Is there a Hell Fire?

As we heard in the sermon, the world has basically thrown away a lot of the basic building blocks of the truth. And one of those basic building blocks of truth is the misunderstanding in this age that if a person does not accept and love Jesus Christ in this life now, then they will suffer eternally a most painful life forever and ever in health. That, brethren, is clearly not an explanation of an eternal God full of mercy and love and full of graciousness. I remember once I was travelling in another country and I met a man part of the schedule visit, but I happened to be meeting at the airport, and this person with eyes, which just looked really weird, as if he had a different spirit. And if I was to tell you some of the things he said, you'd probably say that he had a different spirit. But anyway, I don't want to go through that, but I just want to mention one thing he told me, he said, that once we're in heaven, we have to see people suffer for eternity so that we will never want to go wrong.

And I said to myself, wow, what a spirit that is! What a spirit that is! You know, when we in the Kingdom, when we in the Kingdom, we'll want to do what's pleasing to God, because we love God and we love his way of life, because you know it's the only way! We'll never want to go back! And what's more, we don't want to see other people suffer eternity. If they have outrightly rejected in mercy, they can perish. And that's how God has in his plan. And indeed, God has given us a beautiful description of his plan through his Holy Days. And again, as we heard in the sermon, they are so important and basic for us to have a clear understanding of God's plan. Indeed, we do have a study guide, a Bible study guide, that clearly explains God's Holy Days and how they are, by studying the Bible, by proving from the Bible how they are a promise of hope for mankind. And so today, brethren, we want to study about one topic in the Bible, and that is a topic called Help. And we're going to look at some difficult scriptures in that theme, on that topic, and understand why they will be a help-fire. But it's not the way mankind understands it. So where is the truth? Oh, people say, oh, well, this person died and came back and got all these stories.

Where is the truth? The truth is in God's Word. If you turn with me to John 1717, it says very simply, the truth is not what some people may, in true honesty, maybe say, because understand they are liars and spirits that lie, but the truth is God's Word. 1717 says, sanctify them by your truth. Your Word is truth. God's Word, the Bible, is truth. And again, we all know, because when Paul was describing to Timothy, we all know that God has not given us the spirit of fear. As in 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7. I'm not going there, but you can make a note. Because what that man was telling me in airport is, well, you've got to have this fear so you obey God for eternity.

Thank God that God does not have that mindset.

Because God's mind, God's spirit, God's, let's call it, way of thinking, is not fear. But He has power. But the fruit of God's own spirit goes from love, joy, peace, etc. in self-control, which is moderation or a sound mind. And therefore, God's spirit is not one of fear, but of power, love, and some mightness.

And this wall today, Christian wall today, quite often likes to turn to one specific scripture. They all probably know it off by heart. But let's go back to it. And that's John 3.16. The wall, the Christian wall, continuously goes to that scripture, John 3.16. So let's go to it and read it. For God's shall love the wall that He gave His only begotten Son.

Yes, He did.

But look at what else it says. That whoever believes in Him should not live eternally in hell. No, that's not what it says. Should not perish, but have everlasting life.

So, what is health?

It is important for us to do a brief, let's call it a Bible study, on the word, health. And indeed, in the New Testament, there are three words in Greek that are translated into hell in English. Some versions don't translate them and just put the Greek word in. But other versions sometimes translate it and put the word, hell. So let's start with the first of those three words. The first one I want to refer to is Hades. H-A-D-E-S, Hades.

And let's look, starting by Acts 2, verse 29. Acts 2, verse 29. And here I was talking about David, Acts 2, verse 29.

Man and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the Patriot of David. That is both dead and buried. And his tomb is with us to this day. David is dead and buried. And his tomb is with us today. And look a bit further in verse 34. And he says, for David did not ascend into the heavens. David is not in heaven.

Why? Because he's dead.

He's in the grave. He's not in heaven.

Going a little bit back on the same book, in the same chapter, just to verse 27. It says, speaking about David, it says, For you will not leave my soul in Hades. Some versions say, you will not leave my soul in hell.

So David's soul would not be left in hell. Well, for one, then it means his soul is now in hell.

So we need to understand what it's talking about.

This is from Hebrew word, it's also used for Hades. It's Shaul. That's from Psalm 1610. It's quoted from Psalm 1610. And it says, David's saying, that God, you will not leave my life potential. Let's put it this way, my capability to live again in the grave. In other words, he's admitting that he will be resurrected. And indeed, now continuing that verse talking about Christ, says, nor will you allow your Holy One to see corruption. The Holy One offers his Christ and they do not see corruption. So he died. He was in Hades. He was in hell for three days and three nights. But did not see corruption. In other words, your body doesn't corrupt just in three days and three nights. He was changed. Let's continue reading a little bit more in 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians chapter 15. 1 Corinthians 15 is called the resurrection chapter. So let's look at 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

And we start reading in verse 54. 1 Corinthians 15 verse 54. So when it is corruptible, it's put on incorruption. You know, this human corruptible body has put on the incorruptible body and this mortal body which dies has put on immortality, which means currently we don't have immortality. Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. Oh, death, where is your sin? Oh, Hades, oh, hell, where is your victory?

So you'll not be in hell forever.

So when we die, we go to hell. Sounds terrible, doesn't it? In other words, we go to the grave until we're resurrected. In other words, we go to Hades.

But that hell has not got a victory because we'll be resurrected, because Christ died for us. We'll be resurrected. Let's look at a little bit more explaining about that. In Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 10. Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 10.

Ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse 10. It says, Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might. For there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave. Shoe in Hebrew. Hades in Greek. Or in other words, in hell, where are you going?

