February 26, 2025 • 66 mins
Life and death and what comes after are the focus of The Bible. The hereafter was important to The Book of Acts Church. It fueled their efforts to live by the Word and share the Gospel with the world around them. The time to come began at salvation and we should understand every aspect of the hereafter.
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And we do that through you.
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this session of the porch. This time on the porch
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But there's a lot to learn, a lot to talk about.
We're talking about the hereafter. The American Heritage Dictionary defines
hereafter immediately immediately following this in time order or place
after this, in a future time or state, in a
time to come, some future time or state. Merriam Webster, Webster,
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Who's Webster? I don't know. Merriam Webster Dictionary calls it
an existence that comes after life ends. It's life after death,
an existence beyond earthly light. And Cambridge Dictionary just cuts
right to the point. It's life after death. The hereafter
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and the context of the Bible refers to the life
that follows after death, which, if you release life after death,
well for us, that's not odd. It encompasses the immediate
state of the soul and the eternal destiny of individuals.
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The concept of the hereafter is a significant theme throughout scripture,
addressing the hope of eternal life, the resurrection of the dead,
and the final judgment. You know, last week we talked
about final fire, and so now we're going to go
a little deeper. The Old Testament understanding of the hereafter
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is associated with Shield, the abode of the dead. There's
a righteous part of Shield and an unrighteous part. We'll
cover she all in depth next week, because if I
would have tried to cover it in depth tonight, we'd
be here for a couple hours, and I don't want
to do that. So while the understanding of the after
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life is less developed in the Old Testament than in
the New Testament, there are glimpses of hope and expectation
of life beyond death. We'll see some of them. In
The New Testament provides a more detailed revelation of the hereafter,
emphasizing the resurrection of the dead and eternal life through
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Messiah through Yeshua. Yashua himself speaks of the hereafter, offering
assurances of eternal life to those who believe in him. Well,
there's you're going to spend eternity somewhere. It's just a
matter of where you choose John five point twenty four.
Most assuredly, Yashia says, I say to you he who
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hears my word and believes in Him who sent me
as everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but
has passed from death into life. So there is no
If you're born again name written the Lamb's Book of Life.
If your sins have been washed and are under the blood,
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your eternity is settled. There's nothing more to do. The
apostle Paul elaborates on the resurrection and the hope of
the hereafter and First Corinthians when he discusses the resurrection
of the dead and the transformation of believers, talking First
Corinthians fifteen, starting verse forty two, it's the same way
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with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are
planted in the ground when we die, but they will
be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness,
but they will be raised in glory. They are buried
in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They
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are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be
raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies,
there are also spiritual bodies two Corinthians five, starting verse one.
For we know that our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed.
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That if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we
have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this we've grown earnestly
desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven.
If indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we who are in this tent grown being burdened,
not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothe
that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now he
who has prepared us for this very thing is God,
who also has given us the s spirit as a guarantee. See,
Adam's future was eternal. That was God's intention, that relationship,
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that walking in the cool of the evening, the interaction
was meant to be eternal, and sin disrupted that. So
for him to restore that, he had to take the
natural and put it back to the spiritual, to the supernatural.
He's done that with our inner person, inner man or woman,
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but he has not done it physically yet. Now the
hereafter I also involved final judgment. We cannot escape that
where individuals are held accountable for their lives. Is sure
talks about this. We're going to go over a lot
of those scriptures as we go along, where he speaks
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of the separation of the righteous and the wicked, leading
to eternal life or eternal punishment. Revelation twenty, starting verse eleven,
depicts the final judgment. John the Revelator says, then I
saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it,
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from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away,
and there was no there was found no place for them.
I'm sorry, you know, it's funny since we got started,
and I don't know if it's funny and using or
whatever all these visuals, I'm seeing what I'm saying, Unlike
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any time I've been reading this and preparing. All of
a sudden, these visuals are coming of Him on the
throne and just the heavens and the universe, and wow,
crazy stuff. But it's great to be born again and
plugged in. Let me start again. Then I saw a
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great white throne, and him who sat on it, from
whose face the earth, and having fled away, and there
was found no place for them, and I saw the dead,
small and great standing before God. And books were open,
and another book was open, which is the Book of Life.
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And the dead were judged according to their works by
the things which were written in the books. And the
sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them,
and they were judged each one according to his works.
And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And anyone not found written
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in the Book of Life was cast into the lake
of fire. So the question becomes, when you get to
that point, did your actions match your confession of faith?
If you say that He's lord of your life? Was he?
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If you say that you're a believer and that you're
born again, do your actions prove that That's going to
be the question. Yes, your name's in there written in
the blood of the Lamb. Your sins have been forgiven.
But then he's going to take a look at your life.
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How did you live it? What did you say? And
as I've explained in many of the seminars and in
my book, your DNA has recorded everything you've ever said,
never done, and it will play it all back. There
will be no hiding, there will be no deceit. Everything
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will be exposed to him. But as believers we have
a hope and assurance. The promise of eternal life is
an eternal life with God is a central tenet to
the Christian faith. Sorry about that. How to take a sip?
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Take another sip? Okay, breakover? Go with me? John fourteen,
Verse one. Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God,
and trust also in me. This is you, she was
speaking read letters. There is more than enough room in
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my father's home. If this were not so, would I
have told you that I Am going to prepare a
place for you. When everything is ready, I will come
and get you so that you will always be with
me where I am. So it's not an abstract concept
hereafter's a reality aped by our life as believers, providing
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comfort not just in the face of death, but motivating
a life of faithfulness and obedience to God. And that's
what the Book of Acts Church had. Oh, they had
the blessed hope of his appearance, but they had the
reassurance and the comfort of knowing where they were spending
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eternity with him, and the hereafter, as far as I'm concerned,
begins at salvation. So you've been set free from death
Romans eight, verse one. There is therefore now no condemnation
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to those who are in Messiah Yeshua, who do not
walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah
Issua has made me free from the law of sin
and death. For what the law could not do, in
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that it was weak through the flesh, God did by
sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh
on account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled
in us who do not walk according to the flesh,
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but according to the spirit. See in speaking to the
church in Rome. Paul's is establishing so many different things
about who we are in the flesh, but one of
the things he pretty much builds everything upon. You can
see in Romani starting with verse four. For we have
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died and were buried with Messiah Yah by baptism. The
person that goes down is not the person that comes
up out of the water. And just as Messiah was
raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father.
Now we also may live new lives. Since we've been
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united with him and his death, we will also be
raised to life as he was. We know that our
old sinful lives selves were crucified with Messiah so that
sin might lose its power in our lives. We are
no longer slaves to sin. But when we died with Messiah,
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we were set free from the power of sin. Since
we died with Messiah, we know we also live with
him like a resurrection. We're sure of this because Messiah
was raised in the dead and he will never die again.
Death no longer has any power over him. When he died,
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he died once once to break the power of sin.
But now that he lives, he lives for the glory
of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be
dead to the power of sin and alive to God
through Messiah. Ishuah. So a spiritual resurrection for us began
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on the day of our salvation, born again, born from above,
and the hereafter began. So you could look at the
term hereafter as here the present and afterwards words now afterward,
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you know after present after here. Then not everybody believes
that he would be amazing how many people you will
find claim to be Christians who don't believe a lot
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of what I share with you every week, even though
it's coming straight from the Bible, with scripture, with verification,
with the Hebrew and the Greek, and what was intended
when the people wrote it. They say there's no hell,
and Jesus never said anything about hell. Really, well, let's
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see if he mentioned anything about hell or a coming
judgment the books there. We can open it, we can
read it. We can see that he made mention of
hell and a coming judgment more than seventy times in
what was written down. We know that more was said
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and not written down. You sue him made it absent
resolutely clear that people who refuse to repent, who turn
away God's provision of forgiveness and salvation, will spend eternity
separated from God in a place of conscious torment that
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he or actually the writers often called hell. And I
explain that delineation in a second. We can just look
at Matthew five, starting verse twenty nine. If your right
eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast
it away from you, for it is more profitable for
you that one of your members perish than your whole
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body to be cast into hell. And if your right
hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast
it from you, for it is more profitable for you
that one of your members perish than your whole body
be cast into hell. Jovah's Witness and Seven day Adventists
believe in annihilationism, that God will annihilate the unrighteous and
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they will simply cease to exist the problem with that
is he didn't do with the angels because supernatural beings,
this electrical creation that He's spoke into existence, cannot be destroyed.
