Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000148A
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:06 (MUSIC) 01:11 >>THE DEVIL ISN'T DOWN THERE SOMEWHERE IN THE MOLTEN, 01:14 UNDER THE GROUND. WHEN GOD SAYS, IN THE BOOK OF 01:16 JOB, 'SATAN, WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?' 01:18 HE DOESN'T SAY, 'I CAME FROM A HOLE IN THE EARTH', HE SAID, 'I 01:20 CAME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO ON THE EARTH.' 01:24 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 01:27 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:30 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:34 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:37 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 01:46 >>TONIGHT'S STUDY IS, I THINK, ONE THAT IS NOT ONLY ONE THAT IS 01:49 VERY IMPORTANT, BUT IT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE YOUR PICTURE OF 01:51 GOD AS IT DID FOR ME. 01:54 AND LET ME GIVE YOU JUST A LITTLE PERSONAL TESTIMONY THAT 01:57 WILL HELP LEAD INTO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. 02:00 I MENTIONED EARLIER, WHEN I SHARED MY TESTIMONY, I WENT TO 02:04 ABOUT 14 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS AND, AMONG THOSE SCHOOLS, WERE A 02:08 COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. 02:11 AND I REMEMBER HEARING WHAT MANY OF US HAVE HEARD - THAT IF 02:16 YOU'RE GOOD, WHEN YOU DIE YOU GO TO HEAVEN; AND IF YOU'RE BAD AND 02:21 YOU DIE, YOU GO TO THE OTHER PLACE WHERE THERE IS MOLTEN 02:28 SULPHUR AND BURNING BRIMSTONE AND ALL THE EXPERIENCE OF EVERY 02:33 SQUARE CENTIMETER OF YOUR BODY IN FLAMES - NOT FOR A MOMENT, 02:39 BUT FOR ETERNITY - YOU WILL EXPERIENCE BLISTERING, BURNING 02:45 MISERY. AND I THOUGHT, 'WOW, GOD IS A 02:53 SADIST.' JUST TELLING YOU WHAT I THOUGHT. 02:55 I SAID - HERE I AM, TEN YEARS OLD - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I WAS 02:59 YOUNG BUT I COULD THINK IT THROUGH. 03:01 I SAID, 'HE MADE ME. NO ONE ASKED ME IF I WANTED TO 03:05 BE MADE.' IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY'S GOT THIS PROPENSITY 03:09 TO DO THINGS WRONG - ESPECIALLY A TEN-YEAR-OLD BOY, RIGHT? 03:13 - 'AND IF I SHOULD DIE NOW, I WILL BE TORTURED ETERNALLY.' AND 03:20 I SAID, 'HOW CAN I LOVE A GOD LIKE THAT? 03:25 AND IN MY HEART, I THOUGHT, 'IF THERE'S A GOD LIKE THAT' - 03:27 FORGIVE ME, I SAY THIS JUST TO BE HONEST - I THOUGHT, 'I HATE 03:32 HIM.' I THOUGHT, 'HE'S CRUEL.' BECAUSE I WOULDN'T DO 03:36 THAT TO MY DOG AND I WAS PRETTY BAD. 03:41 WHEN I FINALLY LEARNED WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES ABOUT THIS 03:45 SUBJECT, IT WAS SO LIBERATING FOR ME, IT ENABLED ME TO TRUST 03:49 AND TO LOVE GOD. NOW, JUST - BEFORE ANYONE 03:53 CHANGES THE CHANNEL OR SAYS, 'OH, PASTOR DOUG DOES NOT 03:56 BELIEVE IN HELL OR THE LAKE OF FIRE.' I DO. 04:01 PEOPLE ARE WRONG ABOUT HOW LONG HELL BURNS AND WHEN IT BURNS. 04:08 SO WE'RE GOING TO STUDY THAT FROM THE BIBLE NOW AND OUR 04:11 LESSON TONIGHT IS LESSON NUMBER 10 AND IT'S TITLED THE FINAL 04:15 FIRESTORM . THE FINAL FIRESTORM. IT BEGINS WITH A STORY THAT WE 04:21 KNOW FROM GENESIS CHAPTER 13, THAT TALKS ABOUT LOT. 04:26 ORIGINALLY, ABRAHAM AND LOT WERE TOGETHER WITH THEIR SHEEP, BUT 04:30 BECAUSE THEY HAD SO MANY SHEEP AND THEY - THE SHEPHERDS WERE 04:34 FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER, ABRAHAM SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE 04:37 PROBABLY OUGHT TO SPLIT THINGS UP.' AND LOT LOOKED DOWN AT THE 04:40 VALLEY OF SODOM AND IT SAYS IT WAS WATERED LIKE THE GARDEN OF 04:44 GOD, BACK THEN. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE. 04:47 ABRAHAM, HE SHOOK HIS HEAD BECAUSE IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE - 04:51 GENESIS 13:13 - "THE MEN OF SODOM WERE EXCEEDINGLY WICKED." 