The harvest truly is plenteous, 00:00:01.98\00:00:02.95 but the laborers are few. 00:00:02.96\00:00:03.93 Pray you therefore the Lord of the harvest, 00:00:03.94\00:00:06.07 that he will, he will send forth 00:00:06.08\00:00:08.30 laborers into his harvest. 00:00:08.31\00:00:10.48 Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 00:00:10.49\00:00:12.86 "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" 00:00:12.87\00:00:17.30 Then said I, "Here am I, send me, send me". 00:00:17.31\00:00:22.67 Life on the Edge will enable you to be 00:00:23.63\00:00:25.61 an effective harvester for the Lord. 00:00:25.62\00:00:27.30 We now invite you into our 00:00:27.89\00:00:29.48 classroom to come, experience Life. 00:00:29.49\00:00:33.73 Hello welcome again to the Lay Institute 00:00:43.08\00:00:45.18 for Evangelism, the Life on the Edge 00:00:45.19\00:00:46.84 interactive Bible study course. 00:00:46.85\00:00:48.38 You are here in beautiful Groveland, Florida. 00:00:48.39\00:00:52.90 I had to thought, I had to think about 00:00:52.91\00:00:54.00 where it was that for a minute. 00:00:54.01\00:00:54.98 I know I'm in Norman, Groveland 00:00:54.99\00:00:55.96 close to Orlando, Florida. 00:00:55.97\00:00:57.21 We are at, it sun shines 00:00:57.22\00:00:59.31 a lot but it rains everyday. 00:00:59.32\00:01:00.34 And you are here along with 00:01:00.35\00:01:02.16 the other students here at Life. 00:01:02.17\00:01:03.30 You people at home, I want to welcome you 00:01:03.31\00:01:05.46 that you know that as we go through these studies 00:01:05.47\00:01:08.23 that if you have any questions or anything 00:01:08.24\00:01:09.96 is coming up during the studies 00:01:09.97\00:01:11.17 you can go to our website www.ComeExprienceLife.com 00:01:11.18\00:01:15.95 or you can actually download 00:01:15.96\00:01:17.08 the lesson studies that we are doing here. 00:01:17.09\00:01:18.47 You will be able to watch the videos of these studies 00:01:18.48\00:01:20.47 as well, or you can get them on DVD. 00:01:20.48\00:01:22.76 We welcome any of you that are home, 00:01:23.34\00:01:24.93 I pray that you have your Bibles ready, 00:01:24.94\00:01:26.70 have them ready to go as we go into the study today. 00:01:26.71\00:01:29.38 Our study today that we will be going through 00:01:29.39\00:01:31.59 is the Destruction of the Wicked. 00:01:31.60\00:01:33.41 We are going to have a study about hell, 00:01:33.42\00:01:35.10 what is it all about hell, and so that's where 00:01:35.11\00:01:38.54 we are going to now in our study. 00:01:38.55\00:01:40.27 We are about almost half way through I guess the, 00:01:40.28\00:01:44.38 the bible studies right now aren't we 00:01:44.39\00:01:46.10 little past half way at number 11, 00:01:46.11\00:01:47.56 I think there is 24 total, 00:01:47.57\00:01:49.05 and I have to get through all these studies. 00:01:49.06\00:01:50.95 You will be able to just take your Bibles 00:01:50.96\00:01:52.56 into the home and share with other people 00:01:52.57\00:01:56.14 the word of God, even if you don't have 00:01:56.15\00:01:58.20 a printed out study all ready to go, 00:01:58.21\00:01:59.54 you can share with your Bible 00:01:59.55\00:02:00.77 when you like to be able to do that. 00:02:00.78\00:02:01.95 Yeah, a lot of us would. 00:02:01.96\00:02:03.52 And so this is where we are at right now as far 00:02:03.53\00:02:06.45 as the studies go a little almost a halfway through. 00:02:06.46\00:02:09.41 And today we are going to be looking 00:02:09.42\00:02:10.89 at the Destruction of the Wicked. 00:02:10.90\00:02:11.98 You can see it on the screen over there 00:02:11.99\00:02:13.26 the Destruction of the Wicked or DW 00:02:13.27\00:02:15.66 as how you will abbreviate in the Bible. 00:02:15.67\00:02:17.21 So whenever you go marking through your Bible 00:02:17.22\00:02:19.19 your abbreviation will be DW, 00:02:19.20\00:02:21.42 it represents Destruction of the Wicked. 00:02:21.43\00:02:23.04 Or if you have your own way of doing things 00:02:23.05\00:02:25.66 you can put H for hell, 00:02:25.67\00:02:26.68 but I use Destruction of the Wicked on mine. 00:02:26.69\00:02:28.87 And so the purpose of the study today, 00:02:28.88\00:02:30.65 here's what we have for the purpose is to show that, 00:02:30.66\00:02:33.11 the purpose of it to show the purpose of hell 00:02:33.12\00:02:35.93 is to destroy sin forever. 00:02:35.94\00:02:37.85 Many people have many misconceptions 00:02:38.88\00:02:40.52 of what hell is all about and the purpose of it 00:02:40.53\00:02:42.56 is simply to destroy sin forever. 00:02:42.57\00:02:44.36 God doesn't like sin and that's the whole reason 00:02:44.37\00:02:46.77 we are in the problem we are in today is the whole 00:02:46.78\00:02:48.49 the sin problem has this all messed up in the world. 00:02:48.50\00:02:51.98 And so whenever God finally takes care 00:02:51.99\00:02:54.49 of all the wicked, and takes care of everything 00:02:54.50\00:02:56.02 through the lesson we're gonna learn that the Bible 00:02:56.03\00:02:57.96 teaches that He destroyed sin forever. 00:02:57.97\00:03:00.11 Now the center part of the study 00:03:00.12\00:03:01.82 what we are centering upon 00:03:01.83\00:03:03.66 the Destruction of the Wicked 00:03:03.67\00:03:04.64 is that Jesus loves sinners forever too. 00:03:04.65\00:03:07.48 Jesus' love is for sinners 00:03:08.38\00:03:10.26 and He loves them forever too. 00:03:10.27\00:03:11.44 And some of you counter with the first 00:03:11.45\00:03:13.43 two statements are throwing up walls 00:03:13.44\00:03:15.95 sometimes people do that, it's like is he saying 00:03:15.96\00:03:17.89 that hell doesn't last till Jesus ages of eternity, 00:03:17.90\00:03:19.94 and burns people up. 00:03:19.95\00:03:20.92 We will find out what the Bible 00:03:20.93\00:03:22.22 has to say how is that? 00:03:22.23\00:03:23.41 We will find out what the Bible has to say with that. 00:03:23.42\00:03:25.64 Now before we get into the main part 00:03:25.65\00:03:27.85 of the study I want to invite, 00:03:27.86\00:03:29.33 invite everybody here and you at home too. 00:03:29.34\00:03:31.95 We are going to bow our heads for a word of prayer, 00:03:31.96\00:03:33.94 and ask God to guide us because the Bible says 00:03:33.95\00:03:36.88 that spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 00:03:36.89\00:03:38.80 And sometimes we have ideas and plans and things 00:03:38.81\00:03:41.70 that we think that the Bible says 00:03:41.71\00:03:42.78 and we put up a barrier, and we just have an idea 00:03:42.79\00:03:47.35 and we got to make the Bible fit 00:03:47.36\00:03:48.83 what we already believe. 00:03:48.84\00:03:49.81 And we are going to ask God to do is help us 00:03:49.82\00:03:51.65 to allow us, allow Him to teach us what His word 00:03:51.66\00:03:54.69 says through the study today. 00:03:54.70\00:03:55.96 So let us all bow our heads 00:03:55.97\00:03:57.34 as we have a word of prayer. 00:03:57.35\00:03:58.35 Father in heaven, as we open up your word, 00:03:58.36\00:04:01.28 we get into this study on the 00:04:01.29\00:04:03.23 Destruction of the Wicked what we call hell. 00:04:03.24\00:04:05.50 I pray Lord that you will soften 00:04:05.51\00:04:07.56 our minds and our hearts 00:04:07.57\00:04:08.54 to what your word is saying. 00:04:08.55\00:04:09.52 And that if we have any preconceived ideas, 00:04:09.53\00:04:11.96 if there is anything in our lives that is keeping us 00:04:11.97\00:04:14.09 from understanding what your will and your word says. 00:04:14.10\00:04:16.06 I pray that will be removed right now. 00:04:16.07\00:04:17.80 Give us open minds and hearts, 00:04:17.81\00:04:19.60 I pray in Jesus name, amen, amen. 00:04:19.61\00:04:22.44 Alright let's go into the first text, 00:04:22.45\00:04:23.93 we are going to go right into the first text 00:04:23.94\00:04:25.78 and before we get into the text 00:04:25.79\00:04:26.76 it will be on the screen here and. 00:04:26.77\00:04:28.24 Oh no, we are not going to get in the first text. 00:04:28.25\00:04:30.92 I am almost always forget this part you know. 00:04:30.93\00:04:32.54 We have a list of all the text 00:04:32.55\00:04:33.96 that we are going to have in the study, 00:04:33.97\00:04:35.34 and that's what we have now Destruction of the Wicked 00:04:35.35\00:04:36.83 a list of all the text. It starts in Matthew 25 00:04:36.84\00:04:39.32 we end in Ezekiel 33 verse 11. 00:04:39.33\00:04:41.65 And we actually have 15 texts in this study, 00:04:41.66\00:04:44.95 so you don't have to take time to mark all of them 00:04:44.96\00:04:47.65 down right now if you still looking at them 00:04:47.66\00:04:48.99 on the screen or if you guys are here because 00:04:49.00\00:04:51.67 we go through them one at a time 00:04:51.68\00:04:52.65 as we go through the study. 00:04:52.66\00:04:54.37 And also if you want a copy of the study guides 00:04:54.38\00:04:57.51 will be able to print them out. 00:04:57.52\00:04:58.49 Those that they are here in the classroom 00:04:58.50\00:05:00.46 you can get them off my computer of the, 00:05:00.47\00:05:02.43 of the server and those of you at home you can 00:05:02.44\00:05:06.00 download them from www.ComeExprienceLife.com. 00:05:06.01\00:05:09.68 You can find that the link 00:05:09.69\00:05:10.74 will be right on the front page. 00:05:10.75\00:05:11.79 So let us get into it now, 00:05:11.80\00:05:13.95 let's go the first text of the study, 00:05:13.96\00:05:15.75 it's Matthew chapter 25 in verse 41. 00:05:15.76\00:05:17.84 And let us go through just one time 00:05:17.85\00:05:19.62 a quick review here, the first one is 00:05:19.63\00:05:21.77 the Destruction of the Wicked, so you put a 1DW 00:05:21.78\00:05:24.35 and you would put it somewhere you will write 00:05:24.36\00:05:26.65 in your Bible somewhere around 00:05:26.66\00:05:27.83 the Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41, 00:05:27.84\00:05:30.83 somewhere in that section in your Bible 00:05:30.84\00:05:32.84 you would write in there 1DW, 00:05:32.85\00:05:35.91 Destruction of the Wicked. 00:05:35.92\00:05:37.31 And then in the next text you are going to, 00:05:37.32\00:05:38.98 you remember you don't have anything 00:05:38.99\00:05:39.96 on the top line for this study 00:05:39.97\00:05:41.63 right here at the first one because 00:05:41.64\00:05:42.87 this is the first text we are going to see. 00:05:42.88\00:05:46.26 The top line would have the text you came from 00:05:46.27\00:05:48.44 and since you came from nowhere, 00:05:48.45\00:05:49.99 you just put where you are going to next, 00:05:50.00\00:05:51.73 and that's Matthew 25:34. 00:05:51.74\00:05:53.57 So the first text is like that when you start 00:05:53.58\00:05:55.34 marking it in your Bible. 00:05:55.35\00:05:56.32 Now has everybody been here just curious 00:05:56.33\00:05:59.22 in the class, everybody pretty much caught up 00:05:59.23\00:06:00.81 with their Bible markings, getting them 00:06:00.82\00:06:01.95 marked up and everything like that. 00:06:01.96\00:06:03.02 How many people have four studies or more mark, 00:06:03.03\00:06:05.68 four studies or more mark? 00:06:05.69\00:06:06.66 Almost everybody alright, how about home, 00:06:06.67\00:06:08.97 you got four studies or more mark, right. 00:06:08.98\00:06:10.76 You should have you get them marked 00:06:10.77\00:06:13.03 and it's something satisfying about it to know that 00:06:13.04\00:06:16.08 you can actually go into a home or even with 00:06:16.09\00:06:17.31 a friend and study the Bible with just your Bible. 00:06:17.32\00:06:21.22 And like today's study is a very interesting one 00:06:21.23\00:06:24.47 this one, and like what happens 00:06:24.48\00:06:26.02 when you die and some of the others. 00:06:26.03\00:06:27.00 You have ever been some place 00:06:27.01\00:06:28.14 and someone says something about hell, 00:06:28.15\00:06:33.48 and say oh you know hell is this or that. 00:06:33.49\00:06:36.07 They are gonna give, they will give, 00:06:36.08\00:06:37.05 throw something out, they believe it's this way, 00:06:37.06\00:06:38.32 you say oh no but there is a text in the Bible 00:06:38.33\00:06:39.99 that says and you give them a text. 00:06:40.00\00:06:41.89 You know it's interesting when you do the markings 00:06:41.90\00:06:44.21 this way, we mark a text we are coming from, 00:06:44.22\00:06:45.84 and the text we are going to. 00:06:45.85\00:06:46.82 If you turn to just one, if you can just rememberv 00:06:46.83\00:06:47.80 one text in your Bible study, the hell study 00:06:49.16\00:06:51.38 just one text, and you turn to that text, 00:06:51.39\00:06:53.31 it will give you another text to go to. 00:06:53.32\00:06:54.89 You can go either backwards 00:06:54.90\00:06:56.37 or forward from that point. 00:06:56.38\00:06:57.35 You follow what I am saying. 00:06:57.36\00:06:58.33 And so if you can just remember one text 00:06:58.34\00:06:59.92 you are able to do the whole study with somebody 00:06:59.93\00:07:01.44 right on the fly like that and it's pretty fun 00:07:01.45\00:07:03.20 to be able to do that and have an answer from the 00:07:03.21\00:07:05.40 word of God, so is that making sense, right. 00:07:05.41\00:07:08.41 So, the first text here at Matthew 25:41, 00:07:08.42\00:07:11.24 I start to study off something like this there, 00:07:11.25\00:07:13.90 here we talk about hell. 00:07:13.91\00:07:14.99 You know most people will think when they 00:07:15.00\00:07:16.29 think of hell, they think of this really hot 00:07:16.30\00:07:18.18 spot in the earth, down in center of the earth, 00:07:18.19\00:07:19.99 that's the general terms and thoughts is 00:07:20.00\00:07:22.07 going on in the world today in Christianity 00:07:22.08\00:07:23.48 and other places, and the devil is down there 00:07:23.49\00:07:25.07 with a pitchfork and he has got the back 00:07:25.08\00:07:27.34 the little horns sticking up and the tail, 00:07:27.35\00:07:29.33 and he is prodding the sinner and making sure 00:07:29.34\00:07:31.29 he could prod properly and everything like that. 00:07:31.30\00:07:33.17 You know you have read all that 00:07:33.18\00:07:34.15 and heard about all that, right. 00:07:34.16\00:07:35.13 Well the question I want to ask you though 00:07:35.14\00:07:38.33 who was hell prepared for. I mean who is hell for, 00:07:38.34\00:07:41.92 is it for us, is that one God actually intended hell 00:07:41.93\00:07:44.46 for us is to take you and me and put us in the 00:07:44.47\00:07:46.81 center of the earth and turn us over make sure 00:07:46.82\00:07:48.61 we are cooking evenly and things like that, 00:07:48.62\00:07:49.78 is that what he has prepared hell for? 00:07:49.79\00:07:51.04 Right or who is it prepared for. 00:07:51.05\00:07:53.40 Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41, Matthew 25:41 00:07:53.41\00:07:57.84 has the answer to that. 00:07:57.85\00:07:58.94 Does anybody like to read that one here, 00:07:58.95\00:08:00.30 Matthew 25 and verse 41? I am going to pick on 00:08:00.31\00:08:03.17 right here in the center at Shalida here, 00:08:03.18\00:08:04.95 I am going to have her read it for me, 00:08:04.96\00:08:06.28 Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41. 00:08:06.29\00:08:08.52 And Tim I saw you raise your hand so the next text 00:08:10.42\00:08:13.38 we are going to is Matthew chapter 25:34 00:08:13.39\00:08:15.77 and when she gets done and after we get 00:08:15.78\00:08:18.02 discussing that text you can have that one. 00:08:18.03\00:08:20.44 So you can have Matthew chapter 25 and verse 34 next. 00:08:20.45\00:08:22.75 So Shalida tell me who is hell prepared for. 00:08:22.76\00:08:25.22 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, 00:08:26.46\00:08:29.87 Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, 00:08:29.88\00:08:33.54 prepared for the devil and his angels. 00:08:33.55\00:08:36.56 Alright so who is hell prepared for, 00:08:36.57\00:08:39.60 assuming like what is God who they have 00:08:39.61\00:08:41.40 prepared for the devil and his angels. 00:08:41.41\00:08:43.45 He has no intensions really like when he 00:08:43.46\00:08:45.22 created Adam and Eve there in the Garden of Eden. 00:08:45.23\00:08:46.64 He didn't say you know what I am going to 00:08:46.65\00:08:48.42 create mankind, so I have somebody 00:08:48.43\00:08:49.88 to throw in the hell. Right, who it was created for? 00:08:49.89\00:08:53.32 The devil and his angels, so the devil and his angels 00:08:53.33\00:08:55.74 they fall, they have been cast out of the earth. 00:08:55.75\00:08:57.52 We've learned through those studies that 00:08:57.53\00:08:58.70 they are here to earth now and God says 00:08:58.71\00:09:00.30 hell is going to be for them. 00:09:00.31\00:09:01.34 That's he have it for, he doesn't have really 00:09:01.35\00:09:03.33 an intention on putting us there but he has a dilemma, 00:09:03.34\00:09:06.84 a problem and we will find out 00:09:06.85\00:09:07.82 what that is as we move along. 00:09:07.83\00:09:09.01 So hell is created for the devil and his angels. 00:09:09.02\00:09:11.22 Now I got to also park here just for a minute 00:09:11.23\00:09:13.02 because in this study right from the beginning 00:09:13.03\00:09:14.96 the first text we read says, 00:09:14.97\00:09:16.26 it says you curse unto everlasting fire. 00:09:16.27\00:09:19.98 But I want you to notice something here. 00:09:21.05\00:09:22.22 It doesn't say they have everlasting life, 00:09:22.23\00:09:24.01 it says that the fire is everlasting, okay. 00:09:25.29\00:09:28.96 And we will get into the whole idea of 00:09:28.97\00:09:30.79 everlasting fire and that kind of things 00:09:30.80\00:09:32.06 we move along in the study, 00:09:32.07\00:09:33.04 but just, just wanted to bring that up 00:09:33.05\00:09:34.55 at the very beginning that it says everlasting fire 00:09:34.56\00:09:36.11 is what the devil and his angels are cast to. 00:09:36.12\00:09:38.22 That's what the plan is for them, 00:09:38.23\00:09:39.66 so if we are not if God didn't plan on like 00:09:39.67\00:09:41.69 creating us just so that he can send us to hell. 00:09:41.70\00:09:43.34 Tim tell me what did he create for us, 00:09:43.35\00:09:46.36 what plans did the devil or the God 00:09:46.37\00:09:49.24 actually originally have for us 00:09:49.25\00:09:50.25 whenever he first created us? 00:09:50.26\00:09:51.49 This is Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41. 00:09:54.80\00:09:56.94 Let me get the slide on the screen of 34 00:09:56.95\00:09:58.56 rather Matthew 25:34 and you can see it 00:09:58.57\00:10:00.84 on the screen there that's the next text. 00:10:00.85\00:10:02.40 And you did Destruction of the Wicked 00:10:02.41\00:10:03.88 the verse here and Matt's going to, 00:10:03.89\00:10:06.64 Tim is going to be reading it for us Matthew 25:41. 00:10:06.65\00:10:09.25 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, 00:10:09.95\00:10:13.38 Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 00:10:15.55\00:10:18.42 prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 00:10:18.43\00:10:20.95 So Matthew 25:34 says that the kingdom 00:10:20.96\00:10:23.88 was prepared for who? 00:10:23.89\00:10:25.23 For us, right he is going to say that those 00:10:25.24\00:10:28.14 on his right hand those people that oftenly saved 00:10:28.15\00:10:29.74 and the kingdom of God is prepared for us 00:10:29.75\00:10:33.23 since when, since when it was prepared for us, 00:10:33.24\00:10:35.23 the foundation of the world. 00:10:35.24\00:10:37.09 So God originally had a plan for all of us, 00:10:37.10\00:10:39.57 and that plan was that we be 00:10:39.58\00:10:41.14 in his kingdom and live forever. 00:10:41.15\00:10:42.59 You know he promises the righteous eternal life, 00:10:42.60\00:10:44.86 and but that's not so for the wicked. 00:10:44.87\00:10:47.71 He has something else planned for them now 00:10:47.72\00:10:49.43 and the devil, his fallen angels and the wicked 00:10:49.44\00:10:52.72 are all going to go to that same place. 00:10:52.73\00:10:54.48 Now I want to ask you a question because 00:10:54.49\00:10:57.67 this is like the key thing, one of the key things 00:10:57.68\00:11:00.57 to this study right here and it's, 00:11:00.58\00:11:02.28 when I was a heathen, and I was raised completely 00:11:02.29\00:11:05.59 out of church and things like that. 00:11:05.60\00:11:06.70 I mean I went to church a few times growing up. 00:11:06.71\00:11:08.36 Well my grandmother would drag me and you know 00:11:08.37\00:11:11.02 I went twice on Sunday you know Christmas and Easter, 00:11:11.03\00:11:12.84 that's when we would go and we would do the, 00:11:12.85\00:11:14.77 I would do the church thing or any other time 00:11:14.78\00:11:17.51 she would kind a get me up make me go. 00:11:17.52\00:11:19.43 But my ideas of hell and what happens 00:11:19.44\00:11:22.57 when you die and all these things, 00:11:22.58\00:11:23.68 it didn't come, it didn't come from the Bible. 00:11:23.69\00:11:25.55 You know I got my ideas from something other 00:11:26.70\00:11:28.04 than the Bible. I thought that hell like we already 00:11:28.05\00:11:31.13 discussed was in the center of the earth, 00:11:31.14\00:11:32.29 and the devil was down there and you ever wonder 00:11:32.30\00:11:34.72 where we get those ideas and theology from. 00:11:34.73\00:11:36.33 Yeah from the TV, I am making a 00:11:37.51\00:11:38.97 confession to you, before I became a Christian 00:11:38.98\00:11:40.38 I started studying the Bible. 00:11:40.39\00:11:41.36 I got my theology from Tom and Jerry. 00:11:42.34\00:11:44.67 You all know what Tom and Jerry is right, 00:11:44.68\00:11:46.37 it's the cat, mouse cartoon you see on TV. 00:11:46.38\00:11:48.25 As I grew up watching all the TV I could, 00:11:48.26\00:11:50.05 I mean just filled my mind with that stuff 00:11:50.06\00:11:51.71 all growing up. It's a wonder that God has 00:11:51.72\00:11:53.00 done anything with me in my life you know because 00:11:53.01\00:11:55.01 I have filled my mind with so much garbage. 00:11:55.02\00:11:56.92 But I would watch Tom and Jerry 00:11:56.93\00:11:58.97 all growing up now, no I am not saying 00:11:58.98\00:12:00.27 that's total garbage but you know some like 00:12:00.28\00:12:02.36 Christian things and it has some bad theology to it, 00:12:02.37\00:12:04.56 because when I would watch that show 00:12:04.57\00:12:06.22 and other cartoons as well, you know the cat 00:12:06.23\00:12:08.74 he would have the mouse there and he be, 00:12:08.75\00:12:10.48 he may pounce on him over something 00:12:10.49\00:12:11.56 and a anvil would fall on the cat's head 00:12:11.57\00:12:13.04 dropping down to the floor something 00:12:13.05\00:12:14.44 and he would die. And then what happen 00:12:14.45\00:12:16.14 when this cat would die, what would happen to him. 00:12:16.15\00:12:17.57 Do you remember? Yeah he will start floating 00:12:17.58\00:12:19.71 down into the center of the earth, 00:12:19.72\00:12:20.79 right he would go down, and down and shoving up 00:12:20.80\00:12:23.49 the course of the earth and it will start 00:12:23.50\00:12:24.76 getting harder and harder right and then when 00:12:24.77\00:12:26.34 he would get there, there would be this big 00:12:26.35\00:12:28.17 cauldron of boiling lava, and there would be 00:12:28.18\00:12:31.93 a bulldog and the bulldog would have the horns, 00:12:31.94\00:12:34.16 and he would have the pitchfork and a tail 00:12:34.17\00:12:35.71 and he would go, and he would take the cat 00:12:35.72\00:12:37.82 and stick it down that cauldron bowl, 00:12:37.83\00:12:39.26 that bowl in cauldron and holding down in 00:12:39.27\00:12:41.21 and the cat just be squealing try to get out. 00:12:41.22\00:12:42.78 That was on a cartoon right and then the cat 00:12:42.79\00:12:44.64 would wake up and he would be having a dream 00:12:44.65\00:12:46.31 and he will be laying in front of fireplace 00:12:46.32\00:12:47.89 and fire be coming out of the fireplace hitting him 00:12:47.90\00:12:50.33 on the back and that's what his dream was about right. 00:12:50.34\00:12:52.97 But here I think is interesting about that, 00:12:52.98\00:12:54.90 that along with what my Christian friends 00:12:54.91\00:12:57.58 would tell me is where my theology came from. 00:12:57.59\00:13:00.13 The devil is in the center of the earth and he is 00:13:00.14\00:13:03.87 making sure all the sinners cook appropriately. 00:13:03.88\00:13:05.71 They are all down in the center of the earth 00:13:05.72\00:13:06.75 cooking appropriately, and what's funny about that is 00:13:06.76\00:13:09.25 you don't find that anywhere in the Bible. 00:13:09.26\00:13:11.04 You don't find that teaching anywhere in the Bible, 00:13:11.05\00:13:13.88 but Christians teach it. Christians teach it 00:13:13.89\00:13:16.25 and you know and then, those of us who were heathens 00:13:16.26\00:13:17.23 and have come into the church we believed it 00:13:20.19\00:13:22.03 coming in because that's what we had 00:13:22.04\00:13:23.83 always been taught. Now I usually when I 00:13:23.84\00:13:25.87 give this Bible study I do park on this point 00:13:25.88\00:13:27.40 for little while because this is the common 00:13:27.41\00:13:29.31 thing out there. This is like, this is a 00:13:29.32\00:13:31.29 common theology among the heathen 00:13:31.30\00:13:33.69 and even Christians often times. 00:13:33.70\00:13:35.59 So I like to ask this question 00:13:35.60\00:13:37.02 after I go through that little scenario. 00:13:37.03\00:13:38.28 Where on earth is hell anyway, 00:13:38.29\00:13:40.14 where on earth is hell? 00:13:40.15\00:13:42.13 The answer is yes, where on earth is hell, 00:13:42.14\00:13:46.10 the answer is absolutely yes. 00:13:46.11\00:13:48.22 I said what you are talking about? 00:13:48.23\00:13:49.98 Go with me to the next text 00:13:49.99\00:13:51.37 Revelation chapter 20 verses 5 through 9. 00:13:51.38\00:13:53.75 We are going to go on our left side of here to 00:13:53.76\00:13:55.29 Do Soung and ask him to read 00:13:55.30\00:13:56.56 Revelation chapter 20 verses 5 through 9. 00:13:56.57\00:13:58.47 And as he is looking it up and getting there 00:13:58.48\00:14:00.29 I just want to keep, have everybody keep in mind 00:14:00.30\00:14:03.04 if you want to find these texts at before we 00:14:03.05\00:14:06.03 get to them, before we turn to them you can 00:14:06.04\00:14:07.86 go to the website and download the study, 00:14:07.87\00:14:09.66 and it's all in the study guide before we, 00:14:09.67\00:14:11.86 that we can kind a keep ahead if you 00:14:11.87\00:14:13.89 want to keep up with what we are doing. 00:14:13.90\00:14:15.02 So Do Soung, Revelation chapter 20 verses 5-9. 00:14:15.03\00:14:17.85 We are going to be answering the question, 00:14:17.86\00:14:18.87 where on earth is hell? Go ahead. 00:14:18.88\00:14:20.89 But the rest of the dead lived not again until 00:14:22.83\00:14:25.19 the thousand years were finished. 00:14:25.20\00:14:26.95 This is the first resurrection. 00:14:26.96\00:14:29.33 Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first 00:14:29.34\00:14:32.46 resurrection: on such the second death has no power, 00:14:32.47\00:14:36.59 but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, 00:14:36.60\00:14:39.97 and shall reign with him a thousand years. 