Participants: Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000126
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. >>AND THE REAL GOOD NEWS ABOUT 01:12 HELL IS GOD TELLS YOU ABOUT IT BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO AVOID 01:15 IT. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THERE. HE WANTS YOU TO LIVE FOREVER. 01:20 JESUS WOULD NOT PAY AS MUCH AS HE PAID FOR YOU TO HAVE 01:23 EVERLASTING LIFE IF IT WASN'T POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO HAVE 01:26 EVERLASTING LIFE. 01:29 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:33 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 01:38 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:41 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:51 >>TODAY'S MESSAGE IS REALLY THE SECOND PART IN A TWO-PART 01:54 PRESENTATION THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT DEALING WITH THE 01:58 SUBJECT OF THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HELL. 02:02 AND IT'S A SERIOUS SUBJECT. 02:03 YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD COULD POSSIBLY BE GOOD 02:07 ABOUT A PLACE THAT IS FAMOUS FOR BEING SO BAD. 02:11 BUT THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS REGARDING THE SUBJECT BECAUSE 02:15 THERE ARE SO MANY MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THE REAL 02:19 NATURE OF HOW GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE WICKED. 02:24 NOW THIS IS ALWAYS A RELEVANT SUBJECT AND IT'S A RELEVANT 02:26 STUDY BECAUSE, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE ARE 02:30 TWO DESTINIES FOR EVERYBODY. THOSE DESTINIES ARE ETERNAL 02:36 DESTINIES. IN OTHER WORDS, ONCE THE LORD 02:38 COMES AND OUR REWARD IS FIXED - THERE'S A GREAT GULF FIXED, AS 02:43 IT SAYS IN THE PARABLE, WHERE PEOPLE CAN'T CHANGE TEAMS 02:46 ANYMORE SO TO SAY. EVERYBODY HERE IS EITHER GOING 02:51 TO BE IN PARADISE WITH CHRIST OR THEY WILL BE REWARDED ACCORDING 02:58 TO THEIR WORKS IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS 03:01 SOMEBODY THAT'S GOING TO BE IN ONE OF THOSE TWO DESTINIES 03:04 SO IT'S A VERY RELEVANT THING FOR US TO TALK ABOUT. 03:07 A LOT OF THE WORLD THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT OF HOW 03:10 GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE LOST ARE VERY DISCOURAGED. 03:15 SOME OF THE GREAT ATHEISTS LIKE ROBERT INGERSOLL OR VOLTAIRE, 03:20 WHEN THEY READ IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD WAS GOING TO TAKE THE BABIES 03:23 OF LOST PEOPLE AND THEY WERE GOING TO BE TORTURED IN THE 03:26 FIRES OF HELL THROUGH ETERNITY, THEY TOTALLY SAID THE BIBLE 03:29 CANNOT BE TRUE. THEY REJECTED AND TURNED FROM 03:32 GOD ALTOGETHER BECAUSE THEY MISUNDERSTOOD THIS SUBJECT. 03:35 AND THAT'S HOW I FELT. 03:37 I THOUGHT, IF THERE IS A GOD HE IS REALLY A MONSTER. 03:42 WHEN I LEARNED WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT HOW GOD 03:45 DEALS WITH THE WICKED - I ALSO WAS VERY HAPPY TO LEARN ABOUT 03:48 HOW HE DEALS WITH THE RIGHTEOUS. BUT WHEN I UNDERSTOOD THE TRUTH 03:53 ABOUT HELL, FOR ME IT WAS GOOD NEWS. YOU KNOW WHY? 03:56 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE I THOUGHT, 'I THINK I COULD LOVE A 04:01 GOD LIKE THAT.' AND IT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME 04:05 TO SEE GOD AS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BEING AND FOR ME IT WAS VERY 04:10 GOOD NEWS. AND IT JUST GAVE ME HOPE THAT I 04:15 COULD LOVE AND SERVE A GOD THAT WAS JUST IN THIS WAY AND IT 04:19 RESOLVED SO MANY AREAS OF CONFUSION. 