Yashua spoke more on Hell and why to avoid it than on any other subject.
Jesus spoke more of Hell than He did of Heaven..
The ‘fires of hell’ made famous by Dante, I believe, were the actual burning refuge area of Gehanna on the outskirts of Jerusalem, where the trash was burned and pagans had earlier thrown their unwanted babies.
And he was not speaking of either Hell, Norway, or Hell, Michigan.
What is ridiculous is saying that the Lake of Fire is Hell.
Revelation 20:14
“And death and HELL were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.”
Hell is destroyed in the Lake of Fire along with the unsaved. That is what is meant by the “second death.” The first death is the death of the body. The second death is the death, ending, of the souls of the unsaved.
Yes, there is a Hell. Yes, there are people right now suffering in Hell. However, Hell will be destroyed in the Lake of Fire.
One other thing in the study of Hell...the location/town of Gehenna is sometimes mistranslated into the word “hell”. Gehenna was a physical location which was known by Jews as a place of national punishment. Gehenna was a picture of what Hell would be, but Gehenna isn’t Hell.
October 24, 2012/ Rev. Marjorie Drickey called me on the phone to tell me she had a “MESSAGE FOR THE NATION”
This is Marjorie’s testimony: “I was sitting in my chair in the dining room at the Stockton Nursing Home in Stockton, Illinois, and my feet started to burn. I yelled, “My feet are burning up!”
The Lord then gave me a message for the nation: “The entire United States needs to repent! Hell is real. If we don’t receive Jesus as our Savior, we will go there.”
27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Luke 16:27
The nurses at the Stockton Nursing Home had to put cool cloths on Marjorie’s feet to soothe them. When asked if she wanted pain medicine to relieve the pain Marjorie’s red feet, she answered, “This is nothing compared to hell. There’s no pain medicine in hell.”
If we are to love our neighbors as ourselves, wouldn’t we want to tell them about the Good News before Jesus comes again?
A literal, eternal, burning pit? No.
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Well, whose arguing about it in the first place???
There are many people in the world today who have much invested in there not being a Hell.