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HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE
VERSES STUDY
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HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE
VERSES STUDY
Heaven and hell are something many souls ponder on from
time to time.
They say a picture speaks a thousand words ...
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HEAVEN
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HELL |
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In
Revelation,
Chapter 4
... Heaven is described as being so
awesome, that it surpasses one's imagination. Jesus told His Apostles
that they could not imagine what God has in store for the believers. |
Hell
and the Lake of Fire are described as being an eternal heat, fire,
darkness, pain and gnashing of teeth. Sounds like one's worst
nightmare multiplied times one million. |
HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES PROPHECY WITH HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES
MEANING AND HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES MESSAGE
Have you
made your choice between Heaven and Hell?
Do you know what choice can
determine whether you end up in Heaven or Hell? In life, it is our
choices that direct our paths to fate. It matters little what our past
choices have been, because we can choose at any time to change our
direction by making different choices.
FATE IS THE RESULT OF
MANKIND'S CHOICES.
DESTINY ... IS IRRESISTIBLE.
WHAT CHOICE WILL YOU MAKE
ABOUT
HEAVEN AND HELL?
HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES
WARNING ON HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES
CHOICE AND HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES DANGERS
May I suggest that before we continue
with this study, that you visit our
FEAR OF DEATH
study and our
ABRAHAM'S BOSOM
study, if you have not already
checked out these studies as to understand what happens to
your physical body, your spirit, and your soul, once the ol’ ticker stops
beating ... before the Savior returns.
This study is an extension of those two
studies and it will give you a little better perspective on where your
soul may go when the Day of the Lord arrives, depending upon your choices
in life.
Do you know what a “realm” is? A realm
is a spiritual place or experience. You can’t reach out and grasp it with
your hand, though while you're there, you may believe it’s tangible.
All realms are not spiritual in a godly
sense. Let me give you some examples of different realms.
A dream is a realm.
A story is a realm. You can go into
the realm of a story while reading a book or watching a movie, or even
by listening to a person relate it to you over a cup of coffee.
Even the world wide web is a realm of
sorts. Yes, it runs on a frequency or via satellite, but when you log
on, you feel like your going to a certain place that’s not really a
physical location.
A daydream is a realm.
Déjà vu is a realm ...
... although some
scientists would like you to think that it’s some kind of optical
malfunction where one eye sees something an instant before the other
eye, making something seem like you’ve seen it or been there before. But
anyone who has ever experienced this phenomenon knows that it’s more
than that. It’s a realm. You’ve seen millions of faces and places that
you've seen before with both eyes at the same time, and you don’t get that
serendipitous feeling that frequently accompanies déjà vu, and that
spiritual urge to remember why it seems familiar to you.
Hypnotism is a realm.
Visions are a realm.
Prophecy is a realm.
Speaking in tongues is a realm.
Music can take you into a realm.
Fear is a realm.
Others can be in the same realm as you at the same time.
True love is a realm that two people
share.
As you can see, there are all kinds of
realms. They’re not make believe just because they’re not physical places.
They really do exist. They’re not pretend, just because by faith you
believe in them, yet there is no physical evidence of where exactly they
are.
Now let’s talk about HEAVEN AND HELL.
One of these realms is where your soul will ultimately end up.
There is one question you may ask
yourself concerning life and the afterlife.
REALITY
vs. REALM
WHICH ONE IS WHICH?
In our logical carnal minds, we
tend to think that life on earth is the real thing, and the spiritual life
is … well … hard to put your finger on. What if, in fact, it turns out to
be the other way around. Actually, the true Christian belief is based on
that very hope and belief. This earthly, fleshly life is the temporary
one. How many times have you boasted; It’s just a test - Lay up your
treasures in Heaven - You can’t take it with you, and things of this
nature?
We spout brave words like this when we
want to impress our own selves, our friends, our relatives and even God,
but do we really live those beliefs? If we want our destination realm to
be Heaven . . . We should.
One more interesting thing about the
word realm before we go on. In the Bible, different authors use this word
in place of the word kingdom.
Sooooo, what can we expect once we get
to the realm (kingdom) of Heaven?
Well, think of the most blissful place
you can imagine and Isaiah and Paul both say . . . Not even close!
Isaiah 64:4
For since the beginning
of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what He hath prepared for
him that waiteth for Him.
