What the Bible REALLY Says About Heaven and Hell
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- You do NOT want to die without knowing this about Heaven and Hell… In this video, Todd Friel answers several of the most common questions people ask about Heaven and Hell as a Bible-believing Christian.
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Old Christian women will tell you when they are ready to go.
I worked in a nursing home and you would often hear "I'm tired. I'm ready to go" "Lord take me now" if you are truly saved, you are ready and willing for eternal peace.
My grandmother and her roommate at the home would reguarly look out the window at the beautiful scenery and talk about how much they wanted to leave.
Working hospice I can tell you a Christian life is the way to live. There is peace in Christ. There is not so much sadness in the departing loved one.
Old Christian men too, I would imagine...☺️😇🕊️
@@meghoughton562Amen! ❤ I am an Old Christian Man, longing to be with my LORD!
@@sandman9390 tired? Always tired and ready to go, especially after watching the news I bet
Not just the old either though. I'm secure in my salvation and I'm still relatively young. I know that once I became saved my "fear" of dying also left me. Not that I go out looking for it but I know that the Lord has it all worked out and there really isn't anything for me to worry about.
@@sirennoir258 🤔Well, not so much "tired" as "anticipating". I do not deserve God's mercy, nor all of blessings.
I have lost most of my loved ones from my youth, several of my closest friends, a wife of 26 years to divorce & 2 sons to the grave, yet when I dream about Heaven, I only think about two things.....what it will be like to be without sin and to be in the presence of God my Savior!
I have often failed Jesus, but HE is Semper Fidelis and has Never failed me. His Word is Truth! His promise is sure!
I am terribly ashamed of all the evil I have done in my life & have experienced trauma & terror, heartache & sorrow, but can not dwell on these things, because I know my suffering has been much less than I deserve! Romans 8:28 has become very real to me & I understand that all God has done, or allowed was for Christ's Glory & my growth & sanctification. He loves me (see Rom.8:26-39) & until God drew me To Christ & saved me from myself & His Wrath, I never believed anyone loved me!
In the words of John Newton, the author of "Amazing Grace"
...Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.❤️✝️
...and in the words of our Brother Paul (Romans 7:24-8:2)
O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.❤️✝️
Tired? Yes, I suppose I am tired of the insanity that surrounds us today, even in much of the church world, but I still work 14 hours a day to make sure my wife will be provided for if I go on before her I hope to be fruitful & productive in sharing the Gospel & edifying believers until Christ returns, or calls me home😊❤️
Im a sinner. I hate my sin so much. Lord Jesus is my only hope. Im sure in my heart that he is Lord.
lake of fire awaits
@@aaronmusa234 Where are you gonna go, Aaron?
@@aaronmusa234Warmed up for you,Aaron.😉
That’s right, he is LORD. Have you asked him to forgive you for your sins and to come into your heart and to save you and believe it with all of your heart and soul that he is the one and only way to heaven. The one and only Lord Jesus Christ. Then yes you will most definitely meet him in heaven when the time comes! I’m praying for you too.. . We are all sinners because we’re human and none of us are perfect. And we will still sin and make mistakes after we get saved but we will never ever lose our salvation! Just pray to God daily and give him whatever issues you have and ask him to forgive you for whatever sin you committed but remember you will never ever lose your salvation once you are truly saved! God bless you. 🙏🙏🙏
Don't worry, sin isn't real
Always on my mind when someone I know dies....
You and me both
The living around me , are the ones I worry about . All we can do is put GOD in front of them. The rest is up to the HOLY SPIRIT
I enjoyed reading The Inescapable Love of God by Thomas Talbott
@@terrypenfield7953🙄
I work in long term care and I've been with many people when they've taken their last breath and I always wonder the same.. I've had a few where I was quite certain I knew the answer and it's been both amazing and horrific. Obviously I can't know for sure but there are times when you just feel sick about it and that is extremely confronting.
Hell is a terrible place and I don't want to go there.
no one in hell wants to be there either
We are extremely lucky to yet draw breath as there is salvation in Jesus Christ
It's not real
@@Bc232klm yes it is and it's not worth going to.
““For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
John 3:16-18 ESV
🙏 thank God for Jesus
isn't Jesus supposedly god ? lol
@@aaronmusa234 I suspect the original post meant thank God, the Father for sending Jesus Christ his Son who is God in the flesh.
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If you are a redeemed believer, the day of our physical death will absolutely be (not 'should') the best 1st day of the rest of our best unending days with Christ.
