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Hell

There are those who delay making a decision to accept the Blood of Jesus Christ as atonement for their sins, and so delude themselves into believing that they have not made a decision. They have made a decision, and their decision is NO, they will not accept the Blood of Jesus Christ as atonement for their sins.

There are those who hide behind human tradition and what they have been taught - refusing to accept the truth about the atoning Blood of Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 (NIV)  They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.  For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.

Historically, a messenger with disturbing news was sometimes killed. There are those who look at the humanity of the messenger, and think that by killing the messenger you have killed the message. The messenger is absolutely insignificant, simply a courier.

There are those who state that a merciful and loving God will not put people in an eternal Hell.  These people fail to acknowledge that God is also a God of perfect justice.  

If God establishes the opportunity for eternal bliss in heaven; then philosophically, algebraically, and most important judicially, He must also establish the opportunity for eternal torment in hell.  The level of torment must be in direct proportion to the level of bliss in order to balance God's perfect scale of justice.  As there will be complete bliss in heaven for eternity, there will also be complete torment in hell for eternity.

Human criminal judicial systems are established to determine the guilt of people who have violated the law, and to then dictate just punishment. Human judicial systems are not designed to determine guilt and then purposely fail to dictate a just and equitable punishment. Unlike the inevitable inequities of a human judicial system, God’s judicial system is complete perfect justice. 

Historians have estimated that there were six million Jews alive at the time of Christ's crucifixion.  The Jews at the time of Christ’s crucifixion requested that the punishment for the death of Jesus be placed on them and their children:

Matthew 27:25 (NIV)  All the people answered, "Let his blood be on us and on our children!"

The Spirit of God is not verbose.  The Spirit of God directed Matthew to record a historical account reflecting the Jewish statement "Let his blood be on us and on our children!" for a very specific reason.  It is a portent.  I do not believe that the Jews completely understood the judicial request that they were making.  They did not ask for the substitution sacrifice of bulls, sheep, goats, doves or young pigeons as the Levitical law allowed.  They did not ask that Jesus Christ bear the punishment for their sins.  The Jews did not ask for mercy, they asked for responsibility.  They asked that the punishment for the death of Jesus Christ be born by themselves and their children.  They asked for justice.  In requesting justice, I am certain that the Jews did not realize that they were setting a cause in motion that would ultimately effect approximately six million of their descendants including men, women, and children being murdered at the hands of Adolph Hitler.  

Deuteronomy 19:16-21 (NIV)  If a malicious witness takes the stand to accuse a man of a crime, the two men involved in the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD before the priests and the judges who are in office at the time.  The judges must make a thorough investigation, and if the witness proves to be a liar, giving false testimony against his brother, then do to him as he intended to do to his brother. You must purge the evil from among you.  The rest of the people will hear of this and be afraid, and never again will such an evil thing be done among you.  Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

In view of the perfect order of God, I am sure that exactly one Jewish man, woman and child died at the hands of Adolph Hitler directly corresponding to one Jewish man, woman and child who was alive at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.  As in the case of Pharaoh, God waited for God's time in when the judgment was carried out.

Did God direct Adolph Hitler to kill six million Jews?  No.  Hitler wanted to kill every Jew on the face of the earth.  The Spirit of God restricted Hitler and his organization from the wickedness that their evil hearts desired, and only allowed them to effect the Justice that the Jews had requested at the time of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

America will also have to pay for her many sins, which include abortion: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.  (Deuteronomy 19:21 NIV)

If this is indicative of God’s perfectly balanced judicial system, how can one conclude that an individual will not receive eternal punishment for the rejection of God’s perfect love?  The message of God's love is the greatest most significant love story of eternity.

Hebrews 2:2-3 (NIV)  For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

Hebrews 10:28-31 (NIV)  Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.  How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?  For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people."  It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

If for any reason you ignore God's message of love;

You will deserve eternal punishment - You will deserve Hell!

· Hell: the word used in the King James version of the Old Testament to translate the Hebrew word "sheol," signifying the unseen state.

· Hell: the word used in the King James version of the New Testament to translate the Greek word "Hades" signifying the unseen state.

· Hell: translation of the Greek word "tartarus," signifying the infernal region.

· "Sheol" translated "grave," or "death," or "hell" in the King James version.  The English revisers insert the Hebrew word "sheol" in places where "hell," "grave," and "pit" were used in the Authorized version with three exceptions.

· The Abyss prison of disobedient spirits, bottomless pit, the deep.

· Gehenna: The Valley of Ben Hinnom. After the Old Testament period, Jewish apocalyptic writers began to call the Valley of Ben Hinnom the entrance to hell, later hell itself.

Gehenna - Valley of Ben Hinnom outside the city walls of Jerusalem

Numbers 16:30-33 (NIV) But if the LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt." 31 As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart 32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah's men and all their possessions. 33 They went down alive into the grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community.

