HELL: A TWISTED TRUTH UNRAVELED

Hell: A Twisted Truth Unraveled

Question: Will those who reject God’s mercy be relentlessly tormented throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity?

Bible Answer: NO. They will be destroyed. The wicked shall be "cut off" forever. They shall utterly "perish." They shall be "consumed," "devoured," and "destroyed" by fire and shall be "no more." They "shall be as though they had not been."


Job 20:7,26


7Yet he [the wicked] shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? . . .26All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.


Job 31:2


2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

Psa 5:6


6You shall destroy those who speak leasing; the Lord will abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.


Psa 9:5-6


5You hath rebuked the heathen, thou have destroyed the wicked; thou have put out their name forever and ever. 6O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end And thou have destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

Psa 9:17


17The wicked shall be turned into hell ["hell"=H7585: sheol (the grave)]…

Psa 11:6


6Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Psa 21:9


9You shall make them as a fiery oven in the time of Your anger; the Lord shall swallow them up in His wrath, And the fire shall devour them.

Psa 28:5


5Because they do not regard the works of the Lord, Nor the operation of His hands, He shall destroy them and not build them up.


Psa 37:9-11


9For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. 10For yet a little while and the wicked shall be no more; Indeed, you will look carefully for his place, but it shall be no more. 11But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Sin and sinners will be destroyed in a fiery hell upon this earth: "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of irreverent men." (2 Peter 3:7)

The meek shall then inherit the New Earth which God will make: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." (Isaiah 66:22)



Psa 37:20


20But the wicked shall perish;
And the enemies of the Lord,
shall be as the fat of lambs..
they shall consume;
Into smoke they shall vanish away.



Psa 37:34-38


34Wait on the Lord, And keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land; When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it. 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a native green tree. 36Yet he passed away, and behold, he was no more; Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found. 37Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright; For the future of that man is peace. 38But the transgressors shall be destroyed together; The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psa 52:1,5


1Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? ... 5El shall likewise destroy you forever; He shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place, And uproot you from the land of the living.

Psa 55:23


23But You, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction…

Psa 59:13


13Consume them in wrath, consume them, That they may not be; And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob to the ends of the earth.

Psa 73:18


18Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

Psa 73:27


27For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.

Psa 83:14,17


14As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire… 17Let them be confounded and dismayed forever… Yes, let them be put to shame and perish.


Psa 92:7


7When the wicked spring up like grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed forever.

Psa 92:9


9For lo, thine enemies, O Lord,
For lo, thine enemies shall perish…

Psa 140:10


10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Psa 145:20


20 The Lord preserveth all them that love Him: but all the wicked will He destroy.

Prov 2:22


22But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.


Prov 5:11


11And you mourn at last,
When your flesh and your body are consumed,
12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof:

Prov 10:25


25When the whirlwind passes by, the wicked is no more, but the righteous has an everlasting foundation.



Prov 10:28-30


28The hope of the righteous will be gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked will perish.
29The way of the Lord is strength for the upright,
But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
30The righteous will never be removed,
But the wicked will not inhabit the earth.

Note: The wicked and unrepentant will be destroyed; they will eternally perish [die]. They will not inhabit the New Earth which God will create. Speaking of the righteous, God says, "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me . . . so shall your seed and your name remain." (Isaiah 66:22)

Prov 12:7


7The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

Prov 13:13


13He who despises the word will be destroyed, But he who fears the commandment will be rewarded.


*Isa 1:28,31

28The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,
And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed . . .
31The strong shall be as tinder, And the work of it as a spark;
Both will burn together, And no one shall quench them.

Note: The wicked will be destroyed/consumed by fire. "No one shall quench" this fire because it will be "unquenchable." (Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17) To "quench" simply means to "extinguish." In other words, none will be able to put this fire out. It will not go out until everything has been burned up (consumed). The wicked will be very literally turned to stubble and ashes.

"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith th eLord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith ord of hosts." (Malachi 4:1-3)



Isa 5:24


24Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, and the flame consumes the chaff, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.



