Topical Studies
Eternal Judgment
(From Forerunner Commentary)
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John 5:28-29 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
You may have heard ministers preach that sinners go directly to the fiery tortures of hell when they die. But this would mean they are condemned to hell before they are formally judged and sentenced! Christ says the judgment of the wicked dead, who are now in their graves, is yet in the future: "The hour is coming," He says. Then how could they now be receiving punishment when they have not, as yet, even been judged? The two ideas clearly contradict each other! When will the dead be judged? Obviously after they come up from their graves in a resurrection!
What Is Hell?
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Revelation 20:13-15 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
This third resurrection will comprise those who are unwilling to live by God's laws and refuse to repent. These incorrigible people will be cast into the Lake of Fire and completely burned up. They can never be resurrected again, having rejected God's wonderful offer of salvation and eternal life.
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Basic Doctrines: Eternal Judgment
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Revelation 20:13-15 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
This is the third resurrection. It will occur after all who can be saved are saved. All of the wicked who have knowingly rejected God's way and died in their sins will be raised to physical life. Their attitudes will be evident. No one will ever claim these people were unjustly condemned. None of them will repent. They will appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive their penalty—extinction in the Lake of Fire. This will be their second death. They will never again be resurrected.
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Revelation 21:8 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
The Bible describes the "hellfire" into which the wicked will be cast as a lake of burning fire and brimstone. Some have pictured this Lake of Fire to be like an active volcano spewing out molten rock. Into such a fiery liquid the incorrigible will be thrown. After having died once and been resurrected to judgment (Hebrews 9:27), they will die the "second death" by being burned up in the Lake of Fire.
Earl L. Henn (1934-1997)
Basic Doctrines: The Fate of the Wicked
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Revelation 21:8 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)
All who stubbornly refuse to repent and persist in breaking God's commandments ultimately find themselves in a lake of "fire and brimstone." The fate of the wicked is gehenna fire (Matthew 7:15-19; 13:30; 23:33; Hebrews 10:26-27). So gehenna and the Lake of Fire are the same. A very large fire would have the appearance of a fiery lake, hence its description. Mortals naturally die once because we just "wear out" (Hebrews 9:27). But if anyone dies the second death, that individual will have been judged by God to be guilty of persistent disobedience and incorrigible rebellion. The second death will be for all eternity!
What Is Hell?
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