04:58 FINALLY, GOD SENT THE ANGELS DOWN - YOU KNOW THE STORY - TO 05:01 SODOM TO RESCUE LOT BEFORE HE DESTROYS IT. 05:06 AND THEY SAID, GENESIS 19, VERSE 17 - "ESCAPE FOR YOUR LIFE! 05:12 DO NOT LOOK BEHIND THEE...ESCAPE TO THE MOUNTAINS, LEST YOU BE 05:16 CONSUMED...THEN THE LORD RAINED UPON SODOM AND UPON GOMORRAH 05:23 BRIMSTONE AND FIRE FROM THE LORD OUT OF HEAVEN." 05:29 THIS IS A REAL EVENT THAT HAPPENED AND THERE IN THAT VERY 05:32 REGION WHERE THEY TELL US THEY EXISTED, THEY CAN FIND - ONLY 05:34 PLACE IN THE WORLD - JUST PEPPERED IN THE GROUND ARE THESE 05:38 SULPHUR BALLS - THAT WHEN THEY HIT THE GROUND, SOME OF THEM 05:41 JUST EXTINGUISHED THEMSELVES ON IMPACT AND IMBEDDED THEMSELVES 05:44 IN THE ASH AND ARE STILL THERE TODAY. 05:47 NOW WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH, THE BIBLE SAYS, IS AN 05:51 ILLUSTRATION OF WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN THE LAST DAYS. 05:55 IT SAYS, "AND GOD, TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH 06:00 INTO ASHES, CONDEMNED THEM WITH AN OVERTHROW, MAKING THEM AN 06:06 EXAMPLE UNTO THOSE THAT AFTER SHOULD LIVE UNGODLY." BY THE 06:10 WAY, WHAT HAPPENED TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT'S 06:13 GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN THE LAST DAYS. WHEN WILL THE 06:17 WICKED BE DESTROYED IN HELLFIRE? 2 PETER CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, "THE 06:23 LORD KNOWETH HOW TO...RESERVE THE UNJUST UNTO THE DAY OF 06:27 JUDGMENT TO BE PUNISHED." IF THEY'RE BEING RESERVED FOR 06:32 PUNISHMENT TIL THEN, WOULD THEY BE BURNING IN A LAKE OF FIRE 06:36 NOW? >>NO. 06:37 >>NO, BECAUSE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED. 06:40 RESURRECTION HASN'T HAPPENED, RIGHT? 06:42 JESUS SAID, JOHN 12:48, "...THE WORD THAT I HAVE SPOKEN, THE 06:46 SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE LOST - "IN THE 06:49 LAST DAY." THE JUDGMENT HAPPENS WHEN? 06:52 THE LAST DAY. FURTHERMORE, YOU CAN READ - 06:55 JESUS TELLS A PARABLE - MATTHEW CHAPTER 13, VERSE 40 - 06:58 "AS THEREFORE THE TARES" - THOSE ARE WEEDS - "ARE GATHERED AND 07:02 BURNED IN THE FIRE; SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END OF THIS WORLD. 07:09 THE SON OF MAN SHALL SEND FORTH HIS ANGELS, AND THEY SHALL 07:12 GATHER....THEM WHICH DO INIQUITY; AND SHALL CAST THEM 07:16 INTO A FURNACE OF FIRE." IS IT HAPPENING NOW? NO. 07:20 IF THE WICKED WHO HAVE DIED ARE NOT YET IN HELL, THEN ACCORDING 07:26 TO THE BIBLE, WHERE ARE THEY? LET THE BIBLE TELL US. 07:30 JESUS SAID - JOHN 5:28 AND 29 - "...THE HOUR IS COMING" - THAT'S 07:35 FUTURE TENSE, RIGHT? - "IN THE WHICH ALL THAT ARE" - WHERE? 07:38 - "IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH;" - 07:43 THEN HE DESCRIBES THE TWO RESURRECTIONS - "THEY THAT HAVE 07:46 DONE GOOD, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE 07:48 EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION." 07:50 THAT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION. THAT'S WHEN THEY GET THEIR 07:53 REWARD. THE HOUR IS COMING WHEN THEY'LL 07:55 BE REWARDED. IT'S IN THE FUTURE. 07:57 IT SAYS, "THE WICKED IS RESERVED TO THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION, YET 08:03 HE WILL BE BROUGHT TO THE" - WHERE? 08:05 - "THE GRAVE AND WILL REMAIN IN THE TOMB." 08:09 THEY'RE ASLEEP. YOU CAN PUT R.I.P - REST IN 08:13 PEACE - ON ANY GRAVE BECAUSE, UNTIL THE JUDGMENT, THEY'RE 08:16 AWARE OF NOTHING. ISN'T THAT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? 