I can’t wait to be with Jesus!!! I’m so thankful for Jesus giving His life in our place to pay the court fee and through His sacrifice and resurrection He has become my Attorney and thanks to His shedding of His Blood He can take away my filthy rags and clothe me with His Righteousness so that I can stand before God as if I had never sinned because He paid the debt I owe that I couldn’t pay!!!
@Agg1E91 - MY friend, if you are a redeemed believer you would know death is the work of the antichrist. Such a thought is opposed to Christ. Jesus came to deliver the human race from death and to fulfill in man God's perfect will: abundant life. Those who are guided by the Spirit of truth understand the life teaching, and are not led astray by any philosophy that makes death and the grave necessary factors in spiritual growth. Besides, heaven and hell are states of mind. One does not have to die in order to go to hell, any more than one has to die to go to heaven. The kingdom is near.
West, the day you/someone accepted Jesus Christ as personal Lord and savior is the absolute beginning of the greatest time for you/someone for all eternity.🙏🏼
Well🙄
Lord said, "Don't just call me Lord, make me Lord in your life." I strive for this daily.
Such a great compilation not just on the doctrine of Hell but so informative I’ve actually recorded this as a presentation I hope soon to have the courage to preach on my wild & hardened streets of Glasgow Scotland. Please help me seek God’s courage, resolve & empowering to do so, I’m so feeling I can’t but compelled to at least try!
Todd, & your great team of compilers, I truly thank God for you all!
Praying for you to be filled by the Holy Spirit with boldness and courage to preach the good news of the gospel of Christ Jesus our Lord by the power of the Almighty Father. Amen
Praying that you have the strength and can produce wonderous seed and even fruit in your endeavors, in Jesus' name!
Unfortunately these truths are rarely preached from the pulpit-we’d rather keep our congregations sedated with the ‘love’ of God rather than Him being a loving just judge who has the power to send us to Hell or welcomes us to eternity with Him.
"How vastly different is the God of the Scripture, from the god of the average Pulpit" -A.W. Pink.
There was an era when all preachers did was preach "Fire & Brimstone" & scared people right out the doors of the church - which resulted in the opposite of preaching only the love of God . . .
There has to be a balance - just take the Bible as it gives it . . . verse by verse through each book & let the Holy Spirit do His job.
Well, those who ‘reject’ Jesus Christ as their Lord and savior here on earth while still alive pretty much have sent themselves to Hell.🙏🏼
I prayed to God many times that I am ready and desiring to go be with my Lord Jesus, I'm so tired but the Lord has provisioned me so much so I must make use of the talents he gave me and I must make it grow for Him
I hear you. The race isn't over until it's over. Keep going - endure til the end.
only muslims obey Jesus greatest command ' to worship our lord the one god only '
@@aaronmusa234yet they seem to ignore the second greatest commandment Jesus gave. Too bad the “Jesus” Muslims obey is a false one.
The best explanation I heard to grasp the Trinity:
a room, a box, any space . . . has height, width, depth . . . 3 dimensional, if you take any one of the 3 away, you have no space!
We are 3 dimensional creatures, even our own bodies have height, width & depth in our stature; in the way we observe our surroundings, we look up, down & side to side; & in the way we think.
Thank God for the Gospel!!! 🙌🏻 let’s make it known 🗣️ 🙏🏻
Oh Lord, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou be silent unto me, I become like them that go down to the pit 😈👇😢
It's better to have known the truth & tried to live justly being a sinner than to have lived for self & pleasures that can never be filled.
You don't receive Christ by working, or by living justly, you receive Christ's perfect, all-sufficient, completed work by faith alone in Christ alone.
"yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified." Galatians 2:16
(Also Romans 4)
@@Destroyer83 you're not wrong. I left it out because it was implied but i left it incomplete. Thank you
Actually, it is better to not have known the way of righteousness and turn away. “For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.”-2 Peter 2:21
@@kokalols1322 well, y'all make heaven sound fun. To you I reiterate, it's better to believe (in GOD) & try than to chase worldly endeavors that can never fill our empty desires.
@@RStark-ek7mh so, on that stream of a misleading statement, the bible quotes very clearly that, Jesus died for ALL. We have free will, we choose to accept or deny. Tread carefully at the application of words, thoughts & understanding of The Creator. He is omnipotent, omnipresent, forever & always will be. We are not. He gave a choice & free will for a reason.
