(24) Will "PERISH" (John 3:16).
(25) Will be "SLAIN" (Luke 1914).
(26) Will be "THROWN AWAY" (Matthew 13:18).
(27) They "SHALL NOT SEE LIFE" (John 3:36; 5:40; 1 John 3:15).
(28) DO NOT HAVE THE "LIFE" Christ gives to them that obey Him (John 3:36; 5:21; 5:24; 5:29; 5:40; 6:27; Matthew 19:29; 1 John 5:12).
(29) Will LOSE LIFE (Matthew 10:39).
(30) Will have NO ACCESS TO THE TREE OF LIFE (Revelation 2:7; 22:2; 22:14).
(31) Will be BLOTTED OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE (Revelation 3:5).
(32) Shall PASS AWAY in "the Day of Judgment and DESTRUCTION OF UNGODLY MEN," the "heavens shall pass away...shall be dissolved...burned up" (2 Peter 3:7-13).
(33) Will be "DEVOUR" (American Standard Version) "CONSUME" (New American Standard Version) (Hebrews 10:27; 12:29).
(34) Fate of the wicked in the parable-always destroyed, death, not tormented.
· HEWN DOWN AND CAST INTO THE FIRE “Every tree therefore that brings not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire” (John the Baptist to the Sadducees and Pharisees, Matthew 3:10; Christ in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7:19). A tree cut down and burned is total destruction of the tree, not endless torment of the tree.
· THEY WILL BURN UP like the useless chaff of wheat (Matthew 3:12, Luke 3:17).
· BURNED like weeds, tares, and bad fish (Matthew 13:30-50).
· Like harmful plants will be rooted up (Matthew 15:13).
· Cut asunder like the unfaithful servant (Matthew 24:45-51).
· Cut down like useless fig tree (Luke 13:6-9).
· SLAIN (killed) like enemies (Luke 19:27).
· Cast out and KILLED like the unfaithful husbandman (Luke 20:9-17).
· Are BURNED UP like withered branches (John 15:6).
If the above language does not denote the utter and complete destruction of the wicked, what language could God have used that would? None. Those who try to explain away the above would try to explain away any language that could be used.
(35) Fate of the wicked in the Old Testament, the fate of people and nations in this lifetime.
(36) Add to this the fact that Hell is not in the Bible, not the name, or the concept; nothing is said about God tormenting anyone after the judgment; nothing is said about the wicked after the second death, and you have a clear picture of the fate of the wicked. God could not have said in human language any clearer or stronger what the fate of the wicked will be. If you think it could be said any more clearly, try it. You cannot do it. Between the statements of the inspired writers of the Bible above, and today’s uninspired teaching of men, there is an enormous discrepancy and contradiction that cannot be explained away.
Our choice is life or death (see Deuteronomy 30:19-20). To live or die (Ezekiel 18:20), an eternal life in Hell forever being tormented by God is not one of our choices.
“But even if we are an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we preached to you, let that one be accursed! As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone preaches to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed” (Galatians 1:7-8). Is there another time Paul said something so serious that he repeated it? If “the wages of sin is death” and someone preaches to you “the wages of sin is eternal life in torment” that one should be accursed of preaching a gospel contrary to that which Paul preached.
AFTER THE RESURRECTION
THE FATE OF THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST
(1) Eternal life (Romans 6:23).
(2)"Shall inherit eternal life" (Matthew 19:29).
(3) After the judgment they "shall go away into eternal life" (Matthew 25:46).
(4) Will "have eternal life" (John 3:5).
(5) Christ will raise them up on the last day (John 6:40).
(6) Will be immortal after the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:51-56).
(7) Will have incorruption (1 Corinthians 15:42).
(8) Will have glory (1 Corinthians 15:43).
(9) Will be like Christ "We shall be like him; for we shall see him even as he is" (1 John 3:2).
(10) Are "heirs according to the hope of eternal life" (Titus 3:7).
(11) Will have a spiritual body (1 Corinthians 15:44).
(12) "And as we have borne the image of the earthly (The earthly flesh and blood body of Adam was made to live on this earth but it "cannot inherit the kingdom of God" 1 Corinthians 15:50), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (Shall be like the spiritual body of Christ for life in Heaven) (1 Corinthians 15:47-56).
(13) "Will never perish" (John 10:28).
(14) Forever with the Lord (1 Thessalonians 4:17).
(15) MANY MANSIONS IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE: "In my Father's house (Who is in Heaven Matthew 5:16; 5:45; 5:48; 6:1; 6:9; 7:21; 10:32-33) are many mansions...I go to prepare a place for you." (Where did Christ go to prepare a place for us? In the mansions in His Father's house in Heaven. "For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but himself says: 'the Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.'" Acts 2:34-35) "And if I go and prepare a place for you, (A place in my Father's house in Heaven) I come again, and will receive you unto myself; that where I am there you may also be (With me in the place I go to prepare for you in My Father's house in Heaven (John 14:1-3). But now I go unto him (unto My Father who is in Heaven) that sent me" ("The word-Christ who was with the Father in the beginning and has always been a heavenly being with God became flesh, and dwelt among us" John 1:14) (John 16:5). He is no longer flesh, but has now gone back to Heaven to prepare a place for the saved and will come back for them. "He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne" (Revelation 3:21). Christ is now on His Fathers throne in Heaven where He went to prepare a place for us; you cannot prepare a place in a place that is not a place, Heaven is a real place with a real place prepared for all the faithful.
