New info about hell.

We must be careful as true believers not to be tossed to and forth with every breeze of doctrine that comes along. The scriptures warn us of this fact. (Eph 4:14 KJV)  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
However, because we are living at a time God is revealing great mysteries from the Bible, we must be careful not to disallow every teaching as ludicrous or heresy. It was not long ago when God gave us an understanding of the biblical calendar and it was only recently when God revealed to us that the church age is over. The Bible tells us clearly that in our days (the last days before judgment day) that we will eat clean provender. (Isa 30:24 KJV)  The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

This means that our understanding of the Gospel and of God’s will be become clearer and clearer to us (the true believers). These four verses reinforces this notion:
(John 15:15 KJV)  Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

(1 Cor 13:12 KJV)  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

(2 Cor 3:18 KJV)  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

(2 Pet 1:19 KJV)  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Because we are so close to the end, God is refining and solidifying many things from His word to our hearts. One such thing is the concept of hell. We have often struggled with explaining the concept of hell and eternal damnation partly because it is a spiritual concept and also because God did open our understanding fully. We now have biblical evidence that the souls of those who die without having their souls redeemed by Christ will be consumed fully (cut off) by the consuming fire of God’s wrath on the last day. We read,
(Rev 20:14 KJV)  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

(Rev 20:15 KJV)  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

As we live out our lives in this world as unsaved individuals, we are always under the wrath of God and are in a position/condition of being in spiritual hell. Yet we will never experience the final death of our souls (perish- as in John 3:16) until the last day. The Gospel is about the reversal of this curse by Christ and about Him giving eternal life to those who were doomed to this final destruction. Therefore, when the Bible speaks of death and hell being cast into the lake of fire (God is a consuming fire), it is referring to the unsaved and all rebellious spirits or angels being completely annihilated and never existing again. This is really a horrible punishment because mankind (living souls in dying bodies) wants desperately to be alive and to live forever (body and soul). Just think of it, to be forever gone without the slightest chance of coming alive again. What a great darkness indeed (Matt 6:23).
(Psa 104:35 KJV)  Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.


(Gen 3:22 KJV)  And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

(Gen 3:23 KJV)  Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

(Gen 3:24 KJV)  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

 But only those who live with Christ and are in Christ (The Ark of safety from the storm) will enjoy the blessings of eternal life and perpetual peace (John 11:25,26).

(Psa 27:4 KJV)  One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

(Psa 16:11 KJV)  Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

(Heb 11:25 KJV)  Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;

(Rev 22:3 KJV)  And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him:
Oh to miss out on eternal life! What a tragedy indeed. This is the message that we are bringing( Luke 3:7). Repent before it’s too late.

(Heb 12:17 KJV)  For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

(Heb 12:18 KJV)  For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

(Heb 12:19 KJV)  And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard entreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

(Heb 12:20 KJV)  (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:

(Heb 12:21 KJV)  And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)

(Heb 12:22 KJV)  But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

(Heb 12:23 KJV)  To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

(Heb 12:24 KJV)  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

(Heb 12:25 KJV)  See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

(Heb 12:26 KJV)  Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.

(Heb 12:27 KJV)  And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.

(Heb 12:28 KJV)  Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

(Heb 12:29 KJV)  For our God is a consuming fire.

The place that we call hell and death, along with evil angels and ungodly humans will both be thrown into the eternal lake of God’s fire and will suffer the loss of the life of their souls forever.
(Rev 20:14 KJV)  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

(Rev 20:15 KJV)  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

(Mark 8:36 KJV)  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

(Mark 8:37 KJV)  Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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