Scripture commonly uses "sleep" or even "rest" as a metaphor for death (2nd Kings 8:24, 2nd Chron. 32:33) and the ancient pagans did so as well. Bible is clear that personal consciousness continues as the spirit of the departed awaits the resurrection of the body (Acts 7:55-60)(Phil.1:21-24)(Luke 23:43) John described the souls of the dead (martyrs) already in heaven (Rev.6:9-10) and the fact that they are able to remember they were killed and converse with the Lord proves that the ongoing relationship between Christ and His people does not end at death / "sleep". Clearly the souls of the dead, while in the intermediate state(heaven in John's case), are experiencing deep and intensely passionate emotions as they ask God for justice. The Bible is clear that our souls live on, even if our body looks like its sleeping. Also notice when Lazarus dies and what it says in (John 11:11-13; 'He said to them "Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go that I may wake him up."...13; However Jesus SPOKE OF HIS DEATH, but they thought he was speaking about taking rest in sleep.')
Well, after Jesus’ resurrection yes people go to the ‘third heaven’ where God is the moment they ‘fall asleep’(Die). However, the people who conversed with God about their deaths was before the completion of all things. God Himself said He will remember our ‘sins’ no more(Hebrews 8:12). As such, nor shall we and those in heaven remember sins either, and considering everything will be cast away replaced by the New(Revelation 21) and (Matthew 24:35). Our souls and we/us(spirits) will life on even if our human bodies are completely destroyed, burned away, whatever. And to make things clear to the disciples because they didn’t understand what Jesus meant about Lazarus being asleep Jesus finally admitted and told them plainly Lazarus was dead(John 11:14). By tell them plainly that Lazarus was dead also made evidence that Jesus had the authority to raise the dead. 🙏🏼
I am a sinner but my eternal hope is in Jesus. I was diagnosed six months ago with advanced cancer and I was almost joyful at age 77 because I would be with my Lord but I am in remission now and my wife is relieved. This world as it is; is not my home.
This is so good ya’ll !
Sharing this!
R C wow...hope he's in glory. I too question if i've deceived myself; it's so uncomforting yet healthy to "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (2 Corinthians 13:5). James also says faith without works is dead (James 2:17, 26), but we're saved by "grace through faith" (God's free gift (Ephesians 2:8,9)
RC Sproul is burning in hell right now.
@@RStark-ek7mh Yeah. Maybe you are on your way down there to. Who knows.
@@RStark-ek7mh Maybe you dont know God to.
Sharing this! Well said video. Thank you!
So many people I encountered get so offended when I saw they need to understand we will go to hell if we don’t repent!
They’ve succumbed to self righteousness
Time is not the same for us here as it is for those absent their bodies. It says in the Bible, the dead know nothing.
Ecclesiastes is speaking from the perspective of under the sun-- earthly. To kiving humans, a dead body does not move, speak, think, know anything. The Bible progressively reveals mysteries, such as the church age
Thank God for this ministry!
Great video! Thanks for posting
Thank you for your ministry
I love Wretched radio ! thank you for sharing this. I am a charismatic but love the presching and teaching of the evangelicals.
Is this the new thing? I'm STOKED!!!!! This one is going out everywhere!
Seriously. I think I'll send this out about once a week for a while. As things continue to spiral down, if they get suddenly worse, I may be sharing it every day.
Love that voice! Thank you for sharing the truth!
Very sobering message and it drives me to my knees in absolute gratitude Jesus died for me! What a wonderful salvation! Oh I wish the lost around me would see it!
Preaching it on the streets in the heart of England tomorrow.
Love your work Todd.
150,000 people on average die everyday. Do you think most people go to heaven everyday? Definitely not. Most people go to Hell - think about how may people you pass on the freeway throughout your life who have died and are now in Hell. Really hard to think about. Hard truth.
Sick way of thinking really.
I wonder what free will, will look like in heaven. It's hard for me, who was born a sinner, raised in a body that's always dying, in a world that's going to deteriorate. To imagine a world where I'm no longer tempted by the flesh, and the days rejuvenate and regenerate instead of wear down and deteriorate.
Free will only consist of who you listen to, being God or the devil. You personally do not do anything. Daily you are controlled by either one of the two. Our flesh is weak meaning our flesh falls victim easily to Satan. Thats why we needed a savior. The more we stay in God's word our flesh will be satisfied and strengthend to not be a victim. When a Christian sins he is covered by Christ. A unbeliever loves thier hell and they love being a victim.
And what a wonderful thing to ponder about & to desire!!!