It can only be altered. It can only be contained,
So that doesn't work. The Buddhists and the Hindus and
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the hawiy Christians and those who hold the teachings of
New Age religion believe in reincarnation, the belief that upon death,
the soul migrates, moves on it inhabits, possibly even another
life form, an animal and insect or a human. Depending
upon your karma, you could become a comic chameleon who knows.
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The Mormon Church also denies the biblical I'm sorry, I
couldn't resist it. The Mormon Church denies the Biblical teaching
on hell among other Biblical things, and teaches that everyone,
even the worst sinners, will find a place in the
lower levels of heaven. Fortian slipped there the lower levels
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of heaven, Well, if you're joining the Mormon Church, it'll
probably not be there. And others in the Emerging Church
movement are buying into something called universalism. Universalism is a
belief that you sue his death on the cross that
because of that, eventually everyone will be saved, whether they're
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born again or not, whether they confessed him or not,
once and for all. They take that scripture out of context.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says, now the word hell
has come to mean almost exclusively the place of the
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punishment of the lost or find the finally impenitent, those
who are not sorry. It's a place of torment of
the wicked. So the Bible has a lot to say
about hell. But the problem is when they translated the Bible,
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the one word hell was used to replace many different words,
and different translations use different terms to signify the place
of torment for the wicked. And will probably cover more
of this next week because it just really goes deep
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and I covered it in the supernatural battle. In their
effort to distance themselves from anything Jewish, they completely change things.
I was talking to Larry today and I said, I
wonder how much damage those original translators of the Bible,
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the King James version, the Jesuits. I wonder how much
damage they did in their effort to change the meaning.
So let's look at some of the Biblical names that
are used. Abaden aba, d d o n. It's a
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Hebrew word meaning destruction, to perish. It's used as a
synonym for Hell. The Home and Illustrative Bible Dictionary says
in the King James version, a Baden only appears in
Revelation nine to eleven as the Hebrew name of the
Angel of the Bottomless Pit, whose Greek name was Apollion.
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A Baden occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible. If
we look at the complete Jewish Bible translation of Proverbs
twenty seven twenty, what we see is shield and abaden
are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied. So
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both the King James version and the NIV, which I
do not recommend at all except to use as a doorstop,
translates abaden as destruction, while the NASB, the New American
Standard Bible, and the RSV the Revised Standard Version, retain
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the word of Baden. See what I mean all these
different translations. So in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scripture, there's
a term that comes up called Gehenna as being the
destination of the wicked. So in the New test and
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the Early King James version, some of the modern translations,
Gehenna becomes hell. Young's literal translation is one noticeable exception,
simply using Gehenna, which is in fact a geographic location
just outside of Jerusalem, south of Jerusalem, in the valley
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of Hinam. It's now called the Dear Ear Rababi Both.
It used to be the value of Hinam, and on
the map that's what it showed. You'll see that it
was a place of child sacrifice. It was a place
where children was sacrificed to the god Moloch. Horrific stories.
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We've talked about them in the past. Not something I
really want to go into great detail about. It's out
there if you want it. But that's where abortion comes into.
He's still being fed, and he's still around, and yes
he is, he still worshiped as a god with a
small g which makes me wonder, from the perspective of SRT,
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what kind of paranormal activity goes on in the valley
of Hinam. What could we see and hear at night
if we went there? We see it in Second Chronicles
thirty three, verses one through six, when Manassa was ruling
and Judah Manassa was twelve years old, we became king,
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and he reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem. But he
did evil on the side of the Lord, according to
the abominations of the nations, whom the Lord had cast
out before the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the
high places which Hazekiah his father had broken down. He
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raised up altars for the bales laurel and made wooden images.
He worshiped all the hosts of heaven and served them.
He also built altars in the House of the Lord,
of which the Lord had said in Jerusalem, shall be
my name, my name be forever. And he built altars
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for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts
of the House of the Lord, which means he was
worshiping the fallen angels and the stars and the demons.
Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire
in the valley of Son of Hinnami practiced soothsaying. He
sacrificed his sons, and they weren't just babies. He practiced soothsaying,
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He used witchcraft in sorcery, he consulted mediums and spiritist.
How much evil in the sight of the Lord? He
did much evil in the sight of the Lord to
provoke him to anger. I'm sorry that made me angry
just reading it out loud. But he wasn't the only one, Thankfully.
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King Josiah would later destroy the altars and the idols
and bring righteousness back to that area. We see that
in Second King's twenty three. But what happened to her afterwards? Well,
the Jews later used the valley for the dumping of garbage,
the dead bodies of animals, and the executed criminals. The
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continuing fires in the valley to consume the garbage and
the dead bodies apparently led the people to transfer the
name to the place with a wicked dead suffer, So
there was a visual I would hate to be downwinded that.
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So in the period between the Old Testament and the
New Testament, Jewish writing used the term to describe the
hell fire of final judgment. That's what Kahenna meant in
their mindset. The scene is the place. In some writings,
it's seen as the place of temporary judgment for those
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awaiting the final judgment, what I call the outer darkness.
But I'm ahead of myself. The Home and Bible Dictionary
uses Gahenna as the place of final punishment. I'm going
to use the amplified version in some of these scriptures
because the amplifier takes the word and uses its original
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meaning in the scripture. So look at Matthew five, verses
twenty nine and thirty. That's the amplified If your right
eye I just read that scripture to you before in
the New King James. If your right eye serves as
a trap to ensnare you, or as an occasion for
you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw
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it away, it is better you to lose one of
your members, or do you buy, then your whole body
be cast into gehel into Gehenna. If your right hand
serves as a trap to ensnare you, or is an
occasion for you to stumble and sin, cut it off
and cast it from you, it is better that you
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lose one of your members than your entire body should
be cast into Gehenna. Do you mean that literally? No,
it's an extreme illustration that momentary distress is much better
than any eternal one, trying to show you how serious
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sin is. What we know from scripture. In Gehenna, the
worms are constantly at work in the fiery environment that
burns forever, Mark nine twenty, verse forty seven, same scripture.
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If your eye caused you to stumble in and pluck
it out, it's more profitable and wholesome for you to
enter the Kingdom of God with one eye than two
eyes to be thrown into Ghana with a worm does
not die and the fire is not put out. So
was this unique? Was this something you shoe were made up? No?
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He was actually quoting Isaiah sixty six, starting verse twenty two.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which
I will make shall remain before me, says the Lord,
so shall your descendants and your name remain. And it
shall come to pass that from one new moon to another,
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and from one sabbath to another, all flesh shall come
to worship before me, says the Lord. And they shall
go forth and look upon the corpses of the men
who have transgressed against me. For their worm does not
die and their fire is not quenched. They shall be
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in an abhorrence to all flesh. And in reading that
scripture make me wonder will the ground open up and
the people that are still on the earth during the
millennial reign? Will they be able to see and hear
and smell the fires of hell, maybe even from the
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valley of Hinnam. Who knows, But they will be a
reminder on the earth of those who transgressed God, who
did not accept his son as their messiah. And yet
after a thousand years Hasatam will get out of prison
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and deceive some of them. So amazing to me. Only
God can commit people to Gahenna, and there's only one
worthy of human fear because of it. Matthew ten twenty eight, amplified.
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Do not be afraid of those who kill the body
but cannot kill the soul, but rather be afraid of
him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
In Gehennah Luke twelve, verses four and five. I tell you,
my friends, read the letters she was speaking. Do not
dread and be afraid of those who kill the body
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and after that have nothing more that they can do.