Deuteronomy 32:22 (NIV) For a fire has been kindled by my wrath, one that burns to the realm of death below. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains.

2 Chronicles 28:1-3 (NIV) Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD. 2 He walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and also made cast idols for worshiping the Baals. 3 He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable ways of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 33:1-6 (NIV) Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. 2 He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites. 3 He rebuilt the high places his father Hezekiah had demolished; he also erected altars to the Baals and made Asherah poles. He bowed down to all the starry hosts and worshiped them. 4 He built altars in the temple of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever." 5 In both courts of the temple of the LORD, he built altars to all the starry hosts. 6 He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced sorcery, divination and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

Jeremiah 32:32-35 (NIV) The people of Israel and Judah have provoked me by all the evil they have done--they, their kings and officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem. 33 They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline. 34 They set up their abominable idols in the house that bears my Name and defiled it. 35 They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, though I never commanded, nor did it enter my mind, that they should do such a detestable thing and so make Judah sin.

2 Kings 23:8-10 (NIV) Josiah brought all the priests from the towns of Judah and desecrated the high places, from Geba to Beersheba, where the priests had burned incense. He broke down the shrines at the gates--at the entrance to the Gate of Joshua, the city governor, which is on the left of the city gate. 9 Although the priests of the high places did not serve at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests. 10 He desecrated Topheth, which was in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, so no one could use it to sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.

Jeremiah 7:31-32 (NIV) They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire--something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind. 32 So beware, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when people will no longer call it Topheth or the Valley of Ben Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter, for they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

Job 7:9 (NIV) As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so he who goes down to the grave does not return.

Job 24:19 (NIV) As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow, so the grave snatches away those who have sinned.

Job 26:5-6 (NIV) "The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them. 6 Death is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.

Psalms 6:5 (NIV) No one remembers you when he is dead. Who praises you from the grave ?

Psalms 11:5-6 (NIV) The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his soul hates. 6 On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur; a scorching wind will be their lot.

Psalms 30:9 (NIV) "What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

Psalms 49:14 (NIV) Like sheep they are destined for the grave, and death will feed on them. The upright will rule over them in the morning; their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.

Proverbs 5:1-5 (NIV) My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight, 2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; 4 but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

Proverbs 7:27 (NIV) Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 15:24 (NIV) The path of life leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave.

Proverbs 21:16 (NIV) A man who strays from the path of understanding comes to rest in the company of the dead.

Proverbs 23:13-14 (NIV) Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you punish him with the rod, he will not die. 14 Punish him with the rod and save his soul from death.

Isaiah 5:14 (NIV) Therefore the grave enlarges its appetite and opens its mouth without limit; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.

Isaiah 14:9-11 (NIV) The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you-- all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones-- all t= hose who were kings over the nations. 10 They will all respond, they will say to you, "You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us." 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.

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Isaiah 28:15 (NIV) You boast, "We have entered into a covenant with death, with the grave we have made an agreement. When an overwhelming scourge sweeps by, it cannot touch us, for we have made a lie our refuge and falsehood our hiding place."

Isaiah 28:18 (NIV) Your covenant with death will be annulled; your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by, you will be beaten down by it.

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Isaiah 30:33 (NIV) Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its fire pit has been made deep and wide, with an abundance of fire and wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.

Isaiah 33:14 (NIV) The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"

Isaiah 38:10 (NIV) I said, "In the prime of my life must I go through the gates of death and be robbed of the rest of my years?"

Ezekiel 32:21-23 (NIV) From within the grave the mighty leaders will say of Egypt and her allies, 'They have come down and they lie with the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.' 22 "Assyria is there with her whole army; she is surrounded by the graves of all her slain, all who have fallen by the sword. 23 Their graves are in the depths of the pit and her army lies around her grave. All who had spread terror in the land of the living are slain, fallen by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:26-27 (NIV) "Meshech and Tubal are there, with all their hordes around their graves. All of them are uncircumcised, killed by the sword because they spread their terror in the land of the living. 27 Do they not lie with the other uncircumcised warriors who have fallen, who went down to the grave with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads? The punishment for their sins rested on their bones, though the terror of these warriors had stalked through the land of the living.

Matthew 3:10-12 (NIV) The ax is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 "I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

Matthew 5:21-22 (NIV) "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.'  But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca, ' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Matthew 5:27-30 (NIV) "You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'  But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.  And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.

Matthew 8:11-12 (NIV) I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.  But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Matthew 13:30 (NIV) Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.'"