00:14:39.98\00:14:42.67 And when the thousand years are expired, 00:14:42.68\00:14:44.68 Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 00:14:44.69\00:14:47.18 and shall go out to deceive the nations 00:14:47.19\00:14:49.82 which are in the four quarters of the earth, 00:14:49.83\00:14:53.06 Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: 00:14:53.07\00:14:56.58 the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 00:14:56.59\00:14:59.63 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, 00:14:59.64\00:15:02.24 and compassed the camp of the saints about, 00:15:02.25\00:15:05.44 and the beloved city: and fire came down from 00:15:05.45\00:15:09.01 God out of heaven, and devoured them. 00:15:09.02\00:15:11.26 Oh it's a very interesting statement isn't? 00:15:11.27\00:15:13.58 So what you find here is this great battle, 00:15:13.59\00:15:15.30 you have, you have the whole context of all that text 00:15:15.31\00:15:18.54 I could actually park on this and preach a sermon 00:15:18.55\00:15:20.37 from this from verses 5 through 9, 00:15:20.38\00:15:21.67 but I will refrain myself, 00:15:21.68\00:15:23.34 I will try to resist best I can but you will 00:15:23.35\00:15:25.53 notice here says this is a first resurrection blessed 00:15:25.54\00:15:27.54 and holy if he has part in the first resurrection. 00:15:27.55\00:15:29.98 So if you are in a first resurrection you are to 00:15:29.99\00:15:32.10 be happy why because it says on him 00:15:32.11\00:15:34.04 the second death has no power, right. 00:15:34.05\00:15:35.76 But then there is a second resurrection 00:15:35.77\00:15:37.59 and what happens to those who come up 00:15:37.60\00:15:38.64 in a second resurrection according to 00:15:38.65\00:15:39.78 what we look at in this text. 00:15:39.79\00:15:40.98 What happens in a second resurrection, 00:15:40.99\00:15:42.99 does anybody want to take a stab at it. 00:15:43.00\00:15:44.79 They are cast into the lake of fire, right. 00:15:44.80\00:15:47.88 And look what happens to them in the lake of fire, 00:15:47.89\00:15:49.63 verse 9 what happens to them, they are devoured. 00:15:49.64\00:15:52.55 Now you understand what the word 00:15:52.56\00:15:54.58 devoured means, right. You will notice that 00:15:54.59\00:15:57.47 all through the Bible you have nothing in the Bible 00:15:57.48\00:15:59.36 anywhere that promises the wicked eternal life. 00:15:59.37\00:16:01.31 As matter of fact, what you find out it 00:16:02.94\00:16:04.49 happens to the wicked and the Bible says 00:16:04.50\00:16:05.88 they are devour or they are destroyed. 00:16:05.89\00:16:07.65 Now if you don't know devour is, I can give you, 00:16:08.33\00:16:10.82 I can give you a little clue and a kind of give 00:16:10.83\00:16:12.45 you little help it help you understand. 00:16:12.46\00:16:14.16 After we get done in class today, if you wanna 00:16:14.17\00:16:16.40 take me out to Taco Bell for lunch, 00:16:16.41\00:16:17.79 I can show you what devoured is. 00:16:17.80\00:16:20.05 Right, when I eat that food, it will be gone in 00:16:20.06\00:16:23.67 no time, I will do it pretty quickly, right? 00:16:23.68\00:16:25.01 And you will never see it again, 00:16:25.02\00:16:25.99 and it's gone it's devoured, 00:16:26.00\00:16:27.82 and so to have an idea that the wicked keep 00:16:27.83\00:16:31.43 right on living, and living and living 00:16:31.44\00:16:32.60 you know in the fires of hell, when the Bible 00:16:32.61\00:16:35.25 says in Revelation 12:9 here and other places 00:16:35.26\00:16:38.17 that we are gonna look at, 00:16:38.18\00:16:39.15 that he actually devour them, 00:16:39.16\00:16:41.67 okay so they are devoured, that's what happens 00:16:41.68\00:16:45.58 to the wicked and where does it happen at? 00:16:45.59\00:16:47.62 Where did it say it happens? 00:16:47.63\00:16:48.60 On the earth, so the answer to the question is 00:16:48.61\00:16:51.97 the wicked are devoured, where is hell at? 00:16:51.98\00:16:54.77 On the earth, interesting statement isn't it? 00:16:55.55\00:16:58.37 Had you ever heard that before? 00:16:59.26\00:17:00.32 I know mostly you have probably heard that, 00:17:00.33\00:17:02.26 but there are other people sitting, 00:17:02.27\00:17:03.33 probably some people sitting at home right now 00:17:03.34\00:17:05.13 and say what? Hell is on the earth, 00:17:05.14\00:17:06.96 right that's the question many people ask, 00:17:08.12\00:17:09.41 but according to Bible what we looked at 00:17:09.42\00:17:12.22 so far that's exactly what takes place. 00:17:12.23\00:17:13.79 Now as we go on to the next text I probably 00:17:14.35\00:17:16.17 got way behind myself, because I should 00:17:16.18\00:17:17.38 already had Revelation 25 verse 9 on there. 00:17:17.39\00:17:19.92 So, I'll just throw up on the screen just 00:17:19.93\00:17:21.37 for a minute, so they can see what it looks like. 00:17:21.38\00:17:22.78 The Destruction of the Wicked, the third verse 00:17:22.79\00:17:25.26 there Revelation 20 verse 5 throgh 9. 00:17:25.27\00:17:27.78 And now as we are finishing up 00:17:27.79\00:17:30.42 with Revelation 20:5 through 9 00:17:30.43\00:17:32.48 as we go to the next text. 00:17:32.49\00:17:33.53 The question we are gonna ask now, 00:17:33.54\00:17:35.27 where on earth is hell? 00:17:35.28\00:17:36.77 We know where on earth hell is, 00:17:36.78\00:17:39.63 its on earth, but when it's gonna take place, 00:17:39.64\00:17:41.72 because obviously if hell is gonna be on earth, 00:17:41.73\00:17:45.38 it's not here now although some people 00:17:45.39\00:17:48.36 might disagree with that. Getting my life right, 00:17:48.37\00:17:51.23 but the actual literal meaning of hell with the 00:17:51.24\00:17:54.25 burning of the fire and things like that, 00:17:54.26\00:17:55.90 the Bible teaches that it's gonna be here but 00:17:55.91\00:17:58.30 when its gonna place and that's what 00:17:58.31\00:18:00.75 we are gonna be answering now. 00:18:00.76\00:18:01.73 As we go to Job chapter 21 and verse 30. 00:18:01.74\00:18:05.03 Job 21:30 that's the and then you will see 00:18:05.04\00:18:09.29 often the side of that when you look at the screen 00:18:09.30\00:18:12.08 here that they also have, 2 Peter 3:4-7, 00:18:12.09\00:18:14.39 both text basically say the same thing. 00:18:14.40\00:18:16.68 And so usually when I give the study 00:18:16.69\00:18:19.83 I will go to both text, I'll actually use 00:18:19.84\00:18:22.17 both of them, but not always. 00:18:22.18\00:18:23.37 So, if you wanna just do with this way with the 00:18:23.38\00:18:24.70 bracket you don't have to go the other one, 00:18:24.71\00:18:26.53 but you can if you need to. 00:18:26.54\00:18:27.81 So, Job chapter 21 in verse 30 as we are going to now 00:18:27.82\00:18:31.01 in Old Testament book of Job. 00:18:31.02\00:18:32.02 You know for those of you that may heard at home 00:18:35.82\00:18:36.79 that somebody cell phone going off. 00:18:40.18\00:18:41.45 It's perfectly alright because they are used to 00:18:42.62\00:18:44.03 hit doing that, you know people hear that 00:18:44.04\00:18:45.48 they think well there must be everyday people 00:18:45.49\00:18:47.95 they actually live in the real world, 00:18:47.96\00:18:49.04 because that's what happens, Job 21 verse 30. 00:18:49.05\00:18:52.06 You know I was preaching in church one time 00:18:52.07\00:18:53.35 and my head elder was sitting up front, 00:18:53.36\00:18:54.65 those of the Mike Mutt when we get, we will in turn 00:18:54.66\00:18:58.61 to be ready for it but I was preaching in my church 00:18:58.62\00:19:00.16 one time sitting up front, my head elder was sitting 00:19:00.17\00:19:01.75 back here, and I was just making a good point 00:19:01.76\00:19:03.86 in the sermon, and a cell phone starts ringing. 00:19:03.87\00:19:05.92 And instead of ignoring it, I just kind of made 00:19:06.63\00:19:09.14 an example out of poor guy you know I stopped, 00:19:09.15\00:19:11.02 I turned around, and he is like this. 00:19:11.03\00:19:12.73 You know he is patting himself down all 00:19:14.17\00:19:15.27 over and he is frantic you know. 00:19:15.28\00:19:16.94 And he finally gets his cell phone out he, 00:19:16.95\00:19:18.18 he start hitting the button I said no, no, no, no 00:19:18.19\00:19:19.80 just tell him you are busy right now you know. 00:19:19.81\00:19:21.49 Anybody his friend will be calling he will be 00:19:21.50\00:19:23.76 in church on Sabbath morning, right. 00:19:23.77\00:19:25.15 So, anyway we understand no hard feelings 00:19:26.85\00:19:31.20 here make sure you turn them all though. 00:19:31.21\00:19:32.51 Those of you at home turn your cell phones off, 00:19:33.57\00:19:35.39 so you don't get interrupt because 00:19:35.40\00:19:36.37 devil is gonna call you right now, 00:19:36.38\00:19:37.51 keep you from going through the study. 00:19:37.52\00:19:39.21 Right, he will pinch somebody to call you. 00:19:39.22\00:19:41.44 Alright Revelation chapter, I'm sorry 00:19:41.45\00:19:43.61 Job chapter 21 verse 30. 00:19:43.62\00:19:44.94 And the question is where on earth is hell? 00:19:44.95\00:19:46.72 When this all gonna take place, 00:19:46.73\00:19:48.06 and Mike is he gonna take place now, 00:19:48.07\00:19:49.69 or just some time in the future, 00:19:49.70\00:19:51.02 I want you to let us know. 00:19:51.03\00:19:52.00 Alright, that the wicked is reserved 00:19:52.01\00:19:54.47 to the day of destruction? 00:19:54.48\00:19:55.73 They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 00:19:55.74\00:19:59.34 Oh, so it's interesting, that Job says 00:19:59.35\00:20:01.05 that the wicked are reserved, 00:20:01.06\00:20:03.54 in other words are kept in a holding place until when? 00:20:03.55\00:20:05.58 The day of destruction, so there is gonna be a day, 00:20:05.59\00:20:09.11 the God is gonna do what to the wicked? 00:20:09.12\00:20:10.82 Destroy them isn't that interesting, 00:20:11.65\00:20:13.47 the context of the text there, Job is writing here, 00:20:13.48\00:20:16.84 Job is like the oldest book in the Bible 00:20:16.85\00:20:17.99 we understand, and you know his whole infliction 00:20:18.00\00:20:20.84 everything he went through, and God's comforting him 00:20:20.85\00:20:22.79 saying Job you may think that the wicked 00:20:22.80\00:20:25.00 are getting over something right now, 00:20:25.01\00:20:26.13 but don't worry they are too gonna pass on 00:20:26.14\00:20:28.57 and they are gonna be held, they are gonna 00:20:28.58\00:20:30.61 be waiting until the day of destruction, 00:20:30.62\00:20:32.10 and God is gonna bring them forth for that purpose, 00:20:32.11\00:20:34.55 for destruction, right? Now we can also find 00:20:34.56\00:20:40.28 in the New Testament text refer to the same thing 00:20:40.29\00:20:41.95 and we will go ahead and hit that for doing 00:20:41.96\00:20:43.58 the study right now and see what says in 00:20:43.59\00:20:44.82 2 Peter chapter 3, I will go ahead and read that, 00:20:44.83\00:20:46.85 when I will get to 2 Peter the 3rd chapter. 00:20:46.86\00:20:48.51 Still the same slide up on the screen 00:20:49.71\00:20:51.31 and we are gonna look at verse 4. 00:20:51.32\00:20:53.25 Peter prophesying down into the last days 00:20:56.36\00:20:59.25 of this earth history, and he says something 00:20:59.26\00:21:00.61 is gonna be taking place at that time. 00:21:00.62\00:21:01.98 There is gonna be people saying I will 00:21:03.58\00:21:05.83 give you just a minute to get there. 00:21:05.84\00:21:07.01 2 Peter chapter 3 verse 4 says, they will be saying, 00:21:07.02\00:21:11.22 Where is the promise of his coming? 00:21:11.23\00:21:12.63 For since the fathers fell asleep, 00:21:13.63\00:21:15.15 all things continue as they have from the beginning 00:21:15.16\00:21:21.04 of the creation the Bible says. 00:21:21.05\00:21:22.29 For this they are willingly ignorant of, 00:21:22.99\00:21:24.67 that by the word of God the heavens of old, 00:21:25.89\00:21:28.00 and then the earth standing out of the water 00:21:30.41\00:21:32.69 and in the water. Whereby the world that then was 00:21:32.70\00:21:35.37 being overflowed with water perished. 00:21:35.38\00:21:38.25 So, he first of all he says you know back 00:21:38.26\00:21:39.88 in the days of the flood, the earth the people 00:21:39.89\00:21:42.25 that was living back then, ended up being 00:21:42.26\00:21:44.03 destroyed by water they perished, 00:21:44.04\00:21:45.46 what happened to them? 00:21:45.47\00:21:46.44 They perished, and look what it says in the next verse. 00:21:47.04\00:21:48.99 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, 00:21:49.00\00:21:51.32 by the same word kept in store, reserved, 00:21:51.33\00:21:54.24 just like Job said the reserved right, 00:21:54.25\00:21:55.72 unto fire against the day of judgment 00:21:55.73\00:21:58.56 and the perdition of ungodly men. 00:21:58.57\00:22:01.22 You know what the term perdition of 00:22:01.23\00:22:02.82 ungodly men means right? 00:22:02.83\00:22:04.05 And he is the destruction, got to do away with them. 00:22:04.06\00:22:05.89 So, we are according to Peter here 00:22:05.90\00:22:08.59 what about the wicked? 00:22:08.60\00:22:09.95 What he say about the wicked is gonna happen 00:22:09.96\00:22:11.32 to them, are they being destroyed right now 00:22:11.33\00:22:12.48 according to Peter? What's he say about them? 00:22:12.49\00:22:14.67 They are reserved until the day of perdition 00:22:14.68\00:22:17.84 of the day of judgment when they are destroyed. 