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2009 · Cornwell's own church, Wichita, Kansas (series evidence — the church's name is never given in the recording and the city is not named in it; Wichita rests on the Through the Bible course connection)

Through the Bible (Bible College course), lesson 19

Transcript of a published Bible study by Marrell Cornwell, transcribed from YouTube. An attributed primary source — not Acts 2:38 Life doctrine text.

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Summary

Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

A teacher's lesson, not a sermon (0:03-4:40)

  • Cornwell opens mid-preparation: student notes are still being readied, the scriptures will be projected on screen, and the session is being taped for the course's DVD set, with a request that cameras not be aimed at the screen. He asks the young people to stay in the sanctuary for this lesson, says he will teach rather than preach — standing in one place, classroom-style, informing rather than stirring emotion, with a joking promise to re-teach it Monday night if he gets carried away — names the session as lesson number 19 of the course, and leads the opening prayer.

Review and the plan: death, judgment, and the five places called hell (4:40-7:46)

  • He announces the subject plainly — hell — and reviews the course's last two lessons: death (physical and spiritual; it comes to all) and judgment (three judgment settings, from the altar to the judgment seat of Christ to the white throne). Tonight's lesson takes up what follows: in the King James text, he says, five distinct places are given the name of hell, and the lesson will study each one so the student can tell them apart.

Tartarus: the prison of the fallen angels (7:46-20:46)

  • The first place is Tartarus, the prison for fallen angels who sinned before and after the flood; no human being is there. He reads the 1 Peter passage on Christ preaching to the spirits in prison, then lays down a study rule from 2 Peter 1 — no doctrine is to be built on a single passage — and reads 2 Peter 2 at length as one continuous reading with his commentary worked through it: false prophets and teachers bringing in damnable heresies, the angels who sinned cast down and chained, Noah spared out of the old world, Sodom and Gomorrah turned to ashes as an example, and just Lot delivered, with the Lord reserving the unjust for the day of judgment. Jude's verses on the angels who kept not their first estate close the section, and he sums the place up: designed for disobedient angels, chained in darkness until judgment, and a standing warning that God did not spare them, Sodom, or the old world.

Scriptures: 1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 2:1-9; Jude 5-6

Paradise: the abode of the righteous dead (20:46-32:22)

  • The second place is Paradise, defined as the abode of righteous souls after physical death in the Old Testament age: the righteous could not yet enter heaven because the sin debt was unpaid, their sins rolled forward year to year by the day-of-atonement sacrifices. He illustrates Paradise from Luke 16 — the beggar carried to Abraham's bosom while the rich man lifts up his eyes in torment — and from the penitent thief, to whom Christ promised Paradise that day, under a spoken locator that names the wrong chapter (see the packet's locator flag). Christ's descent follows: the Jonah sign of three days in the heart of the earth, the Ephesians passage on leading captivity captive after descending into the lower parts, and the risen Christ holding the keys. He reads the Matthew 27 resurrection passage as evidence that Paradise was emptied at the resurrection, the saints coming out of the graves and appearing in the holy city; Paradise, he says, is empty tonight.

Scriptures: Luke 16:19-31; Luke 23:39-46; Matthew 12:40; Ephesians 4:8-10; Revelation 1:17-18; Matthew 27:50-53

Hades: the place of torment (32:22-42:56)

  • The third place is hell proper, and he begins by refusing to soften it: the word is used as profanity because its reality is not understood, and he intends the class to feel its weight. The gates-of-hell text from Matthew 16 — the church built on the rock of the revelation, stronger than hell itself — frames a second, full reading of Luke 16, now drawn out fact by fact: the rich man conscious in torment, seeing and reasoning; no mercy, no water, no coolness there; the great gulf fixed between Paradise and hell so none can cross; a death lost is lost forever, with nothing in the book about purgatory or being prayed out; and the five brethren who have Moses and the prophets, since God sends the living, not the risen dead, to preach. The section's facts are listed at its end: below Paradise, torment, flames, a conscious soul, waterless, reserved to judgment.

Scriptures: Matthew 16:15-18; Luke 16:19-31

The abyss: the bottomless pit (42:56-53:10)

  • The fourth place is the abyss, the demons' abode. He reads the Luke 8 Legion account and pauses on the demons' plea not to be sent into "the deep," which he identifies as the abyss. Revelation 9 is read for the tribulation opening of the pit — the star with the key, the smoke, and the locust-like swarms tormenting unsealed men for five months — with a direct warning against being on earth after the rapture. Revelation 20 then carries the pit's later history: the angel binding the dragon, the old serpent, for a thousand years, the thrones and the first resurrection, and Satan loosed at the thousand years' end to deceive the nations once more before his final casting out.