Powerful stuff, sir… Todd, it would be great to reference the clips you use. I’d love to watch the full clip of the guy at the end saying he’d be a weeper because he has no just claim before God… a gut wrenching truth that should humble all of us
Important topic for today's world!!
Brilliant thank you
Lord I believe you saved me from my sins and wrote my name in the book of life. Thank you Jesus
Thank you Lord!
He is risen Amen
SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
5:55
O.k., you got me with that one! 👊😂🤫😎✝️💞
Powerful!
THankyou THankyou my Jesus!!! I yearn for your love, your spirit and plz give me strength to overcome whatever it is that keeps me from shouting 🎉out the good news of Jesus Christ!!!
I pray the Lord be merciful, and invites me into heaven.
You have already been invited. Hearing the gospel of Christ is an open invitation to eternal salvation.
That is not going to happen, as Christ told Nicodemus in Jhn 3:13 that NOBODY besides Himself was ever going there. Why do ppl refuse to believe Christ and claim to believe what the Bible teaches?
@@theeternalsbeliever1779 Yet there are those slain for the sake of the gospel beneath the throne of God waiting for justice to be served. Yes the kingdom will be upon the Earth during the millennial reign but when Jesus was resurrected he could not be touched because he had not yet ascended to the Father to present the first fruit offering of those freed from death to ascend with him. People who had died were seen.
Look deeper. It's more to it there than meets the eye.
I really like you guys using a "browser ui" to facilitate the messages.
I'm terrified I'm like one of the 5 virgins who didn't trim her lamp and the door will be closed. :( God have mercy on me, a sinner! 🥺
Without Jesus i would be Doomed..
Thankyou So Much for Saving Me..
Thankyou Father for Choosing Me..
I Am Saved ❤
That last part from RC… it hits different
In Genesis 3:19 God said we return to the ground! God told Abraham that he would go to his fathers and be buried when he died. Genesis 15:15, King David said "I go the way of all the earth." 1st Kings 2:1-2, "So David slept with his fathers..." 1st Kings 2:10, David is still in his tomb Acts 2:29, Job 14:10-14 says man is sleep until the heavens be no more. Job 17:13 says you wait in the grave until your change comes. 1st Corinthians 15:51-53
The Lord Jesus said The hour is coming when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His Voice..." John 5:27-28
this is the truth we must face when we die
I wouldn’t want to come back to earth anyway
hell will reminds you always that you need a savior in the named of Jesus Christ who blessed forever Amen
There are ages to come as Ephesians 2:7 says. Also look at Matthew 25 46 in the YLT, Rotherham's Emphasized, and Concordant Literal NT.
Your confession should be; ‘all my sins were washed away by the blood and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and my God calls me His ‘MASTERPIECE’ In the name of Jesus. 👍🙏🏼
Watched this and was super excited and couldn't contain myself about going to heaven. Thank you Lord Jesus, God Almighty, for rescuing me from the torment. Sin is so awful. I can't stand this world. Really. Love you to death!!!!!!!!
If we go to heaven immediately, why does Jesus need to come a second time? Why would God let Lazarus have 3 days in heaven and then call him back to earth?
He wasn't in heaven. He was in Abraham's bosom. Compare with Luke 16. That's where the righteous went after they died before Jesus died and descended. He took all the righteous from Abraham's bosom when he ascended to the Father. Study what happened after the resurrection when some of the righteous went into the city and were seen by others. It is believed this was temporary and when Jesus ascended to the Father they did too because we have no more mention of them on earth any more. Read the accounts in John and Luke.
"Foythamoah. . . ." I loved that!
Paul also says to the Thessalonians that their family members sleep awaiting the rapture
I died in 2020 December 16th I went to hell. Hell is real..... It couldn't have been more real for me.
The second my heart stopped. They said I made a face and made a couple of noises, but I don't remember that I remember the ambulance driver closing the door which looked at me like it was a movie. Just staring at me. No expression long blonde hair, The last thing I heard was the door closing and I woke up in a hospital in the room at the end. Jesus told the 2 that were torturing me about to remove my lungs. I'll be asleep with no Anesthetic of course😮. Without his mask moving and we saw his beautiful blue eyes. Blue light was reflecting off of his hair. Gray light was reflecting off of the 2 tormentors. I heard him say leave him alone. It's not his time as he turned. His face turned gold. And disappeared by the doorway.
Then I woke up in a hospital room with a couple of nurses around me saying with Amy.We're so happy we made it even in a good for a while. I thank God everyday.For giving me a second chance.