00:22:17.85\00:22:19.63 So, just like the people on days of Noah 00:22:19.64\00:22:21.98 they perished in the water right 00:22:21.99\00:22:24.23 that's what the Bible says? 00:22:24.24\00:22:25.21 Also when you look on into the days of our day 00:22:25.22\00:22:29.05 and the day of judgment they are gonna be 00:22:29.06\00:22:31.12 destroyed with what? With fire exactly right, 00:22:31.13\00:22:34.36 so they are gonna be destroyed in the fire of hell. 00:22:34.37\00:22:36.25 So, we had find here twice now the term destruction 00:22:36.26\00:22:39.60 or being destroyed the reserved 00:22:39.61\00:22:40.80 and to be destroyed. And again we are gonna go ahead 00:22:40.81\00:22:44.85 and make the point, that no where in the Bible, 00:22:44.86\00:22:47.80 I will just challenge you to find the one text for me 00:22:47.81\00:22:50.32 where God promises the wicked eternal life? 00:22:50.33\00:22:52.32 The wicked's promise to them is destruction, 00:22:53.29\00:22:56.10 as a matter of fact the simplest text 00:22:56.11\00:22:57.82 and the most basic text, and almost like everybody 00:22:57.83\00:23:00.40 in the whole Bible knows, 00:23:00.41\00:23:01.38 everybody in the Bible knows a certain text. 00:23:01.39\00:23:02.95 I mean anybody has ever heard of the Bible 00:23:02.96\00:23:04.77 know certain text. If you have ever watch a 00:23:04.78\00:23:06.50 football game or baseball game on television. 00:23:06.51\00:23:08.56 One text do you often see in the background, 00:23:08.57\00:23:11.81 somebody hold the sign and hang it off the banners, 00:23:11.82\00:23:14.37 what do you see? John 3:16 right? 00:23:14.38\00:23:16.98 That text right there is one of the most powerful text 00:23:16.99\00:23:19.29 approved that the wicked do not have eternal life. 00:23:19.30\00:23:21.34 Now some people say, well I know 00:23:21.35\00:23:23.15 the wicked don't have eternal life. 00:23:23.16\00:23:24.19 But I want you to think for this conclusion you have. 00:23:24.20\00:23:27.21 If you insist the wicked burn for ever in hell, 00:23:27.22\00:23:30.15 then what you are also insisting that the wicked 00:23:30.16\00:23:32.36 have eternal life, and the Bible doesn't promise that, 00:23:32.37\00:23:35.40 look when now we go to slide here now. 00:23:35.41\00:23:37.83 John 3:16, so we're on the fifth text 00:23:37.84\00:23:40.79 under the structure of the wicked John 3:16 00:23:40.80\00:23:42.69 and we gonna find out now 00:23:44.26\00:23:45.23 that the wicked don't have eternal life. 00:23:45.24\00:23:48.44 Now I see by turning in the Bible surely 00:23:48.45\00:23:51.03 don't have to turn your Bible to quote this one. 00:23:51.04\00:23:52.43 Alright who would like to have the privilege 00:23:52.44\00:23:55.28 of quoting the text John 3:16? 00:23:55.29\00:23:57.45 Alright you are gonna do for us, 00:23:57.46\00:23:59.13 you are gonna quote for us John 3:16? 00:23:59.14\00:24:00.63 Okay, before you do that, well go ahead do right now 00:24:00.64\00:24:05.69 Vanessa you are ready to read John 3:16? 00:24:05.70\00:24:07.67 Yeah, okay you cannot use your Bible, okay, 00:24:07.68\00:24:11.22 I know, you cannot use your Bible, alright 00:24:11.23\00:24:12.40 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 00:24:12.90\00:24:15.61 begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him 00:24:15.62\00:24:18.24 shall not perish, but have everlasting life. 00:24:18.25\00:24:20.82 Okay, who believe in him shall not be what? 00:24:20.83\00:24:22.99 Perish. But, have what? Everlasting life. 00:24:23.00\00:24:25.94 Okay, according to Jesus himself Vanessa 00:24:25.95\00:24:27.62 according to Jesus what's the two options you have? 00:24:27.63\00:24:30.50 Come on now, what's the two options 00:24:30.51\00:24:33.01 you just said them, you just said them 00:24:33.02\00:24:34.11 the two options the wicked will? 00:24:34.12\00:24:35.24 Perish, the righteous will? Have everlasting life. 00:24:35.25\00:24:38.26 Two options and who is speaking here 00:24:38.27\00:24:39.62 tell me who is speaking, 00:24:39.63\00:24:40.60 it's red in your Bible who is speaking? 00:24:40.61\00:24:41.90 Jesus, Jesus is speaking. 00:24:41.91\00:24:42.88 So, Jesus himself as He speaks to His disciples 00:24:42.89\00:24:45.36 as He speaks to the whole world basically right, 00:24:45.37\00:24:47.22 you find the text written there, 00:24:47.23\00:24:49.02 Jesus says the two options are this, 00:24:49.03\00:24:50.73 perishing or everlasting life. 00:24:50.74\00:24:53.56 You know this would have been a great time 00:24:53.57\00:24:55.64 for Jesus to say something like this. 00:24:55.65\00:24:57.52 The option here is for those, let me read quote 00:24:57.53\00:25:01.50 John 3:16 in context of much of Christianity, 00:25:01.51\00:25:04.10 and much of teaching today, 00:25:04.11\00:25:05.08 what I used to believe. 00:25:05.09\00:25:06.25 For God so loved the world, 00:25:06.26\00:25:07.40 that he gave his only begotten Son, 00:25:07.41\00:25:08.50 that whoever believes in him 00:25:08.51\00:25:09.65 shall not have everlasting life in hell, 00:25:09.66\00:25:11.14 but have everlasting life in heaven. 00:25:11.15\00:25:12.70 Would it had been appropriate time 00:25:12.71\00:25:14.93 for him to say that, 00:25:14.94\00:25:15.91 would have been good for him to say right there, 00:25:15.92\00:25:17.67 I mean if that's what the truth was, 00:25:17.68\00:25:18.89 but what he say? Perish or everlasting life. 00:25:18.90\00:25:23.35 That text in itself is like to me 00:25:23.36\00:25:26.80 when I first became a Christian, 00:25:26.81\00:25:28.72 and I really realize what that was 00:25:28.73\00:25:30.50 saying that was Jesus was saying 00:25:30.51\00:25:31.67 perishing is not living for ever. 00:25:31.68\00:25:33.46 But, now wait a minute, wait a minute 00:25:33.47\00:25:35.84 I do realize that there are some 00:25:35.85\00:25:38.21 text in the Bible, that seem kind of 00:25:38.22\00:25:40.00 contradictory to that. 00:25:40.01\00:25:40.98 But, here is what you gonna understand, 00:25:40.99\00:25:41.96 we are gonna go to this text next. 00:25:41.97\00:25:43.28 We are gonna address this whole for ever 00:25:43.29\00:25:45.28 and everything, but here is 00:25:45.29\00:25:46.26 what you got to remember. 00:25:46.27\00:25:47.24 Nowhere do the wicked get promised eternal life. 00:25:47.25\00:25:54.16 You don't have it, 00:25:54.17\00:25:56.16 so if you don't have the wicked being 00:25:56.17\00:25:58.38 promised eternal life, 00:25:58.39\00:25:59.36 you do have the wicked 00:25:59.37\00:26:00.56 being promised to be destroyed, 00:26:00.57\00:26:02.50 destruction, perishing, never lasting anymore, 00:26:02.51\00:26:05.92 being gone, right you have these promises 00:26:05.93\00:26:08.09 in the Bible of the wicked. 00:26:08.10\00:26:09.07 And but you have a couple of texts 00:26:09.08\00:26:10.70 that seem to say something else, 00:26:10.71\00:26:11.93 one or two things have to happen? 00:26:11.94\00:26:13.78 We have to throw out all the text 00:26:13.79\00:26:16.02 and say they perished, 00:26:16.03\00:26:17.00 they are destroyed, they no longer exist, 00:26:17.01\00:26:19.14 those texts have to go, 00:26:19.15\00:26:20.12 or we have to understand those texts, 00:26:20.13\00:26:22.69 and the meaning of them in context of the text 00:26:22.70\00:26:26.70 that says forever and ever. 00:26:26.71\00:26:27.73 What does forever and ever mean, 00:26:27.74\00:26:29.71 and what's it talking about it, 00:26:29.72\00:26:30.69 you understand what I'm saying? 00:26:30.70\00:26:31.67 Because if you don't, 00:26:31.68\00:26:32.65 if we don't understand this, 00:26:32.66\00:26:33.63 we're gonna look at this, 00:26:33.64\00:26:34.61 and we go ahead and go to the slide here, 00:26:34.62\00:26:35.59 so you can get your Bibles at home ready 00:26:35.60\00:26:36.57 and everybody else, 00:26:36.58\00:26:37.55 Revelation chapter 20 verses 5 through 9 00:26:37.56\00:26:39.23 is we are going to next. 00:26:39.24\00:26:40.41 Oh I mess up there? 00:26:40.42\00:26:41.71 Oh okay, alright the slide is wrong, 00:26:41.72\00:26:46.21 so you have to fix that, 00:26:46.22\00:26:47.19 the next text we are going to after John 3:16, 00:26:47.20\00:26:49.86 was I alright John 3:16. 00:26:49.87\00:26:51.65 Yeah Revelation 14 now, 00:26:51.66\00:26:52.76 I'm sorry my mistake we were at John 3:16 00:26:52.77\00:26:55.80 and the next we are going to is 00:26:55.81\00:26:57.53 Revelation chapter 14. 00:26:57.54\00:26:58.57 I got to keep up with my little clicker thing, 00:26:58.58\00:27:00.93 I can show up with the slides 00:27:00.94\00:27:01.91 on the screen don't I? I get confused myself, 00:27:01.92\00:27:04.30 Revelation 14 9 through 11, 00:27:04.31\00:27:07.13 and we are gonna address now the whole idea. 00:27:07.14\00:27:09.35 Doesn't the Bible say that it's forever 00:27:09.36\00:27:11.31 and ever and ever and if it does, 00:27:11.32\00:27:13.15 we do have a text that teaches that the 00:27:13.16\00:27:16.56 wicked live forever, and ever, and ever, 00:27:16.57\00:27:17.86 and ever in hell. 00:27:17.87\00:27:18.84 What do you do with the text like 00:27:18.85\00:27:19.85 we just read in John 3:16 were Jesus says 00:27:19.86\00:27:21.59 they perish, right? 00:27:21.60\00:27:23.93 If there is a contradiction in the Bible, 00:27:23.94\00:27:25.51 then I'm ready to just pitch it because 00:27:25.52\00:27:29.30 how do we know who is right, 00:27:29.31\00:27:30.66 who is wrong, 00:27:30.67\00:27:31.64 you know how can I trust it. 00:27:31.65\00:27:32.62 So, the contradictions have to come together, 00:27:32.63\00:27:34.08 and we have to find out if when we see 00:27:34.09\00:27:36.36 a seeming contradiction is with the Bible 00:27:36.37\00:27:38.25 or with us and like 10 times out of 10 00:27:38.26\00:27:41.32 the issue is not the Bible, 00:27:41.33\00:27:42.91 the issue is us, right? 00:27:42.92\00:27:45.15 So, let's read this text now, 00:27:45.16\00:27:46.44 in Revelation chapter 14 verse 9 through 11 00:27:46.45\00:27:49.05 and Darlene do you have that ready right here? 00:27:49.06\00:27:51.32 Alright Revelation 14 9 through 11 Darlene, 00:27:51.33\00:27:55.23 go ahead. 00:27:55.24\00:27:56.21 Then a third angel followed them, 00:27:56.22\00:27:57.61 saying with a loud voice, 00:27:57.62\00:27:58.95 "If any man worship the beast and his image, 00:27:58.96\00:28:02.57 and receive his mark on his forehead 00:28:02.58\00:28:05.37 or on his hand, he himself shall also 00:28:05.38\00:28:08.75 drink of the wine of the wrath of God, 00:28:08.76\00:28:11.04 which is poured out in full strength 00:28:11.05\00:28:14.61 into the cup of His indignation. 00:28:14.62\00:28:16.87 He shall be tormented with fire 00:28:16.88\00:28:19.45 and brimstone in the presence of the 00:28:19.46\00:28:21.61 holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. 00:28:21.62\00:28:24.28 And the smoke of their torment 00:28:24.29\00:28:26.28 shall ascend forever 00:28:26.29\00:28:27.59 and ever; 00:28:27.60\00:28:28.57 and they shall have no rest day or night, 00:28:28.58\00:28:31.22 who worship the beast and his image, 00:28:31.23\00:28:33.40 and whoever receives the mark of his name. 00:28:33.41\00:28:37.27 So, according to the Bible here 00:28:37.28\00:28:39.12 what we just read in the Bible especially 00:28:39.13\00:28:41.12 we get on verse 11 is talking about 00:28:41.13\00:28:42.41 the wrath of God being poured out on people, 00:28:42.42\00:28:44.18 you know we went to that part of the text 00:28:44.19\00:28:45.42 and is gonna be poured out up on the wicked 00:28:45.43\00:28:46.93 and then it says and a smoke of their torment 00:28:46.94\00:28:48.80 ascends up, for how long? 00:28:48.81\00:28:49.93 Forever and ever; 00:28:49.94\00:28:51.60 and they have no rest day or night, 00:28:51.61\00:28:53.38 who worship the beast and his image, 00:28:53.39\00:28:54.63 and whoever receives the mark of his name. 00:28:54.64\00:28:57.57 So, most people or many people will turn to that, 00:28:57.58\00:29:00.49 now I can remember, 00:29:00.50\00:29:01.47 I don't know if I'm allowed to do this or not, 00:29:01.48\00:29:03.63 because it's gonna be aired all over the place, 00:29:03.64\00:29:04.99 but I'm just gonna be myself and they can edit it 00:29:05.00\00:29:06.60 out if they have to. 00:29:06.61\00:29:07.58 So, I remember when I was growing up, 00:29:07.59\00:29:09.60 and I had this friend I was about 10 years old 00:29:09.61\00:29:11.04 I had this friend, he went to this Baptist church, 00:29:11.05\00:29:12.82 its just up the way from me. 00:29:12.83\00:29:13.80 And he wanted me to go to church with him, 00:29:13.81\00:29:16.14 and I like said I was about 10 and my mom 00:29:16.15\00:29:20.45 made friends with his mom. 00:29:20.46\00:29:21.43 So, my parents were friends with his parents 00:29:21.44\00:29:22.92 and that kind of thing. And I remember my mom 00:29:22.93\00:29:25.92 actually at one time we went for about 00:29:25.93\00:29:27.30 three four weeks in a row. 00:29:27.31\00:29:28.50 She started going to church, 00:29:28.51\00:29:29.66 they invited her to church, 00:29:29.67\00:29:30.95 so we started to go to this church up 00:29:30.96\00:29:31.97 there with them. And I remember 00:29:31.98\00:29:33.33 one night this is what, 00:29:33.34\00:29:34.34 this is one of things that may be just 00:29:34.35\00:29:35.39 almost not ever want to become a 00:29:35.40\00:29:36.47 Christian or anything. 