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1 Corinthians 2:9
Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared for them that love Him.
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The inspiration for these
messages was God and the Holy Spirit.
Jesus gives us several parables of what
it’s “like” in the realm of Heaven, but you must keep in mind, He had to
use human words for us and we can’t fully understand a spiritual realm,
explained in human words. It’s kind of like explaining what love is to
someone who’s never been in love. Heaven is more than a place that is here
or there. Like being in love, it envelops your whole being, and as anyone
who has TRULY been IN LOVE knows . . . It's more than words can say, and
that’s why we’re taught that we can’t even imagine what Heaven is like.
As you read the words of Jesus, you’ll
begin to understand that this Kingdom of Heaven is not so much a specific
place but rather . . . A state of mind and heart.
You can find the Lord’s similitude of
what Heaven is like in the Gospel according to
Matthew, Chapter 13:
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13:3 The parable of the
sower.
13:24 The parable of the
field and the tares.
13:31 The parable of the
mustard seed.
13:33 The parable of the
leaven.
13:44 The parable of the
treasure in the field.
13:45 The parable of the
merchantman.
13:47 The parable of the
net, cast into the sea.
20:1 The parable of the
workers.
22:2 The parable of the
wedding feast.
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You can also read these
in the
GOSPEL
OF JESUS CHRIST
study in the section called
KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
In the Gospel
according to John, Jesus tells us this about Heaven:
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John 14:2-4
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again
(on the Day of the Lord), and receive (invite, welcome, enjoin) you unto myself; that where I am, there ye
may be also.
And whither I go
(Heaven) ye know
(understand), and the way (following in His footsteps) ye know (understand).
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Now that you have a better idea of the
kingdom (realm) of Heaven, let’s look at the opposite realm called Hell,
where the devil tries to lead souls to, because of his immense jealousy of
God. This quest of the devil’s is called
SPIRITUAL WARFARE.
Just as you can’t imagine what God has
prepared for those who love Him, one also can’t imagine the unending
torment that awaits in Hell for the unbeliever’s soul. Don’t be deceived
that once a soul goes to Hell, that there’s an end to the pain and agony
that awaits there. Death is also a realm and in the end, death is cast
into the lake of fire along with Hell, and “lives” forever there in never
ending torture. Don’t misinterpret the realm of death to be the “end” of
anything, except your physical, fleshly life on earth. A soul still lives
on in Hell and continues to experience it’s pain forever.
To make things a little easier to
understand, it’s important to know that Hell and the bottomless pit are
the same place, just as Paradise and
Abraham’s Bosom
are one and the same.
At the beginning of this study, we
learned that a soul may take one of two paths when the human body dies.
This chart shows the path of these souls.
THE BELIEVER’S SOUL VS.
THE UNBELIEVER’S SOUL
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Death of the Body |
Death of the Body |
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Spirit returns to God |
Spirit goes to prison in Hell |
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1st Death
Body returns to dust
Soul carried away by angels
to Abraham's Bosom (Paradise) |
1st Death
Body returns to dust
Soul goes to Hell
(bottomless pit) |
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At 7th trumpet,
dead arise and meet Jesus in the air
We shall be changed. |
Soul remains in Hell |
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The Marriage Supper of the Lamb |
Soul remains in Hell |
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1st Resurrection
Millennium
1,000 years of peace
Live and reign with Christ |
Soul remains in Hell
during the Millennium |
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Great White Throne Judgment |
Great White Throne Judgment |
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New Heaven and New Earth
Live forever with God and Jesus |
2nd Death
Cast into Lake of Fire forever |
Have you ever been in so
much pain that you’ve gnashed your teeth? Jesus describes Hell this way,
several times.
In the book of Proverbs,
Solomon’s references to Hell are preventive only. In other words, they are
admonitions.
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Proverbs 15:24
The way of life is above
to the wise, that he may depart from
hell beneath.
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This doesn’t mean
that a soul may depart from Hell whenever it wants, but rather, Solomon is
saying that you can avoid Hell by being wise.
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Proverbs 23:13-14
Withhold not correction
from the child: for if thou beatest him
with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with
the rod, and shalt deliver his
soul from hell.
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Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are
never full; so the eyes of man are
never satisfied.
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There’s always enough room for more
souls in Hell, don’t be deceived by the devil’s tricks that make people
believe that they can be satisfied with fleshly desires.
