{"id":10579,"date":"2020-12-12T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2022-11-11T16:24:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T16:24:45","slug":"what-happened-to-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10579","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: \u00a0<\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 3<\/strong>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Hell <\/em>is not a popular or pleasant subject. The \u201cdon\u2019t-offend-anyone\u201d crowd doesn\u2019t want to hear about it. Few preachers consider preaching on it, and more and more of them deny its existence. Some just don\u2019t believe anyone\u2019s going there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0Contrariwise, one can\u2019t read the New Testament without facing the stubborn fact of what and how much it says about Hell\u2014the inspired writers obviously counted it greatly significant. Some have rejected what the Bible says about this subject (and others, such as homosexual behavior, same sex \u201cmarriage,\u201d etc.), but they can\u2019t deny the clear import of what it says. Jesus said much more about Hell than He said about Heaven. His coming to our world was unnecessary apart from the reality of eternal damnation as a consequence of sin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Every prohibition of evil, encouragement to righteousness, declaration about sin, and warning about the Judgment innately contains the concept of eternal damnation in a place called \u201cHell.\u201d What does the New Testament teach about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Men have immortal spirits <\/strong>(Jam. 2:26). Thus we are not to fear the loss of physical life so much as we do the loss of spiritual life in Hell (Mat. 10:28; 16:26).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hell is in the spiritual (as opposed to material) realm. <\/strong>Jesus mentioned it as the after-death destiny of various offenders (Mat. 5:22, 29\u201330; 18:9). Of the twelve times <em>Hell<\/em> (i.e., <em>gehenna<\/em>) appears in the New Testament, Jesus used it eleven times to refer to the destiny of the wicked.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hell\u2019s characteristics include: Fire<\/strong> (Mat. 5:22; 13:42, 50; 18:9; Mark 9:43, 48; Rev. 20:10, 15; 21:8; et al.). <strong>Destruction <\/strong>(not annihilation, but irreclaimable, utter loss (Mat. 10:28; 2 The. 1:9; cf. Luke 19:10). <strong>Punishment<\/strong> (Mat. 25:46; Luke 16:23, 28; Rev. 14:10\u201311; et al.). <strong>Separation, banishment from God\/Heaven<\/strong> (Mat. 5:29; 7:23; 8:12; 25:41; Luke 13:28; 2 The. 1:9; Rev. 22:15; et al.). <strong>No escape from Satan\/evil\u2014\u201csecond death\u201d <\/strong>(Mat. 25:41; Rev. 20:10. 15; 21:8; et al.).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hell is eternal<\/strong> (as is Heaven) with no \u201cpurgatory,\u201d second chance, or merely temporary residents (Mat. 3:12; 18:8\u20139; 25:46; 2 The. 1:9; Rev. 20:10; et al.).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Hell\u2019s populace includes:<\/strong> <strong>Disobedient<\/strong> (Mat. 7:21\u201323; 2 The. 1:8; et al.). <strong>Obedient who apostatize <\/strong>(2 Pet. 2:20\u201322; et al.). <strong>Wicked, immoral<\/strong> (Rom. 1:18\u201332; 1 Cor. 6:9\u201311; Gal. 5:18\u201321; Rev. 21:8; et al.). <strong>False teachers<\/strong> (Mat. 15:13\u201314; 2 Pet. 2:1; et al.).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Nothing has \u201chappened\u201d to Hell, except man\u2019s denial of it. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong> I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, August 14, 2009].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:<\/strong> From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note: \u00a0This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 3\u00a0page.] Hell is not a popular or pleasant subject. The \u201cdon\u2019t-offend-anyone\u201d crowd doesn\u2019t want to hear about it. Few preachers consider preaching on it, and more and more of them deny its&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=10579\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span class=\"easywp-sr-only\">  What Happened to Hell?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,904,855,640,105,136,813,913,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annihilationism","category-destruction-of-the-universe","category-eternal-life","category-eternity","category-hell","category-immortality","category-judgment-will-be-final","category-second-chance","category-wickedness","wpcat-148-id","wpcat-904-id","wpcat-855-id","wpcat-640-id","wpcat-105-id","wpcat-136-id","wpcat-813-id","wpcat-913-id","wpcat-376-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10579"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21098,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10579\/revisions\/21098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}