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This is the biblical understanding:
"The wages of sin is DEATH , and the gift of God is EVERLASTING LIFE through our Lord Jesus Christ." -Romans 6:23
In Rev 21:8 the hellfire act is referred to as the "SECOND DEATH" This is of everlasting and permanent result.
Both body and spiritual soul will be destroyed. See Matthew 10:28.
The lost, both fallen angels and fallen, unrepented humans, will be destroyed, burnt up and turned into ashes on this day. The Day of judgment that will leave the lost totally destroyed. Completely dead.
See Malachi 4:
“Surely *the day* is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble,and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the Lord Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them. 2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves. 3 Then you will trample on the wicked; they will be ASHES under the soles of your feet on the day when I act,” says the Lord Almighty."
"4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel. 5 “See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before *
THAT GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD* comes.6 He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with TOTAL DESTRUCTION”
From Romans ch. 8: LIFE or DEATH.
"..have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.6 The mind governed by the flesh is DEATH, but the mind governed by the Spirit is LIFE and peace"
From Genesis ch. 3:
The LIE of the serpent, Satan, in Genesis 3:
"Ye shall not surely die".
In the very same chapter God who speak TRUTH says:
"but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, *or you will die*.’”
Who do we listen to? God who says that the lost will be burnt up and die the second death?
Or the lie of Satan who says unrepentant sinners will receive everlasting life too, but in total misery?
So what are we saved from? Sin and Satan, and the permanent second death, which are the RESULT of the act on hellfire on that day.
The fires will punish them first according to their sins (different stripes of punishment according to their unrepented evil deeds), if it go unrepented, then they will ve burnt up= totally dead. They will not suffer unimaginable torment through ceaseless ages. That would not be heaven for God, angels or the saved.
God promise suffering NO MORE in Revelation 21:4:
"4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
No more evil or suffering after this day of judgment for anyone. All sin (evil) has been purified from the Universe. The saints have been purified by the Holy spirit, by taking the path of rigteousness. And those who chose the broad way of sin, will be purified to destruction in this hellfire ACT, because they clinged to sin and did not overcome by justification and sanctification.
And God will then recreate this earth. But no torment will continue for anyone after this judgment day.
The motive should be LOVE for God, NOT FEAR. And true love is free and a choice, else it is not love. God's law is a Divine law of love. Love for God first. Love for man as ourselves, second.
A REAL CHOICE THAT LEAVE ROOM FOR FREE WILL.
A necessary condition in order for the kingdom and law of God to be tested, tried and proven. God's Law = Divine Love. 1. Love for God (first 4 commandments summarized) . 2. Love for our neighbor (Last six commandments summarized)
1. A path that leads to EVERLASTING LIFE
2. A path that leads to THE SECOND DEATH
The following is a list of texts supporting the doctrine of Conditional Immortality, that believers receive everlasting life and unbelievers don't - they perish.
(source: “Brother Bird”)
These clear verses with plain words demonstrate that (1) eternal, endless life is a gift in Christ given only to believers, (2) that death, the loss of and end of life, is the penalty for sin, (3) that the soul can and will die and be destroyed, (4) that the judgment fire of God consumes, (5) that the final punishment takes place at the judgment, not afterward, (6) that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is an example of the future punishment, or (7) that the wicked ultimately perish, die, burn up, are consumed, destroyed, and are no more. These 117 passages are in stark contrast to the only five references used as supposed "proof texts" for endless torment. 117 to 5.
Here are the first 50 bible verses...