00:29:36.48\00:29:37.45 This was the, this night this one time 00:29:37.46\00:29:39.86 in history it's kind of funny 00:29:39.87\00:29:40.90 when you think about how your life turns 00:29:40.91\00:29:42.37 and things isn't it? 00:29:42.38\00:29:43.35 But, we went up to this Baptist church 00:29:43.36\00:29:45.55 and it was a Sunday night service 00:29:45.56\00:29:48.25 and me and my friend and bunch of others, 00:29:48.26\00:29:51.58 young ones about 10 years old, 00:29:51.59\00:29:52.86 11 years old 12 of that age 00:29:52.87\00:29:53.87 was all sitting in one row. 00:29:53.88\00:29:55.02 And a preacher was preaching a sermon 00:29:55.03\00:29:56.56 about the love of God. 00:29:56.57\00:29:57.54 I can remember that because 00:29:57.55\00:29:58.72 he kept on that love, love, love, 00:29:58.73\00:30:00.04 love all through you know just love, love, love. 00:30:00.05\00:30:02.09 At the end of the sermon he tries to get 00:30:02.10\00:30:04.07 everybody in my view. 00:30:04.08\00:30:05.48 Now you got to understand 00:30:05.49\00:30:06.46 where I'm coming from for those of you 00:30:06.47\00:30:07.44 that are you know like been in the church 00:30:07.45\00:30:09.71 a whole life and things like that you may never 00:30:09.72\00:30:10.93 understand what people from outside 00:30:10.94\00:30:12.62 were coming from right. 00:30:12.63\00:30:13.60 But, in my view whenever they at the end of 00:30:13.61\00:30:15.36 every service whenever they try to get somebody 00:30:15.37\00:30:17.33 to come up and be baptized they are wanting me 00:30:17.34\00:30:19.35 to come up and join their club, 00:30:19.36\00:30:20.33 I thought it was a club, 00:30:20.34\00:30:21.31 you know like my friends and I have clubs 00:30:21.32\00:30:22.44 we have been in stuff right? 00:30:22.45\00:30:23.42 And so I'm gonna go up 00:30:23.43\00:30:24.40 and they want me to join their club, 00:30:24.41\00:30:25.92 and by the way if you don't join our club, 00:30:25.93\00:30:27.62 this is what I was hearing right. 00:30:27.63\00:30:29.24 Let me tell you what's gonna happen to you, 00:30:29.25\00:30:31.01 so after the sermon on the love of God, 00:30:31.02\00:30:33.06 if you don't join our club something 00:30:33.07\00:30:35.96 could happen you tonight. 00:30:35.97\00:30:36.94 If you go out of here and you don't 00:30:36.95\00:30:37.92 come up here now, 00:30:37.93\00:30:38.90 something gonna happen tonight on the way home, 00:30:38.91\00:30:40.21 you could die in car wreck, 00:30:40.22\00:30:41.60 and if you die in a car wreck, 00:30:41.61\00:30:43.23 and you haven't come up here 00:30:43.24\00:30:44.21 and then baptize that's what they are saying. 00:30:44.22\00:30:45.89 In my mind I hear like join the club right. 00:30:45.90\00:30:47.94 If you don't come and do that, 00:30:47.95\00:30:49.28 remember I'm just a kid you are gonna burn 00:30:49.29\00:30:51.99 through the ceaseless ages of eternity in hell, 00:30:52.00\00:30:54.79 and they reference this text here right, 00:30:54.80\00:30:56.35 they reference this text. 00:30:56.36\00:30:57.33 And then it tells me this, 00:30:57.34\00:30:58.31 they tell the kids he says okay 00:30:58.32\00:30:59.47 I wanna talk to the kids right now. 00:30:59.48\00:31:00.60 I want you to understand what decision 00:31:00.61\00:31:02.21 you need to make here, right. 00:31:02.22\00:31:03.19 He says it's about like this, 00:31:03.20\00:31:04.68 this is true because it stuck in my mind 00:31:04.69\00:31:07.42 like you have some memories 00:31:07.43\00:31:08.67 when you are kid they just stick out forever 00:31:08.68\00:31:10.13 do you have any, 00:31:10.14\00:31:11.11 for ever not in real forever 00:31:11.12\00:31:12.90 but you know for ever as long you live. 00:31:12.91\00:31:13.89 And if you don't let me tell you 00:31:13.90\00:31:17.89 what hells is gonna be like, 00:31:17.90\00:31:18.87 and then he begins to explain, 00:31:18.88\00:31:21.46 he says it's about like your mom 00:31:21.47\00:31:22.45 when you get home taking you 00:31:22.46\00:31:24.44 and putting you into the oven 00:31:24.45\00:31:25.91 and shutting the door and latching it, 00:31:25.92\00:31:27.62 and it's dark in there. 00:31:27.63\00:31:28.74 And she turns it on high 00:31:28.75\00:31:30.43 and all the pain that you had its as painful 00:31:30.44\00:31:34.18 it could be and it's like oh it just the heat 00:31:34.19\00:31:35.88 is so much, but as much as you want to go ahead 00:31:35.89\00:31:37.43 and just die you won't be able to. 00:31:37.44\00:31:38.72 You have to stay alive and forever and ever 00:31:38.73\00:31:42.11 and ever this when you are sins and you think 00:31:42.12\00:31:44.62 there could be sins no more, 00:31:44.63\00:31:45.60 you still be burning, 00:31:45.61\00:31:46.63 and you can never stop it 00:31:46.64\00:31:48.01 and you will do that through that ceaseless 00:31:48.02\00:31:49.78 ages of eternity and then it's like who was 00:31:49.79\00:31:51.44 gonna get baptize. 00:31:51.45\00:31:52.42 And the kids were running you now 00:31:52.43\00:31:53.40 all the different ones, 00:31:53.41\00:31:54.38 and I was scared held in the seat, 00:31:54.39\00:31:55.75 I was so afraid and then we got home that night, 00:31:55.76\00:31:57.71 I can remember being so protective about it. 00:31:57.72\00:31:59.63 And I was like I never wanna go back 00:31:59.64\00:32:00.66 there never and my brother was in 00:32:00.67\00:32:02.08 same way and we never went back, 00:32:02.09\00:32:03.06 we never went back after that scared me to death. 00:32:03.07\00:32:06.44 And that's what I thought hell was, 00:32:06.45\00:32:08.57 and I got to thinking about it. 00:32:08.58\00:32:09.65 Even at like 10 years old I got thinking about it. 00:32:09.66\00:32:11.60 I have been that bad 00:32:11.61\00:32:13.06 and I'm gonna if something happens to me 00:32:13.07\00:32:15.89 I got to burn for ever for just like 10 years 00:32:15.90\00:32:19.07 of Ben who I am, 00:32:19.08\00:32:20.87 I mean it just shocked me clearly, 00:32:20.88\00:32:22.88 it was just to much, 00:32:22.89\00:32:24.47 and so I was just turned off going to churches 00:32:24.48\00:32:26.57 and things like that. 00:32:26.58\00:32:27.55 That's one of the reasons that the study mean 00:32:27.56\00:32:31.21 so much to me, 00:32:31.22\00:32:32.19 because I think it's mischaracterizes God. 00:32:32.20\00:32:35.02 The common belief and hell burning for ever, 00:32:35.03\00:32:38.32 mischaracterizes God, 00:32:38.33\00:32:39.67 it's not a God of love. 00:32:39.68\00:32:40.66 If he is gonna put, 00:32:40.67\00:32:42.11 if he is gonna create me. 00:32:42.12\00:32:45.29 Did anybody here have the choice to be created, 00:32:45.30\00:32:47.23 anybody? Now let's just think about his logic, 00:32:47.24\00:32:49.21 you didn't have choice, did you? 00:32:49.22\00:32:50.24 So, God makes you come into existence, right. 00:32:50.25\00:32:53.19 He gives you only a limited space and time 00:32:53.20\00:32:55.41 on this planet of this earth right. 00:32:55.42\00:32:57.08 And you make wrong decisions 00:32:57.09\00:32:58.72 and you don't ever learn to love his son 00:32:58.73\00:33:01.33 and appreciate the sacrifices been made, 00:33:01.34\00:33:03.16 you never learned any of these things. 00:33:03.17\00:33:04.39 And then on top of that because of you 00:33:04.40\00:33:07.74 never learning to appreciate 00:33:07.75\00:33:08.74 that you are gonna die, 00:33:08.75\00:33:10.24 and then you are gonna spend the ceaseless 00:33:10.25\00:33:11.90 ages of eternity burning in hell. 00:33:11.91\00:33:13.28 I'm like you know I won't to do that to my kids, 00:33:13.29\00:33:17.60 I mean look like Loren and I came together 00:33:17.61\00:33:20.27 they didn't have choice but come in this earth, 00:33:20.28\00:33:21.71 he procreated right we have our kids there. 00:33:21.72\00:33:23.19 And because my kids had been really, 00:33:23.20\00:33:24.57 really bad I'm gonna spank them for how long, 00:33:24.58\00:33:26.27 forever? No it never makes sense to me. 00:33:26.28\00:33:30.15 Christianity this one of the things, 00:33:30.16\00:33:32.77 it was a hang up for me, 00:33:32.78\00:33:33.75 because they never really make sense. 00:33:33.76\00:33:35.03 Now there are some people out there 00:33:35.04\00:33:36.58 right now probably at home like 00:33:36.59\00:33:38.09 jumping up down yelling at the TV 00:33:38.10\00:33:39.52 but it says forever, 00:33:39.53\00:33:40.50 but it says forever you know 00:33:40.51\00:33:42.25 I felt like this some times 00:33:42.26\00:33:43.28 when I watch somebody on TV 00:33:43.29\00:33:44.65 or hear him on the radio you know. 00:33:44.66\00:33:46.15 But let's find out what it means. 00:33:46.16\00:33:48.37 Remember Jesus says they are gonna perish, 00:33:48.38\00:33:50.75 the smoke of their torment ascend up 00:33:50.76\00:33:53.08 forever and ever. 00:33:53.09\00:33:54.06 You will notice here, 00:33:54.07\00:33:55.04 it doesn't say the people live for ever and ever 00:33:55.05\00:33:56.17 for we go any further. 00:33:56.18\00:33:57.76 The smoke of their torment ascend 00:33:57.77\00:33:58.74 with that forever and ever. 00:33:58.75\00:33:59.72 No rest they have day or night. 00:33:59.73\00:34:00.71 So, how does, how can we explain this, 00:34:00.72\00:34:03.06 let us look in other places in the Bible 00:34:03.07\00:34:04.83 where the term forever is used, 00:34:04.84\00:34:06.35 and see if there is certain times 00:34:06.36\00:34:09.31 in the Bible that use the term forever, 00:34:09.32\00:34:10.89 but it just means for indefinite period of time. 00:34:10.90\00:34:13.30 You have been to Wal-Mart, 00:34:13.31\00:34:14.97 and everybody has been to Wal-Mart of course, 00:34:14.98\00:34:17.64 you have been to Wal-Mart and you say 00:34:17.65\00:34:18.94 man I think like that place is so packed out 00:34:18.95\00:34:21.26 I had to wait in line for ever. 00:34:21.27\00:34:22.42 Did you wait in line for ever? 00:34:22.43\00:34:24.18 No, you waited in line what seem like for ever, 00:34:24.19\00:34:26.57 but eventually you got to the line 00:34:26.58\00:34:27.55 didn't you because you here now, right. 00:34:27.56\00:34:29.67 So, let us look now at the text Isaiah chapter 34 00:34:29.68\00:34:32.70 verses 8 through 10, 00:34:32.71\00:34:34.10 Isaiah chapter 34 verses 8 through 10, 00:34:34.11\00:34:35.97 and I think we will have Jessica 00:34:35.98\00:34:38.81 here read that. Can you read that 00:34:38.82\00:34:40.52 for us Jessica in the middle and the back here, 00:34:40.53\00:34:42.17 Isaiah 34 verses 8 through 10, 00:34:42.18\00:34:45.40 let me get there myself hold on, 00:34:45.41\00:34:47.88 I wanna get there myself, 00:34:47.89\00:34:48.86 I found that on myself while ago 00:34:48.87\00:34:49.84 I was reading and I still don't know yet. 00:34:49.85\00:34:51.12 Isaiah 34 where' that in your Bible, 00:34:51.13\00:34:53.97 somewhere right in the middle isn't it? 00:34:53.98\00:34:56.16 If you kind of get in the middle some where 00:34:56.17\00:34:57.25 it's after the book of Psalms, 00:34:57.26\00:34:58.50 Proverbs, Ecclesiastes 00:34:58.51\00:34:59.48 and back before the book of Daniel, 00:34:59.49\00:35:01.11 got Ezekiel, and Daniel, 00:35:01.12\00:35:02.53 going back to the left so Isaiah 00:35:02.54\00:35:04.29 and we are gonna look at the 34 chapter 00:35:05.70\00:35:06.67 and verses what? 8 through 10 okay, 00:35:06.68\00:35:11.66 hold the microphone up to when you read, 00:35:11.67\00:35:12.64 okay go ahead. For it is the day 00:35:12.65\00:35:17.03 of the Lord's vengeance, 00:35:17.04\00:35:18.27 the year when Edom will be paid back 00:35:18.28\00:35:22.55 for all it did to Israel. 00:35:22.56\00:35:24.85 The streams of Edom will be filled with 00:35:24.86\00:35:27.72 burning pitch, and the ground 00:35:27.73\00:35:30.29 will be covered with fire. 00:35:30.30\00:35:31.60 This judgment on Edom will never end; 00:35:31.61\00:35:35.67 the smoke of its burning will rise forever. 00:35:35.68\00:35:38.81 The land will lie deserted from generation 00:35:38.82\00:35:42.68 to generation. No one will live there anymore. 00:35:42.69\00:35:46.20 Isn't it interesting so speaking of Edom, 00:35:46.21\00:35:49.08 Edom actually I guess I follow you there, 00:35:49.09\00:35:51.66 follow your lead speaking of Edom 00:35:51.67\00:35:53.28 it says that, it says that 00:35:53.29\00:35:54.63 they will burn for how long? 00:35:54.64\00:35:56.35 I wanna touch this again real quick 00:35:56.36\00:35:57.91 there how long will it burn? 00:35:57.92\00:35:58.89 Forever right, now today is Edom burning? 00:35:58.90\00:36:02.15 No, they were actually destroyed in this burn, 00:36:02.16\00:36:04.37 they can go there and walk to they 00:36:04.38\00:36:05.47 and is nothing there right it's burned up. 00:36:05.48\00:36:08.07 But it says it it's gonna burn forever 00:36:08.08\00:36:09.77 so when the Bible says here speaking of Edom 00:36:09.78\00:36:12.20 and it said there was gonna burn forever 00:36:12.21\00:36:13.79 and ever, how long was that forever? 00:36:13.80\00:36:15.44 Until it was done, 00:36:15.45\00:36:18.00 you know in other words now listen 00:36:18.01\00:36:20.13 to this in other words the result is forever 00:36:20.14\00:36:23.04 are you following that? 00:36:23.05\00:36:24.83 Is not the burning that's forever 00:36:24.84\00:36:27.76 it's the result that's forever. 00:36:27.77\00:36:29.40 And that's what we gonna find 00:36:29.41\00:36:32.00 with the destruction of the wicked 00:36:32.01\00:36:33.02 because again the wicked nowhere 00:36:33.03\00:36:34.65 are promised eternal life. 00:36:34.66\00:36:36.26 Now we have another example in Bible 00:36:36.27\00:36:37.89 another text we can turn to, 00:36:37.90\00:36:38.97 it's in 1 Samuel chapter 1 00:36:38.98\00:36:42.25 and you remember the story in Samuel, 00:36:42.26\00:36:44.25 Hannah she wanted have a baby but she couldn't 00:36:44.26\00:36:47.55 have one, right. 