04:21 SO, JUST A LITTLE REVIEW BECAUSE WE ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE THAT MAYBE 04:24 MISSED PART 1. WHAT IS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT HELL? FIRST OF ALL, 04:29 THAT NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL RIGHT NOW. YOU KNOW, WE 04:34 DISCOVERED THAT PEOPLE ARE RESERVED IN THE GRAVE 04:37 UNTIL THE JUDGMENT DAY. 04:39 THE LORD DOES NOT PUT PEOPLE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AND START 04:42 BURNING THEM THERE AND THEN A THOUSAND YEARS LATER OR FIVE 04:45 THOUSAND YEARS LATER - I MEAN, HOW FAIR WOULD THAT BE TO HAVE 04:49 CAIN BURNING FOR FIVE THOUSAND YEARS OR FOUR THOUSAND YEARS 04:53 LONGER THAN ADOLF HITLER AND THEN YOU PULL THEM OUT IN THE 04:56 GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND SAY, 'SURE ENOUGH, YOU'RE GUILTY. 04:58 WE THOUGHT SO ALL ALONG. BACK IN HELL.' 05:00 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE THE JUDGMENT AND THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF 05:02 SENTENCE AFTER THEY'RE BEING PUNISHED. NO COURT IN THE 05:07 WORLD OPERATES THAT WAY. SECONDLY, THE RESURRECTION 05:10 HASN'T HAPPENED YET AND PEOPLE ARE RAISED TO THEIR REWARDS. 05:15 THE BIBLE TELLS US THERE'S TWO RESURRECTIONS. 05:17 FIRST, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST. 05:20 MANY OF THOSE THAT SLEEP IN THE GRAVE WILL COME FORTH. 05:23 THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE. 05:25 THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION. 05:27 JESUS SAID THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS - IN JOHN CHAPTER 05:31 5 - AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, THEY GO TO THEIR 05:36 REWARD. THE WICKED DEAD ARE RAISED AT 05:39 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN 05:41 JUST A LITTLE BIT. BUT NOBODY IS BURNING IN HELL NOW. 05:45 THE OTHER PART OF THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BURN 05:48 THERE FOREVER. EVERY MAN IS PUNISHED ACCORDING 05:52 TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF 05:55 OFFENSE. THERE ARE VARYING DEGREES OF 05:58 PUNISHMENT AND THAT MIGHT BE IN INTENSITY AND IN DURATION, BUT 06:02 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THE WICKED BURN UP. 06:06 THEY CONSUME AWAY. THEY PERISH. THEY ARE DEVOURED. 06:11 THEY ARE DEAD. THEY ARE SO DEAD THEY CALL IT 06:13 THE SECOND DEATH. NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE. 06:17 I MEAN THE LANGUAGE IN THE BIBLE IS SO AMAZING THAT IT'S UNUSUAL 06:22 THAT PEOPLE WOULD GET CONFUSED OVER THIS BUT IT'S A DOCTRINE 06:24 THAT CAME FROM THE DARK AGES AND IT WAS MANIPULATED - IT WAS USED 06:28 TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE WITH FEAR. 06:31 PEOPLE WERE SO AFRAID THEY COULDN'T EVEN LIVE. 06:34 AND NOT ONLY DID IT AFFECT WHAT THEY - THEIR CONCERN ABOUT 06:36 THEIR DESTINY, PEOPLE WHO HAD LOVED ONES - WHETHER PARENTS, 06:42 SPOUSE, CHILDREN, FRIENDS - THAT DIED IN A LOST CONDITION - OR 06:49 WHAT APPEARED TO BE A LOST CONDITION - THE IDEA THAT AT 06:51 THAT POINT THEY THEN NOW WERE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THE 06:55 MOST UNIMAGINABLE TORTURE. THE WAY THAT PEOPLE HAVE TAUGHT 07:00 HELL IS WORSE THAN ANYTHING ANY MAN HAS EVER CONJURED UP. 07:04 TO JUST BE ABLE TO PERPETUALLY BURN SOMEBODY. 07:08 AND TO IMAGINE THAT WHILE YOU WALK THE EARTH YOUR FRIENDS OR 07:11 FAMILY ARE WRITHING AND SHRIEKING IN THAT AGONY - A LOT 07:15 OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN CRAZY WITH THAT THOUGHT. REALLY. 07:19 IT'S - IT JUST BREAKS THEIR HEARTS. 07:20 SOME HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE BECAUSE THEY JUST COULDN'T BEAR 07:23 THE PAIN OF WHAT THEY THOUGHT OTHERS WERE GOING THROUGH. 07:27 AND SO IT'S GOOD NEWS TO KNOW THEY'RE NOT BURNING FOREVER. 07:31 AMEN? NOT BURNING THERE YET. NOBODY'S BURNING FOREVER. 