But I warn you whom you should fear, Fear him who,
after killing, has the power to hurl you into Gehennah. Yes,
I say to you, fear him. That's why you should
use that visual and that concept to condemn the Pharisees
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for taking people, making them converts as bad as they were,
and turning them into the sons of Gehenna, people destined
for hell. Woe do you use scribes and Pharisees pretenders hypocrites?
For you travel over sea and land to make a
single proselyte, and when he becomes one a proselyte, a convert,
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you make him doubly as much a child of Gehenna
as you are. Religion can make converts, but it doesn't
change them on the inside, and they will still suffer judgment.
Religion will not save you, not now or in the hereafter.
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So he scolded the Pharisees, and he was warning them
that they had no chance to escape Gahenna. Through their practices.
They knew what Ghenna was, they knew the stories, maybe
they even sought, and they still did what they did.
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They still didn't accept Yeshua as their messiah because it
wasn't the way they wanted. Matthew twenty three thirty three,
You serpents use spawns of vipers. How can you escape
the penalty to be suffered in Ghana? Isshua have said
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some very harsh things about these men, the Pharisees and
the saddest Ses, and what they did to people, putting
religious rules and regulations and burdens upon them that they
themselves could not carry, taking them into the fire with them. See,
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that's what Satan wants to do. He wants to take
as many with him as he can. He wants to
hurt the Father's heart. It's our job keep that from happening.
James and James three six refers to people that can't
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control their tongues as to a tongue that Ghanna has
set on fire, meaning it's demonically influenced satanically influenced. Another
term is Hades h Ades the home. An Illustrated Bible
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dictionary says in paganism, Hades originally referred to the god
of the underworld, but later came to refer to the
place of the dead, a place depicted as a place
of torment. We see that in the parable of the
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rich man in Lazarus, something I cover in the supernatural battle,
and we'll go into deeper next week, because it shows
that there's two parts to shield. Look sixteen, starting verse nineteen.
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in
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purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously. Every day. He
eat real good. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
full of sores, who laid at his gait, desiring to
be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
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So it was the beggar died and was carried by
angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and
was buried, and being in torments and hades, he lifted
up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus
in his bosom. Abraham's bosom is the area of the
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righteous dead. The fiery part of shee All is for
the unrighteous. In Luke sixteen twenty three, the Complete Jewish
Bible version, it says in she All, where he was
in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham
far away, with Elia's r at his side. This I'm
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sorry forgive me. I don't understand. How can anybody say
that the Lord and the Bible never talked about hell
and judgment and punishment and all these things that were
covering It's wilful ignorance to take that position. Oh, loving
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God couldn't send people to him. No, he doesn't. He
looks at the book and sees what ticket you bought?
Luke ten verse thirteen, What do you you causin? What
do you bet? Ceida? For? If the Mighty works what
you're done, and you had done entire and Sidon, they
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would have repented long ago, sitting in southclock sacloth and ashes.
It'll be more tolerable for tire inside On at the
judgment than for you and you Capernaum, who are exalted
to Heaven will be brought down to hades. Serious serious stuff.
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And I'm not trying to bring you down, but I'm
trying to get you to see the full picture. I mean,
we can talk about all the great things. We can
talk about grace and love and inspiration. That's that's fine.
I love to do that, but we cannot ignore the
other side of the equation that people we know and
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love and care about will be experiencing this torment forever,
for eternity. It'll never stop. Revelation twenty, starting verse eleven.
And then I saw a great white throne, and the
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one who is seated upon it, from whom it's presence,
and from the sight of whose face, Earth and the
sky fled away, and there was no place found for them.
At the end, when it's done, all reality, everything we
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know in the universe, everything that is on the earth,
will stand before him. I also saw the dead, great
and small. They stood before the throne, and books plural
were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the
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book of life, and the dead were judged. They were
sentenced by what they had done, their whole way of
feeling and acting, their aims and their endeavors, in accordance
with what was recorded in the books. Now what's in
the book the letter of the law, each aspect of
the law. Did you live up to it? Or did
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you fail it? And the sea delivered up the dead
who were in it. Death and hades, the state of death,
or the disembodied existence, surrendered their death in them, and
all were tried, and their cases were determined by what
they had done, according to the motives, their aims, and
their works operated. Wait a second, how am I going
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to stand before that? Is it under the blood? There's
nothing there for them to read. You've seen the redacted
documents from the government. This is going to be redacted
and red Then Death and Hades were thrown into the
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lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake
of fire. That's not the final judgment. And if anyone's
name was not found recorded in the Book of Life,
he's hurled into the lake of fire with him. So Hades,
if you look at Revelation twenty thirteen, is depicted as
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an interim place of habitation for the lost until the
final judgment. Again the separation in shield righteous dead unrighteous dead.
So the fundamental difference, according to the Home and Illustrated
Bible Dictionary of Haightes and Gehennah for the understanding of
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God's punitive judgment is this. For its use in the
New Testament, Hades is viewed as the place that receives
the ungodly for the intervening period between death and resurrection.
Gahennah may be equated with the everlasting fire that was
originally prepared for the devil and his angels Matthew twenty
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five forty one and the Lake of Fire of twenty
fourteen Revelation twenty fourteen. So, following the resurrection of the
judgment of the lost, Gehennah becomes the final place of
punishment of eternal fire. Remember the description about the constant
burning of the garbage and the carcasses, and the criminals
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and the corpses, and what a horrible, horrible place. Now
picture that supernaturally now. Hades is the Greek word traditionally
by the writers used for the Hebrew word shield, like
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in the septuagen which is the Greek translation of the
Hebrew Bible, and other first century Jews who illiterate in Greek,
like the Christian writers of the New Testament, used it,
while other translations use Hades or hell, the grave among
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the dead, place of the dead. Here's an interesting thought
I had to share. In Latin, Hades is also translated
as purgatorium or the English word purgatory for the purging
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of the soul. That came about about twelve hundred a d.
But there's no modern England translations for hades to purgatory.
That's something that happened in the Latin writings. Who did
the Latin writings? Hmm, I know what they wrote. The
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Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a purification
so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the
joy of heaven, which is experienced by those who die
in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified. It
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notes that this final purification of the elect is entirely
different from the punishment of the damned. The Catechism of
the Catholic Church goes on to say purification is necessary
because the Scripture teaches nothing unclean will enter the presence
of God in heaven Revelation twenty seven. And while we
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may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still
be many impurities in us, especially venal sins and the
temporary punishment due to sins already forgiven. A wrong answer,
thank you for playing pick up your parting gifts on
the way out. That totally denies the cross, That totally
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denies everything said in scripture. But that's what they want
to believe. Nothing I can do about that. Even the
dictionary Milliam Webster Dictionary defines purgatory as an intermediate state
after death for expiatory purification, specifically, a place or state
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of punishment were in According to the Roman Catholic doctrine,
the souls of those who die in God's grace may
make satisfaction for past sins. I guess they're not forgiven,
then are they and become fit for heaven a place
of temporary suffering or misery. I guess the blood wasn't
good enough. I guess the cross wasn't good enough. The
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last name I'm going to cover is Tartarus. It's used rarely.
We see a reference to it in the Greek version
of two Peter two four and the English. It's for
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God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He
threw them into hell and the gloomy pits of darkness
where they are being held until the day of judgment. Well,
that phrase cast down into hell in the Greek is
Artaru thrown to Tartarus, thrown down to Tartarus. So it
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stands for a place of the punishment of the fallen angels.
I guess we'd call it the pit spared, you know
where God spared not the angels when they sinned. But
cast them down to hell, commended them, committed them to
the pits or chains of darkness. According to Jude six,
so are the angels who've sinned. If you don't know
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the answer to that, you must be new here. According
to what scripture says, the Jewish tradition and others. That's
the sons of God, the beneha Elohim in Genesis six
one through five, who left their first estate, had intercourse
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with women and really really did a bad thing. Genesis
six one. Now it came to pass when men began
a multi apply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born to them, that the sons of God.