00:36:47.56\00:36:48.53 So, she went up to the temple 00:36:48.54\00:36:49.51 to pray and she was weeping and praying, 00:36:49.52\00:36:51.35 and she was what was she was wanting? 00:36:51.36\00:36:52.86 She wanna to make her husband happy 00:36:52.87\00:36:54.54 and have a son right, 00:36:54.55\00:36:55.52 but she couldn't have a son, 00:36:55.53\00:36:56.50 and so the priest sees her out there 00:36:56.51\00:36:58.59 weeping and thinks she is drunk, 00:36:58.60\00:36:59.75 and he goes out tries to get on her 00:36:59.76\00:37:00.94 and she says no, no, no 00:37:00.95\00:37:01.92 I'm not drunk you know I wanna have a son, 00:37:01.93\00:37:04.08 and so she gets promise the son. 00:37:04.09\00:37:06.11 And she says if I get a son, 00:37:06.12\00:37:07.48 I'm gonna take and give him to the Lord, 00:37:07.49\00:37:09.62 and how long you gonna serve with the house 00:37:09.63\00:37:11.29 of the Lord? Forever, let us read it, 00:37:11.30\00:37:13.73 1 Samuel 1 I will put the slide up here 00:37:13.74\00:37:16.52 1 Samuel chapter 1 in verse 22 00:37:16.53\00:37:17.98 is we're wanna go to 1 Samuel 1:22. 00:37:17.99\00:37:20.07 How long will he serve, 00:37:20.08\00:37:21.34 and I think we probably have the Tim or Bill 00:37:21.35\00:37:23.73 either one, who want to do it? 00:37:23.74\00:37:25.22 Bill you wanna do that one? 00:37:25.23\00:37:26.20 Okay 1 Samuel chapter 1 in verse 22. 00:37:26.21\00:37:29.34 But Hannah did not go up, 00:37:29.35\00:37:33.06 for she said to her husband, 00:37:33.07\00:37:34.47 not until the child is weaned, 00:37:34.48\00:37:36.46 that I will take him, 00:37:36.47\00:37:38.41 that he may appear before the Lord 00:37:38.42\00:37:40.42 and remain there forever. 00:37:40.43\00:37:41.59 How long Samuel gonna appear there before 00:37:41.60\00:37:43.14 the Lord of the temple, how long? Forever, 00:37:43.15\00:37:45.11 so Samuel is he still serving that today? 00:37:45.12\00:37:46.90 No, how do you know? 00:37:46.91\00:37:48.66 Because he is dead isn't he right? 00:37:48.67\00:37:52.11 Samuel is still not living, 00:37:52.12\00:37:53.33 the Bible records him dying, 00:37:53.34\00:37:54.31 so Samuel is dead, 00:37:54.32\00:37:55.68 so he didn't get to serve forever 00:37:55.69\00:37:56.66 but how long was forever for him? 00:37:56.67\00:37:57.84 Until he die, so when you look at, 00:37:57.85\00:38:01.82 now you can go actually into the original meaning 00:38:01.83\00:38:04.39 of the word and things like that, 00:38:04.40\00:38:05.37 it's very interesting because 00:38:05.38\00:38:06.35 even in the definition of these words like 00:38:06.36\00:38:08.12 it's like eon and eon forever and ever 00:38:08.13\00:38:11.10 and it was the term means like eon and eon 00:38:11.11\00:38:13.47 which mean like an indefinite period of time. 00:38:13.48\00:38:14.95 It doesn't actually mean through the ceaseless 00:38:14.96\00:38:16.75 ages of eternity every time. 00:38:16.76\00:38:17.90 Now it can mean that, 00:38:17.91\00:38:19.49 when the Bible says that God 00:38:19.50\00:38:20.54 who is forever and ever or you know 00:38:20.55\00:38:23.31 the righteous will live forever and ever 00:38:23.32\00:38:25.15 well eternal life living forever and ever 00:38:25.16\00:38:27.88 and it having eternal life is different 00:38:27.89\00:38:30.62 than eternal death. 00:38:30.63\00:38:31.60 You follow what I'm saying? 00:38:31.61\00:38:33.37 You know both are still eternal right, 00:38:33.38\00:38:35.94 but well it's not different then is it, 00:38:35.95\00:38:38.11 but what I'm getting at here, 00:38:38.12\00:38:39.41 I kind of stumbling over myself a little bit, 00:38:39.42\00:38:41.70 let me back up just little bit. 00:38:41.71\00:38:42.68 When God promises you live forever, 00:38:42.69\00:38:44.81 that's eternal life, 00:38:44.82\00:38:46.76 you do live forever because it will be 00:38:46.77\00:38:49.66 until that times run out, 00:38:49.67\00:38:50.64 when the time is gonna run out is not because 00:38:50.65\00:38:53.61 you are living forever right? 00:38:53.62\00:38:54.59 But if He promises eternal death 00:38:54.60\00:38:55.88 will that time run out. 00:38:55.89\00:38:56.86 Yeah you will die and that would be it, 00:38:56.87\00:38:59.33 you will be eternally dead, 00:38:59.34\00:39:00.31 and so it's the same thing so if 00:39:00.32\00:39:02.14 He promises that the fires will burn forever 00:39:02.15\00:39:04.54 how long is that forever? 00:39:04.55\00:39:05.99 Until that fires are burned up, 00:39:06.00\00:39:08.60 until that's consumed, 00:39:08.61\00:39:10.52 right everlasting fire, 00:39:10.53\00:39:12.96 and we're gonna get into that little bit too, 00:39:12.97\00:39:14.23 the everlasting fire idea 00:39:14.24\00:39:15.88 and all that kind of stuff. 00:39:15.89\00:39:16.86 Now we are still here in 1 Samuel 1:22, 00:39:16.87\00:39:19.20 let us go to Malachi now, 00:39:19.21\00:39:20.34 Malachi chapter 4 is on the screen there, 00:39:20.35\00:39:22.34 Malachi chapter 4 verse 1 through 3. 00:39:22.35\00:39:24.27 Does everybody know where Malachi is? 00:39:24.28\00:39:25.46 Common yeah last book of the Old Testament, 00:39:25.47\00:39:28.97 so go to the book of Matthew 00:39:28.98\00:39:30.00 everybody knows how to find book of Matthew 00:39:30.01\00:39:31.36 don't they. Go to the book of Matthew 00:39:31.37\00:39:32.97 and backup one book, 00:39:32.98\00:39:33.95 you will be in the book of Malachi. 00:39:33.96\00:39:34.93 Malachi the 4th chapter and it's interesting 00:39:34.94\00:39:39.26 here once again he is talking about 00:39:39.27\00:39:40.40 the destruction of the wicked, 00:39:40.41\00:39:41.38 and how long they are gonna burn up? 00:39:41.39\00:39:43.44 Malachi chapter 4 verse 1 through 3, 00:39:43.45\00:39:47.05 and Tom would you like to read that one Malachi 4 00:39:47.06\00:39:49.82 verse 1 through 3? 00:39:49.83\00:39:50.80 Get him the microphone there. 00:39:50.81\00:39:51.78 For behold, the day is coming, 00:39:51.79\00:39:57.35 oh this is 1 through 3, okay. 00:39:57.36\00:40:00.40 You got it you're right on. 00:40:00.41\00:40:01.38 For behold, the day is coming, 00:40:01.39\00:40:02.49 Burning like an oven, And all the proud, 00:40:02.50\00:40:05.12 yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. 00:40:05.13\00:40:07.64 And the day which is coming shall burn them up, 00:40:07.65\00:40:10.53 Says the Lord of hosts, 00:40:10.54\00:40:12.51 That will leave them neither root 00:40:12.52\00:40:14.56 nor branch. But to you who fear My name, 00:40:14.57\00:40:18.48 The Sun of Righteousness shall arise 00:40:18.49\00:40:21.23 with healing in His wings; 00:40:21.24\00:40:23.18 And you shall go out and grow fat like 00:40:23.19\00:40:26.39 stall-fed calves. 00:40:26.40\00:40:27.63 You shall trample the wicked, 00:40:27.64\00:40:30.18 For they shall be ashes under the soles 00:40:30.19\00:40:33.87 of your feet On the day that I do this, 00:40:33.88\00:40:35.58 says the Lord of hosts. 00:40:35.59\00:40:36.85 Okay you have verse 1 and verse 3 00:40:36.86\00:40:39.41 both says something is gonna happened 00:40:39.42\00:40:40.75 to the wicked. You know what's happens 00:40:40.76\00:40:42.25 to the righteous here, 00:40:42.26\00:40:43.23 you see what happen to the righteous, 00:40:43.24\00:40:44.21 they all gonna be fat, 00:40:44.22\00:40:45.19 it's not a bad thing at that time isn't, 00:40:45.20\00:40:48.71 so it's okay, 00:40:48.72\00:40:49.69 you are gonna be overweight I guess, 00:40:49.70\00:40:50.75 it doesn't hurt you right. 00:40:50.76\00:40:51.73 That's at His second coming 00:40:51.74\00:40:53.66 but look at verse 1 there 00:40:53.67\00:40:55.56 what it says happens for behold the day 00:40:55.57\00:40:57.65 come that shall burns another. 00:40:57.66\00:40:59.68 Okay what's he is referring to here, right. 00:40:59.69\00:41:02.76 Look what's gonna happen all that are proud, 00:41:02.77\00:41:05.11 all the do wickedly shall be what? 00:41:05.12\00:41:06.46 Stubble, they are gonna be stubble, 00:41:06.47\00:41:09.25 right they are gonna be burn up. 00:41:09.26\00:41:10.97 And the day that come shall burn them 00:41:10.98\00:41:13.40 forever and ever. 00:41:13.41\00:41:14.76 Did I misquote that, 00:41:14.77\00:41:16.26 now what does it actually say? 00:41:16.27\00:41:18.21 Burn them up so according to Bible 00:41:18.22\00:41:21.38 here once again we find that the wicked 00:41:21.39\00:41:22.45 that will be burned up, 00:41:22.46\00:41:24.18 and the result will be forever. 00:41:24.19\00:41:26.97 And look at verse 3, 00:41:26.98\00:41:27.95 and they shall tread the righteous 00:41:27.96\00:41:30.25 they go out on the earth because remember 00:41:30.26\00:41:31.72 what Jesus says the meek shall inherit 00:41:31.73\00:41:35.74 the earth. So, what we find here 00:41:35.75\00:41:37.40 in the context here is after the wicked 00:41:37.41\00:41:39.14 are burned up to ashes, 00:41:39.15\00:41:40.13 what do the righteous do they go out 00:41:40.14\00:41:42.21 and they tread them on the soles of their feet, 00:41:42.22\00:41:44.34 for they shall be ashes under the soles 00:41:44.35\00:41:45.86 of their feet in the day that I shall do this, 00:41:45.87\00:41:48.28 say the Lord of host. 00:41:48.29\00:41:49.26 So it's interesting hell according to Bible 00:41:49.27\00:41:51.50 we read already hell is gonna be where? 00:41:51.51\00:41:52.66 On the earth, when it's gonna be? 00:41:52.67\00:41:54.59 Yeah we know after 1000 years, 00:41:54.60\00:41:59.68 after the millennium Scott's covered that, 00:41:59.69\00:42:00.81 but we know that the wicked are reserved 00:42:00.82\00:42:02.61 until the day of judgment. 00:42:02.62\00:42:04.30 So, it's gonna be day of judgment 00:42:04.31\00:42:05.35 when this all takes place, 00:42:05.36\00:42:06.48 this all gonna fall in God is gonna say okay 00:42:06.49\00:42:07.85 this is what's gonna happen, 00:42:07.86\00:42:08.87 I'm gonna make things right, 00:42:08.88\00:42:09.85 he destroys the wicked in the fires of hell 00:42:09.86\00:42:12.43 where at? On the earth 00:42:12.44\00:42:15.09 and then the righteous 00:42:15.10\00:42:16.36 inherit the earth. 00:42:16.37\00:42:17.34 Have you seen that here in context so far, 00:42:17.35\00:42:18.64 so it just kind of reiterate to we've already 00:42:18.65\00:42:20.66 learned a little bit there, 00:42:20.67\00:42:21.71 that the wicked are gonna be burned up, 00:42:21.72\00:42:23.79 they are gonna be destroyed, 00:42:23.80\00:42:25.09 they are gonna be no more. 00:42:25.10\00:42:26.07 Is there any questions so far? 00:42:26.08\00:42:27.70 Yeah we get into the difficult text, 00:42:27.71\00:42:30.36 so called difficult text later one in the study 00:42:30.37\00:42:32.55 we will cover that in the part two of the study 00:42:32.56\00:42:34.42 when we get to part two, 00:42:34.43\00:42:35.40 because there is ones that somebody likes 00:42:35.41\00:42:37.01 to bring out and will say what about 00:42:37.02\00:42:38.34 the rich man Lazarus, 00:42:38.35\00:42:39.32 how you wanted that? 00:42:39.33\00:42:40.30 What about the rich man Lazarus 00:42:40.31\00:42:42.07 and here is what funny to me, 00:42:42.08\00:42:43.42 you will find yourself trying to defend a text. 00:42:43.43\00:42:47.01 You know what I like to say when someone 00:42:47.02\00:42:48.71 says what about the rich man Lazarus? 00:42:48.72\00:42:49.91 What about John 3:16? 00:42:49.92\00:42:51.39 Right now the rich man Lazarus is a parable. 00:42:51.40\00:42:55.91 John 3:16 is Jesus actually making 00:42:55.92\00:42:58.40 a statement actually what's gonna happen, 00:42:58.41\00:43:00.35 right. God so loved the world, 00:43:00.36\00:43:02.63 that he gave his only begotten Son, 00:43:02.64\00:43:03.61 who believes in him shall not perish, 00:43:03.62\00:43:05.24 but have everlasting life. 00:43:05.25\00:43:06.22 Right the two options is perishing, 00:43:06.23\00:43:08.47 everlasting life, they have to go together. 00:43:08.48\00:43:10.79 You can't have one, 00:43:10.80\00:43:12.23 and sets off to the side somewhat different. 00:43:12.24\00:43:13.68 He says okay yeah this is what it means, 00:43:13.69\00:43:15.54 and this is what I'm gonna believe if you do, 00:43:15.55\00:43:16.60 can you see what it can lead you 00:43:16.61\00:43:18.15 that's why the Bible tells us in Isaiah, 00:43:18.16\00:43:20.46 we have to study line up on line, 00:43:20.47\00:43:22.10 preset upon preset here a little, 00:43:22.11\00:43:24.29 there a little. 00:43:24.30\00:43:25.27 You have to take all the text 00:43:25.28\00:43:26.25 in the context to understand 00:43:26.26\00:43:27.45 on any particular teaching. 00:43:27.46\00:43:29.58 Now I like this part very well. 00:43:29.59\00:43:32.19 We finished up here, 00:43:32.20\00:43:33.78 we're seeing that the wicked 00:43:33.79\00:43:34.76 that are gonna be destroyed in the fires, 00:43:34.77\00:43:35.88 they are gonna be like ashes, 00:43:35.89\00:43:37.06 they are gonna be under the feet as ashes. 00:43:37.07\00:43:39.27 Now we have understand 00:43:39.28\00:43:41.81 that also the Bible says that are gonna be 00:43:41.82\00:43:42.79 eternal fire, right. 00:43:42.80\00:43:43.77 Did you know those examples 00:43:43.78\00:43:44.75 in the Bible of those suffering 00:43:44.76\00:43:46.01 from eternal fire? 00:43:46.02\00:43:46.99 They have been suffering from 00:43:47.00\00:43:49.68 everlasting flame, 00:43:49.69\00:43:50.66 the first one here we are gonna look at 00:43:50.67\00:43:52.05 is in Jude chapter 1 verse 7, 00:43:52.06\00:43:53.66 Jude chapter 1 and verse 7. 00:43:53.67\00:43:55.59 It's on the slide, 00:43:55.60\00:43:56.57 its one the screen there, Jude 1:7. 