I got lucky.Please please don't risk it😢. ❤❤❤❤❤ 1 4 each heart😊 attack
Todd, Jesus didn't die of suffocation on the cross about 15:50 on the video. This may not have been what you meant here, but he gave up his spirit willingly. John 19:30
I wish I could get past your game show host presentation to really hear what you are saying.
Amen!
Job 14:13: “O that in the Grave [“hell,” Douay-Rheims Version] you would conceal me, . . . that you would set a time limit for me and remember me!” The second death is where god forgets you. No torch-er Ecclesiastes 9:10 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do with all your might, for there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave, where you are going.
Before the foundation of the Earth was established God made His Plans for His Son to give us life after we sinned and He knew everything would happen and made His perfect plan
A new false teaching was arising in the early church. Justin Martyr, one of the early church leaders, spoke against it. Yet, that false teaching became locked into the church. Only a few churches teach against it now.
Justin also stated, "For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but who do not admit this [truth], and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; who say there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls, when they die, are taken to heaven; do not imagine that they are Christians" (Dialogue. Chapter 80 - Justin Martyr - 110 AD - 165 AD).
Please reconcile instant translation to heaven or hell with Jesus comforting Martha at the tomb of Lazarus.
21 “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
22 But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”
23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
At this point Lazarus has been dead for three days.. either burning in hell for his sins or in heaven as a reward.
or... as Jesus describes death.. he is asleep awaiting the resurrection.
Me and all my family belong to Jesus
When I died in 20 December 16th I went straight to hell.The second my heart stopped.
It wasn't A second where I woke up in a strange hospital room and where my torture began all the way through was one.Horrible thing after the other. I'm before they were to do basically remove my logs. Thanks, they say that from the beginning. And the Doctor looked at me. You had most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Light reflect the blue off of his hair.. And he said 2. The 2 guys holding me down tormentingly. They shoved a tube down. My throat was if you will or shingles that tore my throat apart. Well, at least it felt like it before he could. He told them to leave him alone. It's not his time. And then I.
Woke up in the hospital room and the scariest thing. I experience when I woke up. Was that 1 of the tormentors was a tall white slender nurse. He was cruel the first 3 or 4 Days
Then Kind of eased up on me. Point being he was in my time in hell torturing . And no one else but christ was there . Please seek Christ.There is only 2 choices after you die.The messed up thing is it's up to you. I always question that.Why should we have to fear?Christ.point is we don't have to fear christ. I Didn't understand it before I do now. A respect for Christ grows in you and it's not Fear. It's an understanding that if you do wrong. There is a great price to pay. I could not imagine enduring what I endured. I'll be it from what I've heard. Others who have died and returned. My experience was seventy five percent eighty percent as i've heard. I love you more than you would know.Please seek Christ. For me, almost everything is new. I feel so much peace. I pray as much as I can and I'm also praying for people That have wronged me and you know wha lot I feel so good. Good God love you. I love you. And when you start praying you will see that he is listening .❤❤❤❤❤
If the believers who “sleep in death” are already there in heaven, why would Paul tell us He(God) raise them first before taking those who are still alive? (1 Thess. 4:13-18)
My family has asked this question too. One answer we found is that those who died before the cross are in a different place… because they didn’t have the sacrifice of Christ when they died. While those who died after Christ’s propitiation for our sins would just go straight to Heaven. 🤷🏼♀️
Amen. and Amen.
Then what does it mean when the word says the dead in christ rise first and those who are left will then follow ( paraphrasing) doesn't that mean that no one goes anywhere until he returns?
😊God never changes dust
Where can I find the Paul Washer sermon of the good person in this video
How come those preachers always say that the person who has died goes to heaven when they conduct a funeral if they really don't know?
Matthew 10:28 and Psalm 37 tell us exactly what happens to people in hell.
punishment - not punishing. Also, it is an eternal separation from God. Micah tells us the unrighteous will be ashes under the feet of the righteous. You missed what Paul says in Thessalonians - please rethink your Scripture choices. The full course of Scriptures actually does say that the dead are waiting in their graves for that final call . . . . Solomon tells us that the dead know nothing, and "hell" properly translated means "grave".
So Todd, when you sleep, do you notice the hours as they go by? If not, then why doesn't it work the same way? In other words: why doesn't a person's consciousness skip over years of being dead until the Day of Judgment?