Scriptures: Luke 8:26-33; Revelation 9:1-5; Revelation 20:1-10

Gehenna: the lake of fire (53:10-1:02:32)

  • The fifth and final place is Gehenna, the lake of fire, the eternal destination into which every other place's occupants — fallen angels, demons, the unrighteous — are finally cast. He closes the teaching with a run of Gehenna sayings read in sequence: anger without cause and the "thou fool" warning; fearing the one who can destroy both soul and body rather than those who kill the body only; the offending eye; the proselyte made twofold more a child of Gehenna; and Mark's hand-and-foot passages with their unquenched fire. Between them he gives his own testimony: forty-two years earlier the Lord showed him where he was headed, and the fear of God that followed ended his former profession and put him into preaching. The beast-worship passage from Revelation 14 ends the run.

Scriptures: Matthew 5:22; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:9; Matthew 23:15; Mark 9:43-46; Revelation 14:9-11

The close: the white throne, thanksgiving, and prayer (1:02:32-1:10:22)

  • He finishes with one last passage, reading Revelation 20 again from the devil's casting into the lake of fire through the great white throne: the dead small and great standing before God, the books and the book of life opened, the sea and death and hell giving up their dead, death and hell themselves cast into the lake of fire, and whoever was not found in the book of life cast in with them. The child of God, he says, has hope — sins met at the altar and covered by the blood will not be met again there. He pauses for thanksgiving, reprising the gates-of-hell promise, calls the class to stand, and closes in prayer; the prayer's scriptural quotations are woven in unnamed and are excluded from this record's index (see the packet).

Scriptures: Revelation 20:10-15

Scripture index: 1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 2:1-9; Jude 5-6; Luke 16:19-31; Luke 23:39-46; Matthew 12:40; Ephesians 4:8-10; Revelation 1:17-18; Matthew 27:50-53; Matthew 16:15-18; Luke 8:26-33; Revelation 9:1-5; Revelation 20:1-10; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:9; Matthew 23:15; Mark 9:43-46; Revelation 14:9-11; Revelation 20:10-15.

Transcript

19 and I thought I would have the notes ready for you but they are not quite ready yet Perhaps before I get started they'll have the notes and ready to be passed out but we got somebody on the computer that's going to be putting the scriptures on the screen and I'd would like to remind those that are videotaping that that this is going to go on a DVD tonight and I don't know if y'all aim at the screen but I I'm asking you not to aim the cameras at the screen because we don't want these scriptures on the screen they're going to have notes amen I ask that our young people come in to the sanctuary tonight for this lesson because of the nature of what I'm going to be teaching here tonight I realize that the subject is a very needed subject it's a very emotional subject and I want to treat this subject with as much professionality as I possibly can I realized if I was going to be if I want to be Evangelistic it would be very easy to preach this lesson tonight and that's not the purpose the purpose is for this lesson to be a part of the 20 tape series that I have prepared Through the Bible and so I thank you for being in here and for helping me with this lesson tonight I am going to attempt to teach and if you'll forgive me for not being the preacher But the teacher tonight I'm going to try to stand right here in the pull pit I'm going to try to teach this as if though I was in a classroom and I'm I'm here not to stir your emot emotions as much as to give you information how may understand what I'm trying to say this is a very emotional subject and so if you don't mind helping me I realize that we have all the young people here and I'm really asking you for your un UND divided attention and I realize that we have children and and others here tonight but I really want to teach this lesson I want to teach it for information sake okay and I'm going to do my best not to get carried away not to be run across a platform I'm going to try not to reach the center on the back row by screaming and shouting however if I mess up and do it I'll retach it Monday night in the classroom can I have it amen and so if you are prepared I'd like us all to stand and I'd like to go to the Lord in prayer tonight as we attempt to do lesson number 19 let us go to the Lord in prayer father we ask you tonight to help us oh Lord to bring the subject material to each and every one of us I pray for each one that is watching this DVD today that you would reach out to them and help them with their understanding that they may be able to make the proper and the right decision when that day comes lead us and guide us and direct us by the power of your Holy Spirit in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ amen and you may be seated my subject tonight is simply hell if you would get the uses and and if you had passed these out please one a set of notes per family amen my subject tonight is simply the subject of