08:19 QUESTION #4 - START AT THE BEGINNING - WHAT IS THE REWARD 08:24 OR PUNISHMENT FOR SIN? WHAT DID GOD SAY? 08:28 ROMANS 6:23, "FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH; BUT THE GIFT OF 08:35 GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD." 08:38 YOU REMEMBER IN THE BIBLE, WHEN GOD SAID TO ADAM AND EVE, 'DO 08:43 NOT EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT OR YOU WILL DIE.' THE PENALTY FOR 08:47 THAT SIN WAS DEATH. THE DEVIL SAID TO EVE, THROUGH 08:51 THE SERPENT - SHE SAID, 'OH, GOD SAID IF WE EAT IT WE'LL DIE - 08:55 GOD SAID WE'LL DIE.' AND THE DEVIL SAID, 'DON'T BELIEVE GOD, 08:58 YOU'LL NOT REALLY DIE. YOU'RE IMMORTAL. 09:01 YOU'LL EITHER LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN OR YOU'LL LIVE FOREVER IN 09:04 HELL, BUT YOU CAN'T DIE. YOU'LL BE LIKE GODS.' SEE THE 09:06 DEVIL TRIED TO INSTILL WITHIN MAN WHAT HE DESIRES. 09:09 THE DEVIL IS CONSUMED WITH THE TRUTH. 09:12 IT TEARS HIM UP THAT HE IS NOT GOD AND THAT HE IS NOT IMMORTAL. 09:16 EVEN THE DEVIL HAS AN END. SO, GOD SAID, EVEN AFTER MAN 09:21 SINNED, 'WE NEED TO DRIVE MAN FROM THE GARDEN, LEST HE PUT OUT 09:24 HIS HAND AND TAKE ALSO OF THE TREE OF LIFE AND EAT AND LIVE 09:28 FOREVER.' WAS MAN EVICTED FROM THE GARDEN? 09:32 >>YES. >>THEN WE DON'T HAVE THAT 09:33 IMMORTALITY. WE ARE - HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO 09:36 DIE. SINNERS DO NOT LIVE FOREVER. 09:39 WHAT ARE THE ONLY TWO CHOICES FOR ALL MEN? IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 09:44 NOQ THE STRONGEST VERSE TO PROVE THIS POINT IS THE MOST POPULAR 09:49 VERSE IN THE BIBLE. WHAT IS THAT? 09:51 >>JOHN 3:16. >>JOHN 3:16. 09:53 WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT WITH ME? "THAT WHOSOEVER 09:56 BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING 10:02 LIFE." THIS TRANSLATES THE SAME IN ANY LANGUAGE. 10:04 WHAT DID JESUS DO ON THE CROSS? >>DIED. 10:07 >>IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS ETERNAL BURNING, THEN JESUS DID 10:13 NOT PAY THE FULL PRICE ON THE CROSS BECAUSE HE'S NOT STILL 10:15 BURNING, IS HE? THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. JESUS DIED. 10:19 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT ETERNAL TORMENT. 10:21 QUESTION #6: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED IN HELLFIRE? 10:26 PSALMS 37 - HERE'S OUR ANSWER - VERSE 10 AND VERSE 20 - "FOR YET 10:31 A LITTLE WHILE, AND THE WICKED SHALL NOT BE...BUT THE WICKED 10:35 SHALL PERISH...INTO SMOKE THEY SHALL CONSUME AWAY." 10:41 WHAT KIND OF WORDS CAN WE USE THAT ARE BETTER TO EXPLAIN THESE 10:44 THINGS? LOOK IN MALACHI CHAPTER 4, VERSES 1 AND 3. 10:48 THE BIBLE SAYS, "...THE DAY COMETH, THAT SHALL BURN AS AN 10:51 OVEN; AND ALL...THAT DO WICKEDLY, SHALL BE STUBBLE: AND 10:55 THE DAY THAT COMETH SHALL BURN THEM UP." 11:00 NOW WHEN SOMETHING'S BURNT UP, WHAT'S LEFT? 11:02 "AND YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED; FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES 11:05 UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET." WHERE WILL HELLFIRE BE LOCATED? 11:11 YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 9 - IT SAYS, "AND THEY 11:15 WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP 11:19 OF THE SAINTS ABOUT." SO BEFORE GOD RAINS THAT FIRE 11:22 AND BRIMSTONE DOWN, WHERE - WHERE IS THE DEVIL AND ALL THE 11:26 FORCES OF GOG AND MAGOG - ALL THE WICKED? ON THE EARTH. 11:30 AND IT SAYS, "AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND" - 11:35 WHAT? - "DEVOURED THEM." WHERE IS IT? ON THE EARTH. 11:37 YOU CAN READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "...THE ELEMENTS 11:41 SHALL MELT WITH" - WHAT KIND OF HEAT? - 11:45 >>FERVENT HEAT. >>"FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO 11:47 AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP." 11:49 AND YET, HOW MANY OF US HAVE HEARD, 'HELL IS SOMEWHERE DOWN 11:53 YONDER'? RIGHT? THE DEVIL ISN'T DOWN THERE 11:58 SOMEWHERE IN THE MOLTEN, UNDER THE GROUND. 