And, make no mistake, there are no “get
out of Hell free” cards in the devil’s game. It’s not a game.
You may also wonder why Jesus went to
Abraham’s Bosom and preached to the spirits in Hell if there’s no chance
of ever leaving once you’re there. The answer is, up until that time they didn’t have the
truth of Jesus in their lifetime on earth, so they were given the chance
to hear and believe the Gospel, as we have. They have died the first
death, but God’s final judgment still awaits.
There are some descriptions in the Bible
that give us an idea as to what Hell is like. Let’s take a look at some of
them.
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Deuteronomy
32:22
The fire of hell is God’s anger
and it can destroy the entire earth. The lowest hell refers to
the depths of hell, it isn’t to suggest that there is more than
one hell. |
2 Samuel 22:6
Hell is full of sorrow. |
Job
11:8
Hell is deep. |
Isaiah 5:14-15
Hell is immeasurable, the mean
man is brought down there, the mighty and the proud are humbled there. |
Isaiah 14:11
In hell, the worm is spread under
you, and the worms cover you. |
Isaiah 14:15
Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit. |
Ezekiel 32:23
Graves are set in the sides of the pit. |
This may bring up a question in your
mind about the “bottomless” pit. Remember that Hell is a realm, so there
is no physical form to it. The term “bottomless” therefore, is an
indication of it’s ongoing and endless pain, and the vastness of the
agony, darkness, and torment that are there.
Ezekiel 32:27
Just as when believers die, their mortal bodies become celestial bodies,
and the unbelievers body is changed as well. From this description in
Ezekiel, it may be that those bodies are skeletal in nature because he
says, Their iniquities shall be upon their bones. |
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Jonah 2:2
Jonah describes being in the belly
of a whale as a comparison to hell. |
These are some of the
things that king David wrote concerning Hell.
David also prophesied:
Psalms 16:10
For thou wilt not leave
my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
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Peter speaks of this as
well.
Acts 2:27
Because thou wilt not
leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. |
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Acts 2:31
He seeing this before
spake of the resurrection of Christ, that His soul was not
left in hell, neither his flesh did see
corruption.
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Although Jesus did speak
to the spirits in prison (in Hell), He did not Himself experience death.
The word “see” in this case, means “experience.”
Jesus said:
Matthew 5:29
and
Mark 9:43
And if thy right eye
offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it
from thee: for it is profitable for
thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole
body should be cast into hell.
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This of course is a
figure of speech that Jesus is using. There aren’t eyeballs and hands and
ears running around Hell while the rest of people’s bodies are in
Abraham’s Bosom. In other words, it would be better to take some pretty
drastic measures than to end up in Hell.
Here are more references
to Hell from the New Testament.
Matthew 10:28
&
Luke 12:5
God can destroy both body and soul in hell. |
Matthew 16:18
The gates (kingdom) of hell will not succeed against the church. |
Mark 9:44, 48
In hell, the worm doesn’t die. |
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Mark 9:43, 44, 45,
46, & 48
Jesus repeatedly reminds that the fire will never be quenched in hell in
these verses.
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Luke 16:19-31
If you’ve read the study on
ABRAHAM'S BOSOM,
you know Jesus’ story of the soul of Lazarus in Abraham’s Bosom and the rich
man’s soul that went to hell.
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2 Peter 2:4
Hell has chains of darkness where souls are reserved for judgment. In this particular reference, Peter is
speaking of the fallen angels who are in hell. You can find out more about
that in the
BOOK
OF ENOCH. |
The book of Revelation
also has some very interesting things in it about Hell.
Revelation 1:18
Jesus has the keys of hell and death. |
Revelation 6:8
The 4th horseman of the Apocalypse represents hell and death. |
Revelation
20:13-14
Death and hell deliver up the dead
souls in them for judgment (see the chart above) and death and hell are
thrown into the lake of fire. |
HEAVEN AND HELL BIBLE VERSES REVEAL A SIMPLE CHOICE ...
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In
Revelation,
Chapter 4
... Heaven is described as being so
awesome, that it surpasses one's imagination. Jesus told His Apostles
that they could not imagine what God has in store for the believers. |
Hell
and the Lake of Fire are described as being an eternal heat, fire,
darkness, pain and gnashing of teeth. Sounds like one's worst
nightmare multiplied times one million. |
THE CHOICE
... IS UP TO YOU
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