Hell Is Eternal Conscious Punishment

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• Deny that God will punish
• Say that it is annihilation
• Claim that it is not eternal
• Profess belief but ignore it

Bible Teaching on Hell Is Not Usually Welcomed
Thus

• Little preaching on it
• People have no fear

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If anything has disappeared from modern thought,
it is the belief in a supernatural heaven and
hell.
- Donald G. Bloesch, Essentials of Evangelical
Theology, 2211)
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Eternal Hell
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Matt. 2541 Prepared For Devil Angels
Then He will also say to those on the left hand,
'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Destiny of wicked same as Devil wicked angels
Angels 2 Pet. 24 Jude 6 Suffer now Await
Jud. Not Uncon.
Devil Rev. 2010 Tormented Day Night Forever
Ever
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Matt. 2541 For Devil Angels
Then He will also say to those on the left hand,
'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Devil Rev. 2010 Tormented Day Night For
Ever Ever

• Torment Not Annihilation
• Day Night - Without Interruption
• For Ever Ever Without End

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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Eternal Hell
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Matt. 2546 Same As Heaven
And these will go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
Everlasting Punishment (Gk aionios) Hell
Eternal Life (Gk aionios) Heaven
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
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Worm Doesnt Die / Fire Not Quenched
Isa. 6624 Mark 944, 46, 48

• Worm Doesnt Die
• Worm eats flesh
• of animal
• When flesh
• is consumed
• worm dies

• Fire Not Quenched
• Burning of trash
• When burned
• It is consumed
• fire goes out

Does Not End
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
Eternal / Everlasting Fire
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Eternal / Everlasting Fire
Jude 7 Sodom Gomorrah Burned with Fire Yet
Punishment Does Not End There Will Also
Suffer Eternal Fire Example to Us!
Matt. 188 Better to go Through life Without
hand or foot Than to suffer Everlasting Fire
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
Eternal / Everlasting Fire
Rev. 1410-11 Torment Forever
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Rev. 1410-11 Torment Forever
10 he himself shall also drink of the wine of
the wrath of God, which is poured out full
strength into the cup of His indignation. He
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
presence of the holy angels and in the presence
of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment
ascends forever and ever and they have no rest
day or night, who worship the beast and his
image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
God Lives forever and ever (Rev. 49) Endless
Future
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
Eternal / Everlasting Fire
Rev. 1410-11 Torment Forever
2 Thess. 19 Everlasting Dest.
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2 Thess. 17-9 Everlasting Destruction
7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us
when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with
His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking
vengeance on those who do not know God, and on
those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with
everlasting destruction from the presence of the
Lord and from the glory of His power,
Destruction is not annihilation (1 Cor. 55)
Destruction from presence of Lord
Point Forever separated from God!
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
Eternal / Everlasting Fire
Rev. 1410-11 Torment Forever
2 Thess. 19 Everlasting Dest.
Blackness / Darkness Forever
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Blackness / Darkness Forever
Jude 12-13 blackness of darkness forever 2
Pet. 217 blackness of darkness forever
In Outer Darkness Weeping Gnashing of
teeth Mt. 812 2213 2530
Thus, not annihilation! Suffering Forever!
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Matt. 2541 For Devil/Angels
Matt. 2546 Same as Heaven
Worm Not Die/Fire Not Quenched
Eternal Hell
Eternal / Everlasting Fire
Rev. 1410-11 Torment Forever
2 Thess. 19 Everlasting Dest.
Blackness / Darkness Forever
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Where Will This Lead?

• Denial of immortal soul
• Doctrine of no punishment at all

But if annihilation follows a period of torment,
then that annihilation is not punishment, but a
happy relief from punishment. (Harry Buis, The
Doctrine of Eternal Punishment, 126)
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Where Will This Lead?

• Denial of immortal soul
• Doctrine of no punishment at all
• Feel good about religion in spite of sin error
• Moral decline

But if annihilation follows a period of torment,
then that annihilation is not punishment, but a
happy relief from punishment. (Harry Buis, The
Doctrine of Eternal Punishment, 126)
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Summary Of Bible Teaching on Hell

• Prepared for Devil (Matt. 2541)
• Lake of fire (Rev. 2010, 14, 15 218)
• Flaming fire (2 Thess. 17-9)
• Furnace of fire (Matt. 1342, 50)
• Baptism of fire (Matt. 311-12)
• Unquenchable fire (Mark 943, 48)
• Brimstone (Rev. 218)
• Weeping Gnashing (Mt. 812 1350)
• Outer darkness (Matt. 812 2530)
• Torment forever (Rev. 1410-11)

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Will You Become A Christian?
Hear the Gospel (Rom. 1017) Believe that Jesus
is the Son of God (Mk. 1616) Repent of Your Sins
(Acts 1730) Confess Jesus as Lord (Rom.
109-10) Be Baptized for Forgiveness of Sins
(Acts 238) Live Faithfully until You Die (Rev.
210)
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Eternal Hell
I. Modern Teaching On Hell
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Modern Teaching

• Seventh Day Adventist

• Man is not created immortal only conditionally
  immortal
• Righteous raised in immortal bodies
• Wicked raised in mortal bodies
• Become extinct in hell.

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Modern Teaching

• Seventh Day Adventist
• Jehovahs Witnesses

• Deny immortality of the soul
• God annihilate the wicked at the point of death

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Modern Teaching

• Seventh Day Adventist
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Edward Fudge

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Calls Himself A Conditionalist
..the wicked, following whatever degree and
duration of pain God may justly inflict, will
finally and truly die, perish and become extinct
for ever and ever (p. 425)

• Man is immortal only conditionally
• Wicked raised in mortal bodies
• Punished for a while in hell
• Then, become extinct

Published 1982
Ed Fudge
Annihilation
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Modern Teaching

• Seventh Day Adventist
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Edward Fudge
• Homer Hailey

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Haileys Book Teaches
These illustrations revealwhat the scriptures
mean by the phrase, Our God is a consuming
fire. It meant total and complete destruction
from the face of the earth (138).
what do they teach except that those who suffer
the punishment of eternal fire are to exist no
more? (142)
By being destroyed in hell, he loses his body
and soul in Gehenna he dies the second death
(cf. Rev. 218) (150).
Paul described the resurrected body of the
righteous (1 Cor. 1550-58) but nowhere did any
apostle describe the resurrected body of the
wicked (151).