Hell. Absolute finality.
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Hans Memling, a
fifteenth century artist,
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pictured hell in his painting
entitled "The last judgment".
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And where did I
see this picture?
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In a religious book?
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On a church wall?
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No.
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In "Newsweek".
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It says here and I quote:
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"Thinking of the
end of the world,"
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"by contemplating ones own end,"
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"is a painful process."
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"Sinners have
reason to fear a God"
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"who having chosen
to create the world"
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"can also choose to destroy it."
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Hello!
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I am Karen Byrd.
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Would you believe a book that
could predict 4 world empires
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and now a divided Europe
thousands of years in advance?
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If you answered "yes",
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you need to know this
book also predicts the complete
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destruction of the
Earth as we now know it,
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with a cataclysmic fire.
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"Hell" is the term
applied to this event.
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There is a great
deal of misinformation
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about this subject.
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So today Charles is going in
search of the truth about hell.
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He'll even be showing us
the place in the Middle East
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where hell got
its bad reputation.
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Join us as we go in search
for the good news about hell.
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Last time we learned that
the judgment ends in a bad way
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for those who are lost.
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We read from
Revelation 20 verses 9 and 10:
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Burning in a lake of fire.
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This whole thing
seems so gruesome.
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But most Christians,
Protestants and Catholics alike,
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believe in hell.
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And most believe that
this punishment of the wicked
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goes on and on for
a billion millennia
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and then hell is just beginning.
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Can you see it?
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Mothers who are lost burning
in pain but never able to die,
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listening to the
screams of their small children
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begging, pleading for
mercy that will never come.
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Young men writhing in agony
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cursing their fathers and
mothers for giving them life.
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Someone like Adolph Hitler
would deserve that much pain
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for all the
grief that he caused.
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What about the construction
worker who lived his whole life
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minding his own business.
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He never murdered
anyone, he paid his taxes,
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held a steady job
provided for his family
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but never quite got around to
considering eternity, judgment
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and God.
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Never actually accepted
Jesus' sacrifice on the cross.
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Never really knew God.
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Would a God of love
burn him for eternity?
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Tormented and screaming
in pain just like Hitler?
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Always burning, burning
but never able to burn up?
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I believe that honest
people can make honest mistakes.
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And in my search for the truth
I have gone through this book
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from cover to
cover multiple times.
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Read casually, there are a
few texts that can make you come
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to the conclusion that there
is a hell burning right now.
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And those who are lost
go there and burn forever.
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Unfortunately less than honest
clergy have used these passages
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of Scripture to scare
people into being good
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so they will be
able to go to Heaven.
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Some even used these
texts to encourage donations
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to a particular church to ensure
they will not end up in hell.
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But wouldn't that be
the righteousness by fear
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instead of
righteousness by faith?
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Today we're going to
take an honest look at hell.
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And even visit the valley
of Gahanna, outside Jerusalem.
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And I believe that when we
are done, your picture of God
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and His love will be much clear.
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I'm not going to give you
my opinions or my preferences
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but a plain
"Thus saith the Lord".
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Today as you listen you'll
learn the good news about hell.
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While we'll wont be able to look
at every text on this subject
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in the time we have together,
we will make available to you
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a study guide at
the end of the program
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that will be an excellent tool
in considering this topic frame.
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The first thing that may
surprise you is that I know
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exactly how many souls are
in hell at this very moment.
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No I don't get an early
edition newspaper each day
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but I do have the Scriptures.
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Let's look at
what it says together.
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In Mathew, chapter 13.
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Jesus was telling a
parable, a story to help people
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understand His Kingdom.
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He told of a man who had
a field planted with wheat
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and one night an enemy
of his came into the field
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and planted tares or weeds.
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The weeds were most
likely the bearded darnel.
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This common Palestinian
plant grows about 2 feet tall
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and in its earlier stages it's
indistinguishable from weed.
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Only when the plant matures
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and the seeds of
the darnel turn black
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is easy to tell the difference.
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These seeds are poisonous.
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And if eaten produce a violent
nausea, diarrhea, convulsions
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and sometimes death.
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The growing season begins and
the servants are positive about
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a good crop
growing in the field.
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But as the weeds
turns of golden brown
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and the bearded
darnel turns black
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they realize
they have a problem.
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The master of the field tells
his workers that he'll let them
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alone until the harvest.
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And at that time they will
separate the weed and the tares.
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The tares will
be burnt with fire.
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Listen carefully as
Jesus interprets this parable
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for his disciples.
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The enemy that
sowed them is the devil.
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The harvest is
the end of the world.
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Notice this:
when is the harvest?
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The end of the world.
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And the reapers?
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They are the angels.
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As there for the tares are
gathered and burnt in the fire
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so shall it be in
the end of this world.
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It is clear that we cannot have
come to the end of this world
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because we're still here.
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So the burning
cannot have started yet.
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And our last problem we learned
that the judgment has 3 phases
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It is the third, the last phase,
the penalty phase that Jesus
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is talking about in John
chapter 12 verse 48 when He says
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The last day judgment is
when sinners will be cast
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in the hell fire at
the end of the world
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not when they die.
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God would not punish that person
in fire until his case was tried
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and decided in court.
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This is the very reason for the
first 2 phases of the judgment.
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So how many lost souls are
being punished in hell today?
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None.
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There is not one single
soul in hell fire today.
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It's true
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Look what Peter says:
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Yes, there is a day
when punishment will happen.
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Indeed there is a day when
the tares, the wicked will be
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burned up.
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But is not going
on right now, not yet.
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Not until the end of the world
in the final phase of judgment.
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So where are sinner
who have already died?
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Where is Genghis
Khan or Adolph Hitler?
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They where bad people.
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And undoubtedly they
will not be in Heaven.
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So, didn't they
already go to hell?
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No.
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Jesus is absolutely
clear on this point.
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Jesus said that there
would be a resurrection
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and that will be for
the purpose of damnation.
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If you look up
the word "damnation"
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in the American
Heritage Dictionary
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it gives you the
following definition:
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That's the same definition
found in Mathew 25,46.
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But notice the word doesn't say
"punishing" it says "punishment"
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What is that
everlasting punishment?
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The Bible clearly teach
us what that punishment is.
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Romans chapter 6 verse 23 says:
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But the gift of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ.
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James 1, 15 says:
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John 3, 16 says:
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Death is the
termination of life,
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the extinction of something.
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The Bible is clear on this.
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The wages or punishment for sin
is death not everlasting life
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in hell fire.
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The wicked perish says Jesus in
John 3, 16; in contrast to those
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who are saved and who
receive everlasting life.
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And some might honestly
ask: "But doesn't Jesus in His
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parable of the sheep and the
goat say to those who are lost
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"Doesn't everlasting
fire means it burns forever?"
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At first glance
I would say "Yes".
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But we must let the
Bible explain itself.
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I'd like you to consider another
passage with the very same
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Greek word only this time
it's translated "eternal".
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"Eternal",
"forever" it's the same thing.
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It's found in Jude verse 7:
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Sodom and Gomorrah were such
wicked cities that we still use
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the word "sodomy" in our
legal system today to describe
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heinous immorality.
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The people of Sodom and Gomorrah
were so corrupt that God
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destroyed them with fire.
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And not just any
fire according to Jude:
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While in the Middle East, I took
these pictures very near where
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Sodom and
Gomorrah would have been.
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There is no fire burning there.
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I can assure you if it was
it would be a tourist site.
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So why do the writers of
the Bible use the word "forever"
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if they don't mean "forever"?
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The answer is actually
simpler than you might think.
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They use the word in just
the same way we use it today.
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Sometimes when we use "forever"
we mean "forever without end"
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and we say things like "no one
can live forever, we all have"
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"to die sometime."
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But sometimes we use "forever"
to mean a certain amount of time
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we say things like "Bob
was forever complaining about"
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"the job" or "you
kept me waiting forever".
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In fact, did you know that the
term "forever" is used 56 times
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in the Bible in connection with
things that have already ended?
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Jonah, for example, was in
the belly of a fish for 3 days
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and nights.
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And he said in Jonah 2:6 that
he was imprisoned there forever.
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Here "forever" equals 3 days.
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In Deuteronomy 23,3 the word
"forever" means 10 generations.
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This is what we've learned from
an exhaustive study of the term.
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"Forever" means: As long as
the nature of that thing is.
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For example:
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Hannah, the mother of Samuel,
gave her son to the service
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of the tabernacle
to there abide forever.
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We're told in 1Samuel 1,22.
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What is the nature of man?
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To live so long and then die.
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So in this case "forever"
was the lifetime of Samuel.
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What is the nature of fire?
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Well the nature of fire is to
burn for as long as it has fuel
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and oxygen.
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Could God give hell enough fuel
and oxygen so that it would burn
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forever?
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Of course He could.
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But will He? No.
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How do I know?
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How is it that I
can be so confident?
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Again we go to
Scripture for the answer.
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Revelation tells us:
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"Devour" means to "consume".
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Once you've devoured your
piece of German chocolate cake
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it is consumed, it is gone.
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Perhaps one of the clearest
descriptions of the finality
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of hell is found in Malachi:
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Notice the verse does not
say the wicked will burn like
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asbestos as many today believe.
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But rather like stubble
which will be burned up.
