Transcript THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED

THE MEANING OF HELL
THE PUNISHMENT OF THE WICKED
The 15th study in the series.
Studies written by William Carey.
Presentation by Michael Salzman.
All texts are from the New King James
version.
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The Meaning of Hell
The word “HELL” is used 55 time in the
KJV Bible and come from 4 different
Greek and Hebrew words with 3
different meanings. Thirty one times in
the Old Testament it comes from sheol
and 11 places in the New Testament it
comes from the Greek word hades:
these words have identical meanings.
Compare Ps. 16:10 with Acts 2:31.
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What do the words hades and shoel
mean?
1 Corinthians 15:55
“O death, where is your sting? O
Hades, where is your victory?”
(O death, where is thy sting? O Grave,
where is thy victory? – KJV)
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One time hades is translated “grave”
(Margin, “hell”) in the KJV. The prime
meaning of hades and sheol is the
grave One time in the New Testament
“hell” comes from the Greek word
tartarus (2 Peter 2:4), which means a
dark abyss. In this particular text it
refers to this dark world, to which
Satan’s angels were cast down when
they were expelled from heaven to this
earth, Rev. 12:9
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12 times in the New Testament “hell”
comes from the Greek word gehenna,
which refers to that final lake of fire into
which the wicked will be cast alive in
bodily form with all their members after
the second resurrection at the end of
the 1,00 years of Rev. 20. There is no
place in the Bible where “hell” means a
lake of fire which is burning now, or
where the wicked will be burning
through all eternity.
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What about those who worship the
beast and his image?
Revelation 14:9-11
Then a third angel followed them,
saying with a loud voice, “If anyone
worships the beast and his image, and
receive his mark on his forehead or on
his hand,
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10- “he same 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.
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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.
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The disobedient are spoken of here as
having no rest day nor night: this
refers to the suffering they must endure
during the seven last plagues which
come upon sinners just before Jesus
come the second time.
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The smoke of their torment ascending
forever does not mean that they will be
burning through all eternity (for they
become ashes, Mal. 4:1-3), but that they
will be forever burned up. There is no
resurrection from the second death,
Rev. 21:8. Also compare Rev. 19:3 with
Rev. 18:8,21.
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What about the term “forever”?
I Samuel 1:22,28
But Hannah did not go up, for she said
to her husband, “Not until the child is
weaned; then I will take him, that he
may appear before the LORD and
remain there forever.”
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28- “Therefore I also have lent him to the
LORD; as long as he lives he shall be
lent to the LORD.” So they worshipped
the LORD there.
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Biblical terms are best understood by
their usage in the Bible. The word
“forever” is used sometimes to denote
just an ordinary lifetime. See also 1
Sam. 28:2; Ex. 21:1-6; Gen. 44:32.
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Are there any other used of the word
“forever” in the Bible?
Jonah 2:6
I went down to the moorings of the
mountains; The earth with its bars
closed about me forever; Yet you have
brought up my life from the pit, O LORD
my God.
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Here the word “forever” meant only
three days and nights – this time of
such great distress seemed forever: a
type of the sinner’s lot. So the word
“forever” according to Biblical usage
means a period of limited duration as
well as an infinite duration.
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What is the punishment for sin?
Ezekiel 18:4
“Behold, all souls are Mine; The soul of
the father As well as the soul of the son
is Mine; The soul who sins shall die.
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The punishment for sin is not eternal
life in misery, but death – THE SECOND
DEATH, which will last through all
eternity, Rom. 6:23; Rev 21:8. So the
punishment of the wicked will last just
as long as the eternal life of the
righteous. The righteous receive
everlasting life, and the wicked receive
everlasting death, which is the
everlasting punishment mentioned in
Matt. 25:46.
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What is everlasting punishment?
II Thessalonians 1:7-9
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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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,
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• Destruction is called a punishment:
therefore everlasting destruction must
be the everlasting punishment.
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Will the wicked inherit?
Psalms 37:9,10
For evildoers shall be cut off; But
those who wait on the LORD, They
shall inherit the earth.
10- For yet a little while, and the wicked
shall be no more; Indeed, you will look
carefully for his place, But it shall be no
more.
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There is not and cannot be any such
thing as an eternally burning hell,
because the time is coming when the
wicked will not exist – even his place
shall not exist. The story of the rich
man in hell and Lazarus in Abraham’s
bosom in Luke 16:19-31 was not told by
Christ to show what happens to people
when they die.
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Before this story, He had declared in
plain language that the wicked would
not be cast into the fire until the end of
the world (Matt. 13:40-42), and that
every man would be rewarded at His
second coming, Matt. 16:27.
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This story harmonized with the idea
which the Pharisees had of the
hereafter, and was given to rebuke
them for their covetousness in teaching
that riches are a mark of God’s favor,
and that poverty is a mark of His curse.
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What will be left of the fires of hell?
Isaiah 47:14
Behold, they shall be as stubble, The
fire shall burn them; They shall not
deliver themselves From the power of
the flame; It shall not be a coal to be
warmed by, Nor a fire to sit before!
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When God gets through with the
wicked, there will not be enough fire in
hell to warm a man’s hands on a cool
morning. What will happen to the
wicked? The Bible tells us in 15 places
that they will die: which means that
they will cease to live; in 12 places the
Bible says that they will PERISH, which
means they are blotted out of
existence.
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Will there be an end to pain?
Revelation 21:4
“And God will wipe away every tear
from their eyes; there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There
shall be no more pain, for the former
things have passed away.”
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There will never again be pain – this
could never be so if there were an
eternal hell-fire. God will have a clean
universe free from sin and sinners, Rev.
5:13.
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Do you have a better understanding of
everlasting punishment?
The End