There is no Hell
Response to comment [from a
Christian]: "Why would Death and
Hell need to be cast into the Lake
of Fire? Simply because they are
enemies of God and living spirits
(rulers of the darkness of this
world) and need to be punished. The
last enemy that shall be defeated is
Death. We will bring him to his
knees with our faith in God's
ability to raise the dead. We will
cause Death to no longer be able to
do his job.
And in those days shall men seek
death, and shall not find it; and
shall desire to die, and death shall
flee from them.
When we have brought Death to his
knees with our faith, our job of
subduing Christ's enemies will be
complete and He will return for a
glorious and victorious church."
Hell is real.
Jesus spoke about hell more than any
other person in the Bible.
If God is not just, than God is not
good. When they are weeping and
gnashing their teeth, I will be
doing the Snoopy dance (Deut 28:63, Ps 139:22).
Hell is described as: everlasting
fire (Matt. 25:41), everlasting
punishment (Matt. 25:46), outer
darkness (Matt. 8:12), everlasting
destruction (2 Thess. 1:9), lake of
fire (Rev. 19:20).
Thomas Nelson Publishers. (1996).
Nelson’s quick reference topical
Bible index (p. 283). Nashville, TN:
Thomas Nelson Publishers.
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment [Isa. 63:3].
"Notice that it is their blood, not His.
The early church
fathers associated these first six verses with the first coming of
Christ. They mistook the winepress as the suffering of Christ on the
Cross. Such an interpretation is untenable, as the blood upon His
garments is not His blood but that of others. It is the day of
vengeance. It is identified already with the second coming of Christ
rather than with His first coming. The Lord Jesus made that clear in
Luke 4:18–20 when He read Isaiah 61:2. The Lord Jesus shed His own
blood at His first coming, but that is not the picture which is
presented here. He was trodden on at His first coming, but here He
does the treading. This is a frightful picture of judgment."
McGee, J. V. (1991). Thru the Bible commentary: The Prophets (Isaiah
36-66) (electronic ed., Vol. 23, p. 178). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
If one is being chastened don't Snoopy dance too much or God will
withdraw punishment.
Pr 24:17–18
