What is Hell Part 1 – City Of Truth Ministries

What is Hell? Part 1

This has been a subject that has been so mis-interpreted by God’s people. In order to understand hell we must understand, First: The Fire of God & the rod of correction to His people. Second: His great love for His people, & Third: The Glory of the Cross. In the book of Joel, chapter 2, read & learn “Who we are, & Who He is raising up!”

Mal. 3:1; BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, & he shall prepare the way before me: & thee Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come, saith the Lord of hosts.

Vs. 2; But who may abide the day of his coming? & who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:

Vs. 3; And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: & he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold & silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

Many years I went through the Church system * I was taught so many doctrines of men. Some of it helped me to understand some scriptures, as a baby in Christ I learned so many things that was not truth * so like many people it never set me free. It took me on a pathway to learn the scriptures as man interpreted them. But, God was always with me, He never left me, as I pressed on to know the truth of His being & still press on. So the teaching of hell that is written in my heart by the Holy Spirit, I share with you. I pray you will let the teacher within you write the truth upon your heart, so you may also be free. We can hear the word & our faith grows, we can read the word & receive revelation of the word. But, the only way it is written in our hearts is by all experiences we go through as we walk out the scriptures in our life.

I had to lay down my life to pick up His. It has been a processing to know Him in spirit & truth. Through all my experiences may I give you one piece of advice, stay teachable, have an open mind, as we do not understand God’s way’s for they are so much higher than ours. This carnal mind is the only thing that can hinder us to know GOD! It is enmity between us & Him. We must take on this mind of Christ in all His fullness & Glory. To understand hell we must understand a few other things first.

Jesus came to reconcile the world through himself. So we must understand reconciliation. Jesus did it all through his death, burial & resurrection, he did it for every man that we are all reconciled back to the Father. He took the sins of the world & did away with sin once & for all, for he took that man of sin the first Adam. That sin nature that we were born in to in our natural birth which is of the earthly was done away with. Now we must put on the Christ, which we will bare the image of who he is in the heavenly body.

The old Adam is dead & we are a new creation man in Christ. We have a new birth, all things are passed away, all things become new. Now one would ask, if he did this for all, why do we need to serve him if we are saved by this grace? The answer would be to do the

Father’s will. The Father wants our bodies to be a living sacrifice to Him, so He may be glorified in us. If we go by way of the grave, He does not have a body to be glorified in. His Temple would be gone. We could not manifest the Kingdom of God to His people as Jesus did, for the Kingdom of God is within us, but it is hid from the world through our unbelief. This is the vision we must have, that we manifest the Father as Jesus did. If we don’t we will continue to perish in these bodies.

Holy means to be made WHOLE, to become all that he is to be a Holy priesthood. As he was made whole in the Father, so shall we be. This is where you work out your soul (or mind) salvation with fear & trembling. Taking on the mind of Christ, becoming one with the word of God.

Your spirit is already saved, saved by grace, when someone passes away, they take their last breath, (breathe is the spirit, our whole life the only thing that keeps everyone alive, is the spirit that God gave you when you were born. That breath stops, your dead.) Now that spirit that leaves the body is God. You cannot kill God, so that spirit is alive & goes back to the Father who gave it. It cannot go to a hell as we have been taught. God will not put himself in hell. You cannot kill spirit nor destroy it. This is the work that is being worked out in us as individuals. This is the process. This is the cleansing, the purification of our soul or mind.

SOUL; psyche- mind- all the same. This is the enmity between you & God. The only thing that stands between you & God, that can stop you from knowing God is your carnal mind. Since the beginning in the Garden where the disruption took place in the world, (Adam’s world as he knew it). This means it happened in your world and mine. We were created in his image, when Adam partook of the tree of knowledge of good & evil disruption came. HE LOST THE Heavenly place he was walking in, he partook of world of his own mind, which is carnality & we are still partaking of this world. As we change & come into the mind of Christ, this brings us into a heavenly mind or higher consciousness. GLORY!

Where he was lowered into the reality of the tree of knowledge of good & evil & lost the reality of who he was, or another way to put it, lost the mind of Christ or the veil was now covering his mind. Now Adam begins to work from the carnal mind, which brought death to him & us. We now work out of our soul realm, which is a double minded mind that is death to all of us. The only way this can be reversed is by partaking of the Tree of Life which will help us to put on the mind of Christ, which we lost in the beginning because of one man’s transgression. We have the way Jesus Christ is the way back. His word of truth will set us free. Jesus said, “I Am the way, the Truth & the Life.

