The Horrors Of Hell

This is not exactly the best group of people to rub elbows with throughout eternity.

4. Hell is a Burning Fire.

But, the primary thought that Jesus wished to convey when He likened Hell to “Gehenna” is the fact that both places feature a perpetual fire. The prodigious amount of trash from that great city of Jerusalem meant that somewhere in “Gahenna” there was always a fire burning. It burned day and night. There was always fire and smoke billowing from this horrid, stinking place.

Jesus says to go to Hell, in Mark 9:43-44, is go “into hell, into the unquenchable fire, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’”

Here, Jesus tries to convey the torments of Hell. He brings the horrible picture of worms grubbing and gnawing upon the body without end. And then He says that the fire that burns is never quenched; that is, it never goes out. It just keeps burning and torturing the person.

In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says of the wicked that the angels “will cast them into the furnace of fire; in that place there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Here, again, Jesus says the pain and torment will be so intense that there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

In Revelation 20:10, John says that Satan and his ministers will be “thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone…and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” But, its just not Satan and his ministers who will be thrown into that lake of fire. Verse 15 says that it will happen on Judgment Day, that “if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.”

I close this examination of the horrors of Hell with this question - Is your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? Have you obeyed the Gospel which saves? God doesn’t want people to go there. In fact, God says, "I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways!" (Ezekiel 33:11).