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Nothing but ashes will be
left when the fire goes out.
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David tells us the
same thing in Psalm 37, 10:
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I'm glad that God destroys
all the wicked people that makes
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this life so painful and
this world a terrible place.
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But I'm also glad He
is not a hideous tyrant.
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Some sadistic monster who allows
people to burn and burn forever.
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The teaching of eternal torment
has done more to drive people
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to atheism and insanity than any
other invention of the devil.
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It is slander upon the loving
character of the tender gracious
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Heavenly Father.
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And is an untold harm
to the Christian cause.
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Where is hell?
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Is it under the earth?
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Or is it some distant planet?
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The disciple Peter
gives us this insight:
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Hell is going to be right here.
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Hell fire just as
big as this Earth.
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Because it will be
this Earth on fire.
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This fire will be so hot as
to melt the Earth and burn up
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all the works that are there in.
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This is important because God
is going to recreate the Earth.
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The righteous are
going to live there.
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I was privileged to
live on the Island of Saipan.
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Did you know that when
people dig in their gardens
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they are still finding
bombs and bullets and grenades
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left over World War II?
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God has to
destroy all that junk.
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All the aluminum cans
and the plastic litter
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will be burned up.
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All the toxic waste
dumps, all the nuclear garbage,
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all the buried trash
heaps will be cleaned up.
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All the thoughts
don't die easily, do they?
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I can hear somebody say:
"Will the fire really go out?"
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Let's look at what
the prophet Isaiah says:
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Yes, indeed the
Bible specifically teaches
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that hell fire will go out
and that there will not be left
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a coal to warm at nor
a fire to sit before it.
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The fire must go out for
another wonderful reason.
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The Bible also teach us that
in God's new kingdom all former
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things will be past away.
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Hell, being one of those
former things, is included.
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We have God's promise
that it will be abolished.
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But what about the wicked?
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Will they enter into hell
in bodily form to be destroyed
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both body and soul?
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According to the teachings of
Jesus in Mathew 5, 30 the whole
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body will be cast into hell.
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In chapter 10, verse 28
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we are reminded
by Jesus to fear Him.
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Which is able to destroy
both soul and body in hell.
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Notice that both the soul
and the body are destroyed
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not perpetually tormented.
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The fire from Heaven will
blot people out of existence.
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If God tortured His enemies
in a fiery horror chamber
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throughout all eternity,
He would be more vicious and
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heartless than
men have ever been
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in the worst war atrocities.
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An eternal hell or a continual
torment would be a living hell
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for God also.
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Who loves even
the violous sinner.
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Here is one important
question that I would like
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to see straightened up.
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Will the devil be
in charge of hell?
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You don't have to
question this one at all.
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Here are the words of Jesus:
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How long is this "forever"?
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What is the nature of the thing?
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He too will burn
until he burns up and out.
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Look at this passage in Ezekiel:
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The devil will be cast into
the lake of fire which will be
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on this Earth and it will
burn him to ashes and he will be
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no more.
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That is clear.
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Let me show you something
that I think that you'll find
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very interesting.
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The word "hell" is in
the Bible only 54 times
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translated from
several different Hebrew
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and Greek words.
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Of the 54 times, 41 of them
come from the words that simply
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mean "grave".
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One of them comes from the word
which means a place of darkness
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which is what a grave is.
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That leaves only 12 times left.
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And they come from
the Greek word "Gehenna"
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which means "place of burning".
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The Greek word "Gehanna" is
a transliteration of the Hebrew
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"Ge-Hinnom", which
means "the Valley of Hinnom".
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Here are some pictures that I
took of Gehenna for you to see.
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This valley, which lies
immediately south and west
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of Jerusalem, was a place where
dead animals, garbage and other
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refuse were dumped.
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Fire burned constantly as
it does it some sanitation
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dump sites today.
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The Bible uses "Gehenna",
or "the Valley of Hinnom",
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as a symbol of the fire
that will destroy the lost
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at the end of time.
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The fire of
Gehanna was not unending,
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otherwise it would
still be burning south-west
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of Jerusalem today.
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We have time to look at
just one more truth about this
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most sad and destructive
conclusion to the many lives
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God intended to live forever.
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What kind of a God is it that
would destroy so many lives?
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What kind of a God would
create life and then destroy it?
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what kind of a God would
kill men and women and children?
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The Bible tells us that
He is a God that created us
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in His image.
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He gave us the power
to think and to choose
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and to rule the Earth.
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And even though mankind
has chosen to use that power
00:20:52.72\00:20:56.35
to run away from God, to choose
their own way, God chose to pay
00:20:56.78\00:21:00.42
the penalty for
their disobedience.