07:34 LET'S LOOK AT SOME OF THE DIFFICULT VERSES THAT ARE 07:37 SPEAKING OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED. 07:39 FIRST OF ALL, SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY 07:42 THAT THEY ARE BURNED WITH EVERLASTING FIRE? YES. 07:45 LOOK WITH ME IN MATTHEW 25, VERSE 41 - MATTHEW 25:41 - IN 07:51 THE PARABLE TALKING ABOUT THE - THE SERVANTS - SHEEP AND THE 07:57 GOATS, IT SAYS, "THEN HE WILL ALSO SAY TO THOSE ON THE LEFT 08:02 HAND - THE LOST - 'DEPART FROM ME, YOU CURSED, INTO THE 08:06 EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS:" - 08:09 'WELL THERE YOU HAVE IT, PASTOR DOUG. IT SAYS IT'S EVERLASTING 08:12 FIRE.' BUT, YOU KNOW, IT ALSO TELLS US IN JUDE CHAPTER 7 08:17 THAT SODOM AND GOMORRAH WERE BURNT WITH ETERNAL FIRE. 08:20 ARE SODOM AND GOMORRAH STILL BURNING TODAY? 08:23 BUT WERE THEY DESTROYED FOREVER? 08:25 WERE THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ETERNAL RESULTS? 08:31 SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? FOLLOW ME. THE NEXT VERSE IN THAT 08:34 ILLUSTRATES THAT - SAME PARABLE. LET JESUS EXPLAIN IT. 08:38 MATTHEW 25:46, "AND THESE WILL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING 08:42 PUNISHMENT, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO ETERNAL LIFE." 08:46 YOU KNOW, CHRIST COULD HAVE SAID THE WICKED GO AWAY INTO 08:48 EVERLASTING PUNISHING. DOES HE SAY IT'S EVERLASTING 08:52 PUNISHING OR AN EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT? 08:55 THE PUNISHMENT IS EVERLASTING, GET IT? NOT THE PUNISHING. 09:00 IF YOU TELL YOUR CHILD, 'YOU DISOBEY AND YOU WILL EXPERIENCE 09:03 EVERLASTING PUNISHING.' WELL, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN 09:06 SAYING, 'I AM GOING TO THROW AWAY YOUR GAMEBOY FOREVER.' 09:12 THAT'S AN EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT. 09:14 YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO GET IT AGAIN. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 09:16 THE DIFFERENCE? SO THE LORD IS NOT GOING TO BE 09:18 PUNISHING THE WICKED WITH EVERLASTING PUNISHING. 09:22 ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S WHAT EVERLASTING FIRE MEANS. 09:24 THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE ARE EVERLASTING. 09:27 NEXT VERSE THAT'S OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD IS THE PHRASE 09:30 'UNQUENCHABLE FIRE' - UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 09:33 HERE'S WHERE YOU FIND IT: MARK 9:47 - YOU CAN READ VERSE 48 - 09:39 AND JESUS IS SPEAKING, "AND IF YOUR EYE CAUSES YOU TO SIN, 09:43 PLUCK IT OUT. 09:44 IT IS BETTER FOR YOU TO ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITH ONE EYE, 09:48 RATHER THAN HAVING TWO EYES, TO BE CAST INTO HELL FIRE" - NOTICE 09:53 - "WHERE THE WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT 09:55 QUENCHED." ALRIGHT, WHICH WORD DID JESUS 09:58 USE THERE FOR HELLFIRE? SOME OF YOU HAVE GOT NOTES IN 10:01 YOUR BIBLES, YOU'LL FIND IT'S GEHENNA. 10:05 THAT MEANS BETTER TO ENTER HEAVEN HAVING - MISSING AN EYE. 10:10 FIRST OF ALL, WILL ANYONE IN HEAVEN BE MISSING A HAND, FOOT, 10:12 OR EYE? SO IS JESUS USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE? 10:18 ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST BE CLEAR ON THAT. 10:18 SO HE'S OBVIOUSLY USING FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE. 10:22 HE SAYS, 'IT'S BETTER THAN TO GO TO GEHENNA.' 10:24 WHILE HE'S TALKING HE COULD HAVE BEEN WITHIN THE VIEW OF THE 10:27 VALLEY OF HINNOM - THEY CALLED IT HADES - OR TRANSLATED IT 10:30 'HELL' - 'WHERE THE FIRE DOES NOT QUENCH' - IT'S SMOLDERING 10:34 ALL THE TIME - 'THE WORM DOES NOT DIE' - IT'S FULL OF 10:36 PERPETUAL SMOLDERINGS AND WORMS. WHAT GOOD WOULD IT BE TO BE IN A 10:40 PLACE LIKE THAT WITH A FULL BODY? 10:45 BETTER OFF IF YOU WERE TO BE IN HEAVEN MISSING AN EYE, FOOT, OR 10:47 HAND. THAT'S ALL JESUS IS SAYING. 