00:43:56.58\00:43:57.78 Everybody get there where's the book of Jude? 00:43:57.79\00:43:59.60 Yeah exactly right, 00:43:59.61\00:44:02.40 you go to the book Revelation 00:44:02.41\00:44:03.38 and backup one book. 00:44:03.39\00:44:04.37 Now everybody knows where 00:44:04.38\00:44:05.35 the book of Matthew is, 00:44:05.36\00:44:06.33 and everybody knows what the book of Jude is, 00:44:06.34\00:44:07.59 or Revelation is almost everybody, 00:44:07.60\00:44:09.39 very few people don't, right? 00:44:09.40\00:44:11.06 So, if you go to the book of Revelation 00:44:11.07\00:44:12.97 you back up one book you will get to Jude. 00:44:12.98\00:44:14.40 On the slide so almost done this on the slide 00:44:14.41\00:44:17.55 and I do this some time, 00:44:17.56\00:44:18.53 and I note I will just put Jude 7, 00:44:18.54\00:44:20.41 right because there is no chapters in Jude, 00:44:20.42\00:44:23.37 it's just 1 chapter so Jude verse 7. 00:44:23.38\00:44:25.01 But for, so people don't get confused 00:44:25.02\00:44:26.97 I put chapter 1 which is only 1 chapter verse 7. 00:44:26.98\00:44:28.98 Sometimes I sign my emails Jude 2. 00:44:28.99\00:44:31.31 You have ever seen that, 00:44:31.32\00:44:33.23 or anybody got email from Aerosoft signed Jude 2. 00:44:33.24\00:44:35.33 Look what it says in Jude 2, 00:44:35.34\00:44:36.99 Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, 00:44:37.00\00:44:39.08 and be multiplied. 00:44:39.09\00:44:40.06 So, I just sign my emails Jude 2 00:44:40.07\00:44:41.62 Phillip right. Now you can add 00:44:41.63\00:44:43.36 to that when you send me emails too. 00:44:43.37\00:44:44.55 Alright so Jude chapter 1 in verse 7 00:44:44.56\00:44:47.59 we are gonna look at an example 00:44:47.60\00:44:49.69 of this eternal fire, 00:44:49.70\00:44:51.11 and just we are gonna have Roberto 00:44:51.12\00:44:54.55 over here give us in Jude chapter 1 00:44:54.56\00:44:56.49 and verse 7 for us go ahead Roberto. 00:44:56.50\00:44:58.30 As Sodom and Gomorrah, 00:44:58.31\00:45:00.86 and the cities around them in a similar manner 00:45:00.87\00:45:03.93 of these, having given themselves over, 00:45:03.94\00:45:07.36 over the sexual immorality 00:45:07.37\00:45:10.16 and gone after strange flesh, 00:45:10.17\00:45:12.88 are set forth as an example, 00:45:12.89\00:45:16.05 suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 00:45:16.06\00:45:21.09 Alright, I'm gonna keep right on you, 00:45:21.10\00:45:23.44 okay, Robert, what happened to Sodom 00:45:23.45\00:45:25.33 and Gomorrah, what did they suffer from? 00:45:25.34\00:45:26.36 The last part of the verse, 00:45:26.37\00:45:29.54 the vengeance of. 00:45:29.55\00:45:32.08 Suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 00:45:34.84\00:45:36.78 Eternal fire, that's exactly right. 00:45:36.79\00:45:38.10 So, so according to the Bible Sodom 00:45:38.11\00:45:39.97 and Gomorrah suffered from eternal fire. 00:45:39.98\00:45:41.32 Now, I got a question, 00:45:41.33\00:45:42.82 I wanna ask everybody, 00:45:42.83\00:45:43.87 eternal fire obviously last forever, 00:45:43.88\00:45:45.87 doesn't it Michael? 00:45:45.88\00:45:46.85 Eternal fire last forever. 00:45:46.86\00:45:48.45 So, today right now we should be able 00:45:48.46\00:45:50.15 to go somewhere on this earth 00:45:50.16\00:45:51.13 and go to, and go to Sodom and Gomorrah 00:45:51.14\00:45:53.05 and see them still burning, 00:45:53.06\00:45:54.03 shouldn't be able to do that? 00:45:54.04\00:45:55.01 Yeah, you can't, I'm sorry, it's late, 00:45:55.02\00:45:57.55 you won't be able to because 00:45:57.56\00:45:58.53 Sodom and Gomorrah historically 00:45:58.54\00:45:59.89 are where you find today? 00:45:59.90\00:46:01.73 The Dead Sea and they're like buried 00:46:01.74\00:46:04.23 under water. 00:46:04.24\00:46:05.21 Yeah, just kind of put the fire out I guess, 00:46:05.22\00:46:07.07 maybe they would have kept burning 00:46:07.08\00:46:08.15 if they hadn't put water, 00:46:08.16\00:46:09.13 if they hadn't got water 00:46:09.14\00:46:10.11 over top of them there, 00:46:10.12\00:46:11.09 but I'll tell you some very interesting. 00:46:11.10\00:46:12.07 At my Church there in Louisville, 00:46:12.08\00:46:13.99 I had this guy come one time 00:46:14.00\00:46:15.15 that he was a like one of those guys 00:46:15.16\00:46:17.15 that what do they called archeologists, 00:46:17.16\00:46:18.35 they go around digging up things 00:46:18.36\00:46:19.39 and things like that, right? 00:46:19.40\00:46:20.37 And he was digging and he goes over 00:46:20.38\00:46:23.08 the Holy Land, 00:46:23.09\00:46:24.06 in that place there is a lot of research 00:46:24.07\00:46:26.51 and things like that. 00:46:26.52\00:46:27.49 And he had this bag, 00:46:27.50\00:46:28.47 a plastic bag that he brought back 00:46:28.48\00:46:29.85 from over there, 00:46:29.86\00:46:30.83 he have been digging in around 00:46:30.84\00:46:32.03 the Dead Sea where historically Sodom, 00:46:32.04\00:46:34.52 Sodom and Gomorrah are, 00:46:34.53\00:46:35.97 and it's the only place on this planet 00:46:35.98\00:46:38.34 that you find this little things 00:46:38.35\00:46:40.16 they're like softer balls, 00:46:40.17\00:46:41.27 they will be like I think about this big 00:46:41.28\00:46:43.30 softer balls. 00:46:43.31\00:46:44.28 It's the only place on a planet 00:46:44.29\00:46:45.26 you will find them embedded into the ground 00:46:45.27\00:46:46.24 and the rock and stuff there, 00:46:46.25\00:46:47.22 and he picks some of them out, 00:46:47.23\00:46:48.20 and he put him in his bag 00:46:48.21\00:46:49.18 and he brought back to us, 00:46:49.19\00:46:50.16 can't find anywhere else on the planet, 00:46:50.17\00:46:51.29 and that's what interesting 00:46:51.30\00:46:52.27 about these softer balls. 00:46:52.28\00:46:53.25 He showed a video he didn't do 00:46:53.26\00:46:54.98 with all them because you don't 00:46:54.99\00:46:55.96 wanna waste them all. 00:46:55.97\00:46:56.94 You remember this Darlene you were there, 00:46:56.95\00:46:58.00 I think it was on a prayer meeting night, 00:46:58.01\00:46:59.44 but anyway he put a, 00:46:59.45\00:47:00.42 he has one of the softer balls 00:47:00.43\00:47:01.40 in the end of the spoon, 00:47:01.41\00:47:02.38 a silver metal spoon right, 00:47:02.39\00:47:03.68 and he takes it and enlighten 00:47:03.69\00:47:05.30 with the lighter and it melts 00:47:05.31\00:47:06.37 in the spoon off just, 00:47:06.38\00:47:07.46 melts it off like that. 00:47:07.47\00:47:08.98 And the only place on the earth 00:47:08.99\00:47:10.57 you can find those things over 00:47:10.58\00:47:11.73 and around the Dead Sea there where 00:47:11.74\00:47:13.04 historically Sodom and Gomorrah was. 00:47:13.05\00:47:14.47 Now, you remember that 00:47:14.48\00:47:15.45 the Bible says that that fire of brimstone 00:47:15.46\00:47:17.21 raining down from God out of heaven on 00:47:17.22\00:47:18.81 Sodom and Gomorrah and they burn forever, 00:47:18.82\00:47:21.16 forever, right? Forever, 00:47:21.17\00:47:23.18 they're not burning today, are they? 00:47:23.19\00:47:25.05 You wonder why? 00:47:25.06\00:47:26.96 Because after the fire done it's work, 00:47:26.97\00:47:29.70 there was no reason to keep burning. 00:47:29.71\00:47:31.78 So, it says there, 00:47:31.79\00:47:32.79 now I want you to know something else 00:47:32.80\00:47:34.46 in the verse 2, still in verse 7. 00:47:34.47\00:47:35.77 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, 00:47:35.78\00:47:37.45 and the cities around and about them in like manner. 00:47:37.46\00:47:39.85 So, also there were cities around 00:47:39.86\00:47:41.35 about them in like manner, 00:47:41.36\00:47:42.33 that was still just as bad, 00:47:42.34\00:47:43.52 they also suffered from the same thing 00:47:43.53\00:47:45.33 and it says, they suffer 00:47:45.34\00:47:46.85 the vengeance of eternal fire. 00:47:46.86\00:47:49.10 Now, listen was the fire eternal? 00:47:49.11\00:47:53.14 Yes, yes, yes it was because 00:47:53.15\00:47:56.34 the result was eternal, 00:47:56.35\00:47:57.94 they are destroyed, 00:47:57.95\00:47:59.28 they are not gonna be there anymore. 00:47:59.29\00:48:00.73 You know, I like to do this, 00:48:00.74\00:48:01.89 I learn this from Doug Batchelor 00:48:01.90\00:48:03.30 and I tried it a couple of times 00:48:03.31\00:48:04.28 in evangelistic meetings and, 00:48:04.29\00:48:05.26 and it's, really difficult to do, 00:48:05.27\00:48:06.92 you got to, you got to kind this make 00:48:06.93\00:48:07.94 yourself in your mind I'm gonna, 00:48:07.95\00:48:09.26 I'm gonna hold on to this match. 00:48:09.27\00:48:10.52 Well, you take one of wooden matches, 00:48:10.53\00:48:11.72 right and you, and you light it, 00:48:11.73\00:48:14.25 and as you're talking you're holding like this 00:48:14.26\00:48:16.12 letting the flame burn up, 00:48:16.13\00:48:17.10 right and say now this is an eternal flame, 00:48:17.11\00:48:18.74 I'm not gonna put it out, 00:48:18.75\00:48:19.72 it's burning, it's burning, 00:48:19.73\00:48:21.13 then you lick your fingers and you go, 00:48:21.14\00:48:22.94 grab the other end of the match, right? 00:48:22.95\00:48:25.15 And you hold up like this and that can finishes 00:48:25.16\00:48:28.11 burning the match up and, 00:48:28.12\00:48:29.82 and so there it is, 00:48:29.83\00:48:30.80 it's all burned up the flame, 00:48:30.81\00:48:31.78 it's eternal I'm not putting it out 00:48:31.79\00:48:32.76 you know the match just goes out finally, right? 00:48:32.77\00:48:34.71 Then you take the match 00:48:34.72\00:48:35.69 and you drop in your hand 00:48:35.70\00:48:36.67 then you go like this, 00:48:36.68\00:48:37.65 and all we have is a little black smooth 00:48:37.66\00:48:39.81 sooty looking thing on your hand, 00:48:39.82\00:48:40.79 what happened to the match? 00:48:40.80\00:48:41.77 It's gone, will it ever be a match again? 00:48:43.08\00:48:45.70 No, it will never be a match again, 00:48:46.25\00:48:47.22 so I can say the result of that match, 00:48:47.23\00:48:49.10 we see the result of, 00:48:49.11\00:48:50.61 of eternal fire. 00:48:50.62\00:48:51.59 Does that make sense? 00:48:51.60\00:48:53.37 So, the results are eternal, 00:48:53.38\00:48:54.90 but you don't have eternal life promised 00:48:54.91\00:48:57.55 to the wicked. 00:48:57.56\00:48:58.53 That's why God can be called God of love. 00:48:58.54\00:49:01.36 You know, 00:49:01.37\00:49:02.98 I think the stories like 00:49:02.99\00:49:04.79 and by the way whenever 00:49:04.80\00:49:07.25 I do this Bible study in a home, 00:49:07.26\00:49:09.52 I usually spend this is like a 00:49:09.53\00:49:12.05 when I have spend the longest time, 00:49:12.06\00:49:13.08 one I have spend the longest time, 00:49:13.09\00:49:14.21 because I do share more, 00:49:14.22\00:49:15.19 more stories it's really hang up 00:49:15.20\00:49:16.51 for lot of couple. 00:49:16.52\00:49:17.49 Most people when you talk about 00:49:17.50\00:49:18.96 the state of the death they, 00:49:18.97\00:49:20.48 they really don't usually have a problem with, 00:49:20.49\00:49:21.80 with this putting, 00:49:21.81\00:49:22.78 with you putting the love ones 00:49:22.79\00:49:23.80 in the grave sleeping, 00:49:23.81\00:49:24.78 but something about 00:49:24.79\00:49:26.37 taking the enemies out of hell 00:49:26.38\00:49:27.60 and destroying them 00:49:27.61\00:49:28.58 it really bothers people. 00:49:28.59\00:49:30.36 You know, no my enemies 00:49:30.37\00:49:32.62 are gonna be there forever 00:49:32.63\00:49:33.60 burning and burning and burning 00:49:33.61\00:49:34.58 it's almost like they have a, 00:49:34.59\00:49:35.56 it's just like they don't want to accept that, 00:49:35.57\00:49:37.96 right? And so, I usually spend a little, 00:49:37.97\00:49:39.72 little more time with this 00:49:39.73\00:49:40.70 and I appeal to them, 00:49:40.71\00:49:41.68 I appeal to them, 00:49:41.69\00:49:42.66 to think about the love of God and, 00:49:42.67\00:49:43.97 and do you have, 00:49:43.98\00:49:44.95 do you have is your love anywhere 00:49:44.96\00:49:46.00 close to the love of God. 00:49:46.01\00:49:46.98 Do you think you have a love 00:49:46.99\00:49:48.77 anywhere close to the love of God. 00:49:48.78\00:49:49.91 Let me to think that God loves my kids 00:49:49.92\00:49:51.73 more than I do, right? 00:49:51.74\00:49:52.90 But yet, if my kids got to be a, 00:49:52.91\00:49:56.80 wanted to grew up 00:49:56.81\00:49:57.78 and like axe murder my wife 00:49:57.79\00:50:00.98 in front of me. 00:50:00.99\00:50:01.96 Right, and go out and do all kinds of 00:50:03.55\00:50:04.52 horrible things. 00:50:04.53\00:50:06.82 And so then finally comes a day at court. 00:50:06.83\00:50:08.62 There's my boy, he is in court there, right? 00:50:08.63\00:50:10.04 He's been axe-murdering, 00:50:10.05\00:50:11.23 I have seen him do it, 00:50:11.24\00:50:12.21 this kind of stuff, right? 00:50:12.22\00:50:13.19 And the judge is, 00:50:13.20\00:50:14.17 you know, going to pronounce sentence on him. 00:50:14.18\00:50:15.49 And you know he's going to get it, right? 00:50:15.50\00:50:16.72 And me as the dad, I am going to say, 00:50:16.73\00:50:18.25 "Well, you know what? 00:50:18.26\00:50:19.23 I don't want you to just put him in 00:50:19.24\00:50:21.12 the electric chair. 00:50:21.13\00:50:22.10 I want you to take an axe and axe him up." Right? 00:50:22.11\00:50:26.80 And I want to watch. 00:50:26.81\00:50:27.78 Do you know any parents 00:50:27.79\00:50:28.76 who'd do anything like that? 00:50:28.77\00:50:29.74 No, what would a parent want? 00:50:29.75\00:50:31.92 As bad as he was, 00:50:31.93\00:50:33.33 what do they want? 00:50:33.34\00:50:34.31 Please, if you want to do it, 00:50:34.32\00:50:35.29 do it quickly, right? 