The binaha Iloheim always means angels saw the daughters of men,
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that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves,
all of whom they chose. And the Lord said, my
spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is
indeed flesh. Yet his days shall be one hundred and
twenty years and verse four. There were giants on the
earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons
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of God came into the daughters of men and they
bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who
were of old men, of renowned the things that we
base the Greek and Roman legends upon the Niphilum. For
God did not even spare angels that sinned, but cast
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them down into hell, threw them into tartar, delivering them
there to be kept in pits of gloom to the
judgment and their doom, pits of gloom in the darkness
that binds them in prison. The Jewish translation of first
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Second Peter two and four, Chapter two, verse four is
he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than shield, to
be held for judgment. The pits are the lowest part
of that area. It's where the fallen angels from Genesis six,
the watchers who were sent down from heaven, who decided
to transgress and leave their heavenly obligations to have sex
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and have children. Then they began to teach men and
women all the evil things. The secrets of heaven is
found in First Enoch. I cover that in the Supernatural
Battle as well. I've taught that many times, and taught
it in a very long time, because none of that
knowledge does you any good if you're not born again
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and walking in the spirit and doing all the things
that need to be done. So you find that theme
in the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees. So
the Jews believed in this area that withheld supernatural beings.
But Jesus his concern was for us, for man. There's
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nothing he can do for them, says when he died,
Remember he went down. Before he went up, he preached
to those in prison. That's who he was talking to,
showing them that they their punishment was coming, their final punishment,
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the lake of fire that would torment them for all
of eternity. But we also know from profit. See they're
going to get out for a little while. They're gonna
play on the earth. Thankfully we won't be here. So
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you Sue is going to come in his glory. He's
going to judge the nations. He's going to separate people
one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats, and to those who feill. The interview to
ever lasting fire. And there's no provision for venial sins,
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mortal sins, little sin, baby sin, No sin is sin.
You're separated from God. It's not under the blood, it's
there in the book. You're guilty by your own choices
and your own actions. Matthew twenty five, starting verse thirty one.
When the Son of Band comes in his glory, and
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all the holy angels with him, then he will sit
on the throne of his glory. All the nations will
be gathered before him, and he will separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
And then he will set the sheep on his right hand,
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but the goats on his left. And the king will
say to those on his right hand, come you, blessed
of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and
you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave
me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
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I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick
and you visited me. I was in prison and you
came to me. And then the righteous will answer, I'm saying, Lord,
when did we see you hungry and feed you, or
thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you
a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you.
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Or when did we see you sick or in prison
and come to you, and the King will answer and
say to them assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as
you did this to one of the least of my brethren,
you did it to me. See what I mean about
by your actions? Do your actions indicate you're born again?
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Have you become like him? Do you care about the
people and the things that I've mentioned here? Oh you
one of those people that see the homeless or somebody
asking for help for food or something. Oh, man, you stink.
Get away from me. If you don't care for the
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least of them, something's wrong. And then he will say
to those on the left hand, depart from me. You
cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
his angel Right there there. Verse forty one clearly indicates
this fire was never meant for mankind. It was prepared
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to torment supernatural beings for all of eternity. For I
was hungry and you gave me no food. I was
thirsty and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger,
and you did not take being naked, and you did
not clothe me sick and in prison, and you did
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not visit me. And then then we'll answer him, saying Lord,
when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger,
naked or sick in prison, and did not minister to you?
And then he will answer them, saying, assuredly, I say
to you, inas, much as you did not do it
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to the to one of the least of these, you
did not do it to me. And these he finishes
the parable with these will go into everlasting punishment, but
the righteous into everlasting life. This theological statement, whatever you
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want to call it, is very clear you cannot say.
All I have to do is take Matthew twenty five,
verses thirty one through forty six and show you that
he did talk about an eternal fire, He did talk
about an eternal judgment. He did talk about an eternal
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reward and a paradise many times. So the hereafter is
both heaven or hell, depending upon who you've chosen to
spend eternity with. It's dependent upon are you born again?
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Are you born from above? Is your name written in
a Lamb's Book of Life? I used to say, if
christian Riianity where a crime, is there enough evidence to
convict you? If being a believer in Ya sure were
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a crime, And in some places it is is there
enough evidence to convict you? Or can you? Can you
talk your way out of it? But this hope is
always hope. It's never all bad. Revelation twenty one thirty
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verse five. Then he who sat upon the throne said, behold,
I make all things new. And he said to me, right,
for these words are true and faithful. And he said
to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and
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the Omega, the beginning. In the end, I will give
the fountain of the water of life freely to him
who thirsts, For he who overcomes shall inherit all things.
And I will be his God, and he shall be
my son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators,
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and all liars shall have their part in the lake
which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. No,
thank you, I'd rather not go swimming in the lake.
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There's no asbestos bathing seat. That's what Satan wants, That's
what the fallen want. That's what those who have rebelled
against God and turned their back on the Father wanked.
Though I'm not sure they completely believe he's going to
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do it, He'll do it. I don't want anybody I
know to be there. I don't want anybody I love
to be there. I sat here listening today to Dennis Jernigan.
There's an album it's from two thousand. As sure as
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there's a Heaven, Worship Alt. I've talked about it before
I played it on here, and even though I have
Dennis's permission to do so, I'm I'm not sure that
without some kind of document or something in there, it'll
allow me to post those things anymore. So I don't
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bother to try. I may reach out to him again
and see if I can get something from him that
I can post. He told me to use it anytime
I wanted to his music. As sure as there is
a heaven, there's a hell, and somebody is going to
spend it somewhere, whether with him in eternity or in
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the lake of fire and separation from God. For all
of eternity. I'd rather see those that I love with me.
I'd rather be able to look around and paradise and
see those that I shared the gospel with that I
told the truth and told the good news about. But
I also know that there will be many that won't
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people I cared deeply for close family members right now
languishing in the outer darkness awaiting final judgment. They're hereafter
is determined. I'm going to do all that I can
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to help other people determine they're hereafter. But from the
position of paradise, Father, my heart hurts. My heart hurts
to think about that. I can't even imagine how you feel.
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I don't think you do it in malice. I know
you don't. But you're a righteous You're a holy and
you're a just God, and you will give people what
they desire, what they've chosen us. Help us, Lord, Fill
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us with your love, Fill us with your compassion. Empower
us through your Holy Spirit to be able to say
the right things or do whatever needs to be done
to get them to turn towards You. Inspire us to pray,
Inspire us to care, to not turn our backs on
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the needy of those that just need a bite to eat,
or piece of clothing or a place to lay their head.
The society in this world keeps us in lack, keeps
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us away from doing that. My heart hurts, Lord that
I can't do enough, that I can't do more. We're
asking you to bless us, fill us to overflowing, press down,
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shaking together over onto our bosom, that we have to
lift up our shirt to catch the blessings, to share
them with others, our family members. Last night, Lord, I
spoke to somebody I care about a lot, an uncle
of mine, and I know he knows about you. I
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know he cares about you. I'm just not convinced. His
name's written in your Lamb's book of life. And for
anybody who has a family member like that or friend
someone they cared deeply about, I'm asking Lord that you
send an angel a dream, a vision of visitation something.
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Don't let their he year after be horrible. Let it
be heavenly, don't let it be hell. Let it be paradise.
With you, well, Spirit, do do what you do. Take
these words, take what we think, take what we feel,
and put them into action. We ask all these things,
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and your Shoe's name, Amen. I pray the closing prayer.
I hope, hope that distirred something in you to learn
more about what I've said. Next week, well we'll really
dig into the concept of shield because I need you
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to understand why the concept of hell and I believe
through satanic means, has been so deluded and convoluted. I
just pray this does what the Lord wanted it to do.
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May I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know you, Shuhamashik, lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace. Give you shall home. I'm Richard Grund.
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But there's a lot to learn, a lot to talk about.
