRAHAM; BUT IF ONE GOES TO THEM FROM THE DEAD, THEY WILL 00:16:32.62\00:16:35.06 REPENT.'" - IF THEY SAW RESURRECTION 00:16:35.09\00:16:37.56 THEY'D REPENT - AND ABRAHAM ANSWERS - I HATE USING THE WORDS 00:16:37.59\00:16:42.86 'PUNCH LINE', BUT THE MORAL OF - A GOOD STORY'S AT THE END. 00:16:42.90\00:16:46.03 AND HERE'S THE MORAL - HERE'S THE PURPOSE FOR THE WHOLE STORY. 00:16:46.07\00:16:48.67 THIS STORY'S NOT WRITTEN AT ALL TO TALK ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT OF 00:16:48.70\00:16:52.31 THE WICKED, IT'S REALLY WRITTEN TO TALK ABOUT BELIEVING THE WORD 00:16:52.34\00:16:56.11 OF GOD AND BELIEVING IN CHRIST. IT SAID, "...'IF THEY DO NOT 00:16:56.14\00:17:00.62 HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE 00:17:00.65\00:17:03.05 PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD.'" 00:17:03.08\00:17:06.65 ALRIGHT, WHAT DOES THIS STORY MEAN AND WHAT DOES IT NOT MEAN? 00:17:06.69\00:17:09.82 PRINCIPLE REASON JESUS TELLS THE STORY OF THE RICH MAN AND 00:17:09.86\00:17:12.59 LAZARUS: THE RICH MAN REPRESENTS THE JEWISH NATION - RICH AND 00:17:12.63\00:17:18.20 INCREASED WITH TRUTH, CLOTHED ROYALLY WITH THE ROBES OF GOD, 00:17:18.23\00:17:24.04 FEASTING ON THE WORD OF GOD, SURROUNDED BY THE GENTILES THAT 00:17:24.07\00:17:28.71 WERE SICK IN SIN, COVERED WITH SORES, LAID AT THEIR GATE, 00:17:28.74\00:17:33.01 WANTING THE CRUMBS THAT FELL FROM THEIR TABLE. 00:17:33.05\00:17:35.35 DO YOU REMEMBER A GENTILE WOMAN CAME TO JESUS ONE TIME AND SAID, 00:17:35.38\00:17:38.15 'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND JESUS SAID, 'IT'S NOT 00:17:38.19\00:17:40.69 APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT TO 00:17:40.72\00:17:42.56 THE DOGS.' AND SHE SAID, 'YES, EVEN THE 00:17:42.59\00:17:45.39 DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' I MEAN, THESE ARE VERY CLEARLY 00:17:45.43\00:17:49.26 SYMBOLS. THEY CALLED THE GENTILES 'DOGS'. 00:17:49.30\00:17:52.50 ONLY COMFORT LAZARUS GETS IS FROM THE DOGS. 00:17:52.53\00:17:56.14 AND HE'S WANTING THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM THE TABLE. 00:17:56.17\00:18:00.11 NOW, WHAT JESUS SAID TO THE JEWISH NATION APPLIES TO THE 00:18:00.14\00:18:03.08 CHURCH TOO. SOMETIMES AS CHRISTIANS WE 00:18:03.11\00:18:06.68 THINK, 'WE'VE GOT THE BIBLE, WE'RE SAVED. 00:18:06.72\00:18:08.72 WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.' AND WE STOP CARING ABOUT THE 00:18:08.75\00:18:12.09 LOST AROUND THE WORLD THAT DON'T HAVE WHAT WE HAVE. 00:18:12.12\00:18:14.86 AND THIS IS A VERY SOBER WARNING IN THIS PARABLE. 00:18:14.89\00:18:17.69 JESUS SAID, 'YOU MAY FIND IN THE JUDGMENT THERE ARE SOME WHO WILL 00:18:17.73\00:18:21.06 COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST. THEY'RE FOREIGNERS. 00:18:21.10\00:18:23.33 THEY'RE GENTILES. 00:18:23.37\00:18:24.57 THEY MAYBE DIDN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT JESUS AND THE BIBLE AS YOU 00:18:24.60\00:18:27.14 DO, BUT THEY'RE IN THE KINGDOM BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS WERE RIGHT. 00:18:27.17\00:18:30.11 AND YOU, WITH ALL YOUR BIBLE KNOWLEDGE AND CHURCH ATTENDANCE 00:18:30.14\00:18:33.07 COULD BE IN OUTER DARKNESS IF YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR BROTHER. 