Revelation 21,22

Events that take place at the end of the 1,000 years


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In other words, hell won’t burn for eternity, it will only seem like it to the wicked!

 

Mark 9:47   And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell.

 

Mark 9:48   where “’their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’

 

Mark 9:49   Everyone [thrown into Hell] will be salted with fire.”

 

Revelation 20:10   “And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever. [unto the end of the age]”   

 

Romans 12:19   “Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord.”

 

Because most Christians believe that hells burns for eternity, I would like to give you a few reasons showing why the Bible does not support the doctrine of an eternally burning hell.     

 

I hope you will be able to remember some of these points, so get a pencil if necessary and write them down in your Bible:

 

1.   The reward that will be given to the saints at the last day is eternal life.

 

In other words, the only people to receive eternal life at the Second Coming are the saints.

 

John 3:16   “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

John 6:40   For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

 

Ok, here’s the problem: A person can’t burn and writhe in hell throughout eternity without first receiving eternal life.

 

In other words, a wicked person has to receive eternal life before he can writhe in hell for eternity.

 

But, the wicked will not receive eternal life. The Bible teaches that eternal life will be granted only to the saints, and that the wicked will perish.

 

John 3:16   “For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

So, a wicked person cannot burn in hell for eternity because wicked people don’t receive eternal life.

 

2.   Here’s a second point that militates against the doctrine of an eternally burning hell:

 

Most Christians believe that Jesus died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins.

 

But, if the penalty for sin is burning in hell throughout eternity, then Jesus did not pay the price for sin. Period.

 

Even if you say that Jesus burned in hell for three days and three nights, that is not eternity. Even after billions and billions of years, eternity has just begun!

 

The fact that Jesus did not burn in hell for eternity should cause every person believing in eternal hell to reconsider his theology.   

 

In order to pay for our sins, the penalty for sin had to be imposed upon Jesus and it was.

 

So, what is the penalty for sin?

 

The penalty for sin is “death by execution – without hope for resurrection.”

 

Genesis 2:16   And the Lord commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

 

Genesis 2:17   But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. [be executed]”

 

Adam and Eve were to be put to death on the very day they sinned, but Jesus seeing that they did not sin defiantly, became man’s intercessor instead of man’s executioner.

 

(More about this in a moment)

 

3.   Let’s assume for a moment that a wicked person goes to Hell at the time of death, why then are the wicked resurrected at the end of the 1,000 years?     

 

What is the point of resurrecting Cain (the first murderer) if he has been burning in Hell for the past 6,000 years?

 

Think about this: What would be the point of resurrecting Abel if he had been sitting at Jesus’’ side with the angels for the past 6,000 years?

 

The doctrine of the two resurrections is in direct conflict with the doctrine of an eternally burning hell as well as the idea of going to an immediate destiny at death.

 

4.   Let’ stake this process one step further: If a person goes to Heaven or Hell at the time of death, this necessitates judgment at the time of death. Someone in Heaven has to make a decision for eternal life or eternal hell at that precise moment.

 

But, the Bible fully disputes the idea of immediate judgment at death.

 

The Bible teaches there is pre-Advent judgment.

 

The judgment bar of Christ has a beginning point in time and an ending point in time, and the books of Daniel and Revelation tell us the judgment bar of Christ began in 1844 and it closes at the end of the 1,260 days, just before the seventh trumpet sounds.

 

Therefore, no one could be judged by Christ prior to 1844. (Yes, God the Father has made a few exceptions: Enoch, Elijah and the 24 elders, but these exceptions were made because there are a couple issues that needed to be resolved and taking a few people to Heaven was the best way of resolving these issues.)

 

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