We're talking about the hereafter. The American Heritage Dictionary defines
hereafter immediately immediately following this in time order or place
after this, in a future time or state, in a
time to come, some future time or state. Merriam Webster, Webster,
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Who's Webster? I don't know. Merriam Webster Dictionary calls it
an existence that comes after life ends. It's life after death,
an existence beyond earthly light. And Cambridge Dictionary just cuts
right to the point. It's life after death. The hereafter
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and the context of the Bible refers to the life
that follows after death, which, if you release life after death,
well for us, that's not odd. It encompasses the immediate
state of the soul and the eternal destiny of individuals.
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The concept of the hereafter is a significant theme throughout scripture,
addressing the hope of eternal life, the resurrection of the dead,
and the final judgment. You know, last week we talked
about final fire, and so now we're going to go
a little deeper. The Old Testament understanding of the hereafter
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is associated with Shield, the abode of the dead. There's
a righteous part of Shield and an unrighteous part. We'll
cover she all in depth next week, because if I
would have tried to cover it in depth tonight, we'd
be here for a couple hours, and I don't want
to do that. So while the understanding of the after
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life is less developed in the Old Testament than in
the New Testament, there are glimpses of hope and expectation
of life beyond death. We'll see some of them. In
The New Testament provides a more detailed revelation of the hereafter,
emphasizing the resurrection of the dead and eternal life through
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Messiah through Yeshua. Yashua himself speaks of the hereafter, offering
assurances of eternal life to those who believe in him. Well,
there's you're going to spend eternity somewhere. It's just a
matter of where you choose John five point twenty four.
Most assuredly, Yashia says, I say to you he who
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hears my word and believes in Him who sent me
as everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but
has passed from death into life. So there is no
If you're born again name written the Lamb's Book of Life.
If your sins have been washed and are under the blood,
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your eternity is settled. There's nothing more to do. The
apostle Paul elaborates on the resurrection and the hope of
the hereafter and First Corinthians when he discusses the resurrection
of the dead and the transformation of believers, talking First
Corinthians fifteen, starting verse forty two, it's the same way
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with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are
planted in the ground when we die, but they will
be raised to live forever. Our bodies are buried in brokenness,
but they will be raised in glory. They are buried
in weakness, but they will be raised in strength. They
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are buried as natural human bodies, but they will be
raised as spiritual bodies. For just as there are natural bodies,
there are also spiritual bodies two Corinthians five, starting verse one.
For we know that our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed.
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That if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we
have a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this we've grown earnestly
desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven.
If indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
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For we who are in this tent grown being burdened,
not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothe
that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now he
who has prepared us for this very thing is God,
who also has given us the s spirit as a guarantee. See,
Adam's future was eternal. That was God's intention, that relationship,
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that walking in the cool of the evening, the interaction
was meant to be eternal, and sin disrupted that. So
for him to restore that, he had to take the
natural and put it back to the spiritual, to the supernatural.
He's done that with our inner person, inner man or woman,
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but he has not done it physically yet. Now the
hereafter I also involved final judgment. We cannot escape that
where individuals are held accountable for their lives. Is sure
talks about this. We're going to go over a lot
of those scriptures as we go along, where he speaks
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of the separation of the righteous and the wicked, leading
to eternal life or eternal punishment. Revelation twenty, starting verse eleven,
depicts the final judgment. John the Revelator says, then I
saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it,
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from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away,
and there was no there was found no place for them.
I'm sorry, you know, it's funny since we got started,
and I don't know if it's funny and using or
whatever all these visuals, I'm seeing what I'm saying, Unlike
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any time I've been reading this and preparing. All of
a sudden, these visuals are coming of Him on the
throne and just the heavens and the universe, and wow,
crazy stuff. But it's great to be born again and
plugged in. Let me start again. Then I saw a
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great white throne, and him who sat on it, from
whose face the earth, and having fled away, and there
was found no place for them, and I saw the dead,
small and great standing before God. And books were open,
and another book was open, which is the Book of Life.
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And the dead were judged according to their works by
the things which were written in the books. And the
sea gave up the dead who were in it, and
Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them,
and they were judged each one according to his works.
And Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
This is the second death. And anyone not found written
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in the Book of Life was cast into the lake
of fire. So the question becomes, when you get to
that point, did your actions match your confession of faith?
If you say that He's lord of your life? Was he?
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If you say that you're a believer and that you're
born again, do your actions prove that That's going to
be the question. Yes, your name's in there written in
the blood of the Lamb. Your sins have been forgiven.
But then he's going to take a look at your life.
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How did you live it? What did you say? And
as I've explained in many of the seminars and in
my book, your DNA has recorded everything you've ever said,
never done, and it will play it all back. There
will be no hiding, there will be no deceit. Everything
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will be exposed to him. But as believers we have
a hope and assurance. The promise of eternal life is
an eternal life with God is a central tenet to
the Christian faith. Sorry about that. How to take a sip?
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Take another sip? Okay, breakover? Go with me? John fourteen,
Verse one. Don't let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God,
and trust also in me. This is you, she was
speaking read letters. There is more than enough room in
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my father's home. If this were not so, would I
have told you that I Am going to prepare a
place for you. When everything is ready, I will come
and get you so that you will always be with
me where I am. So it's not an abstract concept
hereafter's a reality aped by our life as believers, providing
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comfort not just in the face of death, but motivating
a life of faithfulness and obedience to God. And that's
what the Book of Acts Church had. Oh, they had
the blessed hope of his appearance, but they had the
reassurance and the comfort of knowing where they were spending
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eternity with him, and the hereafter, as far as I'm concerned,
begins at salvation. So you've been set free from death
Romans eight, verse one. There is therefore now no condemnation
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to those who are in Messiah Yeshua, who do not
walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Messiah
Issua has made me free from the law of sin
and death. For what the law could not do, in
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that it was weak through the flesh, God did by
sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh
on account of sin. He condemned sin in the flesh,
that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled
in us who do not walk according to the flesh,
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but according to the spirit. See in speaking to the
church in Rome. Paul's is establishing so many different things
about who we are in the flesh, but one of
the things he pretty much builds everything upon. You can
see in Romani starting with verse four. For we have
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died and were buried with Messiah Yah by baptism. The
person that goes down is not the person that comes
up out of the water. And just as Messiah was
raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father.
Now we also may live new lives. Since we've been
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united with him and his death, we will also be
raised to life as he was. We know that our
old sinful lives selves were crucified with Messiah so that
sin might lose its power in our lives. We are
no longer slaves to sin. But when we died with Messiah,
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we were set free from the power of sin. Since
we died with Messiah, we know we also live with
him like a resurrection. We're sure of this because Messiah
was raised in the dead and he will never die again.
Death no longer has any power over him. When he died,
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he died once once to break the power of sin.
But now that he lives, he lives for the glory
of God. So you also should consider yourselves to be
dead to the power of sin and alive to God
through Messiah. Ishuah. So a spiritual resurrection for us began
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on the day of our salvation, born again, born from above,
and the hereafter began. So you could look at the
term hereafter as here the present and afterwards words now afterward,
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you know after present after here. Then not everybody believes
that he would be amazing how many people you will
find claim to be Christians who don't believe a lot
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of what I share with you every week, even though
it's coming straight from the Bible, with scripture, with verification,
with the Hebrew and the Greek, and what was intended
when the people wrote it. They say there's no hell,
and Jesus never said anything about hell. Really, well, let's
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see if he mentioned anything about hell or a coming
judgment the books there. We can open it, we can
read it. We can see that he made mention of
hell and a coming judgment more than seventy times in
what was written down. We know that more was said
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and not written down. You sue him made it absent
resolutely clear that people who refuse to repent, who turn
away God's provision of forgiveness and salvation, will spend eternity
separated from God in a place of conscious torment that
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he or actually the writers often called hell. And I
explain that delineation in a second. We can just look
at Matthew five, starting verse twenty nine. If your right
eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast
it away from you, for it is more profitable for
you that one of your members perish than your whole
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body to be cast into hell. And if your right
hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast
it from you, for it is more profitable for you
that one of your members perish than your whole body
be cast into hell. Jovah's Witness and Seven day Adventists
believe in annihilationism, that God will annihilate the unrighteous and
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they will simply cease to exist the problem with that
is he didn't do with the angels because supernatural beings,
this electrical creation that He's spoke into existence, cannot be destroyed.
