WHAT HELL WILL BE LIKE

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Gehenna
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Gehenna

• "If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it
  off it would be better for you to enter into
  Life maimed, than remain in possession of both
  your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the
  fire which cannot be put out.

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Gehenna

• "Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it
  off it would be better for you to enter into
  Life crippled, than remain in possession of both
  your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.

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Gehenna

• "Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it
  out. It would be better for you to enter into the
  Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in
  possession of two eyes and be thrown into
  Gehenna, where Their worm does not die and the
  fire does not go out." (Mark 943-48, Weymouth)

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Gehenna

• Why talk about Gehenna, or Hell?
• We should talk about it because the more we know
  about it the more we will want to avoid it.
• God has told us about it because He doesnt want
  us to go there.

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Gehenna

• And, though hell is sometimes used, figuratively,
  for horrendous experiences in life, nothing on
  earth can compare with Gehenna.
• No madman in his wildest flights of insanity ever
  beheld the equivalent of its horror.
• No man in delirium ever pictured a place so
  utterly terrible.

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Gehenna

• No nightmare racing across a fevered mind ever
  produced a terror to match it.
• No murder scene with splashed blood and oozing
  wound ever suggested a revulsion that could touch
  that of those who are ushered into Gehenna.

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Gehenna

• And, I am convinced, not even those who witnessed
  the tragedy of the holocaust are prepared thereby
  to witness the tragedy of Gehenna.
• No living man can say, as a result of his own
  experience, what it is like, simply because no
  living man has ever been there.

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Gehenna

• What, then, will Gehenna be like?
• How has God described it in order to give us the
  incentive to avoid it?

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Gehenna

• It is named for a garbage dump outside the city
  of Jerusalem which was always burning.
• Consider the history of this awful place.

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Gehenna

• Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king,
  and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem and he
  did not do what was right in the sight of the
  Lord, as his father David had done. For he walked
  in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
  molded images for the Baals.

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Gehenna

• He burned incense in the Valley of the Son of
  Hinnom, and burned his children in the fire,
  according to the abominations of the nations whom
  the Lord had cast out before the children of
  Israel. (2 Chron. 281-3)

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Gehenna

• Also Manasseh caused his sons to pass through
  the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom he
  practiced soothsaying, used witchcraft and
  sorcery, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He
  did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to
  provoke Him to anger. (2 Chron. 336)

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Gehenna

• ".... the children of Judah have done evil in My
  sight," says the Lord. "They have set their
  abominations in the house which is called by My
  name, to pollute it.

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Gehenna

• "And they have built the high places of Tophet,
  which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to
  burn their sons and their daughters in the fire,
  which I did not command, nor did it come into My
  heart.

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Gehenna

• "Therefore behold, the days are coming," says the
  Lord, "when it will no more be called Tophet, or
  the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, but the Valley
  of Slaughter for they will bury in Tophet until
  there is no room." (Jer. 730-32)

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Gehenna

• And they built the high places of Baal which are
  in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause
  their sons and their daughters to pass through
  the fire to Molech, which I did not command them,
  nor did it come into My mind that they should do
  this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jer.
  3235)

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Gehenna

• And Josiah defiled Topheth, which is in the
  Valley of the Son of Hinnom, that no man might
  make his son or his daughter pass through the
  fire to Molech. (2 Kings 2310)

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Gehenna

1. Gehenna is the destiny of wicked people.

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The Destiny of Wicked People

1. Hell will be devoid of people like Abraham,
   Moses, Joshua, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul,
   etc.
2. Just think of being in eternity with the miserly,
   merciless, covetous and greedy!

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Gehenna

• Do you not know that the unrighteous will not
  inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
  Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
  adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor
  thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor
  revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the
  kingdom of God. (1 Cor. 69-10)

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Gehenna

• Now the works of the flesh are evident, which
  are adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
  lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
  jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
  ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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Gehenna

• envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the
  like of which I tell you beforehand, just as I
  also told you in time past, that those who
  practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
  of God. (Gal. 519-21)

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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)

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The Destiny of Wicked People

1. Hell will be devoid of people like Abraham,
   Moses, Joshua, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul,
   etc.
2. Just think of being in eternity with the miserly,
   merciless, covetous, and greedy!
3. If Sodom and Gomorrah could be reproduced on
   earth, would you want to live there?
4. Hell was prepared for the devil and his angels
   but many human beings will also be told to depart
   into that place.

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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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Gehenna

1. Gehenna is the destiny of wicked people.
2. Gehenna will be a place of separation from God.

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A Place of Separation from God

1. Every impenitent sinner will one day be separated
   for eternity from the righteous and from God.

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Gehenna

• "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all
  the holy angels with Him, then He will sit on the
  throne of His glory.

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Gehenna

• "All the nations will be gathered before Him, and
  He will separate them one from another, as a
  shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. (Matt.
  2531-32)

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Gehenna

• "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall
  enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
  will of My Father in heaven.

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Gehenna

• "Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord,
  have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out
  demons in Your name, and done many wonders in
  Your name?'

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Gehenna

• "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew
  you depart from Me, you who practice
  lawlessness!'" (Matt. 721-23)

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A Place of Separation from God

• Every impenitent sinner will one day be separated
  for eternity from the righteous and from God.
• Since hell is afar off from God, it is spoken of
  as
• A place of darkness because God is light.

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Gehenna

• "'And cast the unprofitable servant into the
  outer darkness. There will be weeping and
  gnashing of teeth.'" (Matt. 2530)

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Gehenna

• This is the message which we have heard from Him
  and declare to you, that God is light and in Him
  is no darkness at all. (1 John 15)

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A Place of Separation from God

• Every impenitent sinner will one day be separated
  for eternity from the righteous and from God.
• Since hell is afar off from God, it is spoken of
  as
• A place of darkness because God is light.
• A place of death because God is the source of
  life.

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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)

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Gehenna

• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  (Rom. 623)

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A Place of Separation from God

• Every impenitent sinner will one day be separated
  for eternity from the righteous and from God.
• Since hell is afar off from God, it is spoken of
  as
• A place of darkness for God is light.
• A place of death for God is the source of life.
• A place of misery for God is the source of all
  comfort.

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Gehenna

• Then a third angel followed them, saying with a
  loud voice, "If anyone worships the beast and his
  image, and receives his mark on his forehead or
  on his hand,

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Gehenna

• "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." (Rev. 149-10)

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Gehenna

• Then the beast was captured, and with him the
  false prophet who worked signs in his presence,
  by which he deceived those who received the mark
  of the beast and those who worshiped his image.
  These two were cast alive into the lake of fire
  burning with brimstone. (Rev. 1920)

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Gehenna

• The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the
  lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and
  the false prophet are. And they will be tormented
  day and night forever and ever. (Rev. 2010)

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Gehenna

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all
  comfort (2 Cor. 13)

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Gehenna

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

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A Place of Unquenchable Thirst

1. Heat on the body makes one thirsty.
2. Therefore, unimaginable heat would make one
   unimaginably thirsty.
3. When a patient is ravaged with a high fever, he
   begs for water.
4. People will likewise be thirsty in Gehenna.

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Gehenna

• "Then 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.'" (Luke 1624)

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A Place of Unquenchable Thirst

1. Heat on the body makes one thirsty.
2. Therefore, unimaginable heat would make one
   unimaginably thirsty.
3. When a patient is ravaged with a high fever, he
   begs for water.
4. People will likewise be thirsty in Gehenna.
5. Though this passage is speaking of the torment of
   tartarus, in Hades, Gehenna will be at least as
   bad, if not worse.

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