DEATH WILL NOT BE THE END
If life was brief and death the final
end, there wouldn’t be much to worry about. The problem is that physical
death is not the end. Death is only the beginning, the gateway into another
life. The bible says: “It is appointed for men to die once, and after that comes the judgment” (Hebrew 9:27). “And I saw the dead, both
great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also,
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the sea gave up the dead in it. Death and
hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done”(Revelation 20:12-13
Death
will be the beginning of eternity. You will continue to live for billions
of
billions of eternity years after you die. You may choose not to believe
in life
after death, but when you will be there, you will be an ardent believer
in it,
but it will be too late to do
anything about it.
Even if
you are thinking that you still have many more years to live, Time is running
out very fast:
If you are sixty years old, you may have another fifteen years to
go!
If you are fifty, you may have another
twenty-five to go !
If
you are forty, you may have another thirty–five years to go !
If you are twenty-five, you may have another fifty years to go !
If you are fifteen, you
may have another sixty years to go!
These figures presume that you may live up to
seventy-five. However, there are two things about this. First of all, there is
no guarantee that you will live that long. You could die earlier than
that. If you have ever been to the grave yard, you will have
noticed that there are graves there for people of varying ages: one
month, one year, five years, fifteen years, twenty years, fifty years,
and so on.
There is another aspect to it. Think for a moment . Is
there any disease in your body? It may be a heart, liver, lung or kidney
diseases. You could actually have cancer or any other fatal disease, but
the symptoms are not yet noticeable by you. Any of the diseases that you have
and know about or that you have and do not know about could accelerate in their
development and take your life in a few hours or days. You may soon be facing
eternity.
TWO DESTINIES AWAIT YOU AT DEATH
All human beings
will spend eternity in one of
two places. They will spend it either in the lake of fire or in heaven.
About the lake of fire, the bible says:” But as for the cowardly , the
faithless, the polluted, as for the murderers, fornicators, sorcerers,
idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with
fire
and sulphur, which is the second death” (Revelation
21:8).
Those who go to
lake of fire will stay there forever and ever. Satan will be the Lord
and king
of the lake of fire. Those who serve him in any way
now will be there with him forever. The bible says: ” ..and the devil who had
deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulphur where the
beast and
the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:10). WILL IT BE IN THE NEW COMING ETERNAL
KINGDOM OF GOD?
"Then I saw a new heaven and a
new earth;
for the first earth had passed away, and the sea
was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of
heaven
from God, ….Behold, the
dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will
wipe
away every tears from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither
shall
there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things
have
passed away" Revelation
21:1-2
“For behold, I create new
heavens and a
new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered or come into
mind…They
shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat
the
fruits….” Isaiah
65:17-25 
OR
WILL IT BE IN THE
ETERNAL LAKE OF FIRE ?:
“But
as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers,
fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars, their lots shall be in the lake that burns with fire and
sulphur,
which is the second death ”Revelation 21:8
“Surely you know
that the wicked will not posses God’s kingdom. Do not fool yourselves;
people
who are immoral or who worship idols or are adulterers or homosexual
perverts
or who steal or are greedy or are drunkards
or who slander others or are thieves non of these will possess God’s kingdom”1st Corinth. 6: 9-1.
In general spiritual
biblical terms, hell is extreme torment of the soul, resulting from
eternal separation from God through sin.Therefore, immediately God
takes away his breath of life that animate the physical biological body
for it
to return to durst, our soul has two destinations to go in the invisible
world
of the spirits to wait for the final judgment as it is written:
" And just as it appointed for men to die
once,
and after that comes judgement" Hebrew9:27.
Permit us just to mention in brief that, in the invisible
world in general, we have four(4)spheres:Firstly, to heaven to be with
God under the alter( Revelation 6:9).
Secondly, down to the land of the dead which is the lower spheres in
the earth's interior, reserve for the fallen angels and all those who
die
without Christ(1st Peter18-20,Ezekiel 32:19,Luke 16:22-30..). That is why the bible talks
of:
"
And the sea gave up the
death in it. Death and hades gave up the dead in them, and all were
judged by
what they had done. Then death and hades were thrown into the lake of
ire. This
is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one's name was not
found
written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire" Revelation
20:11-15.