12:00 WHEN GOD SAYS, IN THE BOOK OF JOB, 'SATAN, WHERE'D YOU COME 12:03 FROM?' HE DIDN'T SAY, 'I CAME FROM A 12:04 HOLE IN THE EARTH.' HE SAID, 'I CAME FROM WALKING TO AND FRO ON 12:07 THE EARTH.' I'LL TELL YOU WHY PEOPLE GET THAT IDEA. 12:11 IT OFTEN TALKS ABOUT DESCENDING INTO HELL, IN THE BIBLE, AND 12:14 THOSE TERMS ARE - MANY OF THEM - ARE FROM HEBREW. IT'S A WORD 12:19 CALLED SHEOL IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IT MEANS GRAVE. 12:24 THE WORD THAT YOU FIND IN THE OLD TESTAMENT FREQUENTLY - THOU 12:27 WILL NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL - THAT TRANSLATES SHEOL - THAT 12:31 JUST MEANS GRAVE. THAT'S ALL IT MEANS. 12:33 FOUR WORDS IN THE BIBLE ARE TRANSLATED FOR HELL: SHEOL, IN 12:37 THE OLD TESTAMENT; IN THE NEW TESTAMENT YOU'VE GOT THREE. 12:40 YOU'VE GOT GEHENNA, WHICH WAS A VALLEY OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM 12:43 CALLED THE VALLEY OF HINNOM. YOU'VE GOT HADES, WHICH COMES 12:47 FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, AND YOU'VE GOT TARTARUS - 12:50 IT'S ONLY USED ONE TIME IN THE WRITINGS OF PETER. 12:52 GEHENNA WAS THE CITY DUMP - THE VALLEY OF HINNOM - THEY USED TO 12:58 HAVE IDOLS THERE AND SO THEY DECIDED TO MAKE IT A CITY DUMP 13:00 BECAUSE THEY HAD WORSHIPED PAGAN IMAGES DOWN THERE AND ALL OF THE 13:05 REFUSE WAS PUT IN THERE AND THEY - WHEN AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL DIED IT 13:08 WENT TO GEHENNA AND THEY HAD THEIR OLD BASKETS THERE AND OLD 13:12 CLOTH THERE AND EVERY NOW AND THEN SOMEONE WOULD THROW THEIR 13:14 ASHES OUT THERE AND IT WAS SMOLDERING BECAUSE THEY STILL 13:18 HAD HOT COALS IN IT. SO THEY LET IT BURN - IT WAS 13:20 GOOD - IT KEPT THE GASSES DOWN AND IT HELPED CONSUME THINGS. 13:24 ANY OF YOU EVER BURN GARBAGE? AND SO JESUS IS REFERENCING - 13:27 ONE OF HIS REFERENCES TO HELL HE TALKS ABOUT A PLACE WHERE THE 13:30 WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED. 13:32 IT WAS FULL OF WORMS AND DEAD BODIES AND MAGGOTS AND IT WAS 13:35 SMOLDERING AND - THAT'S GEHENNA. THAT'S THE WORD THAT HE USES 13:38 FOR GEHENNA. QUESTION #8: WILL THE DEVIL BE 13:41 IN CHARGE OF HELLFIRE? NO. REVELATION 20:10, "AND THE DEVIL 13:47 THAT DECEIVED THEM WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE." 13:53 YOU CAN SAY 'AMEN' THERE. THAT'S GOOD NEWS. 13:56 I MEAN, IF ANYONE DESERVES TO GO THERE, HE DOES, RIGHT? 14:00 HE STARTED ALL THE PROBLEMS. HE'S NOT IN CHARGE. 14:03 A LOT OF WHAT HAS COME INTO CHRISTIANITY TRICKLED IN FROM 14:09 THE GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS BECAUSE CHRISTIANITY ABSOLUTELY 14:13 EXPLODED IN GROWTH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE, DURING THE TIME OF PAUL. 14:20 I MEAN, EVEN PAUL SAYS THE GOSPEL'S BEEN PREACHED TO EVERY 14:23 CREATURE. THE CHURCH GREW SO QUICKLY - PENTECOST - 14:25 THOUSANDS WERE BAPTIZED. MIRACLES WERE HAPPENING. 14:28 AND A LOT OF THE PAGANS WERE ONLY HALF CONVERTED. 14:31 THEY CAME IN AND, NOT BEING PROPERLY TAUGHT, THEY TRIED TO 14:34 MIX UP THE TRUTHS FROM THE WORD OF GOD ABOUT THE DEVIL AND HELL 14:39 AND THEY GOT IT MIXED UP WITH GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND PLUTO AND 14:42 HADES AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS STAYED FOR YEARS. 14:47 BUT IT'S NOT A BIBLICAL THING, IT'S A GREEK MYTH THAT FOUND ITS 14:50 WAY INTO THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES IT SAY 14:53 THE DEVIL'S IN CHARGE OF HELL, DOES IT? NO. 14:56 QUESTION #9: WILL THE FIRES OF HELL EVER GO OUT? 14:59 THIS IS THE - THIS IS A BIG QUESTION WHERE I WANT TO SPEND A 15:03 MOMENT. ISAIAH 47, VERSE 14. 