10:50 HE'S NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF WORMS IN 10:52 HELL OR THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BURN FOREVER AND EVER. 10:55 HE'S JUST CALLING IT THE CITY DUMP. 10:57 IT WAS THE PLACE OF CASTING THAT WHICH WAS UNCLEAN AND THE LOST 11:02 ARE ALL CLASSIFIED AS UNCLEAN. LET ME PROVE THAT TO YOU. 11:07 IT SAYS 'THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED' - 'PASTOR DOUG, HOW DO 11:09 YOU DO THAT? THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED. 11:11 IF THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED THAT MEANS IT BURNS FOREVER.' 11:13 NO, THE WORD 'QUENCH' MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. 11:17 SO IF I LIGHT A MATCH HERE IN MY HAND AND THE MATCH IS BURNING 11:22 AND IT'S BURNING AND THE MATCH IS GETTING TOWARDS MY OTHER 11:26 FINGER, I LICK IT AND TAKE THE ASHEN PART AND I LET GO - I'VE 11:29 DONE THIS BEFORE AND THE MATCH BURNS UP. 11:32 EVERY PART OF THE MATCH THAT CAN BURN IS BURNED. 11:36 I DID NOTHING TO QUENCH IT. 11:38 THE MATCH WAS BURNED WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. 11:40 ANY OF YOU EVER GET ONE OF THOSE GAG BIRTHDAY CANDLES ON YOUR 11:43 CAKE THAT YOU BLOW IT OUT AND IT COMES BACK AGAIN? 11:45 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GOTTEN ONE OF THOSE ONCE? 11:47 IT GETS OLD AFTER AWHILE, DOESN'T IT? 11:50 YOU ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 11:52 THEY MAKE THESE BIRTHDAY CANDLES YOU PUT ON YOUR CAKE AND MAYBE 11:55 IT'S ONE OUT OF TWENTY AND YOU BLOW THEM OUT AND YOU SAY, 'OH, 11:58 I DID IT! I GOT THEM ALL!' AND THEY ALWAYS TELL YOU, 'MAKE 12:00 SURE - IF YOU WANT YOUR WISH TO COME TRUE YOU'VE GOT TO BLOW ALL 12:02 THE CANDLES OUT FIRST TRY.' SO YOU JUST REALLY INHALE AND 12:06 YOU REALLY THEN - POOF - SPRAY THE WHOLE CAKE AND THEY ALL GO 12:10 OUT EXCEPT THIS ONE THING. IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING OUT AND 12:14 THEN IT FLICKERS BACK TO LIFE AND THEY GO, 'AH HA HA HA' AND 12:16 THEN YOU BLOW IT OUT AGAIN, IT COMES BACK TO LIFE AND IT'S LIKE 12:19 AN UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. YOU CAN PUT THEM OUT, BY THE WAY. 12:25 BUT QUENCH MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. THERE WILL BE NO FIREMEN IN THE 12:30 LAKE OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING ANYTHING. 12:33 LET ME GIVE YOU BIBLE SUPPORT FOR THIS NOW. 12:35 WHAT DOES UNQUENCHABLE FIRE MEAN? 12:37 LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE IN JEREMIAH 17:27, "BUT IF YOU WILL NOT HEED 12:41 ME TO HALLOW THE SABBATH DAY, SUCH AS NOT CARRYING A BURDEN 12:46 WHEN ENTERING THE GATES OF JERUSALEM ON THE SABBATH DAY," - 12:49 HE TALKS ABOUT PRETTY CAREFUL SABBATH KEEPING THERE - "THEN I 12:52 WILL KINDLE A FIRE IN ITS GATES," - MEANING THE GATES OF 12:55 JERUSALEM - "AND IT SHALL DEVOUR THE PALACES OF JERUSALEM, AND IT 12:59 SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED." NOW, JEREMIAH MADE A PROPHECY 13:06 THAT IF THEY WOULD NOT REPENT, BABYLONIANS WERE GOING TO COME 13:09 ALONG AND BURN JERUSALEM AND IT WOULD BE BURNT WITH AN 13:11 UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. DID THE PEOPLE REPENT? NO. 13:16 WAS JERUSALEM BURNED? THE GATES AND PALACES? YES. 13:20 AND YOU'LL FIND THAT, BY THE WAY, 2 CHRONICLES 36 - IT SAYS 13:24 THE CITY WAS BURNED TO FULFILL THE WORD OF THE LORD BY JEREMIAH 13:29 AND IT LEFT IT DESOLATE. THE GATES WERE BURNED. 13:31 THE PALACES WERE BURNED. IS IT STILL BURNING TODAY? 