| Eternal Death or Eternal Hell?
The wicked are “reserved” until the judgment day.
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the
godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day
of judgment to be punished:
God's judgment day for the wicked begins at His appearing when
He comes again.
2 Timothy 4:1 I charge thee therefore before God,
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead
at his appearing and his kingdom;
The wicked are punished at the end of the world.
Matthew 13:36-43 Then Jesus sent the multitude away,
and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying,
Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered
and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of
man; 38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children
of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the
end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 40 As therefore
the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be
in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his
angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that
offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into
a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom
of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Matthew 13:49-50 So shall it be at the end of the
world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from
among the just, 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire:
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The final phase of the judgment will occur at the second resurrection
where the wicked will be sentenced and receive their final “reward”
in the lake of fire at the end of the world.
Revelation 20:11-15 And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven
fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw
the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were
opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up
the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according
to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake
of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The wicked will be punished on the earth, just as the righteous
will receive their reward on this earth (Matt. 5:5).
Proverbs 11:31 Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed
in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.
Hell-fire will burn the earth with everything in it and even burn
the mountains.
Deuteronomy 32:22 For a fire is kindled in mine
anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume
the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of
the mountains.
The earth and all that is in it will be burned up and God will
then create a new heaven (atmosphere) and earth.
2 Peter 3:7 But the heavens and the earth, which
are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in
the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth
also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
The wicked will cease to exist.
Psalms 37:9-11 For evildoers shall be cut off: but
those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 10
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou
shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But
the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace.
The wicked shall perish and consume into smoke.
Psalms 37:20 But the wicked shall perish, and the
enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume;
into smoke shall they consume away.
The wicked shall perish as wax before a fire.
Psalms 68:2 As smoke is driven away, so drive them
away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish
at the presence of God.
Sinners will be consumed and the wicked shall be no more.
Psalms 104:35 Let the sinners be consumed out of
the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD,
O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
The wicked will be as stubble, the fire shall burn them up and
they will be ashes under our feet in the day that God does this.
Malachi 4:1-3 For, behold, the day cometh, that
shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn
them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither
root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun
of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall
go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread
down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your
feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
As the wicked try to overtake the holy city, fire comes down from
God out of heaven and devours them ; this is the second death (Rev.
20:14). The second death is never called a “sleep” as
the first death is because there will never be a resurrection from
it. It will be an eternal annihilation.
Revelation 20:9 And they went up on the breadth
of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and
the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and
devoured them.
The devil will also be devoured in the lake of fire. He will be
brought to ashes and will never be any more.
Ezekiel 28:18-19 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries
by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it
shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19 All they that know
thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt
be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
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