15:06 IT SAYS, "...THERE SHALL NOT BE A COAL TO WARM AT, NOR FIRE TO 15:12 SIT BEFORE IT." IT SAYS YOU'LL GO FORTH - THE 15:16 WICKED ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET. 15:18 AFTER GOD RAINS THAT FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN UPON THE WICKED, IT 15:22 FORMS A LAKE OUTSIDE THE CITY OF GOD. 15:25 BUT, ULTIMATELY, IT GOES OUT. IT SAYS YOU'LL GO FORTH AND YOU 15:29 TREAD UPON THE WICKED BECAUSE THEY ARE ASHES UNDER THE SOLES 15:32 OF YOUR FEET. BLESSED ARE THE MEEK - THEY WILL 15:34 INHERIT WHAT? >>THE EARTH. 15:36 >>THE EARTH. IT'S THE MEEK ARE WALKING OUT. 15:38 I HEARD A PASTOR SAY ONE TIME, 'TODAY SHEEP GRAZE WHERE 15:41 DINOSAURS THUNDERED. AND CHRISTIANS WILL WALK WHERE 15:46 THE WICKED ONCE RULED.' THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 15:49 QUESTION #10: ARE BOTH THE SOUL AND THE BODY DESTROYED IN HELL? 15:54 NOW, IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE PASTOR DOUG, WILL YOU BELIEVE PASTOR 15:57 JESUS? SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, DOUG, YOU'RE RIGHT. 16:01 THE BODIES DON'T BURN FOREVER, BUT THE SOULS BURN FOREVER.' 16:05 I'VE HEARD SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT. OH, LET'S SEE WHAT JESUS SAID. 16:07 MATTHEW 10:28, HE SAID, "FEAR NOT THEM WHICH KILL THE BODY, 16:12 BUT ARE NOT ABLE TO KILL THE SOUL: BUT RATHER FEAR HIM WHICH 16:17 IS ABLE TO DESTROY" - TO DO WHAT? - 16:20 "DESTROY BOTH SOUL AND BODY IN HELL." WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 16:28 HE SAID FEAR THE ONE WHO COULD DESTROY SOUL AND BODY. 16:31 HE SAID DON'T FEAR THE DEVIL, HE CAN ONLY HURT YOUR BODY, BUT GOD 16:33 IS THE ONE WHO CAN DESTROY SOUL AND BODY IN HELL. 16:37 AND THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD FEAR. NOW WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THE SOUL 16:41 AND BODY ARE GONE? NOTHING. FOR WHOM WILL HELLFIRE BE 16:46 KINDLED? MATTHEW CHAPTER 25, VERSE 41 - 16:50 JESUS, WHEN HE SEPARATES THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS IN THIS 16:53 PARABLE HE SAYS TO THE WICKED, "DEPART FROM ME, YE CURSED, INTO 16:55 EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS." 17:02 'WELL, THERE YOU HAVE IT, PASTOR DOUG: EVERLASTING FIRE. 17:05 IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO LAST FOREVER.' STAY WITH ME, WE'LL 17:08 GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE. 17:09 BUT IS THE DEVIL IN CHARGE OF HELL OR DOES IT SAY THAT HE - 17:14 HELL IS PREPARED FOR HIM AND HIS ANGELS. 17:17 SO IT'S NOT JUST SATAN, ALL THE FALLEN ANGELS AND THE DEMONS 17:20 THAT FOLLOWED HIM, THEY'RE GOING TO GET THAT SAME PUNISHMENT. 17:23 HOW DOES THE BIBLE REFER TO GOD'S DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED? 17:28 IS IT SOMETHING HE ENJOYS? NO. 17:32 ISAIAH CHAPTER 28, VERSE 21, IT SAYS, "FOR THE LORD...SHALL BE 17:37 WROTH...THAT HE MAY DO HIS WORK, HIS STRANGE WORK; AND BRING TO 17:41 PASS HIS ACT, HIS STRANGE ACT." SOMEONE ASKED EARLIER IN ONE OF 17:46 THE QUESTIONS, 'HOW CAN A GOD OF LOVE DESTROY?' 17:49 DOES HE ENJOY THAT? DOES GOD LIKE DESTROYING? 17:53 REMEMBER WHEN GOD DESTROYED THE WORLD IN THE DAYS OF NOAH? 17:55 HE USED WATER. ARE THEY STILL DROWNING TODAY OR 17:57 ARE THEY GONE? HE SAID, 'NEXT TIME I'LL DO IT 18:01 WITH FIRE.' BUT HE'S GOING TO DESTROY THE WORLD AGAIN. 18:04 BUT IT SAYS IT GRIEVED GOD AT HIS HEART THAT HE MADE MAN. 18:09 HE WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT WHAT HE HAD TO DO, IT BROKE HIS HEART. 18:11 GOD WANTS TO MAKE LIFE. HE WANTS TO SAVE LIFE. 18:14 IF YOU DOUBT THAT, WHY DID JESUS COME? 18:15 BECAUSE HE'S DESPERATE TO SAVE US. 18:18 WHEN HE HAS TO DESTROY THE LOST, KNOW YOU DO NOT LOVE YOUR 18:23 CHILDREN MORE THAN GOD LOVES HIS CHILDREN. 