13:36 WERE THERE ANY FIREMEN? ANY BABYLONIAN FIREMEN PUTTING OUT 13:39 THE FIRE? IT WAS UNQUENCHABLE. HERE'S ANOTHER ONE. 13:44 'PEOPLE MUST BE BURNING IN HELL NOW BECAUSE OF THE PARABLE OF 13:47 THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS.' TURN IN YOUR BIBLES - LET'S READ IT 13:49 FIRST AND WE'LL LOOK AT SOME POINTS. LOOK AT LUKE 16, 13:52 VERSE 19 - LUKE 16, VERSE 19. THERE'S A CERTAIN RICH MAN WHO 13:58 WAS CLOTHED IN PURPLE AND FINE LINEN AND FARED" - THAT MEANS HE 14:02 FEASTED - "SUMPTUOUSLY" - LUXURIOUSLY - "EVERY DAY. 14:06 BUT THERE WAS A CERTAIN BEGGAR NAMED LAZARUS, FULL OF SORES, 14:10 WHO WAS LAID AT HIS GATE," - A SICK BEGGAR - "DESIRING TO BE 14:15 FED WITH THE CRUMBS WHICH FELL FROM THE RICH MAN'S TABLE. 14:18 MOREOVER THE DOGS CAME AND LICKED HIS SORES. 14:23 SO IT WAS THE BEGGAR DIED, AND WAS CARRIED BY THE ANGELS TO 14:25 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. THE RICH MAN ALSO DIED AND WAS BURIED. 14:30 AND BEING IN TORMENTS IN HADES, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND SAW 14:34 ABRAHAM AFAR OFF, AND LAZARUS IN HIS BOSOM. 14:38 AND HE CRIED" - NOW, HERE YOU'VE GOT HELL IS GOING ON AND HEAVEN 14:41 IS GOING ON AND THEY'RE TALKING TO EACH OTHER. 14:43 IT SOUNDS LIKE IT HAPPENS AS SOON AS YOU DIE. 14:47 - "THEN HE CRIED AND SAID, 'FATHER ABRAHAM, HAVE MERCY ON 14:49 ME, AND SEND LAZARUS THAT HE MAY DIP THE TIP OF HIS FINGER IN 14:52 WATER AND COOL MY TONGUE; FOR I AM TORMENTED IN THIS FLAME.' 14:58 BUT ABRAHAM SAID, 'SON, REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR LIFETIME YOU 15:01 RECEIVED YOUR GOOD THINGS, AND LIKEWISE LAZARUS EVIL THINGS; 15:05 BUT NOW HE IS COMFORTED AND YOU ARE TORMENTED. 15:08 AND BESIDES ALL THIS, BETWEEN US AND YOU THERE IS A GREAT GULF 15:12 FIXED, SO THAT THOSE WHO WANT TO PASS FROM HERE TO YOU CANNOT, 15:17 NOR CAN THOSE FROM THERE PASS TO US.'" - DON'T MISS THAT POINT. 15:22 GREAT GULF FIXED - THERE IS NO CHANGING SIDES ONCE PEOPLE DIE 15:30 AND THEY GET THEIR REWARDS. IT'LL BE FIXED. NOW THE DOOR OF 15:34 MERCY'S OPEN. THEN THE RICH MAN, IN TORMENT, HE SAYS, "...'I 15:38 BEG YOU THEREFORE, FATHER THAT YOU WOULD SEND HIM TO MY 15:40 FATHER'S HOUSE,'" - FURTHER PROOF LIFE IS STILL GOING ON ON 15:43 EARTH WHILE HE'S SUFFERING IN HADES - HE SAYS, 'WELL TELL HIM 15:46 TO GO BACK TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE' - "'FOR I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS, 15:49 THAT HE MAY TESTIFY TO THEM,'" - HE AT LEAST HAS A HEART - 15:52 HE'S WORRIED ABOUT HIS BROTHERS. 15:54 HE THOUGHT, 'IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT OF THE 15:56 WICKED I WOULD HAVE LIVED DIFFERENT. MAYBE I CAN WARN MY 15:59 BROTHERS. I HAVE FIVE BROTHERS. GO TELL THEM' - "'LEST THEY ALSO 16:02 COME TO THIS PLACE OF TORMENT.' AND ABRAHAM - 16:06 IT'S NOT JESUS TALKING NOW, IT'S ABRAHAM - "ABRAHAM SAID TO HIM, 16:09 'THEY HAVE MOSES AND THE PROPHETS; LET THEM HEAR THEM.'" 16:14 WHO DO YOU THINK'S REPRESENTED BY THE FIVE BROTHERS? 16:17 YOU KNOW ALL THE JEWS BELIEVED IN THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. 16:20 ALL THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES - EVEN THE SADDUCEES 16:22 AND THE PHARISEES - THEY DISAGREED ON MANY THINGS BUT 16:24 THEY AGREED ON THE PENTATEUCH - THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES. 16:28 THEY'VE GOT THE WORD OF GOD. "AND HE SAID, 'NO, FATHER 16:32 ABRAHAM; BUT IF ONE GOES TO THEM FROM THE DEAD, THEY WILL 16:35 REPENT.'" - IF THEY SAW RESURRECTION 16:37 THEY'D REPENT - AND ABRAHAM ANSWERS - I HATE USING THE WORDS 16:42 'PUNCH LINE', BUT THE MORAL OF - A GOOD STORY'S AT THE END. 16:46 AND HERE'S THE MORAL - HERE'S THE PURPOSE FOR THE WHOLE STORY. 