It can only be altered. It can only be contained,
So that doesn't work. The Buddhists and the Hindus and
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the hawiy Christians and those who hold the teachings of
New Age religion believe in reincarnation, the belief that upon death,
the soul migrates, moves on it inhabits, possibly even another
life form, an animal and insect or a human. Depending
upon your karma, you could become a comic chameleon who knows.
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The Mormon Church also denies the biblical I'm sorry, I
couldn't resist it. The Mormon Church denies the Biblical teaching
on hell among other Biblical things, and teaches that everyone,
even the worst sinners, will find a place in the
lower levels of heaven. Fortian slipped there the lower levels
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of heaven, Well, if you're joining the Mormon Church, it'll
probably not be there. And others in the Emerging Church
movement are buying into something called universalism. Universalism is a
belief that you sue his death on the cross that
because of that, eventually everyone will be saved, whether they're
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born again or not, whether they confessed him or not,
once and for all. They take that scripture out of context.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says, now the word hell
has come to mean almost exclusively the place of the
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punishment of the lost or find the finally impenitent, those
who are not sorry. It's a place of torment of
the wicked. So the Bible has a lot to say
about hell. But the problem is when they translated the Bible,
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the one word hell was used to replace many different words,
and different translations use different terms to signify the place
of torment for the wicked. And will probably cover more
of this next week because it just really goes deep
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and I covered it in the supernatural battle. In their
effort to distance themselves from anything Jewish, they completely change things.
I was talking to Larry today and I said, I
wonder how much damage those original translators of the Bible,
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the King James version, the Jesuits. I wonder how much
damage they did in their effort to change the meaning.
So let's look at some of the Biblical names that
are used. Abaden aba, d d o n. It's a
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Hebrew word meaning destruction, to perish. It's used as a
synonym for Hell. The Home and Illustrative Bible Dictionary says
in the King James version, a Baden only appears in
Revelation nine to eleven as the Hebrew name of the
Angel of the Bottomless Pit, whose Greek name was Apollion.
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A Baden occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible. If
we look at the complete Jewish Bible translation of Proverbs
twenty seven twenty, what we see is shield and abaden
are never satisfied, and human eyes are never satisfied. So
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both the King James version and the NIV, which I
do not recommend at all except to use as a doorstop,
translates abaden as destruction, while the NASB, the New American
Standard Bible, and the RSV the Revised Standard Version, retain
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the word of Baden. See what I mean all these
different translations. So in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scripture, there's
a term that comes up called Gehenna as being the
destination of the wicked. So in the New test and
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the Early King James version, some of the modern translations,
Gehenna becomes hell. Young's literal translation is one noticeable exception,
simply using Gehenna, which is in fact a geographic location
just outside of Jerusalem, south of Jerusalem, in the valley
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of Hinam. It's now called the Dear Ear Rababi Both.
It used to be the value of Hinam, and on
the map that's what it showed. You'll see that it
was a place of child sacrifice. It was a place
where children was sacrificed to the god Moloch. Horrific stories.
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We've talked about them in the past. Not something I
really want to go into great detail about. It's out
there if you want it. But that's where abortion comes into.
He's still being fed, and he's still around, and yes
he is, he still worshiped as a god with a
small g which makes me wonder, from the perspective of SRT,
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what kind of paranormal activity goes on in the valley
of Hinam. What could we see and hear at night
if we went there? We see it in Second Chronicles
thirty three, verses one through six, when Manassa was ruling
and Judah Manassa was twelve years old, we became king,
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and he reigned fifty five years in Jerusalem. But he
did evil on the side of the Lord, according to
the abominations of the nations, whom the Lord had cast
out before the children of Israel. For he rebuilt the
high places which Hazekiah his father had broken down. He
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raised up altars for the bales laurel and made wooden images.
He worshiped all the hosts of heaven and served them.
He also built altars in the House of the Lord,
of which the Lord had said in Jerusalem, shall be
my name, my name be forever. And he built altars
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for all the hosts of heaven in the two courts
of the House of the Lord, which means he was
worshiping the fallen angels and the stars and the demons.
Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire
in the valley of Son of Hinnami practiced soothsaying. He
sacrificed his sons, and they weren't just babies. He practiced soothsaying,
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He used witchcraft in sorcery, he consulted mediums and spiritist.
How much evil in the sight of the Lord? He
did much evil in the sight of the Lord to
provoke him to anger. I'm sorry that made me angry
just reading it out loud. But he wasn't the only one, Thankfully.
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King Josiah would later destroy the altars and the idols
and bring righteousness back to that area. We see that
in Second King's twenty three. But what happened to her afterwards? Well,
the Jews later used the valley for the dumping of garbage,
the dead bodies of animals, and the executed criminals. The
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continuing fires in the valley to consume the garbage and
the dead bodies apparently led the people to transfer the
name to the place with a wicked dead suffer, So
there was a visual I would hate to be downwinded that.
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So in the period between the Old Testament and the
New Testament, Jewish writing used the term to describe the
hell fire of final judgment. That's what Kahenna meant in
their mindset. The scene is the place. In some writings,
it's seen as the place of temporary judgment for those
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awaiting the final judgment, what I call the outer darkness.
But I'm ahead of myself. The Home and Bible Dictionary
uses Gahenna as the place of final punishment. I'm going
to use the amplified version in some of these scriptures
because the amplifier takes the word and uses its original
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meaning in the scripture. So look at Matthew five, verses
twenty nine and thirty. That's the amplified If your right
eye I just read that scripture to you before in
the New King James. If your right eye serves as
a trap to ensnare you, or as an occasion for
you to stumble and sin, pluck it out and throw
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it away, it is better you to lose one of
your members, or do you buy, then your whole body
be cast into gehel into Gehenna. If your right hand
serves as a trap to ensnare you, or is an
occasion for you to stumble and sin, cut it off
and cast it from you, it is better that you
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lose one of your members than your entire body should
be cast into Gehenna. Do you mean that literally? No,
it's an extreme illustration that momentary distress is much better
than any eternal one, trying to show you how serious
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sin is. What we know from scripture. In Gehenna, the
worms are constantly at work in the fiery environment that
burns forever, Mark nine twenty, verse forty seven, same scripture.
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If your eye caused you to stumble in and pluck
it out, it's more profitable and wholesome for you to
enter the Kingdom of God with one eye than two
eyes to be thrown into Ghana with a worm does
not die and the fire is not put out. So
was this unique? Was this something you shoe were made up? No?
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He was actually quoting Isaiah sixty six, starting verse twenty two.
For as the new heavens and the new earth, which
I will make shall remain before me, says the Lord,
so shall your descendants and your name remain. And it
shall come to pass that from one new moon to another,
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and from one sabbath to another, all flesh shall come
to worship before me, says the Lord. And they shall
go forth and look upon the corpses of the men
who have transgressed against me. For their worm does not
die and their fire is not quenched. They shall be
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in an abhorrence to all flesh. And in reading that
scripture make me wonder will the ground open up and
the people that are still on the earth during the
millennial reign? Will they be able to see and hear
and smell the fires of hell, maybe even from the
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valley of Hinnam. Who knows, But they will be a
reminder on the earth of those who transgressed God, who
did not accept his son as their messiah. And yet
after a thousand years Hasatam will get out of prison
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and deceive some of them. So amazing to me. Only
God can commit people to Gahenna, and there's only one
worthy of human fear because of it. Matthew ten twenty eight, amplified.
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Do not be afraid of those who kill the body
but cannot kill the soul, but rather be afraid of
him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
In Gehennah Luke twelve, verses four and five. I tell you,
my friends, read the letters she was speaking. Do not
dread and be afraid of those who kill the body
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and after that have nothing more that they can do.
But I warn you whom you should fear, Fear him who,
after killing, has the power to hurl you into Gehennah. Yes,
I say to you, fear him. That's why you should
use that visual and that concept to condemn the Pharisees
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for taking people, making them converts as bad as they were,
and turning them into the sons of Gehenna, people destined
for hell. Woe do you use scribes and Pharisees pretenders hypocrites?