18:25 IT HURTS GOD INFINITELY MORE THAN IT WOULD HURT ANY EARTHLY 18:31 PARENT TO HAVE TO TAKE THE LIFE OF THEIR OWN CHILD. 18:34 JESUS IS A LOVER OF GOOD. HE IS A LOVER OF LIFE. 18:39 HE WANTS TO GIVE LIFE. I'LL TELL YOU A QUICK STORY. 18:43 WHEN I LIVED UP IN THE MOUNTAINS, I TOLD YOU I LIVED IN 18:47 A CAVE FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AND I COOKED ON A FIRE 18:51 EVERY DAY. AND I REMEMBER, ONE NIGHT - I 18:55 HAD A CAT UP THERE - I THINK I SHOWED YOU A PICTURE, IF YOU 18:58 WERE HERE, OF MY CAT STRANGER. AND I NEVER BOUGHT CAT FOOD. 19:01 EVERY NOW AND THEN I'D THROW HIM A LITTLE SOMETHING, BUT HE 19:03 PRETTY MUCH TOOK CARE OF HIMSELF BECAUSE HE WAS A GOOD HUNTER. 19:06 ONE NIGHT, I WAS COOKING MY DINNER; STRANGER HAD CAUGHT A 19:09 LITTLE KANGAROO RAT. NOW, YOU KNOW, CATS ARE A LITTLE BIT 19:13 SADISTIC. THEY LIKE TO PLAY WITH THEIR FOOD. 19:16 AND THAT POOR LITTLE DAZED KANGAROO RAT, HE TRIED TO BOUNCE 19:19 AND HOP AWAY AND HE HOPPED RIGHT INTO THE FIRE. NOW I - IT NEVER 19:26 FAILS TO GET A GASP FROM THE AUDIENCE WHEN I TELL THAT STORY. 19:30 HERE YOU ARE, I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT THIS LITTLE MOUSE THAT 19:34 WENT INTO THE FIRE, AND IT JUST BREAKS YOUR HEARTS, DOESN'T IT? 19:36 THAT LITTLE THING - JUST THE IDEA OF THE LITTLE RAT 19:38 SUFFERING. NOW IT SEEMED LIKE A LONG TIME 19:42 BUT I WATCHED IT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST - IT SQUEAKED AND WRITHED 19:45 FOR PROBABLY TWO OR THREE SECONDS AND IT STOPPED - AND IT 19:48 PROBABLY EVEN HURTS YOU TO THINK ABOUT THAT. A MOUSE. 19:51 YOU DON'T WANT IT TO HAPPEN TO A MOUSE AND YET, MANY CHRISTIANS 19:57 BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO DO THAT AND MUCH WORSE TO HUMANS 20:00 FOREVER. THINK ABOUT THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU SAY 20:04 ANYTHING AGAINST IT PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU DON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE!' 20:07 SURE YOU DO. NOW, THERE ARE SOME VERSES THAT 20:09 ARE CONFUSING AND WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THOSE. 20:11 QUESTION #13: DOESN'T THE BIBLE PHRASE UNQUENCHABLE FIRE 20:15 INDICATE THAT THE FIRE NEVER GOES OUT? 20:18 WELL, NO. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO QUENCH? 20:23 QUENCH IS A VERB THAT MEANS TO EXTINGUISH. 20:27 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: INTERPRET THE BIBLE WITH THE 20:31 BIBLE. THERE'S A RULE. LET THE BIBLE BE ITS OWN 20:34 EXPOSITOR. IT DOESN'T CONTRADICT ITSELF. 20:36 YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 3, VERSE 12, IT 20:40 SAYS, "HE WILL THOROUGHLY PURGE HIS FLOOR, AND GATHER HIS WHEAT 20:44 INTO THE GARNER; BUT HE WILL BURN UP" - WHAT DOES BURN UP 20:48 MEAN? GONE - "HE WILL BURN UP THE 20:51 CHAFF" - SPEAKING OF THE WICKED - "WITH UNQUENCHABLE FIRE." 20:55 THAT MEANS NO ONE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE THAT 20:58 GOD IS GOING TO USE TO PUNISH THE WICKED. 21:01 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN - THE HOUSE CATCHES ON FIRE - OR HEAVEN 21:04 FORBID IF A PERSON'S CLOTHES CATCH ON FIRE WHILE THEY'RE 21:07 COOKING? QUICKLY YOU QUENCH IT. 21:09 BUT THERE'LL BE NOBODY QUENCHING THE LAKE OF FIRE. 21:13 ARE WE GOING TO SIT ON THE WALLS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM AND LOOK 21:16 OUT ON THE WICKED BURNING THROUGH CEASELESS AGES - 21:19 EATING POPCORN FOR ENTERTAINMENT? 