00:18:33.11\00:18:38.01 THIS RICH MAN, HE WALKED BY A BEGGAR EVERY DAY, WHO WANTED 00:18:38.05\00:18:41.52 CRUMBS, SO THAT HE COULD FEAST WITH HIS FRIENDS. 00:18:41.55\00:18:46.42 AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WE ARE SO BLESSED BY GOD. 00:18:46.45\00:18:48.76 WE'VE GOT SO MUCH FOOD. GOD MUST LOVE US. 00:18:48.79\00:18:50.26 LOOK HOW BLESSED WE ARE.' WALK BY A BEGGAR EVERY DAY AND 00:18:50.29\00:18:54.30 THEN, LO AND BEHOLD, THE BEGGAR'S IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM AND 00:18:54.30\00:18:58.60 THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE WITH ABRAHAM, HE IS IN THE GREEK 00:18:58.63\00:19:01.20 PLACE OF TORMENT. THE IRONY IN THIS STORY IS 00:19:01.24\00:19:04.57 INCREDIBLE. IT'S A GREAT STORY JESUS TOLD 00:19:04.61\00:19:06.74 BECAUSE WHAT JESUS SAID EVERY JEW WANTED TO BE WITH ABRAHAM 00:19:06.78\00:19:10.25 AND NOW THE JEW IS IN THE GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT AND HE'S SEEING 00:19:10.28\00:19:13.95 THE GENTILE IS IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. 00:19:13.98\00:19:15.65 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT HE WAS WITH JESUS OR THE FATHER, THE HOLY 00:19:15.68\00:19:17.59 SPIRIT OR THE ANGELS, HE'S WITH ABRAHAM. 00:19:17.62\00:19:20.06 DO YOU SEE THE IRONY IN THE STORY? IT'S SO INCREDIBLE. 00:19:20.09\00:19:22.99 THE RICH MAN'S IN THE GREEK - HE'S WITH PLUTO. 00:19:23.02\00:19:27.76 THE JEWS ARE WITH THE GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT AND SO THERE'S 00:19:27.83\00:19:31.33 IT'S ALL OBVIOUSLY A PARABLE. 00:19:31.37\00:19:33.94 DON'T TAKE PARABLES TOO LITERALLY OR WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 00:19:33.97\00:19:37.04 YOU ALL BEING SHEEP, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO GET SHORN. 00:19:37.07\00:19:40.91 IT JUST - YOU KNOW, IT'S OBVIOUSLY A PARABLE. 00:19:40.94\00:19:44.11 AND SO - DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MEANING OF THE PARABLE IS? 00:19:44.15\00:19:46.95 IF YOU'RE GOING TO SAY IT DOESN'T MEAN THE DEAD GO 00:19:46.98\00:19:48.78 RIGHT TO HEAVEN OR HELL WHEN THEY DIE, THEN YOU NEED TO SAY, 00:19:48.82\00:19:51.65 'OKAY, THEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN?' I THINK I'VE ADEQUATELY 00:19:51.69\00:19:53.96 EXPLAINED WHAT THE PARABLE IS TEACHING. 00:19:53.99\00:19:56.36 SO HOW'S IT GOING TO HAPPEN? LET'S TIE THIS ALL OFF. 00:19:56.39\00:19:59.26 BEST PLACE IS PROBABLY TO TURN TO REVELATION 20, VERSE 7 - AT 00:19:59.29\00:20:05.23 THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS - WE ALL KNOW THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 00:20:05.27\00:20:08.30 WHEN JESUS COMES. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:20:08.34\00:20:11.21 REMAIN WHEN CHRIST COMES, WE ARE JUST TRANSFORMED AND IN THE 00:20:11.24\00:20:14.61 TWINKLING OF AN EYE WE ARE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN 00:20:14.64\00:20:16.85 THE AIR. BUT THE OTHER RESURRECTION 00:20:16.88\00:20:20.78 HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS. 00:20:20.82\00:20:23.02 THAT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION. AFTER THE MILLENNIUM - THAT 00:20:23.05\00:20:26.79 1,000 YEARS - "NOW WHEN THE THOUSAND 00:20:26.82\00:20:29.39 YEARS HAVE EXPIRED," - THIS IS VERSE 7, REVELATION 27 - "SATAN 00:20:29.42\00:20:34.56 WILL BE RELEASED" - OR LOOSED - "FROM HIS PRISON AND WILL GO OUT 00:20:34.56\00:20:37.87 TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE 00:20:37.90\00:20:40.30 EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE, WHOSE 00:20:40.34\00:20:44.81 NUMBER IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA. THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH 00:20:44.84\00:20:48.51 OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS..." 00:20:48.54\00:20:51.05 AS THEY'RE PREPARING TO LAUNCH THIS FINAL ATTACK ON THE CITY OF 00:20:51.08\00:20:53.72 GOD - YOU KNOW GOD SHOWS - AFTER THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED THEY 00:20:53.75\00:20:58.52 COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD. YOU CAN READ THIS IN EZEKIEL 37 00:20:58.55\00:21:01.49 ALSO. AND INSTEAD OF REPENTING AND SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE 00:21:01.52\00:21:05.56 OUTSIDE THE CITY - WE'VE DONE THE WRONG THING.' 00:21:05.59\00:21:08.06 THEY ARE READY TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL AGAIN, WHO MARSHALS THEM 00:21:08.10\00:21:11.40 AGAINST JESUS AND THEY SAY, 'WELL THERE'S MORE OF US THAN 00:21:11.43\00:21:14.87 THERE ARE OF THOSE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:21:14.90\00:21:16.94 LET'S JUST ATTACK IT AND TAKE IT AS OURS.' 00:21:16.97\00:21:18.57 THEIR HEARTS HAVE NOT BEEN CHANGED. 00:21:18.61\00:21:20.04 SO WHEN GOD PUNISHES THE WICKED, HE'S SHOWING, 'I HAVE NO CHOICE. 00:21:20.08\00:21:24.08 EVEN AFTER THEY COME BACK TO LIFE THEY'RE READY TO FOLLOW THE 00:21:24.11\00:21:26.82 DEVIL AGAIN, SIN WILL CONTINUALLY CONTAMINATE THE 00:21:26.85\00:21:30.22 UNIVERSE UNLESS I DEAL WITH THEM. 00:21:30.25\00:21:31.79 THE LOVING ACT FOR ME IS TO PUNISH THEM, ACCORDING TO 00:21:31.82\00:21:35.82 JUSTICE, PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISERY AND THEN MAKE A NEW 00:21:35.86\00:21:39.03 HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.' FINISH READING IT. 00:21:39.06\00:21:43.20 THEY GO TO ATTACK THE CITY OF GOD AND THEY COVER THE EARTH - 00:21:43.23\00:21:48.47 THEY "...SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED 00:21:48.50\00:21:50.41 CITY." - THAT'S THE NEW JERUSALEM - 00:21:50.44\00:21:51.87 WE ALTOGETHER? - "AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD 00:21:51.91\00:21:56.14 OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM." 00:21:56.18\00:22:00.82 AS THAT FIRE RAINS DOWN AROUND THE NEW JERUSALEM THAT MUST HAVE 00:22:00.85\00:22:04.32 ASBESTOS WALLS, EVERYBODY OUTSIDE THE CITY IS DESTROYED. 00:22:04.35\00:22:10.89 YOU REALIZE THAT'S A DAY WHEN EVERYBODY HERE WILL BE PRESENT 00:22:10.93\00:22:12.49 AGAIN? EVERYBODY IS INVOLVED IN THAT 00:22:12.53\00:22:15.53 APPEARANCE. GOD AND HIS ANGELS ARE INSIDE 00:22:15.56\00:22:17.73 THE CITY - FATHER, SON, SPIRIT, GOOD ANGELS AND THE SAVED. 00:22:17.77\00:22:23.30 ALL OF THE LOST, THE DEVIL AND THE FALLEN ANGELS ARE 00:22:23.34\00:22:26.24 OUTSIDE THE CITY. 00:22:26.27\00:22:28.01 JUST BEFORE THE DEVIL LAUNCHES THAT FINAL ATTACK ON THE CITY OF 00:22:28.04\00:22:30.88 GOD, THERE'S THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT WHEN EVERY KNEE 00:22:30.91\00:22:35.65 WILL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT THE LORD IS GOOD. 00:22:35.68\00:22:38.72 AND THAT'S WHEN GOD PRONOUNCES SENTENCE. 