BIBLE PASSAGES
ABOUT HELL EXPLAINED
TORMENTED FOREVER AND EVER
Revelation 20:10
FOREVER in the Bible is a period of time, limited or unlimited, depending upon what is being described. The word FOREVER in the Bible is like the word TALL. Tall has different meanings depending on what is being described, such as a dog, or house, or a mountain. The word FOREVER is used 56 times in the Old Testament in connection with things already ended. In the case of man, the Bible teaches that FOREVER means MAN'S LIFETIME or AS LONG AS A MAN LIVES. In the case of Samuel, FOREVER meant "AS LONG AS HE LIVETH", 1 Samuel 1:22,28. In Psalm 48:14 FOREVER means until death. Burning FOREVER in the fire means that man burns until he dies.
FIRE UNQUENCHABLE
Luke 3:17
Jerusalem was destroyed with unquenchable fire, Jeremiah 17:27, but it is not still burning today. 2 Chronicles 36:19,21 says Jerusalem was burnt with fire to fulfil Jeremiah's prophecy. Unquenchable fire cannot be PUT out, but it GOES out when everything is burned up.
EVERLASTING OR ETERNAL FIRE
Matthew 25:41
Jude 7 says God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with everlasting or eternal fire. And Peter says in 2 Peter 2:6 that the fire turned those cities into ashes as an example to those who live ungodly. So eternal or everlasting fire turns things to ashes and then goes out. It is everlasting in its EFFECT and not its DURATION.
EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT
Matthew 25:46
Note that it is not everlasting PUNISHING but rather PUNISHMENT. Paul says that the punishment for sin is DEATH, Romans 6:23. And Revelation calls this death the SECOND DEATH which the wicked die in the fire, Revelation 21:8. That death or destruction will be eternal because there is no resurrection from it.
Ho, Every One That Is Thirsty Midi