Matthew 13:38-42 (NIV) The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one, and the enemy who sows them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the harvesters are angels.  "As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age.  The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.  They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:49-50 (NIV) This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 18:8-9 (NIV) If your hand or your foot causes you to sin cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.  And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

Matthew 22:12-13 (NIV) 'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.  "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Matthew 23:33 (NIV) "You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

Matthew 25:28-30 (NIV) "'Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has the ten talents.  For everyone who has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.  And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

Matthew 25:41-46 (NIV) "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Mark 9:43-48 (NIV) If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.  And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.  And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where "'their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.'

Luke 3:17 (NIV) His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

Luke 8:30-31 (NIV) Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" "Legion," he replied, because many demons had gone into him. 31 And they begged him repeatedly not to order them to go into the Abyss.

Luke 16:19-31 (NIV) "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 "The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In hell, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.' 25 "But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.' 27 "He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' 29 "Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' 30 "'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' 31 "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.'"

Luke 19:27 (NIV) But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'"

2 Thessalonians 1:7b-9 (NIV) This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power

Hebrews 10:26-27 (NIV) If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God.

James 3:6 (NIV) The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

2 Peter 2:4-10 (NIV) For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)-- 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;

Jude 1:6-7 (NIV) And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their own home--these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day. 7 In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

Revelation 6:8 (NIV) I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Revelation 9:1-6 (NIV) The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2 When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3 And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

Revelation 9:11 (NIV) They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

Revelation 11:7 (NIV) Now when they have finished their testimony, the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.

Revelation 14:9-11 (NIV) A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."

Revelation 17:8 (NIV) The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because he once was, now is not, and yet will come.

Revelation 19:20 (NIV) But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Revelation 20:1-3 (NIV) And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. 3 He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.

Revelation 20:10 (NIV) And the devil, who deceived = them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

After the end of the Seven Thousand Years of Measured Time, there will be the Great White Throne Judgment of God. 

Daniel 7:9-10 (NIV) "As I looked, "thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days took his seat. His clothing was as white as snow; the hair of his head was white like wool. His throne was flaming with fire, and its wheels were all ablaze. 10 A river of fire was flowing, coming out from before him. Thousands upon thousands attended him; ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened.

Revelation 20:11-15 (NIV) Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8 (NIV) But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."

At the Great White Throne Judgment, when sinners come into the presence of Almighty God, they will not resist, or go "kicking and screaming" into Hell.

After coming into the presence of Almighty God, sinners will instantly fully comprehend their own sinful wickedness, and will be completely, totally humiliated and ashamed of themselves.  They will feel and know complete humiliation when they come into God's presence.  Consider the humiliation of committing an embarrassing act in front of a large crowd of people that are important to you. Consider the shame of being caught in something dishonorable by your mother, or your children. Multiply that shame and humiliation to infinity by being found sinful in the presence of the Perfect and Loving Almighty God; after God had provided at a very expensive cost to Himself, and at no cost to you, a way whereby you did not have to be sinful.  Because of their shame and humiliation, sinners will not desire nor be able to bring themselves to look at God.

Heb 12:14 (NIV) Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

Sinners will involuntarily fall on their knees with their faces to the ground.

Philippians 2:9-11 (NIV) Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Sinners will then be delighted to flee from God's presence. The only place that sinners will be able to flee is Hell.  Sinners will run from the face of God Almighty. Because of their sinful condition, they will gladly go anywhere that they can in order to hide from the face of God. Hell will be a relief for those who have come into the presence of God while in a sinful condition.

Man hiding from God because of man's sinful condition was spoken of from Genesis to Revelation.

Genesis 3:6-10 (NIV) When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, "Where are you?" 10 He answered, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."

Revelation 6:15-17 (NIV) Then the kings of the earth, the princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. 16 They called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! 17 For the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"

One of the horrors of Hell that you will know for eternity is complete shame and humiliation.  You will be forced to exist eternally with the knowledge that you are a complete and utter fool; FOREVER.

In Hell, based on the word "many" in Matthew 7:13 and the word "most" in Matthew 24:12, you will see the reunion and be in the company of:

All unrepentant murderers, most murdered;

Edi Amin, most of those people whose organs he had surgically removed so that he could eat them in their presence before they died;

Attilla the Hun;

Charles Manson and his followers, Sharon Tate and her friends;

Gacy the killer who practiced homosexuality, probably most of the 30 boys he killed and buried;

Jimmy Hoffa, his murderers, most of his victims;

the men of Sodom and Gomorrah who were practicing homosexuality;

the entire organization of "ACT UP";

most of those who will die of A.I.D.S.;

priests who practice homosexuality, preachers, women who practice homosexuality, transsexuals;

drug kings like Ochoa, and the politicians he paid, and the politicians he killed;

drug dealers, and their victims, still needing a fix, a= nd crazy because of it;

Al Capone, Lucky Lucianio, Carlos Marcellos, Joe Bonnano, and their entire organizations;

Herod, Pontius Pilate, the Pharisees, scribes, a disciple, popes, general superintendents, district superintendents, bishops, cardinals, evangelists, preachers, deacons, laymen;