00:21:00.80\00:21:03.39
He loved us enough not
to change the commandments
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but to live by the
rule of His law of love.
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This running away from
God has cost humanity dearly.
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Now we die from cancer, we
experience drive-by shootings.
00:21:14.76\00:21:18.73
Now we die alone in nursing
homes and suffer from abuse
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of every kind.
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And God is asking:
"Would you join my kingdom?"
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"I loved you
enough to die for you."
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"Satan only
wants to destroy you."
00:21:30.61\00:21:33.21
"I'm working right now to
win you back to my Father's"
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"kingdom of love."
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"Satan is working to
make your life a living hell."
00:21:38.54\00:21:41.91
"And I want you to know
that right now I am making plans
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to destroy everything and
everyone who chooses to continue
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living lives that hurt others."
00:21:50.81\00:21:52.94
"Selfish lives."
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Yes, the work of God has
always has always been to save
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rather than destroy.
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The work of destroying
the wicked in hell fire
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is so foreign to God's nature.
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The Bible calls
it "His strange act".
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God's great heart will ache at
the destruction of the wicked.
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Oh, how diligent He
works to save every soul!
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But if one ignores
His love and clings to sin
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God will have no choice
but to destroy the sinner
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with his sin.
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When He rids the Universe of
that horrible, malignant growth
00:22:55.73\00:22:59.08
called disobedience in
the fires of the last day.
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And there is another reason
for God to destroy both sin and
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sinners in hell.
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He has some fantastic plans that
sin is getting in the way of.
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What are God's
post-hell plans for the Earth
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and His people?
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After hell fire goes out
God will create a new Earth
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and restore it to His people
with all the beauties and the
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glories of Eden
before sin entered.
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The horrors of sin and
the past will be forgotten.
00:23:58.66\00:24:01.68
Pain, death, tragedy, woe,
tears, sickness, disappointment,
00:24:02.59\00:24:06.13
sorrow and all sin
will be banished forever.
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And this forever is
the one that counts.
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And God promises in Nahum 1,9:
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There is so much
more we could talk about
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if time would permit.
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But I hope that you'll
request our free study guide
00:24:27.95\00:24:30.25
and take time to look deeper
into this subject as you learn
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for yourself of the
good news about hell.
00:24:33.80\00:24:36.35
But for now let me just say that
the good news about hell is:
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the devil will not be in charge.
00:24:40.50\00:24:42.04
In fact he will
also be destroyed
00:24:42.73\00:24:44.10
along with all the evil angels
that joined him in rebellion
00:24:44.48\00:24:47.38
against God.
00:24:47.92\00:24:49.26
The good news about hell
is it will purify planet Earth
00:24:49.37\00:24:52.49
with a cleansing fire that
will consume all traces of sin
00:24:52.84\00:24:56.09
and evil.
00:24:56.91\00:24:57.91
And the good news about hell is:
00:24:58.30\00:25:02.43
it doesn't last forever.
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There is an end to hell.
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That's encouraging.
00:25:12.45\00:25:13.55
But the results of
hell will be eternal.
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It would be easy at this point
to slip into the fear mode.
00:25:16.59\00:25:21.04
But that is
completely unnecessary.
00:25:21.81\00:25:23.49
You can know for
yourself when hell will happen,
00:25:24.12\00:25:27.20
how long it will
last, and best of all,
00:25:27.84\00:25:29.86
how to avoid it all together.
00:25:30.55\00:25:32.02
Get your pen and paper ready
00:25:32.99\00:25:34.03
because we are offering a free
study guide that will answer
00:25:34.54\00:25:37.35
most of your
questions about hell.
00:25:37.90\00:25:39.44
Like how big is hell, how long
will it burn and what is God's
00:25:40.15\00:25:43.82
real purpose in
hell fire and much more.
00:25:44.19\00:25:46.90
Sneak preview?
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The size of hell is
25000 miles in circumference.
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All these answers
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In our next program Charles
is going in search of the truth
00:26:37.64\00:26:40.23
concerning the prophetic gift.
00:26:40.64\00:26:42.10
We will join him on Mount Carmel
in Israel where he is footage
00:26:43.10\00:26:46.06
of the place where the prophets
have failed and prophet Elijah
00:26:46.86\00:26:48.77
had a life and death duel.
00:26:49.33\00:26:50.81
He'll also look at the questions
00:26:51.35\00:26:52.49
"Are there
still prophets today?"
00:26:53.16\00:26:54.42
"And if so, how can we
tell the real from the frauds?"
00:26:55.40\00:26:58.05
I hope you'll join us as
we go in search of the truth
00:26:59.07\00:27:02.01
concerning the
spirit of prophecy.
00:27:02.63\00:27:04.82