Hell in the last two lessons We have dealt with very delicate subjects of death and of judgment and let me take a moment to review just a little bit about what we have learned in the last two lessons number one we learned that death is going to pass upon all men death is an equalizer because death is going to come to every man woman boy and girl on the face of this Earth we found out that there are two kinds of death there is physical death and there is also spiritual death we learn the definitions of both kinds of death we also learn that there are two kinds of people that die saved people and unsaved people we know that after death comes the judgment and we also learn and I think one of the most important aspects of these last two lessons are that there are three places that we're going to be judged we're going to be judged at the altar the Bible says judgment must begin at the house of God and then we also learn that the Christian is going to go to the Judgment seat of Christ and there we're going to receive our rewards and then the third place of judgment is called the sinner's judgment or the white Throne of judgment I might just add that one day if you wake up and you find yourself approaching a great white Throne that the subject that I'm going to talk about tonight will be very relevant for you now we're going to deal with the subject of hell and how it relates to these other two subjects of death and judgment now I I'm I'm fully aware that this is not a pleasant subject in which to deal but it is also a very necessary subject to have to deal with and we want the student to have a clear understanding about hell and even possibly dispel some of the myths that surrounds this subject in the scripture and when I say the scripture I'm in particular talking about the King James version of the Bible there are five places that are given the name of hell and we're going to study each one of these places so we can have a complete and a clear understanding about what hell is and where hell is and so on and so forth now the first place in the scripture that has translated hell is the place called Tartarus everybody say tatarus it's t a r t a r u s tatarus in the Bible is translated hell and it is the place for fallen angels that sin both Before and After the flood there is not a single human being in that place called tatarus even though in the in the Bible it is translated hell but it's actually it could have been used the word tatarus and it is the place of Fallen Angels Before and After the flood human beings do not inhabit the place called tatarus now turn the Bible with me please to 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse number 18 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse number 18 for Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit by which also he went and preached to the spirits in tarus or in Hell which sometime were Disobedience when Once the longu of longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was reparing wherein few that is eight Souls were saved by water so we know that Jesus went into the place called tatarus and and and there he preached in that place here tatarus is called a prison I don't think anybody wants to go to prison and I certainly know that I don't want to go to prison but we do know that these Fallen Angels were placed in this place called the Taurus or a prison and is often translated hell look at second Peter chap 1 and verse 20 and 21 knowing this verse that no Prophecy of the

scripture is of any private interpretation now what does that mean no private interpretation it means that you cannot build a Doctrine on a single passage of scripture the Bible says in the mouth of two are three Witnesses let all things be established verse 21 for the prophecy came not in Old Time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost now go to the next verse which is second Peter chapter 2 and verse number one but there were false prophets also among the people even as there shall be false prophets among you that's why it's very important that you know who you learn from I think it is also very important that you be careful about what books you pick up and what books you read and you need to know who the author is and what the motive he has for writing that book can I have it amen the Bible say they shall prably bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that brought them and bring bring upon themselves Swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious Ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and through covetousness shall they with Fain words make merchandise of you now we see this every day on the television set for a fact there are more channels given to preachers now and what's amazing me is that some of these preachers used to preach the truth but they found out if they could get on television and compromise their doctrine that people would send them great deals of money if they'll just preach the right things and you can even get a crowd if you'll preach certain things can I have it amen I am not interesting in building a crowd I want to preach the truth to whatever crowd comes I realize that the subject I'm preaching on tonight is not a popular subject and you know most television preachers have never dealt with this subject and they never will deal with the subject and they never will tell you the truth about who's going to go there because it's not a popular subject but since I'm not trying to build a large crowd I want to preach the truth to whatever crowd comes I believe it's mandatory that we know what the scripture has to say about hell through Covetous shall they with fake words make merchandise of you whose judgment now for a long time linger not and their damnation slumbereth not now look at verse number four for if God spared not the angels that what that s in the Bible does not make clear to us nor does it tell us what their sin was but I think when I get through here I think we're all going to thank God that the Lord removed those angels from this Earth for a Time lest that sin spread within the human race we have hideous sins among us today I said we have some terrible sins among us today but when the Holy Spirit leaves this world via the Rapture the sins that have been hidden for thousands of years are going to be brought back to this world and you that want to be such a sinner and be a God rejector God is going to make you subject to the sins that he hid into Taurus for thousands of years for if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down to the Bible here uses the word hell but he cast them down into tartaras and delivered them into chains of Darkness to be reserved unto judgment so we know that there are angels that committed certain sins that we are not aware of they were so hideous and so

ungodly and so rebellious and they were such Rebels that God prepared a place to put these fallen angels and reserve them into chains until the day of judgment and then the scripture goes on to say he spared not the old world but saved Noah the eighth person a preacher of righteous bring in the flood upon the world of the ungodly he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with the overthrow making them an example unto those that after should live ungodly now the world has forgotten that God judged Sodom and gomorra for very specific sins and he did that for an example of we who would live that way today praise God but since no preacher will preach on this anymore the world has said well it must not be true and so we're going to go back to that lifestyle and I make no bones about it homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God in the judaic Christian world it is still a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge that world he delivered just lot from the filthy conversation of the wicked for the righteous man dwelling among them and seeing and hearing Vex his righteous soul from dayto day with their unlawful Deeds the Lord knoweth how which look at verse nine now the Lord knows how to deliver The Godly out of Temptation and to reserve the unjust under the day of judgment to be punished now notice he calls tatarus the place of hell they are angels in Chains they are reserved unto judgment and the whole passage illustrates that sin and disobedience is going to get their reward let me tell you don't you ever forget that you cannot sin and get by he did not spare the angels He did not spare Sodom and gomorra he did not spare of the those that lived in Lots day and he's not going to spare us who live ungodly Lifestyles do we understand that our world has adopted an ungodly lifestyle to live for a fact the ungodly lifestyle is the norm today and anyone that tries to live according to the word of God and tries to live righteous you will stand out like a sore thumb that's why so many people do not live for God because they cannot handle the peer pressure that is put upon them but thank God there's enough of us that we form the peer pressure group and we can pressure people into coming out of the world out of ungodliness to to live for God Amen I see it every day we have young people that live like hell and they're not satisfied with living like hell for themselves but they'll reach in to our young people and want to drag them into their lifestyle and they'll say things like well you ain't got to live like that that's an oldfashioned way everybody else is doing what we're doing everything's going to be all right there's no hell there's no judgment there's no punishment come and live it up but you know what God says there's coming a day in which you're going to receive a reward for the lifestyle that you live he illustrates this in the book of Jude in verses five and six Jude verse 5 and verse 6 I will therefore put your remembrance though you once knew this how that the Lord having saved the people out of the land of Egypt afterward destroyed them that believe not and the angels here again tatarus is a place of fallen angels and the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation he hath reserved in Everlasting chains under Darkness under the Judgment of that great day praise God now let me let me sum up what we learned about this no human beings are going to Tatar us there's not been a human ever sinned to the degree that these angels that he has a place especially designed for these Fallen Angels it is for

disobedient Angels they are reserved in Chains of darkness and they are there until the day of judgment praise God thank God the Lord listen to me thank God the Lord removed these angels from our society can I have it amen now the Bible doesn't say he removed all the Fallen Angels but those who were disobedient at during the days of the flood before and after the Lord has them reserved in a very special place because of their rebellion and their wickedness that they committed praise God we know that there are Fallen Angels here right now because there's demons everywhere praise God now let's talk about the second place that we're going to study and that is Paradise amen now Paradise is not Hawaii rather it's probably closer to which it all now what is Paradise let me let me give you the Bible definition of what Paradise is it is the Abode of the righteous Souls after leaving the body at physical death in the Old Testament when a righteous man died now what was a righteous man those that kept the law or attempted to keep the law those that offered at the day of atonement those that that was following the principles of the scripture they were called righteous and when they died their bodies were buried we've already studied about death and their soul left their body but at that time they could not go in the presence of Jesus they could not go to heaven because the sin debt had not yet been paid how is the sin debt paid what can wash away my sins nothing but the of Jesus neither by the blood of bulls and goats but every year at the day of atonement they offered sacrifice it did not remit their sins it did not take away their sins but it pushed their sins ahead for another year at the end of the year you caught up with your sins again and so you offered again of the day of atonement and your sins would pushed ahead another year now some people they could just kind of push their sins ahead but for some of us like me my friend it took a lot to push our sins ahead because they were so many can I have it amen and so they could not go to heaven and so the Lord prepared Paradise for them can I have an amen now let me give you an illustration of where Paradise is look at Luke chapter 16 and verse number 19 Luke 16 and verse 19 there was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores and Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores and it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by Angels into Abraham's book bom or was carried into Paradise the rich man also died and was buried praise God so we know that the beggar was righteous before God and and in Contra distinction to the rich man look at where the rich man went the Bible said he came to pass the Begger died was carried by Angels into Paradise or Abraham's bosom is the way it's translated here the rich man also died and was buried and in hell he lifted up his eyes being in torment and seeth Abraham a far off and Lazarus in his bosom now we got two men living side by side they live two different Lifestyles one was so wealthy he didn't have time for God the other one had time for God but he was so poor that the dogs licked his sword but when the day of death came they went two separate directions one went to