Therefore, the lower spheres of darkness down the
earth's interior where all those who die without Christ go to live, is
called"World of the dead".
1)
The invisible in the Highest, which is the eternal
home of our God, and the heavenly beings (the 3rd heaven).1stCorinthians
12:1-4,Ezekiel 1:1-28, et cetera.
2) The invisible world under God’s altar, where the souls of His saints
awaiting the advent of Christ are(Revelations: 6:9-11). All the saints
in the
old and New Testament are here.
3) The invisible world under the land of the sun, which is where Satan
and his
agents exercise their activities against the physical visible world
under the
sun. (Ephesians 6:10-13, Jude 6-8, Mathew 27:51-53, Daniel 10:10-14
etc). This
is where spiritual conflict takes place between God’s angels against
Satan and
his demons.
4) The invisible world down the earth(Hades, Sheol, 1st peter 3: 18-20,
Luke
16: 22-30). It is further written: You will go down to the world of
the dead and lie there among the ungodly. (Ezekiel 32:19).
As you read this book"IMMINENT END OF THE WORLD", you will find
detail development on this topic.That said, let us say something on the first stage of hell.
A) THE WORLD OF THE DEAD
The invisible world down the earth called: World
of the death, sheol, Hades, pit..., is the beginning place of torments
in heat
and pains. And because it is the beginning place of torments in heat and
pains,
we call it hell. Therefore, it is the first stage of hell which is where
all
those who die without Christ are thrown. This is like
waiting trial for sure candidates heeding to eternal lake of fire which
is the
second and final stage of hell, after final judgment. In French, it is
called" Le sejour des morts", meaning temporal place for the
dead. To this the bible says:
In the
text above, death and Hades(world of the dead) gave up the dead in them,
to be
judged and thrown in the lake of fire. As for where it is found, given my
vision with the Lord on hell, I conclude taking sides with the Bible
that
it's way is descending into the earth's interior. "
Then I saw a great
white throne....and I saw the
dead, great and small standing before the throne, and books were opened.
Also
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were
judged by
what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up
the death
in it. Death and hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by
what
they had done. Then death and hades
were thrown into the lake of fire.
This is
the second death, the lake of fire; and if
any one's name was not found written in
the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire" Revelation
20:11-15.
In Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says:
"For as
Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly:
so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF
THE EARTH. Hades or
hell is inside
the earth! In
Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell:
"...the
rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up
his eyes,
being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his
bosom. And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send
Lazarus, that
he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am
tormented in this flame.
....But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst
thy
good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted,
and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so
that
they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to
us,
that would come from thence. 27 Then he
said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my
father’s
house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest
they
also come into this place
of torment. (Luke 16:22-28)
When
Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into hell. In Acts 2, Peter
is
speaking, verse 31, "
....he
foresaw nd spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not
abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption". When
Jesus Christ died His soul went
into hell the world of the death). As
to this the bible says:"Now
that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the
LOWER
PARTS OF THE EARTH." Ephesians
4:9.
" For
Christ also died for
sins once for all, ....being put to death in the
flesh but made alive in the
spirit; in which he went and preached to the spirits in prison, who
formerly did
not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah.." 1st
Peter 3:18-20
"And THE EARTH OPENED HER MOUTH, and
swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained
unto
Korah, and all their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went
down
alive INTO THE PIT, and the EARTH CLOSED UPON THEM:" Numbers 16:32-33
There are
many scientific claims, and
personal experiences that proves the reality of this first stage of
hell,
being in the earth's interior:
a) Some scientist claim to
have drill through the gates of hell!
Some geological drilling group of scientist have this to say on the
reality of hell in their discoveries as published on the
website with their picture on their site of discoveries and tape
sounds of
human beings screaming( visit:
http:www.av1611.org/hell.html
and listen to
the tapes)
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These details are from the translation of an
article in a Finnish newspaper named 'Ammennusatia'.