Todd could you please explain to me the difference between hades and hell. I was taught that no one is in hell yet. and that the first ones to be thrown into hell are the false prophet and the beast, and after the millennium satan is thrown into hell and then after the great white throne judgement all the unsaved are thrown into hell. am I wrong in this teaching?
I recently watched a video that explained this very well - about Lazarus & the rich man, the divide between Paradise & Hades & where Jesus went during those 3 days . . . around Easter, maybe DTBM ? I'm sorry, I will look for it.
There is a church teaching on heaven and hell during their Equipping Hour. Go to a church that teaches about hell. The sermon later is on grace.
And Notice that there is no specific part about predestined to be conformed to the image of sin and death before the foundation of the world. That's what tripped me up big time. It is always written in the positive sense (conformed to the image of Christ)
Actually it does say that. "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" Romans 3:23. It says it in the "positive" in that Every Single Human Being that is mortal (i.e. all humans except Jesus, who was the God/Man) have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All saved Christians fit that too. The only difference is they took God up on His offer of forgiveness. That's it! Anyone can take God at His word and be given that. But one has to actually take God at His word. Believe God, in other words.
John Walton: “The variety of ‘view of hell’ books demonstrate that evangelicalism is unresolved on the issue: Preston Sprinkle and Stanley N. Gundry, eds., Four Views on Hell, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016); Steve Gregg, ed., All You Want to Know About Hell: Three Christian Views of God’s Final Solution to the Problem of Sin (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2013); E.W. Fudge and R.A. Peterson, Two Views of Hell: A Biblical & Theological Dialogue (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000)
Man’s greatest pride is not that he doesn’t need God. His greatest pride is that he can walk away from God.
Amen❤️
The state of the dead is an important topic, because if we fail to understand it we can be deceived. "The Bible knows nothing about soul sleep", you say. I don't know which Bible you're reading, but my Bible knows a lot about it. Here are a few examples;
John 11; Lazarus sleeps, the resurrection is mentioned to Jesus, and he does not attempt to "correct" that understanding with the "instant judgement upon death" narrative. Because it doesn't exist.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 The dead know nothing.
Psalm 146:4 Upon death [your] plans perish.
Ecclesiastes 12:7. It says the spirit returns to God who gave it, but it does NOT say that the spirit (breath) is a conscious being at that stage. You're reading that into it, because of what you've been taught, but it is NOT there.
1 Corinthians 15:50-54. "We shall not all sleep", implying that some do sleep, orherwise it would be, "none sleep" and it does NOT say that. Furthermore what is all the talk about the resurections at the coming of Christ if billions are already judged and sent to Heaven and hell? It makes no sense. You're saying that the billions who've already been judged and sent to Heaven and hell will be yanked back to Earth, and judged yet again? And then sent right back to Heaven and hell yet again, where they already were before the resurection? Illogical, and the Bible knows nothing of it.
Revelation 20:5
Revelation 20:12-13. Again, the resurection, after which is judgment. Not before.
Ecclesiastes 3:19-20
John 5:28. Again, dead until the resurection, hence soul sleep. They are in the grave, and from there they hear His voice, then they rise up. Why do that if they're already in Heaven?
Acts 2:34. David did not ascend into the heavens. A few did, but only a few. The rest of the dead sleep, like David.
1 Corinthians 15:12-20. It makes no sense at all unless the dead sleep and, like Jesus, and following Jesus' example, are raised, bodily, from the grave.
Daniel 12:2. It literally says that "...those who SLEEP in the dust shall awake..." And again, what is a resurection FROM if not the sleep of death? You have to twist and tie in knots a whole lot of scripture in order to avoid soul sleep and to keep the ancient pagan ideas of a disembodied, conscience spirit that never dies. But the wages of sin is death. Permanent death.
1 Corinthians 15:22. If all shall be (meaning in the future) made alive, then what are they now but dead? Otherwise it would say, "all are alive" rather than, "all shall be made alive". Or do you want to re-write the Bible to make it mean what you want it to mean?
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. Yet again, the resurection of the dead when Christ returns. And if they will be resurected then, in the future, then what are they now besides dead?