00:50:35.30\00:50:36.38 But yet we think that we have more love than God. 00:50:36.39\00:50:39.34 Job asked a question at one point. 00:50:39.35\00:50:40.58 I'm just going to throw the text out, 00:50:40.59\00:50:41.56 you know. Is woman or man... 00:50:41.57\00:50:42.86 Is woman or man more just than God? 00:50:42.87\00:50:45.96 The question isn't Job but is woman 00:50:45.97\00:50:47.80 or man more just than God? 00:50:47.81\00:50:48.96 The obvious answer is no! 00:50:48.97\00:50:50.98 We wouldn't want anybody, like, 00:50:50.99\00:50:53.44 even if they kill our family, 00:50:53.45\00:50:54.58 we wouldn't want to have to watch them 00:50:54.59\00:50:55.62 suffer for even like an hour, would you? 00:50:55.63\00:50:57.76 Just get rid of them, right? 00:50:57.77\00:51:00.35 But yet we think that God being all knowing, 00:51:00.36\00:51:03.18 all seeing, all powerful, 00:51:03.19\00:51:05.83 is gonna take His love, 00:51:05.84\00:51:07.19 His beloved, which He says He loves... 00:51:07.20\00:51:08.95 He says He loves us all, right? 00:51:08.96\00:51:10.21 He's gonna take those creatures 00:51:10.22\00:51:11.26 He created that He loves, 00:51:11.27\00:51:12.34 and He's gonna place them in a place called hell 00:51:12.35\00:51:13.88 in the center of the earth, 00:51:13.89\00:51:14.86 this is normal theology. 00:51:14.87\00:51:15.84 And He's gonna let them torture 00:51:15.85\00:51:17.39 and suffer there for the ceaseless ages of eternity? 00:51:17.40\00:51:20.01 Well, we've sort of two different gods, you know. 00:51:20.02\00:51:24.21 And that whole idea came in... 00:51:24.22\00:51:26.11 It didn't come in through the Bible. 00:51:26.12\00:51:27.36 You don't find that teaching in the Bible, 00:51:27.37\00:51:28.45 it's come in through Greek mythology. 00:51:28.46\00:51:29.64 I'll just be like little straight 00:51:29.65\00:51:31.95 but you all know that, you know. 00:51:31.96\00:51:32.93 You look at the history of it, 00:51:32.94\00:51:33.91 it isn't come from the Bible. 00:51:33.92\00:51:34.89 It just doesn't. 00:51:34.90\00:51:36.16 And you're actually accusing God 00:51:36.17\00:51:39.07 of something that He is not. 00:51:39.08\00:51:40.05 You're saying He's unjust, unfair, unloving. 00:51:40.06\00:51:42.76 And I just have issues with that myself. 00:51:42.77\00:51:45.14 And again, some guys jumping up 00:51:45.15\00:51:47.71 and down here at the TV at this point saying, 00:51:47.72\00:51:49.70 "Oh, but you don't understand sin! 00:51:49.71\00:51:51.28 That's your problem, 00:51:51.29\00:51:52.26 you don't understand sin! 00:51:52.27\00:51:53.24 God understands sin." 00:51:53.25\00:51:54.22 Does God hate sin? Yes. 00:51:56.10\00:51:57.63 Does He love the sinner? Yes. 00:51:57.64\00:51:59.87 You understand the point? 00:51:59.88\00:52:01.74 The problem is... When it comes to hell, 00:52:01.75\00:52:05.13 the problem is God has a big issue. 00:52:05.14\00:52:06.54 You know what the issue is? 00:52:06.55\00:52:07.52 He hates sin but He loves you, 00:52:07.53\00:52:10.76 and you are connected to sin. 00:52:11.78\00:52:12.75 So how can you get rid of the sin, 00:52:12.76\00:52:14.95 destroy it, right? 00:52:14.96\00:52:16.83 Does God want sin that last's forever? 00:52:16.84\00:52:18.09 What's He wanna do with sin? Destroy it, right? 00:52:18.10\00:52:20.95 But yet He wants the sinner to suffer forever? 00:52:20.96\00:52:23.53 Does that make sense? 00:52:23.54\00:52:25.24 The problem is you are connected 00:52:25.25\00:52:26.30 to the thing He has to destroy. 00:52:26.31\00:52:27.40 And so that's why He has to destroy the wicked... 00:52:27.41\00:52:31.19 End the fires of hell. 00:52:31.20\00:52:33.30 They have to be destroyed 00:52:33.31\00:52:34.28 because He has to destroy sin. 00:52:34.29\00:52:35.26 He has to purge the earth of that problem 00:52:35.27\00:52:36.57 that we have. 00:52:36.58\00:52:37.55 Doesn't that make sense? 00:52:37.56\00:52:38.59 It never made sense to me to think 00:52:38.60\00:52:42.62 that God loves me so much 00:52:42.63\00:52:43.63 that He wants me to burn forever. 00:52:43.64\00:52:44.66 I have trouble with that. 00:52:47.45\00:52:48.43 You know. And I don't think 00:52:48.44\00:52:49.65 it paints a God of love, 00:52:49.66\00:52:50.68 it paints a God of evil. 00:52:50.69\00:52:51.66 And so, I know this is going long 00:52:51.67\00:52:54.64 on this point but bottom line, 00:52:54.65\00:52:56.86 if you just took out all the text from the Bible 00:52:56.87\00:52:58.44 on the study of hell. 00:52:58.45\00:52:59.58 And you just looked at done a study on God's love, 00:52:59.59\00:53:02.87 then the study on hell, 00:53:02.88\00:53:05.26 the normal study that you hear from people 00:53:05.27\00:53:07.62 that you burn to the ceaseless ages of eternity, 00:53:07.63\00:53:10.14 it doesn't make sense. 00:53:10.15\00:53:11.12 You know, it's like this puzzle 00:53:11.13\00:53:14.17 that all fits together. 00:53:14.18\00:53:15.15 And I am like in confession here 00:53:15.16\00:53:16.65 because we're running short on time, 00:53:16.66\00:53:17.71 we are going to part two 00:53:17.72\00:53:18.69 and to finish this up here in a few minutes. 00:53:18.70\00:53:19.87 But I want to make a little confession here 00:53:19.88\00:53:21.80 and you may appreciate this too. 00:53:21.81\00:53:23.94 All the things we've learned so far, 00:53:23.95\00:53:26.15 you know, we've been going through study 00:53:26.16\00:53:28.03 after study and it's like, 00:53:28.04\00:53:29.40 just think about the truth in God's word 00:53:29.41\00:53:31.57 as compared to what the Anti Christ 00:53:31.58\00:53:33.82 has done to make a deception in His place. 00:53:33.83\00:53:36.02 For instance, God is love 00:53:36.03\00:53:38.61 but according to the teaching on hell day, 00:53:38.62\00:53:42.53 God is not love. He's a tyrant. 00:53:42.54\00:53:44.21 God created Sabbath 00:53:44.22\00:53:46.16 so that we can have a day of rest, 00:53:46.17\00:53:47.28 a day with God. You know? 00:53:47.29\00:53:49.44 Particularly set aside so that we can just 00:53:49.45\00:53:52.31 spend a blessed day with Him, 00:53:52.32\00:53:53.81 a day that He blessed, 00:53:53.82\00:53:54.79 set aside and sanctified, right? 00:53:54.80\00:53:56.76 He created Himself. 00:53:56.77\00:53:57.74 But the devil through the Anti Christ power 00:53:57.75\00:54:00.45 comes in and gives another day. 00:54:00.46\00:54:01.57 And it says even on that day, 00:54:01.58\00:54:02.80 you don't have to rest and set it aside, 00:54:02.81\00:54:04.17 you can just have a great time 00:54:04.18\00:54:05.55 and do your own thing on that day 00:54:05.56\00:54:06.75 and you are still keeping it, right? 00:54:06.76\00:54:07.97 So it's a deception along those lines, right? 00:54:07.98\00:54:09.85 It is showing that God doesn't really care 00:54:09.86\00:54:11.92 if He spends time with you or not. 00:54:11.93\00:54:13.94 So, God of love? 00:54:13.95\00:54:15.94 No, no, it's not a God of love, it's a tyrant. 00:54:15.95\00:54:17.90 And God wants to spend time with you? 00:54:17.91\00:54:18.95 Not really, just an hour a week or whatever, 00:54:18.96\00:54:20.79 then you go do your own thing, right? 00:54:20.80\00:54:22.84 And you just go down the list, 00:54:22.85\00:54:24.02 and we'll get to the others as we go along, 00:54:24.03\00:54:25.65 God is law, the law of love. 00:54:25.66\00:54:27.11 It shows us how to love one and another. 00:54:27.12\00:54:28.91 You know you got the first four commandments 00:54:28.92\00:54:30.03 that show us how to love God. 00:54:30.04\00:54:31.22 The last six commandments teach us 00:54:31.23\00:54:33.49 how to love our neighbor. 00:54:33.50\00:54:34.47 And what has the devil come along and done? 00:54:34.48\00:54:36.06 Oh, those have been nailed to the cross, 00:54:36.07\00:54:37.52 you don't have to worry about keeping them. 00:54:37.53\00:54:38.98 Just get rid of them 00:54:38.99\00:54:40.16 and you can go do your own thing. 00:54:40.17\00:54:42.00 And so you have the parallels of a God 00:54:42.01\00:54:45.05 of love that wants us to love one another 00:54:45.06\00:54:46.89 and love Him, he tells us how. 00:54:46.90\00:54:48.13 And the devil comes along and says, 00:54:48.14\00:54:49.71 "No, get rid of those," 00:54:49.72\00:54:50.69 so you don't know how to love me 00:54:50.70\00:54:51.67 and love God and love your neighbor. 00:54:51.68\00:54:53.49 And then this one to me is one of most heart 00:54:53.50\00:54:57.94 wrenching ones because it takes the 00:54:57.95\00:55:00.79 character of God and it turns it upside down. 00:55:00.80\00:55:03.38 You know, such a relief, you know. 00:55:03.39\00:55:06.50 I'm gonna go ahead with this one too. 00:55:06.51\00:55:10.33 I guess probably I should. 00:55:10.34\00:55:11.34 I got the news one time my dad passed away. 00:55:11.35\00:55:15.82 My parents, my dad never professed Christ 00:55:15.83\00:55:18.61 at all and I know he's in the hands 00:55:18.62\00:55:19.93 of a just God, right? 00:55:19.94\00:55:20.91 God knows his heart, 00:55:20.92\00:55:21.89 everything like that, 00:55:21.90\00:55:22.87 He's gonna deal with him. 00:55:22.88\00:55:23.85 But in my mind? Very questionable, right? 00:55:23.86\00:55:25.23 Very questionable. 00:55:25.24\00:55:26.21 But he was a really great guy. 00:55:26.22\00:55:28.11 I mean, when I became a Christian, 00:55:28.12\00:55:30.27 I understood a lot about 00:55:30.28\00:55:31.53 the love of God because of the love 00:55:31.54\00:55:32.64 my dad had toward me growing up. 00:55:32.65\00:55:33.70 I mean, that helped me to understand that, 00:55:33.71\00:55:35.13 right? But yet when he died 00:55:35.14\00:55:38.50 never professing Christ, 00:55:38.51\00:55:40.25 according to most Christians 00:55:40.26\00:55:41.38 where is he at right now? 00:55:41.39\00:55:42.36 He is in a serial of burning, 00:55:42.37\00:55:45.34 torturing and all kinds of pain. 00:55:45.35\00:55:47.00 Can you understand why people 00:55:47.01\00:55:47.98 go crazy when they lose loved ones sometimes, 00:55:47.99\00:55:49.34 if you really believe that nonsense? 00:55:49.35\00:55:50.70 You know? But it was such a relief to me 00:55:52.35\00:55:53.53 to find out that the loving God 00:55:53.54\00:55:55.28 that I serve, even if he did wrong, 00:55:55.29\00:55:57.52 even if he's not going to be in heaven, 00:55:57.53\00:55:58.74 will eventually destroy him. 00:55:58.75\00:56:00.74 It's gonna be a reward according 00:56:00.75\00:56:02.89 to as his work was. 00:56:02.90\00:56:04.04 So the Bible teaches 00:56:04.05\00:56:06.18 that hell destroys sinners 00:56:06.19\00:56:08.64 along with the sin that he was connected with. 00:56:08.65\00:56:10.49 Isn't that peaceful? 00:56:10.50\00:56:12.62 And so we'll go ahead and go through 00:56:12.63\00:56:15.59 and finish on part one right now, 00:56:15.60\00:56:18.75 we're gonna stop here on part one. 00:56:18.76\00:56:19.82 The Destruction of the Wicked part one 00:56:19.83\00:56:20.85 and just here we'll turn around 00:56:20.86\00:56:23.42 and do part two of 00:56:23.43\00:56:24.40 The Destruction of the Wicked. 00:56:24.41\00:56:25.38 And the reason we are doing it this way 00:56:25.39\00:56:26.36 is because we're gonna go through the difficult 00:56:26.37\00:56:27.56 text as well and explain those. 00:56:27.57\00:56:28.96 But I just want you to understand 00:56:28.97\00:56:31.70 from the point and perspective of people 00:56:31.71\00:56:33.68 that are living in the heathen environment 00:56:33.69\00:56:35.86 like I was, coming into Christianity, 00:56:35.87\00:56:37.57 how God just doesn't seem right with the teaching 00:56:37.58\00:56:40.38 of hell that you find around today. 00:56:40.39\00:56:41.84 And so we're gonna pick up when we come back. 00:56:41.85\00:56:44.99 We just finished with Jude 1:7 and it says, 00:56:45.00\00:56:48.59 "These people are an example of eternal fire. 00:56:48.60\00:56:51.30 And they are an example to somebody." 00:56:51.31\00:56:54.20 And when we pick it back up at the next study 00:56:54.21\00:56:56.83 we're gonna be picking it up by answering 00:56:56.84\00:56:57.91 the question, who is Sodom and Gomorrah 00:56:57.92\00:56:59.80 an example for? Who are they 00:56:59.81\00:57:01.39 an example of? Or an example to? 00:57:01.40\00:57:03.22 Because the Bible tells us that they're an example 00:57:03.23\00:57:05.40 to someone else, 00:57:05.41\00:57:06.46 that's going to be taking place 00:57:06.47\00:57:07.44 at the end of this earth's history basically. 00:57:07.45\00:57:09.70 And so if you want to download 00:57:09.71\00:57:11.17 the study guides at home, 00:57:11.18\00:57:12.35 you can download the study guides from 00:57:12.36\00:57:13.75 www.comeexperiencelife.com. And you can go there 00:57:13.76\00:57:17.67 and there will be a little radio link there. 00:57:17.68\00:57:19.41 You can click on it, download the study guides 00:57:19.42\00:57:21.28 for the Life on the Edge Bible study course, 00:57:21.29\00:57:23.37 or you can also be able to watch them 00:57:23.38\00:57:25.56 on line if you're only getting this one here 00:57:25.57\00:57:27.53 and you want to see the previous ones. 00:57:27.54\00:57:28.58 And you are wondering what I'm talking about 00:57:28.59\00:57:30.05 at other times. You can go to that 00:57:30.06\00:57:31.84 website and see the studies on the Sabbath 00:57:31.85\00:57:34.58 and the other things like that. 00:57:34.59\00:57:35.90 And be more than welcome 00:57:35.91\00:57:38.31 to join us back here. 00:57:38.32\00:57:39.29 And at the next study we're gonna do 00:57:39.30\00:57:40.60 the Destruction of the Wicked part two. 00:57:40.61\00:57:42.61