00:22:38.75\00:22:40.92 THEN, IN DESPERATION, WHEN THE LOST REALIZE THERE'S NO HOPE 00:22:40.96\00:22:43.09 THEY THINK, 'LOOK, HE'S DECLARED THAT WE'RE LOST, WE'LL JUST HAVE 00:22:43.12\00:22:47.13 TO TAKE IT BY FORCE. IT'S OUR ONLY CHANCE. 00:22:47.13\00:22:49.23 THEY TRY TO LAUNCH SOME - IT'S CRAZY TO TRY TO - FOR THE 00:22:49.26\00:22:52.87 CREATURE TO TRY TO DESTROY THE CREATOR, ISN'T IT? 00:22:52.90\00:22:55.77 BUT SIN ISN'T SMART. SIN MAKES YOU DO DUMB THINGS. 00:22:55.80\00:23:00.34 AND THEY'RE WILLING TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL EVEN THOUGH HE'S 00:23:00.38\00:23:01.94 PROVEN HIMSELF A LOSER, AND AT THAT POINT GOD - WHAT 00:23:01.98\00:23:06.08 ALTERNATIVE DOES GOD HAVE? YOU SEE, THE REASON GOD ALLOWS 00:23:06.11\00:23:09.75 THEM TO LAUNCH THIS LAST ATTACK - HE'S SHOWING EVERYBODY INSIDE 00:23:09.78\00:23:12.82 THE CITY 'I HAVE NO CHOICE. LOOK WHAT THEY'LL DO TO US IF WE 00:23:12.85\00:23:17.43 LET THEM GO ON.' AND HE RAINS FIRE DOWN OUT OF 00:23:17.46\00:23:20.93 HEAVEN AND IT DEVOURS THEM. IT WILL FORM A LAKE OUTSIDE. 00:23:20.96\00:23:25.10 'BEHOLD THE DAY COMES IT WILL BURN AS AN OVEN.' 00:23:25.13\00:23:27.24 MALACHI CHAPTER 4 - 'AND ALL THE PROUD AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY 00:23:27.27\00:23:29.77 WILL BE STUBBLE. THE DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN THEM UP. 00:23:29.80\00:23:32.17 IT WILL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR BRANCH, BUT UNTO YOU THAT 00:23:32.21\00:23:35.61 FEAR MY NAME' - THE RIGHTEOUS - 'YOU WILL GO FORTH.' 00:23:35.64\00:23:39.28 AFTER THEY ARE ALL TURNED TO ASHES - 'YOU'LL TREAD UPON THE 00:23:39.31\00:23:42.18 WICKED FOR THEY ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET. 00:23:42.22\00:23:45.02 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 00:23:45.05\00:23:47.79 GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN 00:23:47.82\00:23:50.33 DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS.' THERE IS NO IMMORTAL TORTURE 00:23:50.36\00:23:53.70 CHAMBER THROUGH THE ENDLESS AGES. DESTROYING THE WICKED IS 00:23:53.73\00:23:58.40 SOMETHING GOD - IT'S A STRANGE ACT FOR HIM. 00:23:58.43\00:24:01.94 HE WANTS TO GIVE LIFE. THIS IS NOT GOD'S DESIRE. 00:24:01.97\00:24:05.94 EZEKIEL 18:30, "'THEREFORE I WILL JUDGE YOU, O HOUSE OF 00:24:05.97\00:24:09.98 ISRAEL, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS,' SAYS THE LORD GOD. 00:24:10.01\00:24:13.35 'REPENT, AND TURN FROM ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT INIQUITY 00:24:13.38\00:24:17.82 WILL NOT BE YOUR RUIN. CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL THE 00:24:17.85\00:24:21.02 TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU HAVE COMMITTED, AND GET YOURSELVES A 00:24:21.06\00:24:23.83 NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE, 00:24:23.86\00:24:25.76 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE 00:24:25.79\00:24:29.23 DEATH OF ONE WHO DIES,'..." HE'S CALLING FOR US NOT TO DIE 00:24:29.26\00:24:32.90 BUT TO LIVE. HE'S TRYING TO TELL US THAT HE 00:24:32.93\00:24:37.11 LOVES US AND THAT HE'S OUR FRIEND. 00:24:37.14\00:24:39.57 HE SAYS HE'LL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. 00:24:39.61\00:24:42.01 THERE'S NO MORE DEATH, NO MORE CRYING. 