1. Genesis 2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely DIE
2. Genesis 3:19: till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto DUST shalt thou RETURN
3. Numbers 24:20: His latter END shall be that he PERISH FOR EVER
4. Deuteronomy 4:24: the Lord thy God is a CONSUMING fire
5. Joshua 10:28: He UTTERLY DESTROYED, them, and all the SOULS that were therein
6. Joshua 10:35-39; 11:11: All the SOULS that were therein he UTTERLY DESTROYED
7. Judges 16:16:His SOUL was vexed unto DEATH
8. Job 7:15: my SOUL chooseth strangling, and DEATH rather than my life
9. Job 21:29, 30: do ye not know… the wicked is reserved to the day of DESTRUCTION?
10. Job 33:22: his SOUL draweth near unto the GRAVE, and his life to the DESTROYERS
11. Psalm 21:9: Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall SWALLOW THEM UP in his wrath, and the fire shall DEVOUR them
12. Psalm 33:19: To deliver their SOUL from DEATH, and to keep them alive in famine
13. Psalm 37:20: The wicked shall PERISH... they shall into smoke CONSUME AWAY
14. Psalm 37:37, 38: Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be DESTROYED together: the END of the wicked shall be CUT OFF
15. Psalm 50:3: Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall DEVOUR before him
16. Psalm 56:13: Thou hast delivered my SOUL from DEATH: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
17. Psalm 59:13: CONSUME them in wrath, CONSUME them, that they may NOT BE
18. Psalm 68:2: As smoke is DRIVEN AWAY, so drive them away: as wax MELTETH before the fire, so let the wicked PERISH at the presence of God
19. Psalm 78:50: He spared not their SOUL from DEATH, but gave their life over to the pestilence
20. Psalm 89:48: What man is he that liveth, and shall not see DEATH? shall he deliver his SOUL from the hand of the GRAVE?
21. Psalm 92:7: When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be DESTROYED FOR EVER
22. Psalm 97:2, 3: Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne. A fire goeth before him, and BURNETH UP his enemies round about
23. Psalm 104:31, 35: The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever… Let the sinners be CONSUMED out of the earth, and let the wicked be NO MORE
24. Psalm 116:8: Thou hast delivered my SOUL from DEATH
25. Psalm 145:20: The Lord PRESERVETH all them that love him: but all the wicked will he DESTROY
26. Proverbs 10:25: As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked NO MORE: but the righteous is an EVERLASTING foundation
27. Proverbs 12:7: The wicked are overthrown, and ARE NOT: but the house of the righteous shall stand
28. Isaiah 1:28: And the DESTRUCTION of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be CONSUMED
29. Isaiah 5:24: Therefore as the fire DEVOURETH the stubble, and the flame CONSUMETH the chaff
30. Isaiah 13:6: Howl ye; for the day of the Lord is at hand; it shall come as a DESTRUCTION from the Almighty
31. Isaiah 53:12: He hath poured out his SOUL unto DEATH
32. Isaiah 66:15-17: the Lord will come with fire... to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire... the slain of the Lord shall be many… and... shall be CONSUMED together, saith the Lord
33. Isaiah 66:23, 24: ...shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord. And they shall go forth, and look upon the CARCASES of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh
34. Lamentations 4:6: the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown AS IN A MOMENT, and no hands stayed on her
35. Ezekiel 13:19 : To SLAY the SOULS that should not DIE, and to save the SOULS alive that should not live
36. Ezekiel 18:4, 20: The SOUL that sinneth, it shall DIE
37. Ezekiel 22:31: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have CONSUMED them with the fire of my wrath
38. Daniel 12:2: ...many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to EVERLASTING LIFE, and some to shame and everlasting contempt
39. Hosea 13:14: I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from DEATH: O DEATH, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy DESTRUCTION
40. Joel 1:15: Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a DESTRUCTION from the Almighty shall it come
41. Malachi 4:1-3: ...the day that cometh shall BURN THEM UP… the wicked...shall be ASHES under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts
42. Matthew 3:10-12 ...every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire… He will BURN UP the chaff with unquenchable fire
43. Matthew 7:13, 14: ...broad is the way that leadeth to DESTRUCTION… narrow is the way, which leadeth unto LIFE
44. Matthew 10:28: ...able to DESTROY both soul and body in hell
45. Matthew 13:40: As therefore the tares are gathered and BURNED in the fire; SO SHALL IT BE in the end of this world
46. Matthew 16:25-27: For whosoever will save his LIFE shall LOSE IT: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it… For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works
47. Matthew 26:38: My SOUL is exceeding sorrowful, even unto DEATH
48. Mark 10:30: But he shall RECEIVE an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come ETERNAL LIFE.
49. Luke 13:3,5: I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise PERISH
50. Luke 17:29, 30: ...it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and DESTROYED them all. Even thus shall it be.
This is a good page also:
The widespread deception of the immortality of the soul, even for sinners is also responsible for the terrible doctrine of everlasting hell. The Bible states that
"the soul that sinneth, it shall die."
-Ezekiel 18:20
Study more on the topic of what happens after death on:
www.truthaboutdeath.com
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