For you travel over sea and land to make a
single proselyte, and when he becomes one a proselyte, a convert,
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you make him doubly as much a child of Gehenna
as you are. Religion can make converts, but it doesn't
change them on the inside, and they will still suffer judgment.
Religion will not save you, not now or in the hereafter.
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So he scolded the Pharisees, and he was warning them
that they had no chance to escape Gahenna. Through their practices.
They knew what Ghenna was, they knew the stories, maybe
they even sought, and they still did what they did.
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They still didn't accept Yeshua as their messiah because it
wasn't the way they wanted. Matthew twenty three thirty three,
You serpents use spawns of vipers. How can you escape
the penalty to be suffered in Ghana? Isshua have said
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some very harsh things about these men, the Pharisees and
the saddest Ses, and what they did to people, putting
religious rules and regulations and burdens upon them that they
themselves could not carry, taking them into the fire with them. See,
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that's what Satan wants to do. He wants to take
as many with him as he can. He wants to
hurt the Father's heart. It's our job keep that from happening.
James and James three six refers to people that can't
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control their tongues as to a tongue that Ghanna has
set on fire, meaning it's demonically influenced satanically influenced. Another
term is Hades h Ades the home. An Illustrated Bible
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dictionary says in paganism, Hades originally referred to the god
of the underworld, but later came to refer to the
place of the dead, a place depicted as a place
of torment. We see that in the parable of the
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rich man in Lazarus, something I cover in the supernatural battle,
and we'll go into deeper next week, because it shows
that there's two parts to shield. Look sixteen, starting verse nineteen.
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in
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purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously. Every day. He
eat real good. But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus,
full of sores, who laid at his gait, desiring to
be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich
man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.
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So it was the beggar died and was carried by
angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and
was buried, and being in torments and hades, he lifted
up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus
in his bosom. Abraham's bosom is the area of the
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righteous dead. The fiery part of shee All is for
the unrighteous. In Luke sixteen twenty three, the Complete Jewish
Bible version, it says in she All, where he was
in torment, the rich man looked up and saw Avraham
far away, with Elia's r at his side. This I'm
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sorry forgive me. I don't understand. How can anybody say
that the Lord and the Bible never talked about hell
and judgment and punishment and all these things that were
covering It's wilful ignorance to take that position. Oh, loving
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God couldn't send people to him. No, he doesn't. He
looks at the book and sees what ticket you bought?
Luke ten verse thirteen, What do you you causin? What
do you bet? Ceida? For? If the Mighty works what
you're done, and you had done entire and Sidon, they
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would have repented long ago, sitting in southclock sacloth and ashes.
It'll be more tolerable for tire inside On at the
judgment than for you and you Capernaum, who are exalted
to Heaven will be brought down to hades. Serious serious stuff.
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And I'm not trying to bring you down, but I'm
trying to get you to see the full picture. I mean,
we can talk about all the great things. We can
talk about grace and love and inspiration. That's that's fine.
I love to do that, but we cannot ignore the
other side of the equation that people we know and
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love and care about will be experiencing this torment forever,
for eternity. It'll never stop. Revelation twenty, starting verse eleven.
And then I saw a great white throne, and the
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one who is seated upon it, from whom it's presence,
and from the sight of whose face, Earth and the
sky fled away, and there was no place found for them.
At the end, when it's done, all reality, everything we
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know in the universe, everything that is on the earth,
will stand before him. I also saw the dead, great
and small. They stood before the throne, and books plural
were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the
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book of life, and the dead were judged. They were
sentenced by what they had done, their whole way of
feeling and acting, their aims and their endeavors, in accordance
with what was recorded in the books. Now what's in
the book the letter of the law, each aspect of
the law. Did you live up to it? Or did
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you fail it? And the sea delivered up the dead
who were in it. Death and hades, the state of death,
or the disembodied existence, surrendered their death in them, and
all were tried, and their cases were determined by what
they had done, according to the motives, their aims, and
their works operated. Wait a second, how am I going
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to stand before that? Is it under the blood? There's
nothing there for them to read. You've seen the redacted
documents from the government. This is going to be redacted
and red Then Death and Hades were thrown into the
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lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake
of fire. That's not the final judgment. And if anyone's
name was not found recorded in the Book of Life,
he's hurled into the lake of fire with him. So Hades,
if you look at Revelation twenty thirteen, is depicted as
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an interim place of habitation for the lost until the
final judgment. Again the separation in shield righteous dead unrighteous dead.
So the fundamental difference, according to the Home and Illustrated
Bible Dictionary of Haightes and Gehennah for the understanding of
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God's punitive judgment is this. For its use in the
New Testament, Hades is viewed as the place that receives
the ungodly for the intervening period between death and resurrection.
Gahennah may be equated with the everlasting fire that was
originally prepared for the devil and his angels Matthew twenty
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five forty one and the Lake of Fire of twenty
fourteen Revelation twenty fourteen. So, following the resurrection of the
judgment of the lost, Gehennah becomes the final place of
punishment of eternal fire. Remember the description about the constant
burning of the garbage and the carcasses, and the criminals
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and the corpses, and what a horrible, horrible place. Now
picture that supernaturally now. Hades is the Greek word traditionally
by the writers used for the Hebrew word shield, like
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in the septuagen which is the Greek translation of the
Hebrew Bible, and other first century Jews who illiterate in Greek,
like the Christian writers of the New Testament, used it,
while other translations use Hades or hell, the grave among
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the dead, place of the dead. Here's an interesting thought
I had to share. In Latin, Hades is also translated
as purgatorium or the English word purgatory for the purging
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of the soul. That came about about twelve hundred a d.
But there's no modern England translations for hades to purgatory.
That's something that happened in the Latin writings. Who did
the Latin writings? Hmm, I know what they wrote. The
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Catechism of the Catholic Church defines purgatory as a purification
so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the
joy of heaven, which is experienced by those who die
in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified. It
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notes that this final purification of the elect is entirely
different from the punishment of the damned. The Catechism of
the Catholic Church goes on to say purification is necessary
because the Scripture teaches nothing unclean will enter the presence
of God in heaven Revelation twenty seven. And while we
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may die with our mortal sins forgiven, there can still
be many impurities in us, especially venal sins and the
temporary punishment due to sins already forgiven. A wrong answer,
thank you for playing pick up your parting gifts on
the way out. That totally denies the cross, That totally
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denies everything said in scripture. But that's what they want
to believe. Nothing I can do about that. Even the
dictionary Milliam Webster Dictionary defines purgatory as an intermediate state
after death for expiatory purification, specifically, a place or state
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of punishment were in According to the Roman Catholic doctrine,
the souls of those who die in God's grace may
make satisfaction for past sins. I guess they're not forgiven,
then are they and become fit for heaven a place
of temporary suffering or misery. I guess the blood wasn't
good enough. I guess the cross wasn't good enough. The
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last name I'm going to cover is Tartarus. It's used rarely.
We see a reference to it in the Greek version
of two Peter two four and the English. It's for
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God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He
threw them into hell and the gloomy pits of darkness
where they are being held until the day of judgment. Well,
that phrase cast down into hell in the Greek is
Artaru thrown to Tartarus, thrown down to Tartarus. So it
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stands for a place of the punishment of the fallen angels.
I guess we'd call it the pit spared, you know
where God spared not the angels when they sinned. But
cast them down to hell, commended them, committed them to
the pits or chains of darkness. According to Jude six,
so are the angels who've sinned. If you don't know
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the answer to that, you must be new here. According
to what scripture says, the Jewish tradition and others. That's
the sons of God, the beneha Elohim in Genesis six
one through five, who left their first estate, had intercourse
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with women and really really did a bad thing. Genesis
six one. Now it came to pass when men began
a multi apply on the face of the earth, and
daughters were born to them, that the sons of God.