00:24:42.04\00:24:44.95 HOW CAN THERE BE A TORTURE CHAMBER AND THE BIBLE SAY 00:24:44.98\00:24:47.02 THERE'S NO MORE CRYING? NO MORE PAIN - NO MORE PAIN - 00:24:47.05\00:24:50.72 PEOPLE AREN'T BURNING FOREVER AND EVER. 00:24:50.75\00:24:52.62 THE WICKED ARE NO MORE. AND IF ANYONE DESERVES TO BURN 00:24:52.65\00:24:55.62 FOREVER, WHO IS IT? THE DEVIL. AND IT SAYS, 'I'LL BRING FORTH A 00:24:55.66\00:25:00.70 FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF THEE AND DEVOUR THEE. 00:25:00.73\00:25:03.30 I'LL BRING YOU TO ASHES ON THE EARTH AND ON THE SIGHT OF THEM 00:25:03.33\00:25:05.60 THAT BEHOLD THEE YOU'LL BE A TERROR AND NEVER SHALL THOU BE - 00:25:05.63\00:25:08.40 NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE.' 00:25:08.44\00:25:10.34 THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY CHANCE OF THE DEVIL ESCAPING. 00:25:10.37\00:25:13.07 MATTER OF FACT, GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE WICKED SO 00:25:13.11\00:25:16.88 THOROUGHLY, HE'S NOT ONLY GOING TO BURN THEM UP IN HELL, HE'S 00:25:16.91\00:25:19.21 GOING TO BURN HELL UP IN HELL. "THEN DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST 00:25:19.25\00:25:22.45 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." - HADES IS GOING TO HELL. 00:25:22.48\00:25:26.32 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - "THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 00:25:26.35\00:25:29.12 AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO 00:25:29.16\00:25:32.16 THE LAKE OF FIRE." IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THAT 00:25:32.19\00:25:34.96 BOOK? IT CAN BE. YOU CAN COME TO CHRIST AND ASK 00:25:35.00\00:25:39.13 HIM TO PUT YOUR NAME THERE NOW. HE LOVES YOU AND HE DESPERATELY 00:25:39.17\00:25:43.61 WANTS TO SAVE YOU. HE IS YOUR FRIEND. 00:25:43.64\00:25:46.81 YOU CAN TRUST YOUR LIFE WITH HIM. HELL IS NOT FOR YOU. 00:25:46.84\00:25:49.71 HELL IS FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. 00:25:49.74\00:25:52.31 HEAVEN - JESUS SAID, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU.' 00:25:52.35\00:25:54.78 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT PLACE HE'S GOT FOR YOU? 00:25:54.82\00:25:56.92 HE PREPARED HEAVEN FOR YOU. BUT YOU GET TO CHOOSE WHO YOU 00:25:56.95\00:26:00.46 WANT TO FOLLOW - YOUR FRIEND OR THE ENEMY OF JESUS? 00:26:00.49\00:26:09.30 >>EVERYONE KNOWS THE BIBLE'S CLEAR THERE ARE ONLY TWO 00:26:09.33\00:26:11.60 DESTINIES, HEAVEN AND HELL, BUT THERE ARE MORE MISUNDERSTANDINGS 00:26:11.63\00:26:15.50 OVER THE SUBJECT OF HELL THAN VIRTUALLY ANY OTHER BIBLE 00:26:15.54\00:26:18.27 DOCTRINE. 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YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR 00:28:12.92\00:28:15.62 REPORT CARD THIS LAST QUARTER SO, NO. 00:28:15.66\00:28:19.09 >>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY. 00:28:19.13\00:28:21.66 YOU WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED HELP WITH 00:28:21.70\00:28:24.00 THE DISHES LAST NIGHT. HELP YOURSELF. 00:28:24.03\00:28:26.67 >>HUH? >>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE 00:28:26.70\00:28:29.07 MARSHMALLOWS? (COUGHING) (SIRENS) (MUSIC) 00:28:29.10\00:29:25.89 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:29:25.93\00:29:28.23 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:29:28.26\00:29:43.28