Thread: Will the Lost Suffer Eternal Torment in Hell??
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Will the Lost Suffer Eternal Torment in Hell??
Posted : 8 Jul, 2011 12:50 PM
WILL THE LOST SUFFER ETERNAL TORMENT IN HELL OR WILL THEY JUST BE ANNIHILATED??
There are many such as the 7th Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, New Agers, and many liberal Protestants and Catholics that teach that Revelation is just a big symbolic fairy tale and that God really won't punish the unsaved and those who worship 666 or receive his mark during the 42-month Great Tribulation {Rev 13:5-8} with eternal torment day and night for ever and ever. They teach that God is a very loving and forgiving God who would not inflict this terrible punishment on anyone. However.......God says,
"I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times. what is still to come!...What I have said, that will I bring about; what I have planned that will I do!" Isaiah 46:10a, 11b
Revelation 14:9-11: "If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark ...He will be tormented with burning sulfur.. And the smoke of their torment rises *FOR EVER AND EVER*. There is no rest *DAY OR NIGHT* for those who worship the beast.
Rev 19:20 The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet...The two of them were thrown *ALIVE* into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. Rev 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT *FOR EVER AND EVER*!!
Rev 22:16,18,19: Jesus says, �I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give *YOU* {The Greek for YOU is plural} this testimony {ALL OF REVELATION} *FOR* the CHURCHES.� ... �I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone *ADDS* anything to them, God will add to him the plagues {Which would include the eternal torment day & night for ever and ever} described in this book. And if anyone *TAKES WORDS AWAY* from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city which are described in this book.�
If I didn't believe I was going to heaven I would certainly not want to believe in eternal torment in hell and of course then I would feel free to eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow I would just be annihilated.{See I Cor 15:32} :yay::devil::buddies::bouncy::toomuch::nahnah::yay::devil:
I thought during the thousand year millenium period that people will be given a second chance, before the great white throne judgement.
I don't know of any Scripture which supports this view but there are a whole lot of Scriptures which disagrees with this position:
WILL THE RESURRECTION OF THE CHURCH SAINTS OCCUR ON THE SAME LAST DAY AS THE RESURRECTION OF THE LOST??
John 6:40� Jesus says, �For my Father�s will is that EVERYONE who looks to the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the *LAST DAY*!�
John 6:44: Jesus says, �No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the *LAST DAY!�
Pre-tribbers believe that the *LAST DAY* mentioned 6 times in John 6:39,40,44,54;11:24,12:48 refers to a CONCEALED RESURRECTION 7 years *BEFORE THE LAST DAY*. However, John 12:48 shows that the lost will also be condemned on that same *LAST DAY*!
*WHEN WILL THE LOST BE JUDGED AND SENT TO HELL*?
John 12:48: Jesus says, �There is a Judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the *LAST DAY*!!�
2 Thess 1:1,6-10: �To the *CHURCH* of the Thessalonians�God is just; He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen *WHEN* the Lord Jesus is *REVEALED* {See I Peter 1:13} from heaven in blazing fire **WITH HIS POWERFUL ANGELS**:angel::angel:{See Matt 24:30,31} He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting *DESTRUCTION* and shut out from the presence of the Lord *ON THE DAY HE COMES* to be glorified in His holy people!!� {THE LAST DAY-See Rev 20:11-15}
Matt 25:31-34,41: Jesus says, �*WHEN* the Son of Man comes in His glory,{On the Last Day} and all the **ANGELS**:angel::angel: with Him {See Matt 24:29-31}, He will sit on His throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another��He will put His sheep on His right and the goats on the left. **THEN** the King {Jesus} will say to those on His right, �Come you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world... **THEN** He will say to those on His left, �Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire!�
John 5:28,29: Jesus says, �Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming {The Last Day} when *ALL* {Both OT & NT Saints} who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out�those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned.�
Daniel 12:1b,2,7b: �There will be a time of distress {The Great Tribulation} such as not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time {The Last Day} your people--*EVERYONE* whose name is found written in the Book {Both OT & NT Saints}�will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt�It will be for a time. times and half a time {1260 days-Rev 12:6,14, or 42 {30-day} months-Rev 13:5-compare with Dan 7:25{Not 7 years} *ALL* these things will be **COMPLETED**. :applause::peace::angel:
AND THE SCRIPTURES DEFINITELY CONFIRM THAT THE MILLENNIUM IS GOING TO BE A PERIOD OF LEARNING FOR THEM: "Many nations shall come, & say, Come, & let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, & to the house of the God of Jacob; & He will teach us of His ways, & we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, & the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem." (Micah 4:2.) How will He teach them His ways & give them His Word?--The same way He's trying to teach & feed them now!--Through us, His children, His "kings & priests"! (Rev.1:6.)
WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING JUST WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW: Teaching & educating people in the ways of the Lord! In fact, when I think of the job we'll have to do in the Millennium, it is almost beyond comprehension!--We're not only going to be teaching & educating & ruling & reigning over them, but because it's the World's last chance to repent & confess & try to get things straightened out & make things right, we're going to have to try to make everybody be honest & make everybody confess & get everybody to make things right--right all wrongs & confess all faults. So we are going to be very busy! PTL!
But according to the following Scriptures the lost will not be going through the Millenium. They will already be judged and suffering eternal torment in Hell beginning on the Last Day of the Great Tribulation.
2 Thess 1:1,6-10: �To the *CHURCH* of the Thessalonians�God is just; He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen *WHEN* the Lord Jesus is *REVEALED* {See I Peter 1:13} from heaven in blazing fire **WITH HIS POWERFUL ANGELS**:angel::angel:{See Matt 24:30,31} He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting *DESTRUCTION* and shut out from the presence of the Lord *ON THE DAY HE COMES* to be glorified in His holy people!!� {THE LAST DAY-See Rev 20:11-15}
Matt 25:31-34,41: Jesus says, �*WHEN* the Son of Man comes in His glory,{On the Last Day} and all the **ANGELS**:angel::angel: with Him {See Matt 24:29-31}, He will sit on His throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another��He will put His sheep on His right and the goats on the left. **THEN** the King {Jesus} will say to those on His right, �Come you who are blessed by My Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world... **THEN** He will say to those on His left, �Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire!