It is a blessing for me to compose these verses about hell. It makes me so thankful for a Redeemer. Some may say, “I don’t believe in hell, so the verses don’t pertain to me.” Yes, they do! Hell is very real—a place of “death” where souls exist forever—whether you believe in it or not. We will discuss how demons, taking on familiar spirits, testify of hell and how they are summoned up in séances with poltergeist spirits from the dead even slamming doors and cracking tables, etc. When people die without a Redeemer, they go to hell, the place prepared for Satan and his fallen angels, which are demons. I am compiling these verses for the first time as a response to those who do not want God’s mercy. As I tell people about the only loving, merciful God who died and rose from the grave, so often people find discomfort in such “good news.” Ok, well, then let’s talk about hell.
Psalm 6:5 teaches that hell is a place where God’s Holy Spirit of love will not be found. This God of love—the One everyone wants—won’t be found there. “For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?”
People who have been “reconciled to God” through a Redeemer are going to have eternal LIFE and have passed out of death into life; however the “dead” are mentioned as eternally lost souls beneath the earth in a place of suffering without hope. Some people don’t want to hear about eternal life; how about ETERNAL death? Someone told me, “I believe when we die we will just hold our breath forever.” That is not what the Bible teaches, and that is not what demonic spirits testify when they are summoned “from the grave.”
Ezekiel 26:20: “…when I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the PIT with the people of old time, and set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down into the pit…though thou be sought for, yet thou shall never be found again, saith the Lord God.
Does that sound like a fun place? It is “low”, “desolate” where people will be eternally lost.
Psalm 140:10 describes hell as “burning coals” falling upon people who are “cast into the fire”, into “deep pits,” that they rise not up again.
Jeremiah 4:4—“Fury came forth like fire and burn that none can quench it.”
Proverbs 15:11—“Hell and destruction are before the Lord.”
Isaiah 66:24—“Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.”
So, maybe a loving God is not so bad after all. I sure do owe my life to the One who bought me with His blood:
Isaiah 38:17—“But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption.”
Right now, while there is time, people can take of “the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17) and take of the Fountain of the water of life freely (Revelation 21:6). But they don't want such water, so:
Proverbs 21:15—“Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.”
Some people wonder why they are never happy, running from God with a hard heart, not caring who they hurt along the way. Well, they have a little taste of hell here on earth as they keep their distance from the only God of love.
“The heathen are sunk down in the pit.” Psalm 9:15
“For destruction FROM GOD was a terror to me.” Job 31:23
“How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction upon them. GOD DISTRIBUTETH SORROWS IN HIS ANGER.” Job 21:17
Our culture just encourages us to take advantage of God’s mercy, day after day, as if God is passive like some Buddhist monk sitting on a hillside. We will see in this series that is not the character of the longsuffering, humble, patient, almighty God of justice who rules the spirits--the ONLY God with the POWER to save.
I was telling someone recently about Jesus, and he flippantly replied, “I don’t need a Savior.” This man has a criminal record and has daughters who don’t respect him or feel loved by him; he has lied; he has stolen; he has hurt countless women through adultery and immorality…, and he says, “I don’t need a Savior. I can save myself.” I answered calmly, “If anyone on earth needs a Savior it is you.” He had been involved in occult spirituality years ago, and it is truly like he cannot get close to Jesus with an aversion for even reading the Bible. I had a new idea. I said in all seriousness, “I want to tell you about hell.”
All of a sudden he appeared daunted and asked, “Will I be alone there? I don't want to be alone."
Psalm 88:18: “Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness.
People think when they go to hell they will be with their friends, but the Bible says that no friends will be found there.
Psalm 6:5 teaches that hell is a place where God’s Holy Spirit of love will not be found. This God of love—the One everyone wants—won’t be found there. “For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in the grave, who shall give thee thanks?”
People who have been “reconciled to God” through a Redeemer are going to have eternal LIFE and have passed out of death into life; however the “dead” are mentioned as eternally lost souls beneath the earth in a place of suffering without hope. Some people don’t want to hear about eternal life; how about ETERNAL death? Someone told me, “I believe when we die we will just hold our breath forever.” That is not what the Bible teaches, and that is not what demonic spirits testify when they are summoned “from the grave.”
Ezekiel 26:20: “…when I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the PIT with the people of old time, and set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down into the pit…though thou be sought for, yet thou shall never be found again, saith the Lord God.
Does that sound like a fun place? It is “low”, “desolate” where people will be eternally lost.
Psalm 140:10 describes hell as “burning coals” falling upon people who are “cast into the fire”, into “deep pits,” that they rise not up again.
Jeremiah 4:4—“Fury came forth like fire and burn that none can quench it.”
Proverbs 15:11—“Hell and destruction are before the Lord.”
Isaiah 66:24—“Their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched.”
So, maybe a loving God is not so bad after all. I sure do owe my life to the One who bought me with His blood:
Isaiah 38:17—“But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption.”
Right now, while there is time, people can take of “the water of life freely” (Revelation 22:17) and take of the Fountain of the water of life freely (Revelation 21:6). But they don't want such water, so:
Proverbs 21:15—“Destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.”
Some people wonder why they are never happy, running from God with a hard heart, not caring who they hurt along the way. Well, they have a little taste of hell here on earth as they keep their distance from the only God of love.
“The heathen are sunk down in the pit.” Psalm 9:15
“For destruction FROM GOD was a terror to me.” Job 31:23
“How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction upon them. GOD DISTRIBUTETH SORROWS IN HIS ANGER.” Job 21:17
Our culture just encourages us to take advantage of God’s mercy, day after day, as if God is passive like some Buddhist monk sitting on a hillside. We will see in this series that is not the character of the longsuffering, humble, patient, almighty God of justice who rules the spirits--the ONLY God with the POWER to save.
I was telling someone recently about Jesus, and he flippantly replied, “I don’t need a Savior.” This man has a criminal record and has daughters who don’t respect him or feel loved by him; he has lied; he has stolen; he has hurt countless women through adultery and immorality…, and he says, “I don’t need a Savior. I can save myself.” I answered calmly, “If anyone on earth needs a Savior it is you.” He had been involved in occult spirituality years ago, and it is truly like he cannot get close to Jesus with an aversion for even reading the Bible. I had a new idea. I said in all seriousness, “I want to tell you about hell.”
All of a sudden he appeared daunted and asked, “Will I be alone there? I don't want to be alone."
Psalm 88:18: “Lover and friend hast thou put far from me and mine acquaintance into darkness.
People think when they go to hell they will be with their friends, but the Bible says that no friends will be found there.