16:48 THIS STORY'S NOT WRITTEN AT ALL TO TALK ABOUT THE PUNISHMENT OF 16:52 THE WICKED, IT'S REALLY WRITTEN TO TALK ABOUT BELIEVING THE WORD 16:56 OF GOD AND BELIEVING IN CHRIST. IT SAID, "...'IF THEY DO NOT 17:00 HEAR MOSES AND THE PROPHETS, NEITHER WILL THEY BE 17:03 PERSUADED THOUGH ONE RISE FROM THE DEAD.'" 17:06 ALRIGHT, WHAT DOES THIS STORY MEAN AND WHAT DOES IT NOT MEAN? 17:09 PRINCIPLE REASON JESUS TELLS THE STORY OF THE RICH MAN AND 17:12 LAZARUS: THE RICH MAN REPRESENTS THE JEWISH NATION - RICH AND 17:18 INCREASED WITH TRUTH, CLOTHED ROYALLY WITH THE ROBES OF GOD, 17:24 FEASTING ON THE WORD OF GOD, SURROUNDED BY THE GENTILES THAT 17:28 WERE SICK IN SIN, COVERED WITH SORES, LAID AT THEIR GATE, 17:33 WANTING THE CRUMBS THAT FELL FROM THEIR TABLE. 17:35 DO YOU REMEMBER A GENTILE WOMAN CAME TO JESUS ONE TIME AND SAID, 17:38 'PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.' AND JESUS SAID, 'IT'S NOT 17:40 APPROPRIATE TO TAKE THE CHILDREN'S FOOD AND GIVE IT TO 17:42 THE DOGS.' AND SHE SAID, 'YES, EVEN THE 17:45 DOGS GET THE CRUMBS.' I MEAN, THESE ARE VERY CLEARLY 17:49 SYMBOLS. THEY CALLED THE GENTILES 'DOGS'. 17:52 ONLY COMFORT LAZARUS GETS IS FROM THE DOGS. 17:56 AND HE'S WANTING THE CRUMBS THAT FALL FROM THE TABLE. 18:00 NOW, WHAT JESUS SAID TO THE JEWISH NATION APPLIES TO THE 18:03 CHURCH TOO. SOMETIMES AS CHRISTIANS WE 18:06 THINK, 'WE'VE GOT THE BIBLE, WE'RE SAVED. 18:08 WE ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.' AND WE STOP CARING ABOUT THE 18:12 LOST AROUND THE WORLD THAT DON'T HAVE WHAT WE HAVE. 18:14 AND THIS IS A VERY SOBER WARNING IN THIS PARABLE. 18:17 JESUS SAID, 'YOU MAY FIND IN THE JUDGMENT THERE ARE SOME WHO WILL 18:21 COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST. THEY'RE FOREIGNERS. 18:23 THEY'RE GENTILES. 18:24 THEY MAYBE DIDN'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT JESUS AND THE BIBLE AS YOU 18:27 DO, BUT THEY'RE IN THE KINGDOM BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS WERE RIGHT. 18:30 AND YOU, WITH ALL YOUR BIBLE KNOWLEDGE AND CHURCH ATTENDANCE 18:33 COULD BE IN OUTER DARKNESS IF YOU DON'T LOVE YOUR BROTHER. 18:38 THIS RICH MAN, HE WALKED BY A BEGGAR EVERY DAY, WHO WANTED 18:41 CRUMBS, SO THAT HE COULD FEAST WITH HIS FRIENDS. 18:46 AND THEY THOUGHT, 'WE ARE SO BLESSED BY GOD. 18:48 WE'VE GOT SO MUCH FOOD. GOD MUST LOVE US. 18:50 LOOK HOW BLESSED WE ARE.' WALK BY A BEGGAR EVERY DAY AND 18:54 THEN, LO AND BEHOLD, THE BEGGAR'S IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM AND 18:58 THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE WITH ABRAHAM, HE IS IN THE GREEK 19:01 PLACE OF TORMENT. THE IRONY IN THIS STORY IS 19:04 INCREDIBLE. IT'S A GREAT STORY JESUS TOLD 19:06 BECAUSE WHAT JESUS SAID EVERY JEW WANTED TO BE WITH ABRAHAM 19:10 AND NOW THE JEW IS IN THE GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT AND HE'S SEEING 19:13 THE GENTILE IS IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. 19:15 IT DOESN'T SAY THAT HE WAS WITH JESUS OR THE FATHER, THE HOLY 19:17 SPIRIT OR THE ANGELS, HE'S WITH ABRAHAM. 19:20 DO YOU SEE THE IRONY IN THE STORY? IT'S SO INCREDIBLE. 19:23 THE RICH MAN'S IN THE GREEK - HE'S WITH PLUTO. 19:27 THE JEWS ARE WITH THE GREEK PLACE OF TORMENT AND SO THERE'S 19:31 IT'S ALL OBVIOUSLY A PARABLE. 19:33 DON'T TAKE PARABLES TOO LITERALLY OR WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 19:37 YOU ALL BEING SHEEP, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO GET SHORN. 19:40 IT JUST - YOU KNOW, IT'S OBVIOUSLY A PARABLE. 