paradise and the reason it's called Abraham's bosom is when the rich man lifted up his eyes he saw Lazarus in the bosom of Abraham so we know that Lazarus was there we know that Abraham was there if Abraham was there so was Isaac and Jacob can I have an amen to that and he cried said Father Abraham have mercy on me so we know that that where where Lazarus was that was a place of Mercy we also going to find in the same passage it was a place of water it was a place of comfort it was as the Bible says it was a paradise it was not the streets of gold it was not heaven but it was a place of great comfort for The Souls of men can I have it amen now look at Luke 3 and verse verse number 39 we find Paradise again amen if you was in the Old Testament if you were before Christ died and you was a follower of the law you could praise God because when you died you would go to a place of great comfort one of the male factors which were hanged railed on him saying if thou be Christ save thyself and us but the other answering rebuked him saying dust thou not fear God seeing thou are in the same condemnation and we indeed justly for we receive the due reward of our Deeds but this man has done nothing a Miss now remember two thieves were crucified with Jesus one on both sides of him on either side and and one one man railed on Jesus and said if thou be the Son of God come down from the cross and save us now he wasn't wanting to turn to Jesus he wasn't acknowledging him as the Son of God but he was making fun of him the other Thief understood why he was there understood he was a sinner confessed that he was a sinner and he looked at Jesus and said Remember Me when thou comest into thy kingdom and Jesus said unto him verily I say unto thee today shalt thou be with me where in Paradise now let me just share something with you that's not the grave the grave is not Paradise there's no water in your casket hopefully amen but Jesus said you're going to be with me in par now we know that they did not bury the thief in the same tomb that Jesus was buried in so we know this is not referring to the grave but we know that when he died and his soul departed from that body at spiritual death that the soul went with Jesus into Paradise it was about the 6th hour there was Darkness over all the earth and the ninth hour and the sun was darkened the veil of the temple was rent and midst and when Jesus had cried with a loud voice said father in thy hands I commend my spirit and having said this he gave up the ghost praise God at this point Jesus did not take the thief to heaven the sin death had not yet been paid praise God look at Matthew 12 and verse 40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly so shall the son of man be three days and three nights where in the heart of the Earth all right look at Ephesians chapter 4 and verse number eight wherefore he said when he ascended upon high he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men now that he ascended what is it but he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth when Jesus died why did he go into the lower part of the earth or Into the Heart of the Earth first of all that's where Paradise was why did he go into Paradise amen the Bible said he led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men verse 10 he that descended is the same also that I ascended far above the heaven that he might feel all things look at Revelations 1 and verse 17 when I saw him I fell his feet as dead and the L's right hand on me and saying me fear not I am the first and the last he

that I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forever more and have the keys of hell are paradise and the grave amen I'm glad that when Jesus who committed no sin died on that cross he had a key in his hand he went in the Lord part of the earth he unlocked paradise and everybody in the Old Testament that was righteous came out of paradise and now they qualify to go to the streets of gold because their sin have been paid for once and for all by the shed blood and the death of our Lord Jesus Christ now when you die you don't want to go to paradise it is empty right right now look at Matthew 27 and verse 50 I like this verse I've never heard anybody preach on it I've never preached on it I like to read it I can't tell you I understand all about it but it is evidence about what I'm talking about when Jesus went into Paradise unlocked the gate of paradise and said I paid the price I came through life without sin I I shed my blood I am the Eternal Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world verse 50 so Jesus when he cried again with a loud voice yielded up The Ghost and behold the veil of the temple was rent in Twain from top to bottom and the Earth did quake and the Rocks rent and the graves were open and many bodies of the saint which slept arose and came out of the graves after his resurrection and went to the holy city and appeared unto many something happened because when Paradise was emptied on their way to heaven they stopped said I'm going to take my body with me praise God Amen Paradise is empty tonight thank God for the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ can I have an amen now there's a third place I want to talk about and that is simply hell we make we make a cuss word we use hell as profanity I think the more you understand the reality of Hell the less profane you will make it somebody said you're trying to scare me with hell as a preacher of the Gospel know knowing what I know having been revealed to me what's been revealed and understanding what I understand I would do my very level best to scare you so bad that you would never want in your lifetime to go to hell now look at Matthew chapter 16 and verse number 15 he saith unto them but whom say ye that I am and Simon Peter answered and said Thou Art the Christ the son of the Living God or the Flesh of God Jesus answered and said to him blessed art thou Simon barjon for Flesh and Blood hath not revealed un thee in other words you did not learn this with your graay selves but my Father revealed it to you which is in heaven I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and Upon This Rock what rock Peter The Rock Peter means peble but on the rock of the revelation of the Mighty God in Christ I will build my church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against the church let me tell you something the church is greater than hell right yeah I am not talking about first Pentecostal Church our First Baptist Church our First Methodist Church I'm talking about the body of Christ is stronger than hell itself now one more time I want to go back to Luke chapter 16 and verse 19 there was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and he fared

sumptuously every day he was interested in his welfare he was interested in his luxury he was interested in his wealth he was interested in himself if that's the only way you know how to live you got to be a miserable human being and there was a certain beggar named Lazarus which laid his gate full of sores Desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores came to pass that the beggar died was carried by angels in Abraham's bosom but the rich man also died and was buried and in Hell Hades he lifted up his eyes number one this hell has torment you see this flesh and blood is not you you may paint it up putty it up comb it up pretty It Up Tattoo it up pierce it up but the truth of the matter is you cannot preserve this body and its youth forever it's mortal it's corruptible your youth only going to last a few days and and this body is not the real you it's only the house that you live in and and one day there's going to be a separation of this body from yourself or from your soul can I have it amen the Bible says that the beggar died was carried by Angels AMR bosom the rich man died was buried and in hell he lifted up his eyes so we know his body went to the grave but in hell he lifted up his visible portion he could see with he was conscious in hell he was not asleep he didn't take morphine before he went there there's no drug that condemn that pain or that torment and he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me we know that hell there is no mercy in Hell one man said one writer said it was weeping and wailing and nashing of teeth and somebody said what what is the symbolism of the Weeping and the Wailing and the nashing of teeth there's going to be backsliders in Hell there's going to be people that used to live for God in hell and when they live for God they never mention Jesus to anybody and when when the person go by that person that used to know Jesus but but did not tell anybody else about it there's going to be so much hate in hell if you think our world has hate in it tonight in hell that is going to be magnified more than tenfold amen have mercy on me sin Lazarus where where is Lazarus in Paradise that he may dip the tip of his finger in water there's no water in Hell there is water in Paradise there's no water in hell and cool my tongue there's no coolness in Hell there is coolness in Paradise I am tormented in this what in this flame but Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy lifetime reth thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil thing but now he is comforted and thou art tormented and beside all this between us and you there is a great golf fix thank God that there is a division between paradise and Hell amen besides this there's a gulic p so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us