21:22 (LAUGHTER) THAT'S SOME IDEA - SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT GOD HAS A 21:27 TORTURE CHAMBER SOMEWHERE WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU PAY ADMISSION YOU 21:32 GET TO WATCH THE WICKED BURN. YOUR ENEMIES - YEP. 21:34 THEY'RE STILL BURNING. FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER. 21:37 NO, WHEN IT SAYS THAT THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED, IT SIMPLY MEANS 21:42 THERE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ANY FIREMEN IN HELL. 21:46 THERE IS NOBODY GOING AROUND - NO FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING OUT THE 21:49 FIRE. NOBODY EXTINGUISHING THE FIRE. 21:52 THEY ARE GOING TO BURN, UNINTERRUPTED UNTIL THEY ARE 21:56 CONSUMED. THAT'S THE WORD THAT IS USED. 21:59 IF YOU QUENCH A FIRE BEFORE IT STOPS - YOU PUT OUT A LOG BEFORE 22:03 IT'S BURNED UP, YOU CAN BURN IT AGAIN LATER. 22:06 GOD IS SAYING WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED IS - THERE IS NO 22:09 ESSENCE LEFT. IT IS BURNED UP. 22:11 MATTER OF FACT, MALACHI 4: IT LEAVES THEM NEITHER 22:13 ROOT NOR BRANCH. NOTHING IS LEFT. 22:15 QUESTION #14: DOESN'T THE PHRASE EVERLASTING FIRE MEAN UNENDING? 22:22 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE WORD MEANS, AGAIN, LETTING THE BIBLE 22:26 INTERPRET ITSELF. JUDE 7, "EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRAH...ARE SET 22:31 FORTH FOR AN EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE." 22:37 THE FIRE THAT BURNED THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH BURNT THEM 22:40 UP. THERE IS NOTHING LEFT ANYMORE. THE RESULTS OF THE FIRE 22:43 OF THE WICKED ARE ETERNAL. THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING. 22:47 GOD IS SAYING 'SIN IS A DEADLY CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. I LOVE YOU. 22:51 I DON'T WANT YOU TO PERISH, BUT THE DISEASE IS GOING TO TAKE YOU 22:54 IF YOU DON'T COME TO ME.' HE'LL HAVE NO ALTERNATIVE. 22:59 HE CAN'T LET IT SPREAD AMONG HIS OTHER CHILDREN IN THE UNIVERSE. 23:02 IT'S GOING TO BREAK HIS HEART. BUT THE WICKED WILL BE PUNISHED. 23:05 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, BUT IT DOESN'T BURN FOREVER AND EVER. 23:08 QUESTION #15: WHEN REVELATION 20, VERSE 10 SAYS THAT THE 23:12 WICKED WILL BE TORMENTED FOREVER AND EVER, DOESN'T THAT INDICATE 23:15 ENDLESS TIME? NOW THIS IS ONE OF THE VERSES 23:20 THAT I WILL ADMITTEDLY SAY CAUSES PEOPLE SOME CONCERN. 23:23 AGAIN, LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF. 23:26 IT SAYS THAT YOU COULD HAVE A HEBREW SLAVE; AT THE END OF SIX 23:29 YEARS, IF YOUR SLAVE LOVED YOU AND HE WANTED TO STAY, YOU WENT 23:32 THROUGH THIS RITUAL AND IT SAID HE WILL SERVE HIM FOREVER. 23:36 HOW LONG DID THAT MEAN? UNTIL HE DIED. 23:38 WHEN HANNAH BROUGHT SAMUEL TO THE TEMPLE SHE SAID, 'HE WILL 23:41 ABIDE HERE FOREVER.' HOW LONG DID THAT MEAN? 23:45 UNTIL HE DIED. IN 1 SAMUEL 1:28 SHE EXPLAINS IT 23:49 HERSELF AND SAYS, 'AS LONG AS HE LIVES'. 23:50 THE TERM 'FOREVER' MEANT FOR THE REMAINDER OF YOUR EXISTENCE. 23:55 SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE WICKED BURNING FOREVER AND EVER, 23:58 THE WORD THERE USED IN GREEK IS EON. 24:00 FOREVER AND EVER IS A BIBLICAL EXPRESSION WHICH MEANS UNTIL THE 24:03 END OF THE AGE, NOT NECESSARILY AN INFINITE UNENDING LENGTH OF 24:08 TIME. QUESTION #16: AFTER SIN AND 24:12 SINNERS ARE DESTROYED, WHAT WILL JESUS DO FOR HIS PEOPLE? 24:15 YOU CAN READ HERE IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 13, 24:19 "NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW 24:23 HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS." 24:28 THERE'S NO MORE PAIN THERE. YOU READ IN REVELATION 21, 24:32 VERSE 4, "AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL 24:35 TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER 24:39 SORROW, NOR CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE" - WHAT? 24:45 - "PAIN:" - NO MORE PAIN - "FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED 24:49 AWAY...BEHOLD, I MAKE ALL THINGS NEW" GOD SAYS. 24:52 IS GOD GOING TO IMMORTALIZE SATAN AND SINNERS IN A TORTURE 24:55 CHAMBER SOMEWHERE IN THE COSMOS? NO, NOT THEIR BODIES, NOT THEIR 25:00 SOULS. HE IS GOING TO MAKE ALL THINGS 25:02 NEW. THERE ARE NO HOLDOVERS - NO 25:05 CHANCE OF THE DEVIL ESCAPING AGAIN. 