(16) FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD: "And as we have borne the image of the earthy (flesh and blood), we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say, brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god; (Our bodies in the image of Adam made for this earth are not suitable for Heaven) neither do corruption inherit incorruption (Neither can our corruptible bodies in the image of Adam inherit in the heavenly realm). Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, (Shall not die) but we shall all be changed, (All the saved that are asleep when Christ comes, and all the saved that are alive) in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, (Raised in the heavenly image of Christ, not in the corruptible image of Adam which they had when they died). For this corruptible must put on incorruption, (This earthly body in the image of Adam must put on incorruption, a spiritual body in the image of Christ. Adam never had a spiritual body before or after he sinned), and this mortal must put on immortality (This mortal body which is the body we now have must be changed to an immortal spiritual body which will not be the body of this earth that we now have). But, when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory" (1 Corinthians 15:50-54). In this passage Paul is telling the Corinthians what their bodies will be after the resurrection.
(17) "We that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds (To meet Him in the air and will have a body not of this earth) to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall ever be with the Lord" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).
(18) "Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we shall be. (We know what the image of Adam is for we now have it. His image was flesh and blood both before and after he sinned, and we know that we now have his image, a body of flesh and blood, but we do not now know what the spiritual body in the image of Christ will be like.) We know that, when He appears, we shall be like Him because we shall see Him just as He is" (1 John 3:2).
(19) WILL BE LIKE ANGELS: "The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage, but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age (The age to come. Not all will be worthy to attain to it) and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage; for neither can they die any more, for they are like angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection" (Luke 20:34-36). Like the angels, the saved will have a body that will be suitable for Heaven. Not an earthly being and will no longer have a body in the image of Adam made for this earth, but will have a spiritual body in the image of Christ. Angels have never had an earthly body in the image of Adam. When we are like angels we will not have an earthly body in the image of Adam. Adam was made of the earth and he had a flesh and blood body, and Eve was made from his body before their sin, they never had a spiritual body or a body like the angels. To have a body like Adam before he sinned would be to have a flesh and blood body and be male and female. It would be nothing like the Angels.
(20) "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fades not away, reserved in heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (1 Peter 1:4).
(21) SEEK THE THINGS ABOVE: "If then you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and you life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory" (Colossians 2:1-4).
(22) WE NOW BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE EARTHLY (Adam) WE SHALL BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY (Christ): "And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (Not the flesh and blood image of Adam before or after he sinned, not an earthly body, not a body of dust) (1 Corinthians 15:48).
WHEN
When will we receive the crown of righteousness? 2 Timothy 4:8.
When is the Judgment? Revelation 20:12.
When will we see Christ? When will we be like Christ? 1 John 3:2.
When will death be destroyed? 1 Corinthians 15:54-56.
When will the saved put on immortality? 1 Corinthians 15:50-53.
· The when is at the resurrection, not at death.
AN ETERNITY IN HEAVEN OR ON EARTH
Some ask, "An eternity in Heaven doing what?" I ask them, "An eternity on earth doing what?" I have not seen anywhere that they say what they think we will be doing on earth for an eternity. Take whatever they think there will be to do on earth for eternity and multiply it by a 100, or 10,000, or even by 100,000 and you will not have all that we will be doing in Heaven for an eternity. All the best of this earth will be gone. There will be no marriage; therefore, no family life (Matthew 22:30), no sea (Revelation 21:1); therefore, nothing that has to do will the sea, no boating, no fishing, no sunset over the water, etc. Multiply the beauty of earth by 100,000 or more and you still will not have the beauty of Heaven.
LIFE ON THIS EARTH–versus– LIFE IN HEAVEN
There are three major views of the fate of the lost after death. There may be many variations on each, not to over simplify, but I think all the variations will be on one of the three.
When Christ came to earth He became “flesh and blood” in the image of Adam, if Christ is to come back to and forever be a king on this earth was true He would have to forever be “flesh and blood” in the image of Adam.
A SUMMARY OF WHERE THE DEAD ARE. Four views on what happens at death, each one is in sharp conflict with the other three, and makes the other three not possible. Yet, the same preachers put the dead in three places simultaneously.
GOD HAS SPOKE
In The Clearest Way That Is Possible With Human Language
"For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten...for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you go" (Ecclesiastes 9:5-10). "His breath goes forth, he returns to the earth: in that very day his thoughts perish" (Psalm 146:4). "So man lies down and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep" (Job 14:12). If you read God's word and you still believe a person now has an immortal soul dwelling in them; and that soul is not subject to death, there is no human language God could use to tell you otherwise. You have believed men and Satan, and will not hear God.
There is nothing hard to understand about the nature of a person, or the fate of the wicked. It takes much help from theology to not understand the clear teaching of the Bible. Much help to make many believe Satan's lie over God's word. Much help for anyone to not be able to see the simple truth when he or she reads the Bible.
Could God have given His revelation about the fate of mankind after death in a way that all could understand it? The answer is yes; God could and did choose words, parables, symbols, and metaphors that clearly teach the death of, not the eternal torment of the lost. The unsaved die, perish, are destroyed, and are lost. The obedient are saved from death, and given life and immortality at the judgment. God could not have said it any clearer. If you think He could have, try to say it any clearer. The words and expressions are used that put the truth beyond all possibility of question. Eternal life with torment would not be death.
Be honest with yourself, with God, and go to His word with honesty, love, and reverence. Can pagan teachings, which are promoted in the name of Christ, result in knowledge of the truth that can save?