*Isa 10:16-18


16Therefore the LORD, the Lord of hosts, will send leanness among His fat ones; And under His glory He will kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17So the Light of Israel will be for a fire, and His Holy One for a flame; It will burn and devour His thorns and His briers in one day. 18And it will consume the glory of His forest and of His fruitful field, Both soul and body; And they will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Note: Foretelling the utter destruction of the Assyrian army: Here we find a prophetic foreshadowing of the ultimate fate of the wicked when God's judgment is executed.

Isa 10:25


25For yet a very little while and the indignation will cease, as will My anger in their destruction.


Isa 13:9


9Behold, the day of the Lord comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.


Isa 26:11


11Yahuwah, when Your hand is lifted up, they will not see. But they will see and be ashamed for their envy of people; Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

Isa 26:14


14They are dead, they will not live; They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, And made all their memory to perish.

Isa 29:6


6You will be visited by the Lord of hosts with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire.


Isa 30:27,30


27Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar, Burning with His anger, and His burden is heavy; His lips are full of indignation, and His tongue like a devouring fire . . . 30Yahuwah will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and show the descent of His arm, with the indignation of His anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, tempest, and hailstones.



Isa 34:1-4


1Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that come forth of it. 2For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and His fury upon all their armies: He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter. 3Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. 4*And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

*The wrath of the Lamb: See Revelation 6:14-17.

Isa 47:14


14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

Eze 18:4


4Behold, all souls are Mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.


*Oba 1:15-16


15For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head. 16For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

Nah 1:9-10


9What do ye imagine against the Lord? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. 10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

Note: In addition to confirming yet again that the wicked will be devoured, a most wonderful declaration is made in this passage regarding eternity future: "Affliction will not rise up a second time." That is to say that sin, rebellion, and all of the misery that accompanies them will be forever eradicated, never to rise up again! Praise God!



Zec
14:3,4,9,11-12


3Then shall Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle. 4And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, . . . 9And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and His name one. . . . 11And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. 12And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.



*Mal 4:1-3


1For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith Yahuwah of hosts.



John 3:16


16For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish [G622], but have everlasting life.

Note: The text says "perish," not "suffer everlasting life in torment."

"Perish" [G622]: From G575 and the base of G3639; to destroy fully (reflexively to perish, or lose), literally or figuratively: - destroy, die, lose, mar, perish. (Strong's Concordance)

Romans 6:23

23For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Note: The text says that "the wages of sin is death." The text does not say "the wages of sin is everlasting life in torment."

Php 3:18-19

18 . . . the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

2 Th 1:8-9

8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Master, and from the glory of his power;

Note: The text says "everlasting destruction," not "everlasting torment."

2 Pe 2:9-12

9Yahuwah knoweth how to deliver the reverent out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.12But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

*2 Pe 3:7

7But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of irreverent men.

Note: "Hell" is not burning right now. The earth upon which we now stand will become a fiery hell. This fire will utterly destroy Satan, his angels, sin, sinners, and death forever. This is the second death. (Revelation 2:11; 20:6; 20:14; 21:8)

Sin will be forever eradiated and will never rise again: "What do ye imagine against the Lord? He will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time." (Nahum 1:9)

God will then create a New Earth: "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord so shall your seed and your name remain." (Isaiah 66:22)


Rev 11:18


18And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.



Rev 20:7-9


7And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 9And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.


Where did the idea of eternal torment come from?

The doctrine of an eternally burning inferno where the lost will be forever tormented after death was made popular by the Roman Catholic Church (the Whore of Revelation 17), who adopted it from the Greeks and the pagans. The Roman Church found this doctrine to be very profitable in the middle ages, as it enabled her to grow rich through the sale of "indulgences." Nowhere in Scripture does it say that the lost will be tormented for eternity. (For more on The Roman Catholic Beast Power, see "Who is the Beast in the Book of Revelation?")



Conclusion: The wicked and unrepentant will be destroyed by fire following the millennium. This is the "second death." They shall cease to exist forever.