A geological group who drilled a hole
about 14.4 kilometers deep in the crust of the earth are saying that
they heard
human screams. Screams have been heard from the condemned souls from
earth's
deepest hole. Terrified scientists are afraid they have let loose the
evil
powers of hell up to the earth's surface.
The information we are gathering is
so surprising, that we are sincerely afraid of what we might find down
there,'
stated Dr Azzacove, the manager of the project in remote Siberia.
'The second surprise was the high
temperature they discovered in the earth's center. 'The calculations
indicate
the given temperature was about 1,100 degrees Celsius, or over 2,000
degrees
Fahrenheit,' Azzacove pointed out. 'This is far more then we expected. It
seems
almost like an inferno of fire is brutally going on in the center of the
earth.
'The last discovery was
nevertheless the most shocking to our ears, so much so that the
scientists are
afraid to continue the project. We tried to listen to the earth's
movements at
certain intervals with supersensitive microphones, which were let down
through
the hole. What we heard turned those logically thinking scientists into a
trembling ruins. It was a sometimes a weak, but high pitched sound which
we
thought to be coming from our own equipment,' explained Dr Azzacove.
'But after some adjustments we
comprehended that indeed the sound came from the earth's interior. We
could
hardly believe our own ears. We heard a human voice, screaming in pain.
Even
though one voice was discernible, we could hear thousands, perhaps
millions, in
the background, of suffering souls screaming. After this ghastly
discovery,
about half of the scientists quit because of fear. Hopefully, that which
is
down there will stay there,' Dr Azzacove added.
Dr Azzacove
testify saying: "As a
communist I don’t believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I
now
believe in hell," said Dr. Azzacove. "Needless to say we were shocked
to make such a discovery. But we know what we saw and we know what we
heard.
And we are absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of
Hell!"
Dr.
Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to rotate wildly, indicating
that we had
reached a large empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a
dramatic
increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."
"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the sounds of
plate
movements down the shaft. But instead of plate movements we heard a
human voice
screaming in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from our own
equipment." "But
when we made adjustments our worst suspicions were confirmed. The
screams
weren’t those of a single human, they were the screams of millions of
humans! It is also believed that Jacques Costeau, the
famous underwater
explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime before he died because he had
heard in
one of the underwater caves he was exploring, the sounds of people
screaming.
There was also another time, when one of his
men, who was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda
Triangle,
also had a similar experience. He signaled to be brought up immediately.
After
being revived from his shock, he told others of his frightening
experience of
hearing "Screams of people in pain" Since this declarations doesn't
contradict the place declared by the bible where the Land of the
death(first stage of hell)is, and the cries of pains they heard are
spoken of
in the bible, no one should doubt it. God can permit whoever he wants to
in the
physical realms, to reach out these realities for conviction. He also
does this through visions following my own personal experience.
b) Personal experiences of Some
individuals on Hell.
Several years ago a book was
published, entitled
Beyond Death's Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist
in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many
people who
had been clinically dead. Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered
all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless
extinction".
But
something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic
change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man,
terrified and
screaming — descending down into the
flames of hell:
"Each
time he regained heartbeat and respiration,
the patient screamed, "I am in
hell!" He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was
scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his
face. He
had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This
patient had
a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated,
and he
was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was "on end."
Then still another
strange thing happened. He said,"Don't you understand? I am in hell.
. .
Don't let me go back to hell!" . . .the man was serious,
and
it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a
panic like
I had never seen before." (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond
Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).
Dr.
Rawlings
said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of
terror on
his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a
place
called hell!
When you read my own personal
experience of hell on the page" Why
this ministry that is an extract from the book "Imminent End of the
World", it leave you no doubt as to my stand on these
testimonies.
B)
ETERNAL LAKE OF FIRE
The is the second stage of hell, that follows the first. So,
after waiting trial, you are judged and thrown into the lake of fire
which is a place of more higher flames and pains. To this as earlier,
said, the bible says:
- In Matthew 13:42,
Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF
FIRE:where there
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth …”
- In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart
from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting FIRE,. . ."
- Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in
the
book of life was cast into
the LAKE OF FIRE."
- In Mark 9:46, Jesus Christ
says about hell:"Where THEIR WORM dieth not, and the fire does
not quench”
- Isaiah 66:22-24, says:"For
as the new heavens
and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain
before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain. And
it
shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one
sabbath to
another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. And
they shall go forth, and look upon the
carcases of the men that have
transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die,
neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring
unto all
flesh.
- Revelation 14:10 says, " . . . and he
shall be tormented with fire and BRIMSTONE
. . .
It
is humanly impossible to comprehend the Bible description of hell. Nothing
on
earth can compare with it. No nightmare could produce a terror
to
match that of hell. No horror movie could describe it’s fright. No crime
scene
with all it’s blood and gore could begin to match it’s horror.
The Bible
describes it as weeping (Matt
8:12), wailing (Matt 13:42), gnashing of teeth
(Matt 13:50), darkness (Matt 25:30), flames
(Luke 16:24), burning (Isa 33:14), torments
(Luke 16:23), everlasting punishment! Jesus Christ says
in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from
me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE,
prepared for the devil and his angels.
In Matthew 13:42,
Jesus says:
"And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE:
there shall be wailing and
gnashing of teeth." All who enter hell — abandon all hope!
The horror of hell — for even one
second is unbearable — but FOREVER! Jesus says in Matthew
25:41:
".
. . Depart from me, ye cursed,
into EVERLASTING
fire, . . ." Rev.
14:11: "The smoke of their
TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER
AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT.":
Just look how the
Bible warns of the eternity and
permanence of hell:
- everlasting fire —
Matthew18:8, 25:41
- everlasting
punishment — Matthew 25:46
- everlasting
chains — Jude 1:6
- eternal
damnation — Mark 3:29
- eternal
judgment — Hebrews 6:2
- eternal
fire — Jude 1:7
- unquenchable
fire — Matthew 3:12
- the fire that never
shall be quenched — Mark
9:43, 44, 45, 46, 48
- fire unquenchable — Luke 3:17
- mist of darkness is reserved for ever
— 2
Peter 2:17
- the blackness of darkness for ever
— Jude
1:13
What could possibly be worth
eternity in hell? No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No
wonder
Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall
gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?"
Jesus Christ took the whole
issue of Hell very serious as he says in Mark 9:43-47
"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for
thee to enter into
life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that
never
shall be quenched:
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off:
it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to
be cast
into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out:
it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye,
than
having two eyes to be cast into hell fire"
Jesus Christ took hell so serious — He could say without the slightest
hesitation — to remove your eye, cut off your hand or foot, if that
would keep
you out of hell!
If hell is not real — Jesus Christ was the
most deceived man that ever lived! But since your
conscience declares that he wasn't, then you better believe him now.
WHAT JESUS
CHRIST SAYS ABOUT HELL!
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"fire"
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Matt
7:19, 13:40, 25:41
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"everlasting
fire"
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Matt
18:8, 25:41
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"eternal
damnation"
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Mark
3:29
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"hell
fire"
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Matt
5:22, 18:9, Mark 9:47
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"damnation"
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Matt
23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47
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"damnation
of hell"
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Matt
23:33
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"resurrection
of damnation"
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John
5:29
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"furnace
of fire"
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Matt
13:42, 50
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"the
fire that never shall be quenched"
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Mark
9:43, 45
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"the
fire is not quenched"
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Mark
9:44, 46, 48
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"Where
their worm dieth not"
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Mark
9:44, 46, 48
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"wailing
and gnashing of teeth"
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Matt
13:42, 50
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"weeping
and gnashing of teeth"
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Matt
8:12, 22:13, 25:30
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"torments"
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Luke
16:23
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"tormented
in this flame"
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Luke
16:24
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"place
of torment"
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Luke
16:28
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"outer
darkness"
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Matt
8:12, 22:13
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"everlasting
punishment"
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Matt
25:46
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If you don't Want to spend
eternity in this Horrible place, Then do Something about it Now before
it becomes too late for you to do anything about it.
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