What does the Bible say about hell?

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• What does the Bible say about hell?
• Part 4 25 Descriptions of Hell
• Searchers Class - 2005

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1. Burning lake of fire

• Revelation 2015 And anyone not found written
  in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of
  fire.
• Matthew 189 - And if your eye causes you to sin,
  pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better
  for you to enter into life with one eye, rather
  than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire.

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit

• Revelation 201 - Then I saw an angel coming down
  from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit
  and a great chain in his hand.

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked

• Psalm 116 Upon the wicked He will rain coals
  Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be
  the portion of their cup.

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire

• Isaiah 3314 - The sinners in Zion are afraid
  Fearfulness has seized the hypocrites Who among
  us shall dwell with the devouring fire? Who among
  us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire
5. Damnation

• Matthew 2333 - Serpents, brood of vipers! How
  can you escape the condemnation of hell?

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire
5. Damnation
6. Weeping and gnashing of teeth

• Matthew 812 - But the sons of the kingdom will
  be cast out into outer darkness. There will be
  weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matthew 1342 2213 2530 2451

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire
5. Damnation
6. Weeping and gnashing of teeth
7. Eternal torment

• Luke 1623 - And being in torments in Hades, he
  lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and
  Lazarus in his bosom.
• Revelation 1411a - And the smoke of their
  torment ascends forever and ever and they have
  no rest day or night,

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire
5. Damnation
6. Weeping and gnashing of teeth
7. Eternal torment
8. Fire

• Matthew 1342a - and will cast them into the
  furnace of fire
• John 156 - If anyone does not abide in Me, he is
  cast out as a branch and is withered and they
  gather them and throw them into the fire, and
  they are burned.

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1. Burning lake of fire
2. Bottomless pit
3. Place for wicked
4. Devouring fire
5. Damnation
6. Weeping and gnashing of teeth
7. Eternal torment
8. Fire
9. Destruction

• 2 Thessalonians 19 - These shall be punished
  with everlasting destruction from the presence of
  the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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1. Will curse God

• Revelation 1611 - They blasphemed the God of
  heaven because of their pains and their sores,
  and did not repent of their deeds.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good

• Luke 1627-28 - 27Then he said, I beg you
  therefore, father, that you would send him to my
  fathers house, 28for I have five brothers, that
  he may testify to them, lest they also come to
  this place of torment.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy

• Luke 1624 - Then he cried and said, Father
  Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that
  he may dip the tip of his finger in water and
  cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy
4. Punishment

• Matthew 2546 - And these will go away into
  everlasting punishment, but the righteous into
  eternal life.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy
4. Punishment
5. Everlasting fire

• Matthew 188 - If your hand or foot causes you to
  sin, cut it off and cast it from you. It is
  better for you to enter into life lame or maimed,
  rather than having two hands or two feet, to be
  cast into the everlasting fire.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy
4. Punishment
5. Everlasting fire
6. Separation

• 2 Thessalonians 19 - These shall be punished
  with everlasting destruction from the presence of
  the Lord and from the glory of His power,

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy
4. Punishment
5. Everlasting fire
6. Separation
7. Unquenchable fire

• Matthew 312 - His winnowing fan is in His hand,
  and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing
  floor, and gather His wheat into the barn but He
  will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

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1. Will curse God
2. Pray does no good
3. Cry for mercy
4. Punishment
5. Everlasting fire
6. Separation
7. Unquenchable fire
8. Perish

• John 316 - For God so loved the world that He
  gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
  in Him should not perish but have everlasting
  life.

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1. Blackness

• Jude 13 - raging waves of the sea, foaming up
  their own shame wandering stars for whom is
  reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels

• Matthew 2541 - Then He will also say to those on
  the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into
  the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
  his angels

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone

• Revelation 1410 - He himself shall also drink of
  the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
  full strength into the cup of His indignation. He
  shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the
  presence of the holy angels and in the presence
  of the Lamb.

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God

• Revelation 1410 - He himself shall also drink of
  the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out
  full strength into the cup of His indignation.

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God
5. Judged

• Psalm 5523 - But You, O God, shall bring them
  down to the pit of destruction Bloodthirsty and
  deceitful men shall not live out half their days
  But I will trust in You.

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God
5. Judged
6. Rejected

• Hebrews 1029 - Of how much worse punishment, do
  you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has
  trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the
  blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified
  a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace?

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God
5. Judged
6. Rejected
7. Second death

• Revelation 218 - But the cowardly, unbelieving,
  abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
  sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have
  their part in the lake which burns with fire and
  brimstone, which is the second death

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God
5. Judged
6. Rejected
7. Second death

• First death physical
• Second death spiritual separation from God

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1. Blackness
2. Devil and angels
3. Fire and brimstone
4. Wrath of God
5. Judged
6. Rejected
7. Second death
8. Fear going there

• Luke 125 - But I will show you whom you should
  fear Fear Him who, after He has killed, has
  power to cast into hell yes, I say to you, fear
  Him!

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• We have studied about heaven and hell
• While many of the passages are figurative, we can
  learn much from the symbolic descriptions.
• Heaven a place we should seek to enter
• Hell a place we should strive to avoid