Hell is consistently earned and deserved.
Heaven never earned nor deserved.
Hell, Jesus speaks of it 22 of 24 times
Jesus wants to take the Hell out of your future!
Gehenna word 12x in New Testament by 4 authors mt [5.22, 29,30; 10.28; 18.9; 23.15, 33], mk [9.43, 45, 47], lk [12.5], james [3.6]
Gehenna was a valley on the SW side of Jerusalem. In Old Testament times, it was a place of pagan practices, most notably the burning alive of children to appease the gods of Canaan [2ch33.1-6; jer7.31]
In New Testament times, the valley became the spot for trash, garbage, and the unburied bodies of criminals. The rotting refuse was crawling with worms, smoldering with fire, and was a place no one wanted to go near. The Valley of Gehenna powerfully portrays a vivid picture of gnawing worms and burning fire. When Jesus portrayed the end of those who ignore, neglect, and thus reject Him as being this place, it was a picture of horrible and excruciating pain.
In Rev 20, we find death (the place our body goes) and hades (the place the lost souls go) delivering their contents to the Lake of Fire judgment at the Great White Throne.
No man can ever say that God sent him to hell – he sends himself. In fact, in Matthew 25:41, Jesus revealed that hell wasn’t even prepared for men, it was ready for the devil and his angels. Remember, God is “not willing that any should period, but that all should come to repentance” (II Pet. 3:9b).
JESUS WARNS
OF HELL
Matthew:
3:7 (John, the Baptist) “Flee from the wrath to come”
3:10 (John, the Baptist) “Thrown into fire”
3:12 (John the Baptist) “He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire”
5:22 (Christ) “Shall be guilty into the hell of fire”
5:29 (Christ) “Then for your whole body to be thrown into hell”
5:30 (Christ) “To go into Hell”
7:13 (Christ) “Way is broad that leads to destruction”
7:19 (Christ) “And thrown into the fire”
7:23 (Christ) “Depart from me, I never knew you.”
8:12 (Christ) “Cast out into the outer darkness, in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth”
8:29 (Demons) “To torment us before the time”
8:15 (Christ) “In the day of judgment, than for that city”
8:28 (Christ) “Fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell”
And, that’s just one gospel in which Christ describes hell vividly over forty-two times!
Is it real? Yes. Is it awful? Yes. Must it be avoided at all costs? Yes!! How impassioned were the Puritan writer, John Bunyan’s warnings?
“(In hell) thou shalt have none but a company of damned souls with an innumerable company of devils to keep company with thee. While thou art in this world, the very thought of the devil’s appearing to thee makes thy flesh to tremble and thine hair ready to stand upright on thy head. But oh, what wilt thou do when not only the supposition of the devil’s appearing but the real society of all the devils of hell will be with thee—howling, roaring and screeching in such a hideous manner that thou wilt be even at thy wit’s end and ready to run stark mad again for anguish and torment. If after ten thousand years, an end should come, there would be comfort. But here is thy misery: here thou must be forever. When thou seest what an innumerable company of howling devils thou art amongst, thou shalt think this again-this is my portion forever. When thou hast been in hell so many thousand years as there are stars in the firmament or drops in the sea or sands on the seashore, yet thou hast to lie there forever. Oh, this one word—ever—how will it torment thy soul .”
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