Gen. 3:24; So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim’s, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Now man was persuaded by the tree of good & evil & his mind became carnal & placed him outside the garden. The only way back to that perfect place in the garden which has the flaming sword which turns every way to keep the way of the tree of Life, is through the flaming sword. That is his fire, we cannot enter back in to the garden until you are changed or take on the mind of Christ. Your trials, your purification, the fire comes to consume everything you are, so you may be everything he is. The sword comes (or the word comes that cuts down our way, our thinking), so we may return again to the Garden of Eden within us. The mind of Christ, which is the Tree of Life, which is the wisdom of God. Wisdom she is the tree of life.

Prov. 3:13; Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, & the man that getteth understanding.

Vs. 14; For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, & the gain there-of than fine gold.

Vs. 15; She is more precious than rubies: & all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

Vs. 16; Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches & honor.

Vs. 17; Her ways are ways of pleasantness, & all her paths are peace.

Vs. 18; She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: & happy is every one that retaineth her.

So now we see the power of God, you see him as the consuming fire in your life, which is for life & not punishment. Now we understand we must go through the fire to see him face to face. The word says “when you see me, you will know me because you will be as I am.” Our God, a consuming fire, what he will consume is all the things that has been created by your carnal mind. Your words, your thinking, your nature that is not HIS nature. This is our hell that we are being delivered from.

Psalms 16:10; For thou will not leave my soul in hell; (or will not leave my mind in hell, (mind, psyche, soul means same thing), neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Soul/Mind, they are one & the same. This is our hell we are being delivered from.

Psalms 116:3; The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell got hold upon me: I found trouble & sorrow. (This is David crying out to the Lord. He didn’t die, he was alive on this earth & found himself crying out from his hell. What was his hell? Trouble & sorrow!) ( I sure have had some of that in my life, how about you?

Psalms 86:13; For great is thy mercy toward me: & thou hast delivered my soul, (or mind), from the lowest hell. WOW, I guess there can be different degrees of hell. I know some of the hell I have been through, some were a lot hotter then others, but, I knew he was always with me, in love, in compassion, in encouragement never any condemnation. He was always teaching me His ways. always bringing me higher, always ascending closer to Him, always keeping me on the highway to Holiness. GLORY!

Psalms 16:10 For thou WILL NOT LEAVE MY SOUL IN HELL (He is delivering our soul from hell.) neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Psalms 139:8 If I ascend into heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in hell, You, are there. (The only hell there is the one we have created, by our thoughts, words & actions all our life. But, He never leaves us, as we look for deliverance.)

Now we all have known, the story of Jonah. God wanted Jonah to go to a certain place, Jonah, said no & didn’t go. For three days, found himself in the belly of a whale or big fish. Jonah 2:2 I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, & He heard me, out of the belly of HELL cried I, & thou heard my pray. vs.10 And the Lord spoke to the fish, (or the situation) vomited out Jonah upon dry land. Delivered him right out of his hell.) Read the first 3 chap. Of Jonah. Chap. 3, God asked Jonah again to go to Nineveh & he was obedient.

There is an amazing scripture in Jer.7:31.

This is a story about the children of Judah & how & how they set abominations in the house they called by his name. They burn their sons & daughters in the fire.

The Lord commanded them not to do it & even went a little further in His retribution.

It would never come into my heart. God changes not, He still would not send any of His children into a literal fire that never ends, God is a God of LOVE He sends fire (fiery trials,) in our lives to correct us. We will come through it without even the smell of smoke. Remember when God appeared to Moses in the burning bush. When God left, the bush was still a bush, the Fire did not consume it. The fire is HIS Glory!

Let me tell you, it will be a HIGH-WAY WHEN WE BECOME WHOLE IN HIM. To become Holy means to become WHOLE! Every time the word hell is used in the old testament, it is taken from the Hebrew word sheole meaning pit or grave. In the original text it was not associated with fire & torment. There is not a single time it was referred to as being eternal. The above scriptures clearly show us deliverance from hell. To be continued