What is Hell Part 2
God does not send any man to hell. He does not decide the judgment that any man enters; but whatever a man sews that shall he also reap. Every man, as far as his own sin (which is unbelief) is concerned, chooses & creates his own place of judgment & correction, hell if you please. God does not make the final decision—man does!
Isa. 30:18-19 Isaiah spoke of the covenant with death being disannulled & the agreement with hell being broken. The over flowing scourge; sufferings, judgment & hell are given ONLY to cause man to understand the report; Once man understands the report; the plan & purpose of God, & understands His true nature of love, mercy, & forgiveness, he can begin his ascension out of realms of suffering. It is the new Day where we come into the Rest of God.
There is a deliverance from hell, but only to those who allow the process of purification to be completed.
Slay your dragons with compassion & love your opposition unconditionally.
Be wise as a serpent, but harmless as a dove. Agree with your adversary quickly,
Out of this attitude the Son of the New Day will arise in your hearts with healing in His wings.
The religious mind insists upon its own natural interpretation of the things of the Spirit, yet the Scripture plainly teaches they must be spiritually discerned. If man would refuse to listen to the ignorance of man’s doctrines, he would clearly see that it never entered the heart or mind of God to put man into a place of torment & burn with a literal fire, time without end.
No matter what our natural children did, we could never turn against them & torment them forever. If man, yet in an evil consciousness, knows how to give good gifts to his children, how much more does our Heavenly Father!
Rom 8:20 Amplified “ For the creation (nature) was subject to frailty—to futility, condemned to frustration—not because of some intentional fault on its part, But by the will of Him who subjected it, yet with the hope that nature (creation) itself will be set free from its bondage to decay & corruption (and gain entrance into the glorious freedom of God’s children.
Every time the word hell is used in the old testament it is taken from the Hebrew word shehole meaning pit or grave. In the original text it was associated with fire or torment. There is not a single time it was referred to as being eternal, in fact there are Scriptures that express deliverance out of hell:
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Psalms 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me, & thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.”
Prov. 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.
Religion will fight for a hell that burns literal fire, time without end. The scripture tells us in 1Cor. 10:13 with every temptation comes a way out of escape. God’s mercy will take man out of hell & restore him back into the providence of God, once the processing has brought him to the place of repentance (repentance means to turn around from the place you were going, take a new path in God. How awesome & forgiving is that). It is in hell; the place of judgment & correction that man learns the folly of his own wisdom & turns to God in His great mercy is ever ready to award forgiveness & restitution.
In the new testament there are three Greek words that was translated hell in the King James Bible.
1st.gehenna, meaning valley of the son of Hinnon, corresponding word is gahee, meaning a gorge or valley. This was an actual place used as a garbage dump, also the bodies of executed criminals were put there. It was a place where the fire never went out. When Jesus spoke of gehenna, or hell it was symbolic. Many times we don’t understand scriptures because they were written in the terminology of the customs of that day. When Jesus spoke of hell fire, He was speaking of judgment & correction. He symbolically spoke of a place where garbage was dumped. Discern the profound truth contained in this statement.
Hell is a place where all the garbage man has filled himself with is burned up.
Matt:22:33 Ye serpents, ye generations of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell.
Jesus was speaking to the religious order of His day rebuking them of hypocrisy that appeared outwardly righteous, yet inwardly was filled with iniquity. He was saying they would be unable to escape the place of correctio9n that would judge & condemn their self-righteous evil deeds.
Another word in the original text that was translated hell is hades, meaning the unclean place of departed souls. Hades corresponds to the Hebrew word shehole, simply meaning a grave or pit.
Rev.1:18 I am he that liveth & was dead; behold I am alive for evermore, amen & have the keys of hell & death.
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These are Jesus words he has the keys to death & hell. A key both locks & unlocks. A key also carries the meaning of an answer or a way out. Jesus is the only key, or way out of hell! Just as Jesus is the door, or entrance, to the Father & all that enter any other way are thieves & robbers. He holds the key to both unlock or lock man from judgments & corrections presented as a place of literal fire, where man is punished time without end.
Rev. 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, death & hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their work.
Sea, symbolically means a people, coming out of death & hell & now being judged & cleansed by the fire.
Matt.:25:46 Jesus speaks of everlasting punishment .
Word everlasting comes from a Greek word, aion meaning an age.
Word punishment comes from a Greek word meaning chastisement.
The meaning of chastisement is to correct by punishment or suffering discipline & refine. The scripture is speaking of an age lasting chastisement , not time without end. It will only bring about a change of our hearts.
Jesus spoke of those who blaspheme the Holy Spirit in this world or the world to come The word world comes from the same Greek word aion which also translated forever or ever & ever. Religion has held the fear of blaspheming the
Holy Ghost over people for over 2000, yrs. Jesus was dealing with the people of that day who attributed his works with Satan. He said they would not be forgiven in the world or age He was speaking from which was the age of the law, nor in the world or age to come, the age of grace. Two ages of chastisement & correction. We are in a new age that is dawning, the age of righteousness, they will be released from judgments which have held them in captivity. Glory to God we are set free.
Heb. 6:1-2 Tells us to leave the principles of the doctrine of Christ, to go on to perfection. Perfection simply means completion. Let us stop wandering in the wilderness of religious confusion & allow the Spirit to complete God’s plan & purpose, first in us, then in all creation.