19:44 AND SO - DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MEANING OF THE PARABLE IS? 19:46 IF YOU'RE GOING TO SAY IT DOESN'T MEAN THE DEAD GO 19:48 RIGHT TO HEAVEN OR HELL WHEN THEY DIE, THEN YOU NEED TO SAY, 19:51 'OKAY, THEN WHAT DOES IT MEAN?' I THINK I'VE ADEQUATELY 19:53 EXPLAINED WHAT THE PARABLE IS TEACHING. 19:56 SO HOW'S IT GOING TO HAPPEN? LET'S TIE THIS ALL OFF. 19:59 BEST PLACE IS PROBABLY TO TURN TO REVELATION 20, VERSE 7 - AT 20:05 THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS - WE ALL KNOW THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 20:08 WHEN JESUS COMES. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 20:11 REMAIN WHEN CHRIST COMES, WE ARE JUST TRANSFORMED AND IN THE 20:14 TWINKLING OF AN EYE WE ARE CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN 20:16 THE AIR. BUT THE OTHER RESURRECTION 20:20 HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS. 20:23 THAT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION. AFTER THE MILLENNIUM - THAT 20:26 1,000 YEARS - "NOW WHEN THE THOUSAND 20:29 YEARS HAVE EXPIRED," - THIS IS VERSE 7, REVELATION 27 - "SATAN 20:34 WILL BE RELEASED" - OR LOOSED - "FROM HIS PRISON AND WILL GO OUT 20:37 TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE 20:40 EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE, WHOSE 20:44 NUMBER IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA. THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH 20:48 OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS..." 20:51 AS THEY'RE PREPARING TO LAUNCH THIS FINAL ATTACK ON THE CITY OF 20:53 GOD - YOU KNOW GOD SHOWS - AFTER THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED THEY 20:58 COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD. YOU CAN READ THIS IN EZEKIEL 37 21:01 ALSO. AND INSTEAD OF REPENTING AND SAYING, 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE 21:05 OUTSIDE THE CITY - WE'VE DONE THE WRONG THING.' 21:08 THEY ARE READY TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL AGAIN, WHO MARSHALS THEM 21:11 AGAINST JESUS AND THEY SAY, 'WELL THERE'S MORE OF US THAN 21:14 THERE ARE OF THOSE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 21:16 LET'S JUST ATTACK IT AND TAKE IT AS OURS.' 21:18 THEIR HEARTS HAVE NOT BEEN CHANGED. 21:20 SO WHEN GOD PUNISHES THE WICKED, HE'S SHOWING, 'I HAVE NO CHOICE. 21:24 EVEN AFTER THEY COME BACK TO LIFE THEY'RE READY TO FOLLOW THE 21:26 DEVIL AGAIN, SIN WILL CONTINUALLY CONTAMINATE THE 21:30 UNIVERSE UNLESS I DEAL WITH THEM. 21:31 THE LOVING ACT FOR ME IS TO PUNISH THEM, ACCORDING TO 21:35 JUSTICE, PUT THEM OUT OF THEIR MISERY AND THEN MAKE A NEW 21:39 HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH.' FINISH READING IT. 21:43 THEY GO TO ATTACK THE CITY OF GOD AND THEY COVER THE EARTH - 21:48 THEY "...SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED 21:50 CITY." - THAT'S THE NEW JERUSALEM - 21:51 WE ALTOGETHER? - "AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD 21:56 OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM." 22:00 AS THAT FIRE RAINS DOWN AROUND THE NEW JERUSALEM THAT MUST HAVE 22:04 ASBESTOS WALLS, EVERYBODY OUTSIDE THE CITY IS DESTROYED. 22:10 YOU REALIZE THAT'S A DAY WHEN EVERYBODY HERE WILL BE PRESENT 22:12 AGAIN? EVERYBODY IS INVOLVED IN THAT 22:15 APPEARANCE. GOD AND HIS ANGELS ARE INSIDE 22:17 THE CITY - FATHER, SON, SPIRIT, GOOD ANGELS AND THE SAVED. 22:23 ALL OF THE LOST, THE DEVIL AND THE FALLEN ANGELS ARE 22:26 OUTSIDE THE CITY. 22:28 JUST BEFORE THE DEVIL LAUNCHES THAT FINAL ATTACK ON THE CITY OF 22:30 GOD, THERE'S THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT WHEN EVERY KNEE 22:35 WILL BOW AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT THE LORD IS GOOD. 22:38 AND THAT'S WHEN GOD PRONOUNCES SENTENCE. 