that would come here from hence here's the whole key of there there there there is no way that if you die lost and you go to hell that you're ever going to be saved the Bible says as the tree falls so shall it lie if you die saved you're going to be saved for eternity if you die lost you you are going to be lost forever this Bible has nothing at all to say about purgatory or about some priest praying you out of purgatory nobody can help you when you die you are on your own when you pass from this life into the next life if you die saved praise God if you die lost you can never get out of being lost you have to make your decision while you're alive life is a dressing place for all of eternity amen notice this then he said I pray thee so we know that there's going to be prayer meetings in hell that you would send him that you would send Lazarus to my father's house I have five Brethren that he may testify to them lest they also come in this place of Torment Abraham s him they have Moses and the prophets let them hear them and he said nay Father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent and he said if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither listen this neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead God did not choose resurrected or dead men to preach the gospel he chose men that are alive to preach the gospel that you may be saved so if you're asking God to send somebody from the grave to testify to you it's not going to happen you have the preachers you have churches you have Steeples you have Bibles here can I have it amen we know that the beggar died and went to Paradise but the rich man died and went to hell let me give you some facts here hell was Below Paradise because he had to lift up his eyes it was a place of Torment it was a place of flames the soul is conscious it was waterless the unrighteous go there when Jesus Christ died on the cross he emptied out paradise but he left hell's occupants there reserved to the day of judgment there is a fourth place that I want to talk about it's called the bottomless pit or the abyss look at Luke 8 and verse 26 and they arrived at the country of the gatherin which is over against Galilee and when he went forth to land there met him out of the city a certain man which had Devils or demons from for a long time so we know that the the man in gadera was demon possessed okay he wore no clothes that ought to give you a hint right there neither Abode in any house but in the tombs and when he saw Jesus he cried out and fell down before him and with a loud voice said what have I to do with thee Jesus thou Son of God most high I beseech thee torment me not for he had commanded the unclean Spirit to come out of the band for often times he had caught him he was kept bound with chains and Feathers he break the bands was driven of the devil in the wilderness and Jesus asked him saying what is thy name and he said Legion because many demons were enter into him so this man had Legions of demons within him and they the demons besought him Jesus they would not command them to go out into what the Deep now many people thought that he was talking about the deepness of the ocean or the Lake but he was talking about the word

deep here is translated from the word which means the abyss or the bottomless pit the demons feared and they still fear the bottomless pit and Jesus is going to cast out these Demons back to the bottomless pit or the abyss now let me let me just share this with you you take this for what it's worth okay when I cast out demons out of people or when I have demons come against me I command them back to the pit or the abyss from which they belong the abyss is the place for demons and there was there a herd of many swine feeding on the mountain and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them and he suffered them then went the Devils out of the man and entered into the swine and the herd ran vly down a steep place in the lake and were choked Jesus did not put these Demons back into the abyss or bottom his pit but rather they asked him to be put into the swine and when the swine they could not handle what the man had handled and they ran into the lake not the Deep they ran into the lake and were choked amen it is the Abode listen now the abyss or the bottomless pit is the Abode of demons and here the word Abyss or bottomless pit is translated the Deep now we're going to be studying a little bit more about this in just a moment look at Revelations chapter 9 and verse 1 the fifth angel sounded now this is way after the Rapture this is during the tribulation period I saw a star fall from Heaven and the Earth and and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit and he opened the bottom of his pit and There Rose a smoke out of the pit the one of the didn't want to go there and the smoke of a great furnace so there's a fire there and the Sun and the air was darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit and that came out of the smoke Locust upon the Earth and unto them was given power as the Scorpions of Earth have power and it was commanded that they should not hurt the grass or the Earth isn't that what usually scorpions and Locust do okay these were not literal Locust but these were swarms of demons coming out of the bottom his pit neither any green thing neither any tree but only those men which have not the Seal of God in their forehead and to them it was given that they should not kill them but they should be tormented five months and the torment was as the torment of a scorpion when he strikes a man you don't want to be on this Earth after the Rapture let me make myself very clear you do not want to be on this Earth when the Rapture takes place you want to go up in the Rapture when that key the bottom of pit unlock the pit and the Swarms of demons hit this world they are going to torment men night and day for five months for a fact during this time men are going to seek death and death is going to flee from them in the tribulation period they're going to be released upon men I might add if you miss the Rapture there's got to be a reason you miss miss the Rapture you had to reject Jesus Christ you had to reject the right way to live you took your chance with your own strength and it did not work is that what you want to do for your family you want to depend on your own strength you want to depend on your own salvation I say we turn to our Lord Jesus Christ and go up in the Rapture you wanted to live with all the liberalism the homosexuals the adultery the fornication you want to live with the alcohol the drugs the gambling the hate the greed