25:08 QUESTION #17: WILL THE SIN PROBLEM EVER RISE AGAIN? 25:12 IT TELLS US IN THE BOOK OF NAHUM 1, VERSE 9, "... AFFLICTION 25:17 SHALL NOT RISE UP THE SECOND TIME." PRAISE GOD! THIS TERRIBLE 25:22 INTERRUPTION IN GOD'S PERFECT UNIVERSE, FOR THE LAST SIX 25:26 THOUSAND YEARS, IS GOING TO DEMONSTRATE FOR ALL ETERNITY 25:29 THAT GOD IS LOVE AND NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE TO DOUBT HIS LOVE 25:32 AGAIN. IS THERE A HELLFIRE? IS THERE? YES. IS IT BURNING YET? 25:37 >>NO. >>NO. 25:39 DOES IT BURN FOREVER? >>NO. 25:42 >>WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY WILL HAPPEN TO THE WICKED? 25:43 THEY ARE CONSUMED - THESE ARE BIBLE WORDS - THEY ARE DEVOURED; 25:47 THEY ARE BURNT UP; THEY PERISH; NEVER SHALL THEY BE ANYMORE; 25:52 WHAT OTHER LANGUAGE IS GOD GOING TO USE TO EXPLAIN THIS - THAT HE 25:56 WANTS TO MAKE IT AS CLEAR AS IT CAN BE? 25:58 AND THE REASON IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT, 26:01 FRIENDS, IS BECAUSE GOD WANTS US TO TRUST HIM. 26:04 GOD WANTS US TO LOVE HIM. YES, WE'RE TO REVERE AND HONOR 26:07 GOD AND FEAR HIM IN THAT RESPECT, BUT HE DOESN'T WANT US 26:10 TO LIVE OUR LIVES IN TERROR. THE BIBLE SAYS THE FEARFUL WILL 26:13 BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. HE DOESN'T WANT US TO LIVE BY 26:16 FEAR. HE WANTS US TO LIVE BY FAITH. 26:18 AMEN? >>AMEN. (MUSIC) 26:24 >>EVERYONE KNOWS THE BIBLE'S CLEAR THERE ARE ONLY TWO 26:26 DESTINIES: HEAVEN AND HELL. BUT THERE ARE MORE 26:29 MISUNDERSTANDINGS OVER THE SUBJECT OF HELL THAN VIRTUALLY 26:32 ANY OTHER BIBLE DOCTRINE. THE CONCEPT OF THIS PLACE OF 26:36 NEVER-ENDING TORMENT IS NOT BIBLICAL. 26:38 IF YOU'D LIKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT AND 26:41 UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURES THAT ARE OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD, THEN 26:44 WE'D LIKE TO SEND YOU THIS FREE OFFER - IT'S A BOOK CALLED 26:47 HELLFIRE: A TWISTED TRUTH UNTANGLED . 26:50 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE 26:54 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #773. 26:58 AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ 27:01 IT AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET THE WORD 27:04 OUT, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 27:08 (CRICKETS CHIRPING) (SPRINKLER TURNING ON) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 27:34 (DOG BARKING) (FIRE ALARM BEEPING) 27:52 >>MOMMY! DADDY! HELP ME! 27:54 (HOKEY MUSIC) >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO. 27:59 YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR REPORT CARD LAST QUARTER SO, NO. 28:03 >>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY, YOU 28:06 WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED HELP WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT. 28:09 HELP YOURSELF! >>HUH? 28:11 >>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS? (HOKEY MUSIC) 28:16 (COUGHING) (EMERGENCY SIRENS) (DRAMATIC MUSIC) 28:40 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 28:44 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 28:53 >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, 28:55 VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM. 29:03 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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