The binaha Iloheim always means angels saw the daughters of men,
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that they were beautiful, and they took wives for themselves,
all of whom they chose. And the Lord said, my
spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is
indeed flesh. Yet his days shall be one hundred and
twenty years and verse four. There were giants on the
earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons
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of God came into the daughters of men and they
bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who
were of old men, of renowned the things that we
base the Greek and Roman legends upon the Niphilum. For
God did not even spare angels that sinned, but cast
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them down into hell, threw them into tartar, delivering them
there to be kept in pits of gloom to the
judgment and their doom, pits of gloom in the darkness
that binds them in prison. The Jewish translation of first
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Second Peter two and four, Chapter two, verse four is
he put them in gloomy dungeons lower than shield, to
be held for judgment. The pits are the lowest part
of that area. It's where the fallen angels from Genesis six,
the watchers who were sent down from heaven, who decided
to transgress and leave their heavenly obligations to have sex
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and have children. Then they began to teach men and
women all the evil things. The secrets of heaven is
found in First Enoch. I cover that in the Supernatural
Battle as well. I've taught that many times, and taught
it in a very long time, because none of that
knowledge does you any good if you're not born again
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and walking in the spirit and doing all the things
that need to be done. So you find that theme
in the Book of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees. So
the Jews believed in this area that withheld supernatural beings.
But Jesus his concern was for us, for man. There's
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nothing he can do for them, says when he died,
Remember he went down. Before he went up, he preached
to those in prison. That's who he was talking to,
showing them that they their punishment was coming, their final punishment,
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the lake of fire that would torment them for all
of eternity. But we also know from profit. See they're
going to get out for a little while. They're gonna
play on the earth. Thankfully we won't be here. So
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you Sue is going to come in his glory. He's
going to judge the nations. He's going to separate people
one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats, and to those who feill. The interview to
ever lasting fire. And there's no provision for venial sins,
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mortal sins, little sin, baby sin, No sin is sin.
You're separated from God. It's not under the blood, it's
there in the book. You're guilty by your own choices
and your own actions. Matthew twenty five, starting verse thirty one.
When the Son of Band comes in his glory, and
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all the holy angels with him, then he will sit
on the throne of his glory. All the nations will
be gathered before him, and he will separate them one
from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.
And then he will set the sheep on his right hand,
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but the goats on his left. And the king will
say to those on his right hand, come you, blessed
of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and
you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave
me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
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I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick
and you visited me. I was in prison and you
came to me. And then the righteous will answer, I'm saying, Lord,
when did we see you hungry and feed you, or
thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you
a stranger and take you in, or naked and clothe you.
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Or when did we see you sick or in prison
and come to you, and the King will answer and
say to them assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as
you did this to one of the least of my brethren,
you did it to me. See what I mean about
by your actions? Do your actions indicate you're born again?
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Have you become like him? Do you care about the
people and the things that I've mentioned here? Oh you
one of those people that see the homeless or somebody
asking for help for food or something. Oh, man, you stink.
Get away from me. If you don't care for the
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least of them, something's wrong. And then he will say
to those on the left hand, depart from me. You
cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
his angel Right there there. Verse forty one clearly indicates
this fire was never meant for mankind. It was prepared
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to torment supernatural beings for all of eternity. For I
was hungry and you gave me no food. I was
thirsty and you gave me no drink. I was a stranger,
and you did not take being naked, and you did
not clothe me sick and in prison, and you did
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not visit me. And then then we'll answer him, saying Lord,
when did we see you hungry or thirsty, or a stranger,
naked or sick in prison, and did not minister to you?
And then he will answer them, saying, assuredly, I say
to you, inas, much as you did not do it
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to the to one of the least of these, you
did not do it to me. And these he finishes
the parable with these will go into everlasting punishment, but
the righteous into everlasting life. This theological statement, whatever you
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want to call it, is very clear you cannot say.
All I have to do is take Matthew twenty five,
verses thirty one through forty six and show you that
he did talk about an eternal fire, He did talk
about an eternal judgment. He did talk about an eternal
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reward and a paradise many times. So the hereafter is
both heaven or hell, depending upon who you've chosen to
spend eternity with. It's dependent upon are you born again?
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Are you born from above? Is your name written in
a Lamb's Book of Life? I used to say, if
christian Riianity where a crime, is there enough evidence to
convict you? If being a believer in Ya sure were
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a crime, And in some places it is is there
enough evidence to convict you? Or can you? Can you
talk your way out of it? But this hope is
always hope. It's never all bad. Revelation twenty one thirty
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verse five. Then he who sat upon the throne said, behold,
I make all things new. And he said to me, right,
for these words are true and faithful. And he said
to me, it is done. I am the Alpha and
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the Omega, the beginning. In the end, I will give
the fountain of the water of life freely to him
who thirsts, For he who overcomes shall inherit all things.
And I will be his God, and he shall be
my son. But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolators,
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and all liars shall have their part in the lake
which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. No,
thank you, I'd rather not go swimming in the lake.
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There's no asbestos bathing seat. That's what Satan wants, That's
what the fallen want. That's what those who have rebelled
against God and turned their back on the Father wanked.
Though I'm not sure they completely believe he's going to
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do it, He'll do it. I don't want anybody I
know to be there. I don't want anybody I love
to be there. I sat here listening today to Dennis Jernigan.
There's an album it's from two thousand. As sure as
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there's a Heaven, Worship Alt. I've talked about it before
I played it on here, and even though I have
Dennis's permission to do so, I'm I'm not sure that
without some kind of document or something in there, it'll
allow me to post those things anymore. So I don't
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bother to try. I may reach out to him again
and see if I can get something from him that
I can post. He told me to use it anytime
I wanted to his music. As sure as there is
a heaven, there's a hell, and somebody is going to
spend it somewhere, whether with him in eternity or in
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the lake of fire and separation from God. For all
of eternity. I'd rather see those that I love with me.
I'd rather be able to look around and paradise and
see those that I shared the gospel with that I
told the truth and told the good news about. But
I also know that there will be many that won't
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people I cared deeply for close family members right now
languishing in the outer darkness awaiting final judgment. They're hereafter
is determined. I'm going to do all that I can
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to help other people determine they're hereafter. But from the
position of paradise, Father, my heart hurts. My heart hurts
to think about that. I can't even imagine how you feel.
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I don't think you do it in malice. I know
you don't. But you're a righteous You're a holy and
you're a just God, and you will give people what
they desire, what they've chosen us. Help us, Lord, Fill
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us with your love, Fill us with your compassion. Empower
us through your Holy Spirit to be able to say
the right things or do whatever needs to be done
to get them to turn towards You. Inspire us to pray,
Inspire us to care, to not turn our backs on
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the needy of those that just need a bite to eat,
or piece of clothing or a place to lay their head.
The society in this world keeps us in lack, keeps
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us away from doing that. My heart hurts, Lord that
I can't do enough, that I can't do more. We're
asking you to bless us, fill us to overflowing, press down,
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shaking together over onto our bosom, that we have to
lift up our shirt to catch the blessings, to share
them with others, our family members. Last night, Lord, I
spoke to somebody I care about a lot, an uncle
of mine, and I know he knows about you. I
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know he cares about you. I'm just not convinced. His
name's written in your Lamb's book of life. And for
anybody who has a family member like that or friend
someone they cared deeply about, I'm asking Lord that you
send an angel a dream, a vision of visitation something.
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Don't let their he year after be horrible. Let it
be heavenly, don't let it be hell. Let it be paradise.
With you, well, Spirit, do do what you do. Take
these words, take what we think, take what we feel,
and put them into action. We ask all these things,
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and your Shoe's name, Amen. I pray the closing prayer.
I hope, hope that distirred something in you to learn
more about what I've said. Next week, well we'll really
dig into the concept of shield because I need you
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to understand why the concept of hell and I believe
through satanic means, has been so deluded and convoluted. I
just pray this does what the Lord wanted it to do.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you made the Lord.
May I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord I
don't know you, Shuhamashik, lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace. Give you shall home. I'm Richard Grund.
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