the selfishness you wanted to live on this Earth with all the Demons of hell all around you and God is going to give you your desire because after the Rapture you said you want to live with demons and he's going to open that bottom of his pit and let you have all the demons that you ever want look at Revelations chapter 20 verse one I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottom of the pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hand hold on the dragon who is the dragon that old serpent remember remember the first time we met the serpent in the Garden of Eden here he's called the old serpent which is the devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomless pit or the abyss shut him up set a seal upon him that he should not deceive the Nations no more till the Thousand Years should be fulfilled and after that he would be loosed for a little season I saw Thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given to them and I saw the Souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus for the word of God and and and which not and which had not worshiped the Beast neither his image neither had received his Mark upon their forehead or in their hands and they live and reign with Christ a thousand years this is talking about all the Jews that rejected the mark of the beast they did not bow down to the Antichrist they were slain for their testimony amen but the rest the Dead live not again till the thousand years were finished this is his first resurrection blessed and holy is he that had part in the First Resurrection on such the second death have no power but they shall be Priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years look at verse number seven and when the thousand years were expired Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and MOG gather together to the battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea and they went on the breath of the earth and compassed the camp the Saints about and beloved City a fire came down from God out of heaven and divided them and the devil that deceived them was cast remember he he's he's been Loos out of the bottom of his pit and now at the end of that thousand years after he tempts those that were never tempted he's cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast and the false prophet are and shall be Ted night and day forever and ever what this saying is say Satan your temporary abod going to be the bottom of pit for a thousand years you're going to be loose for a while to tempt those who never been tempted but then the Lord going to take the Beast the false prophet the devil himself and he's going to cast him into the Eternal Lake of Fire and that brings us up to our last place and that is the Lake of Fire the fifth and final place is called the Lake of Fire this is the place of eternal hell and predition of wicked men of demons falling angels and all Rebels now listen it doesn't matter whether you're a fallen angel that went to tarus whether you were Fallen Angels or demons that went to hell whether you are the unrighteous people that went to hell or whether you're demons that went to the Bottom's pit in the end all of you everything is going to be cast into guenna or the Lake of Fire and there you're going to spend the rest of Eternity that is a very sad day when all of eternity starts and you're going to be away from God forever and forever and forever and forever now it is called gehenna it is always translated hell now let me give you a few scriptures and I'll close Matthew 522 I say unto you that whoever is angry with his brother without cause that speaks very clear doesn't it listen to me you that are

Moody you that just hate everybody you that don't like anybody whoever is angry with his brother without cause shall be in danger of the Judgment whosoever shall say to his brother Rocka shall be in danger of the counsel but whoever shall shall shall say thou fool shall be in danger of guenna you better be careful about blaspheming your brother you better be careful when you have anger and you speak out in anger at a child of God whether they are perfect or imperfect I'm going tell tell you something I meet too many people that have a temper that they have a big mouth they don't like anybody they always want their way they just fly off the handle the Bible says you're in danger of gehenna or the Lake of Fire that ought to open our eyes sometime when we're flying off the handle and make us realize that that God is going to hold us responsible look at Matthew 10 verse 28 and fear not them what shall kill the body but are not able to kill the soul but rather fear him which is able to destroy both body both soul and Body in gehenna let me tell you something they died a martyr's death and they took it and they smiled and they rejoiced because they knew that the Romans with their clubs could only kill their body but they could not destroy the real them and he said you need to fear God because he's able not only to kill your bodily but cast your soul into gehenna look at Matthew 18:9 If thy eye offend thee anybody watching the wrong things anybody looking at the wrong magazines anybody wrent The Wrong videos If th I offend thee pluck it out and cast it from thee it is better to enter into life with one eye than having two eyes to be cast into gehenna can I have an amen Matthew 23:1 15 woe unto you scribes Pharisees Hypocrites for you Compass the Sea and the land to make one prite and when he is made you make him two for more the child of gehenna than yourself you better be careful by letting false prophets ETS convert you to their way of thinking and make you a two-fold child of gehenna Mark 9 verse 43 If thy hand offend thee cut it off is better thee to enter into life maimed than have two hands to go into gehenna into fire that shall never be quenched it shall never be quenched where the worm dieth not the fire is not quenched If thy foot offend thee cut it off it's better to enter into life with one foot than having two foot to be cast into ganna into a fire that shall never be quenched let me tell you something folks I am living for God because 42 years ago the Lord revealed gehenna or hell for me and when I realized that God had given me a revelation of where I was going I got such a fear of God that it caused me to lay down my profession it called me to lay down my livelihood and to start preaching the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ there is never a day that goes by that I don't have the fear of God in my life amen amen and I live among people that never