22:40 THEN, IN DESPERATION, WHEN THE LOST REALIZE THERE'S NO HOPE 22:43 THEY THINK, 'LOOK, HE'S DECLARED THAT WE'RE LOST, WE'LL JUST HAVE 22:47 TO TAKE IT BY FORCE. IT'S OUR ONLY CHANCE. 22:49 THEY TRY TO LAUNCH SOME - IT'S CRAZY TO TRY TO - FOR THE 22:52 CREATURE TO TRY TO DESTROY THE CREATOR, ISN'T IT? 22:55 BUT SIN ISN'T SMART. SIN MAKES YOU DO DUMB THINGS. 23:00 AND THEY'RE WILLING TO FOLLOW THE DEVIL EVEN THOUGH HE'S 23:01 PROVEN HIMSELF A LOSER, AND AT THAT POINT GOD - WHAT 23:06 ALTERNATIVE DOES GOD HAVE? YOU SEE, THE REASON GOD ALLOWS 23:09 THEM TO LAUNCH THIS LAST ATTACK - HE'S SHOWING EVERYBODY INSIDE 23:12 THE CITY 'I HAVE NO CHOICE. LOOK WHAT THEY'LL DO TO US IF WE 23:17 LET THEM GO ON.' AND HE RAINS FIRE DOWN OUT OF 23:20 HEAVEN AND IT DEVOURS THEM. IT WILL FORM A LAKE OUTSIDE. 23:25 'BEHOLD THE DAY COMES IT WILL BURN AS AN OVEN.' 23:27 MALACHI CHAPTER 4 - 'AND ALL THE PROUD AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY 23:29 WILL BE STUBBLE. THE DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN THEM UP. 23:32 IT WILL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR BRANCH, BUT UNTO YOU THAT 23:35 FEAR MY NAME' - THE RIGHTEOUS - 'YOU WILL GO FORTH.' 23:39 AFTER THEY ARE ALL TURNED TO ASHES - 'YOU'LL TREAD UPON THE 23:42 WICKED FOR THEY ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET. 23:45 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 23:47 GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN 23:50 DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS.' THERE IS NO IMMORTAL TORTURE 23:53 CHAMBER THROUGH THE ENDLESS AGES. DESTROYING THE WICKED IS 23:58 SOMETHING GOD - IT'S A STRANGE ACT FOR HIM. 24:01 HE WANTS TO GIVE LIFE. THIS IS NOT GOD'S DESIRE. 24:05 EZEKIEL 18:30, "'THEREFORE I WILL JUDGE YOU, O HOUSE OF 24:10 ISRAEL, EVERY ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WAYS,' SAYS THE LORD GOD. 24:13 'REPENT, AND TURN FROM ALL YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS, SO THAT INIQUITY 24:17 WILL NOT BE YOUR RUIN. CAST AWAY FROM YOU ALL THE 24:21 TRANSGRESSIONS WHICH YOU HAVE COMMITTED, AND GET YOURSELVES A 24:23 NEW HEART AND A NEW SPIRIT. FOR WHY SHOULD YOU DIE, 24:25 O HOUSE OF ISRAEL? FOR I HAVE NO PLEASURE IN THE 24:29 DEATH OF ONE WHO DIES,'..." HE'S CALLING FOR US NOT TO DIE 24:32 BUT TO LIVE. HE'S TRYING TO TELL US THAT HE 24:37 LOVES US AND THAT HE'S OUR FRIEND. 24:39 HE SAYS HE'LL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. 24:42 THERE'S NO MORE DEATH, NO MORE CRYING. 24:44 HOW CAN THERE BE A TORTURE CHAMBER AND THE BIBLE SAY 24:47 THERE'S NO MORE CRYING? NO MORE PAIN - NO MORE PAIN - 24:50 PEOPLE AREN'T BURNING FOREVER AND EVER. 24:52 THE WICKED ARE NO MORE. AND IF ANYONE DESERVES TO BURN 24:55 FOREVER, WHO IS IT? THE DEVIL. AND IT SAYS, 'I'LL BRING FORTH A 25:00 FIRE FROM THE MIDST OF THEE AND DEVOUR THEE. 25:03 I'LL BRING YOU TO ASHES ON THE EARTH AND ON THE SIGHT OF THEM 25:05 THAT BEHOLD THEE YOU'LL BE A TERROR AND NEVER SHALL THOU BE - 25:08 NEVER SHALL THOU BE ANYMORE.' 25:10 THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY CHANCE OF THE DEVIL ESCAPING. 25:13 MATTER OF FACT, GOD IS GOING TO DEAL WITH THE WICKED SO 25:16 THOROUGHLY, HE'S NOT ONLY GOING TO BURN THEM UP IN HELL, HE'S 25:19 GOING TO BURN HELL UP IN HELL. "THEN DEATH AND HADES WERE CAST 25:22 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." - HADES IS GOING TO HELL. 25:26 THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS - "THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 25:29 AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO 25:32 THE LAKE OF FIRE." IS YOUR NAME WRITTEN IN THAT 25:35 BOOK? IT CAN BE. 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