Job 14:14-15
Ezekiel 37:13
Critical to understanding much of this is Genesis 2:7. Dust of the ground (body) PLUS breath (spirit) equals a living soul. BUT, ancient pagan beliefs of a conscious "spirit" flittering about afyer the death of the body, therefore with no body, persist, and so Christianity has been infected with that notion, and so we tend to misunderstand much of scripture. Even some of the Bib6ke translators were infected with that sort of Egyptian and Greek "relm of the dead" crap, it seems, where disembodied spirits live on, immortal, and yet the actual Bible tells us that the wages of sin is death, that the soul (body plus breath of life) that sins will die. "Eternal punishment" then is misunderstood to be never-ending suffering rarher than the "second death" which makes more sense, and is literally stated in Revelation 20:14
And why is all of this critically important to avoiding deception? Because your dead grandma, or dead cousin, etc., cannot see you, nor can you talk to that person, nor can that person talk to you, BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS DEAD. Nor can you pray to Mary, BECAUSE MARY IS DEAD. Trying to do so, or having communications with your dead Aunt, is therefore necromamcy. See Deuteronomy 18:9-12. It's an ABOMINATION because the dead sleep, and you are therefore dealing with demons, my friends. Yes, your wonderful, sweet and beloved grandma who comes to talk to you from the "other side" CANNOT be your grandma, because she is dead, until the resurection. Therefore, BEWARE!
Demas was saved but left God for the world is he still saved ? Scripture says there will be a great falling away saved to unsaved. God bless
BUT the child whom Jesus healed who had died He said was not dead, but sleeping...
You've never see a dead person. They look as if they are asleep. But the soul goes elsewhere. Jesus raised the boy from death. Even Paul raised the person that fell from the window and was dead. If you're actually talking about the boy who died and was being carried, he was raised by Christ just touching the rail of what he was being carried on. So, there is no soul sleep. You really need to look into Near Death Experiences (NDE's) My mother was clinically brain dead for almost an hour and had lost 7 pints of blood. They called the TOD and were wheeling her down to the morgue, when she came back to life.. So, there's that.
And I wonder why Lazarus and the widow from Nain's son weren't upset that they were pulled out of Heaven to come back to this sinful earth? Perhaps they were asleep in the grave waiting for resurrection on the Last Day (John 11)?
Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?
Psalm 115:17 The dead do not praise the LORD, nor any who go down into silence.
Psalm 146:4 His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish.
Ecclesiastes 9:5 For the living know that they will die; But the dead know nothing, And they have no more reward, For the memory of them is forgotten.
@@guymontag349 Old Testament saints went to the Bosom of Abraham i.e. Paradise, told in the preaching of Lazerus and the rich man. It wasn't until Jesus Christ's resurrection that the dead in Christ rose first. Jesus descended to Hades to preach the Gospel to them. Jesus Christ died for all the sins of everybody past present and future. Many will not accept this and deny Jesus Christ.
Heaven is often described as the place of rest.. Hebrews 4:9-11 There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.
@guymontag349 these verses are talking about sheol- the realm of the dead. When christ he went down and emptied the realm of the dead out.
Does anyone have the link to the RC sermon from the final clip?
03:17. Even if a person was to start to doubt him and his existence after "conversion?" Perhaps via an atheist gish galloping them with a multitude of "gotcha" questions the "believer" could not answer and was thus shaken? Or believers that stop beliving? You cannot tell me you and/or the other pastors have not encountered instances similar to this Todd. Where a believer's faith is seriously shaken or broken by such circumstances.
Hell is empty. All the demons are here, and have been all along. Hell will not be occupied until after judgment.
Can you please make a video on how to explain heaven and hell and sin to my children. They are 7 and 4.
How do the dead in christ rise first out of their graves if they are already in heavon?
Good question! Their BODIES come up out of the graves and God transforms them into glorified bodies whom the dead are given. THEN the believers who are still alive on this earth are changed: in the twinkling of an eye.
If one is already and instantly judged when dying, and sent immediately to heaven or hell, then what's the purpose of a final judgement day?
That is a question traditional Christianity can't answer, and it will never be able to answer it because its teaching about the afterlife is 100% unbiblical.
Has anyone heard of special books for special kids? It's a CZcams channel and I believe these special children could greatly benefit from hearing the gospel
most of my family is Roman Catholic, so they believe they will go to purgatory if they have un-repented sin; but the bible never teaches this false doctrine
This is such a heartbreaking reality isn't it? I have many people in my life in one way or another, who are Catholic and do not understand that particular false doctrine. Best thing is to say it straight out like this video. Don't attack their Catholicism. Took me a long time to learn that one.
