Gehenna is the destiny of wicked people.

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Gehenna

1. Gehenna is the destiny of wicked people.
2. It will be a place of separation from God.
3. It will be a place of unquenchable thirst.
4. It will be a place of unbearable pain.

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A Place of Unbearable Pain

1. That is, intolerable, agonizing,
   excruciating

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Gehenna

• Anyone who has rejected Moses' law dies without
  mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

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Gehenna

• Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
  will he be thought worthy who has trampled the
  Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the
  covenant by which he was sanctified a common
  thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? (Heb.
  1028-29)

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A Place of Unbearable Pain

• That is, intolerable, agonizing,
  excruciating.
• In the physical realm, one loses consciousness
  when he experiences unbearable pain.
• As a result, the pain is no longer felt.
• Thus, unconsciousness is an escape, a relief.
• In Gehenna, however, there will be no relief.

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Gehenna

• "And these will go away into everlasting
  punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
  (Matt. 2546)

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• "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." (Rev. 1411)

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Gehenna

1. Gehenna the destiny of wicked people.
2. It will be a place of separation from God.
3. It will be a place of unquenchable thirst.
4. It will be a place of unbearable pain.
5. It will be a place of everlasting fire.

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

1. God has often used physical fire as a figure for
   divine retribution.

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Gehenna

• Then the Lord rained brimstone and fire on Sodom
  and Gomorrah, from the Lord out of the heavens.
  (Gen. 1924)

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Gehenna

• So fire went out from the Lord and devoured them,
  and they died before the Lord. (Lev. 102)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• God has often used physical fire as a figure for
  divine retribution.
• Gehenna is pictured as
• A furnace of fire

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Gehenna

• "The Son of Man will send out His angels, and
  they will gather out of His kingdom all things
  that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
  and will cast them into the furnace of fire.
  There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
  (Matt. 1342-43)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• God has often used physical fire as a figure for
  divine retribution.
• Hell is pictured as
• A furnace of fire
• A lake of fire

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Gehenna

• Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat
  on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven
  fled away. And there was found no place for them.

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Gehenna

• And I saw the dead, small and great, standing
  before God, and books were opened. And another
  book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And
  the dead were judged according to their works, by
  the things which were written in the books.

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Gehenna

• The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
  Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in
  them. And they were judged, each one according to
  his works.

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• Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of
  fire. This is the second death. And anyone not
  found written in the Book of Life was cast into
  the lake of fire. (Rev. 2011-15)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• God has often used physical fire as a figure for
  divine retribution.
• Hell is pictured as
• A furnace of fire
• A lake of fire
• A place of flaming fire

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Gehenna

• We are bound to thank God always for you,
  brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith
  grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of
  you all abounds toward each other,

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Gehenna

• so that we ourselves boast of you among the
  churches of God for your patience and faith in
  all your persecutions and tribulations that you
  endure, which is manifest evidence of the
  righteous judgment of God, that you may be
  counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which
  you also suffer

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Gehenna

• since it is a righteous thing with God to repay
  with tribulation those who trouble you, and to
  give you who are troubled rest with us when the
  Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His
  mighty angels,

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Gehenna

• 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. (2 Thess.
  13-8)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

1. Gehenna is a place where men are baptized, or
   overwhelmed, in fire.

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Gehenna

• "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance,
  but He who is coming after me is mightier than I,
  whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will
  baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire."
  (Matt. 311)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• Gehenna is a place where men are baptized, or
  overwhelmed, in fire.
• Fire in Gehenna is said to be
• Everlasting

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Gehenna

• "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"
  (Matt. 2541)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• Gehenna is a place where men are baptized, or
  overwhelmed, in fire.
• Fire in Gehenna is said to be
• Everlasting
• Unquenchable

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Gehenna

• "His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will
  thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and
  gather His wheat into the barn but He will burn
  up the chaff with unquenchable fire." (Matt. 312)

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A Place of Everlasting Fire

• Gehenna is a place where men are baptized, or
  overwhelmed, in fire.
• Fire in Gehenna is said to be
• Everlasting
• Unquenchable
• Fueled with brimstone (or sulfur)

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Gehenna

• "But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable,
  murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,
  idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in
  the lake which burns with fire and brimstone,
  which is the second death." (Rev. 218)

sulfur
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Gehenna

• I do not want to go to such a place.
• And I do not want you to go there, either.
• The rich man who was in torment didnt want his
  brothers to join him where he was.

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• "Then he said, 'I beg you therefore, father, that
  you would send him to my father's house, for I
  have five brothers, that he may testify to them,
  lest they also come to this place of torment.'"
  (Luke 1627-28)

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Gehenna

• If a dear, sweet relative of yours has died
  without forming and/or maintaining a proper
  relationship with God, that dear, sweet relative
  doesnt want you to be where he or she is.
• And those who are in torment now will be in
  torment forever.

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Gehenna

• I dont want to find out if the fire of Gehenna
  is literal or figurative, though I believe it is
  figurative.
• And I dont want you to find out either.
• Lets all try to avoid that horrible place by
  doing the Lords will to the best of our ability.