think about their Eternal Destiny one time in a month Revelation 14:9 the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice if any man worshiped the Beast and His Image and receive his Mark in their forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his ending nation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone or in gehenna in the presence of his holy angels and the presence of the lamb and the smoke of their torment Ascend up forever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and His Image and whoever receiveth the mark of his name let me tell you something we see the mark of the beast Rising even in this present hour it's everywhere it's almost scary let me let me rephrase that it's not almost it is scary I thank God we're having an outpouring of the Holy Spirit it needs to increase tfold from what it is right now you say preacher you're scaring me if I could I would but only you can decide whether I'm preaching the truth or not amen you say well you're acting like there's no hope I haven't I haven't preached no hope here tonight because the child of God has hope remember we came to the altar we met God in Judgment at the altar he forgave us of our sins he filled us with his holy spirit we've been born again there's no hell for us there's no bottomless pit there's no Abyss there's no tatarus there's no gienna there's no hell for us but because I know there is a hell it keeps me from wanting to go there let me finish with this one last passage Revelations chapter 20 and verse number 10 and the devil that deceived them that old serpent old be elub was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the Beast are the false prophet are and they shall be tormented day and night forever and ever next time the Devil comes to you next time Temptation comes to you say devil get behind me I'm not going where you're going you're already defeated I read the back of the book I know what your Eternal Destiny is and I want no part of you if you understand that the devil is defeated you don't want to be his friend if you understand that the devil is defeated you want no part of him I want to go to him who wins the Bible says we are more than conquerors through Christ who give us strength why would I want to worship the devil when I got a great God that I can worship why would I want to worship the things of hell when I got Heavenly things that I cherish and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the Earth and Heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books many books were open another book was open which is The Book of Life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their Works remember the child of God when you came to the altar you repented of your sins they went on to Jesus he covered them with his blood when you get there you'll never meet your sins but those that don't cover their sins with the blood they're going to get there and all their sins are going to follow right behind them they're going to be written in the

books everything you do is written down I want some of the things that I've done covered by the blood I'm going to tell you I can't do it myself but he can the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death the grave and Hell the soul death is the body and hell is the soul the remember Paradise being emptied out now all of hell is emptied out every soul that goes to hell is going to be reunited with their body and they were judged every man according to their works and death the body and Hell the soul were cast into gehenna or the Lake of Fire wait a minute that's where Satan went that's where the Demons of the Abyss went wait a minute that's where the angels from tatarus went and if you're not found written in the Lamb's Book of Life you're going to have to spend eternity with Satan with the fallen angels with the demons with the false prophets with the with the Hitlers and the molinis and the heroo and the Tojo with every sinner with every homosexual and adulterer and liar and every hateful man is is that the kind of company that you want for eternity and Eternity and Eternity and Eternity can I take just a moment to say that Upon This Rock I will build my church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it can I take a moment to say Thank You Lord God for Jesus Christ Our Lord can I say than thank you for the shed blood of my Lord Jesus Christ can I take just one moment can I take just a moment to say thank you Lord for revealing to me that I was a sinner and thank you Lord for giving me the courage to bow my knees to my Lord Jesus Christ and when I bowed my knees to him he came to me and he filled me with his spirit would you stand with me please and whoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into gienna almighty God I take a moment to thank you that one more time I'm reminded of why you died on the cross you he said for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever would believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life for he sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved Lord you told them at the tomb of Lazarus you said I am the resurrection and life Lord thank you for calling me thank you Lord for giving me spiritual hearing that I could hear your voice you said come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest you said you would in no wise Cast Away anyone with a broken and a contrite heart Lord Jesus would you lead us to repent would you lead us oh Lord to a cross and

let us bow before you and Lord God I realize tonight that I have taught a very difficult lesson it's not a pleasant one but Lord it is filled with facts it is filled with truth and Lord you came that we might have life and have life more abundantly in the name of Jesus Christ Christ I pray let everyone said amen

Scripture references as spoken: 1 Peter 3:18-20; 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 2:1-9; Jude 5-6; Luke 16:19-31; Luke 23:39-46; Matthew 12:40; Ephesians 4:8-10; Revelation 1:17-18; Matthew 27:50-53; Matthew 16:15-18; Luke 8:26-33; Revelation 9:1-5; Revelation 20:1-10; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:9; Matthew 23:15; Mark 9:43-46; Revelation 14:9-11; Revelation 20:10-15.