@@thecrew777 if i am not mistaken itis based on a verse from a deuterocanonical book, sirach or so
hmm… unsatisfying answer if I’m honest. One of the implications you didnt mention is that if we hold to this view of hell - and Im not saying it does not find Biblical support, I can see it does - then there are two redundant judgment instances. So an individual, let’s say Pharaoh, has already been judged and is currently in hell, but then he’s going to be resurrected, be relieved from torment for a brief moment, to go before God and be judged again?🤔, with a foregone conclusion because he’s already been judged before, to then go back to the punishment he’s already been receiving since he perished centuries ago??
Something doesnt work there… So far I’ve heard two ways to reconcile it, soul sleep or the concept of God and the judgment taking place outside space and time. But so far, I’ve never heard anyone who believes in “instant judgment” be able to explain how do we avoid the redundant double judgment.
Luke chapter 16 verse's 19-31 says exactly what's going on.... I personally think that's not a parable but a first hand account testified by Jesus Christ himself describing something he personally witnessed like you would desribe a sunset to someone after the fact Ecclesiastes chapter 12 versus 6 and 7 makes it pretty clear so does paul...and its not purgatory ALL on both sides still has thier appointment with God great video
"There was a man..." Literal man, not a parable.
@@marlak1104 that flew over your head like a 747 ... come and listen to a story about a man named Jed who barely kept his family fed and then one day shooting at some food and up through the ground come a bubbling crude oil that is black gold Texas tea... I think that's what you were going for?
There is no place post death where the soul can grow to another and better lace.
Yup straight away we go to Heaven or Hell, that's why we must repent and ask The Lord Jesus for help each day, for trust etc...
Also that is why we shouldn't be silent Christians....
In America God has been reduced to a choice, this is because of decades and decades of affluence where "our" every whim is not beyond "our" reach; but since there is only one God the only choice we really have it to bless God or bless ourselves. Our choice determines where we will spend eternity.
I've heard that those unsaved rest till after the second coming, then they are judged at the white throne not that they are there now, either way the end remains the same
From what I read the place most of us knows as hell is a temporary place for the unbeliever to wait for the judgment of God. Then on that day when they are judged at the great white throne they get thrown into the lake of fire. It really puts it into perspective realizing there are people in hell right now that has been there for 2,000 years and they are still waiting for the day of judgment. It's humbling to realize that I deserved to be thrown into hell and would be there if it wasn't for the game and mercy God has shown me.
I mean grace and mercy of God.
@@nicholasstrauch4286 yea we do, thanks for the reply
I am convinced that the reason a lot of people refuse the true gospel is because of idolatry of their self, which is a form of pride.
I have always wondered when the rapture happens what will happen to all the people who already died? Will they be in Heaven / hell already or will they raise up to then go to Heaven / hell?
All the gospel does is dehumanize people.
This is not love!
Any system of thought that’s based upon a threat of pain, suffering and violence is a bankrupt moral system
If God is just, does he keep a sinner alive and in pain for eternity because of 60-70 years of sinning? That doesn't sound like a loving or just God to me. I believe that God will destroy both sin and the sinner.
Respectfully I would say that you’re not fully understanding the infinite holiness of God or the infinite heinousness of your sin. We don’t determine what is just, God does. You said “that doesn’t seem like a loving or just God to me”. I would suggest that it doesn’t matter what you feel about it, what does scripture say?
God is holy and I am a guilty sinner, without Christ justice would look like God killing me before I can draw my next breath.
@@andylieffring3987 Thanks for your response. How do we explain that in Genesis 2:17 God said that sin results in death, not eternal punishment. Romans 6:23 also stats that the wages of sin is death, not eternal punishment. Interested to know your thoughts.
In regard to the holiness of God, I think that Moses and the children of Israel are a great example. They wanted to be hidden from God lest His holiness consume them. Hebrews 12:29 refers to God as a consuming fire. What does it mean if something is consumed?
Appreciate your thoughts.
@@andylieffring3987 Revelation consistently mentions "the second death". Your words apply to yourself. Take your feelings out of the equation and look at what the Bible says. God would not condemn someone to eternity of being burned, even if they were unrepentant. That is not justice. Rom. 6:23 says the wages of sin is DEATH, not being burned forever in a fictional hellfire. Turn there and read it for yourself.
@@evanellis302 romans 6:23 applies to all of us. Death comes for both repentant sinners and unrepentant. In Matthew 10:28 our Lord warns to fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Mark 9:48 speaks of where the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. And in Luke chapter 16, our Lord talks about the rich man and Lazarus. I believe Jesus spoke about hell a lot. Thank you for your response.
Sorry that should have said evenellis302🤔