"Hell is paved with priests' skulls." - Saint John Chrysostom 345-407

Jim Jones, most of those he deceived and brutalized;

those like the impenitent thief, and the rich young ruler who came so close, but lost;

preachers who did not preach the truth, those damned because of it;

teachers who did not teach the truth, those damned because of it;

hypocritical Christians who failed to witness with their lives, those damned because of it;

fathers who did not teach their children of Christ, older children who never knew;

mothers who did not keep Christ at the center of the home, older children who did not learn;

brothers and sisters who failed to walk in the light, those damned because of it;

those who sat on the church pew all their lives, and never accepted Jesus as their God;

all who hate, the sexually immoral, the impure, the sensuous, the idolaters, witches, the jealous, those subject to fits of rage, the selfishly ambitious, the dissenters, the fractious, the envious, the drunks, those who participate in orgies, the lustful, the greedy, the malicious, the slanderers, the people who use filthy language, the liars, people who are lovers of themselves, people who are lovers of money, the boastful, the proud, the abusive, those disobedient to their parents, the ungrateful, the unholy, those without love, the unforgiving, the brutal, those without self control, the rash, the conceited, the lovers of pleasure rather than God, those that deny the power of Jesus Christ, the persecutors, the deceivers, thieves, false testifiers, the lewd, the arrogant, the wicked, the evil, the depraved, the gossips, the God haters, the insolent, the senseless, the faithless, the heartless, the ruthless. (Galatians 5:19-21; Colossians 3:5-10; 2 Timothy 3; Matthew 15:19,20; Mark 7:20-23; Romans 1:28-32)

The haters and the hated will have an opportunity for vengeance, with no retreat, no asylum, no rest, no refuge, no death, and no end. People will fight to the death, but there will be no death.

Then the Judgment: The wrath, scorn, and Righteous hatred of a loving God who sent His only Son that you might have life, but you rejected Him.

Luke 19:27 (NIV)  But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them--bring them here and kill them in front of me.'"

Then death and Hades, the devil, demons, the False Prophet, and the Anti-Christ will be thrown into the lake of fire.

Countless fallen angels, more powerful than humans, especially vengeful because when they fell there was no redemption for them.  They will know that you had an opportunity that they never had of redemption, and refused to accept it. They also know that God created them to serve you, and they will delight in doing the opposite. They will terrorize you.

Hebrews 1:14 (NIV)  Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?

If you become confined with the wicked for eternity, it will be infinitely worse than if you become confined with the wicked today.  Allah and his demons will spend eternity in hell, in all likelihood performing acts of anal intercourse on Mohammed, the Ayotollah Khomeini, all of the Imams, Sadegh Gotzbeda, all terrorists, all Moslems, and everyone who dies without the Blood of Jesus Christ covering their sins.  I pray that Cassius Clay, Lew Alcindor, and Bobby Moore may come to their senses and accept Jesus Christ as their Savior and God, or I believe that they may be another of Allah's sweet little girlfriends.  

Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)  There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Are YOU going to be one of Allah's girlfriends?  I can guarantee you that he won't be gentle.

No water, no food, no comfort, no love, no joy, no peace, no patience, no kindness, no goodness, no faithfulness, no gentleness, no self control, no compassion, no humility, no forgiveness, no Righteousness, no godliness, no brotherly kindness, no faith, no hope, no charity, no redemption.

Revelation 14:11 (NIV)  And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name."

Your taste and smell senses are closely associated, so you will smell and taste the smoke of burning sulfur, and human flesh. Human flesh has a smell different from all other smells. At the Nazi death camps, the Nazi's sometimes structured their slaughter contingent on the direction of the wind, attempting to drive the smell of the burning flesh towards less populated areas. Some of the burning flesh will be your own.

You will feel the eternal burning of fire, and worms will crawl all over your skin, but the worms die not.

You will hear the screams of the eternally lost, the screams of the devil, the screams of demons, the screams of the tormented, your own screams, the screams of your loved ones, but they will not love you, there will be no love there. They will hate you. You will not have a single friend, as you will be awash alone with your god - who is you, in a sea of hatred-filled demonic and human spirits.

You will see the heinous awesome, awfulness of hell, and all that's going on; and all that are in it, all those you know who didn't make Heaven, and cruel, grasping, snarling demons, through eyes that are tearing from the dense smoke of burning sulfur and burning human flesh.  Human imagination cannot scratch the surface of the horror of hell.  You will be in complete and utter torment ...

Revelation 1:12-18 (NIV)  I turned around to see the voice that was speaking to me. And when I turned I saw seven golden lampstands, and among the lampstands was someone "like a son of man," dressed in a robe reaching down to his feet and with a golden sash around his chest.  His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.  His feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of rushing waters.  In his right hand he held seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.  When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last.  I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.