So when you and I are in the grave, buried and waiting for resurrection, there was when you and I are in hell, waiting for resurrection, there's no says, there's no might. You don't have any strength there. You can't do any work when you and I are dead. We have no knowledge. We have no wisdom. Well, that's pretty obvious. When you're dead, you're dead. Let's read a little bit more in the same chapter, but in verse 5 and 6.

So it's Ecclesiastes 9 verse 5 and 6. For the living know they will die. Now, you and I know that we will die. If you don't know that, then maybe we need to talk a little bit more. But we know that we still know like that we're going to die. But the dead know nothing. The dead. And they have no more reward. For the memory of them is forgotten. You and I got to a graveyard, and there's stones there for people died 300, 400, 500 years ago.

We don't know if you know who they are. The memory is gone. But God has not forgotten it. God has not forgotten it. For the memory of them is forgotten. Also, they're alive. And those people are dead in the graveyard. They don't have love. They don't have hatred. They don't have anything. They perished until the resurrection. Nevermore will they have a shed in anything than another sun. Until the resurrection, of course. So when we're dead, there's no thinking. The speaking process is like saying it's frozen. Stop. Stop. Look at Psalms 146, verse 4.

Psalm 146, verse 4. Psalm 146, verse 4. His Spirit departs. He returns to His earth. In that very day, His plan's spirit. Ha! The Spirit departs! Ha! It's a soul goes to heaven. No, no, it doesn't say soul. It's a spirit. The Spirit leaves, not the soul. But it is important for us to understand there's a distinction. He says, His Spirit departs.

He returns to His earth. In other words, the body, the human body, has a spirit. The spirit of man in man. We'll go a little bit more into that in a moment. When a person dies, that spirit goes back to God, who gave it, and he holds it. Think of it as like a recording, like a flash drive, or a CD, or a DVD, which records all your capabilities of thought, your character, everything. But that DVD, or that flash drive, or whatever it is, is just a recording. It's a spiritual recording, exactly how it is. I do not know. God knows. But it is.

That's probably the best analogy I can explain. Now, when you get a new computer, and you take that flash drive, and you put it back into there, voila! There's your programs, and there's your data again, and you've got everything back exactly the way it was. But while it was saved in this flash drive, there wasn't doing anything. It was stopped. It's just a recording. So let's look at this a little bit more. At the beginning, God made man out of the dust of the earth. Think about it. He made man out of the dust, and what a man was, was basically a corpse.

Was basically a corpse. Then God breathed the breath of life into that being. And it was a spirit capability into that being, Adam and Eve, and it became alive. Look at that in Genesis 2. Genesis 2. Genesis 2. Verse 7. Genesis 2. Verse 7. The Lord God formed a man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

And when he breathed, man became a living being. Man became a living being. Before that, it was just a corpse. Then God breathed the breath of life, the spirit of man in man. And that breath of life, then man became a living being. Some Bibles, some versions translate that man became a soul. That's what a soul is. It's a living being. A soul is a being. There's not life in it.

When you die, you're no more a living being. You're dead. So you're no more a soul. So you are a living being when you're alive. You are a soul when you're alive. When you're dead, you're no longer living. You're no longer a soul. So it's not a question that you have a soul. No. You are a soul. You are a living being.

Well, you do have. You have a spirit, the breath of life that God has given you. And when you die, that spirit goes back to God and he stores it into a filing cabinet, a spiritual filing cabinet with your relatives and kids put together, I guess. You know, it says when Abram died and Isaac and Jacob, they went back to their parents, to their families. So it must be nicely organized, stored in a little filing, spiritual filing cabinet where the families are held together. I don't know how. God knows. But I'm just trying to use some sort of analogy to make it simple to understand.

Look at Job 32 verse 8. Job 32 verse 8.

Job 32 verse 8.

It's taking me a little longer to turn to scriptures today because I've got a new Bible here that I'm using. So, and these pages are simple.

Job 32 verse 8. It says, but there is a spirit in man. There is that breath of life that was breathed into man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding. You know what? That spirit of man in man is that breath from God. It's that capability to make your brain a mind, to make your human brain a mind.

A thinking human mind able to think of things like a human being.

So, in other words, that spirit of man that he has, it says, gives him understanding, gives the human brain the power to think.

And now we have got a New Testament where it expounds that a little bit further in 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11. 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11.

1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11. And then it says, For what man knows the things of man except the spirit of the man which is in him.

You and I, as a human being, we know the things of human beings. In other words, appreciate lovely music, appreciate lovely flowers, appreciate one another, understand concepts of time, things that only human beings can appreciate because we have a spirit of man which is the spirit of man.

It's a spirit of man. So, we experience what man knows the things of man except the spirit of the man which is in him. So, you and I can only comprehend human things because we have a human, let's call it, genetic capability, spiritual capability that enables us to think like human beings. Which comes from God, which is the spirit of man in man. And the analogies, they are taken a little bit further. Now, think about it, maybe before I take it a little bit further, let me take it a little bit backwards. If you want to try and teach your pates, maths and calculus, I think you're going to have a little challenge.

Because your puppy does not have the spirit of man in him.

So, all your efforts are going to be in vain. I mean, you can go and have a nice PowerPoint presentation about calculus to your puppy. And I don't think you'll ever work that out. You can drive hard. You can have a better presentation. You can do it better. You can have it more high-tech!

But likewise, if people don't have God's spirit guiding them, if you can have all the high-tech presentations or beyond today, if God is not working with that mind, they will not get it. And that's what it says. You can continue reading in verse 11. It says, Even so, no one, no human being knows the things of God except the spirit of God. So, unless God's spirit is working with that person to help that person comprehend it, they will not get it.

I don't think it can be any plainer than that. But anyway, back to the spirit of man. Mankind can only comprehend the things of mankind because of the spirit of man which is in him and her.

So, let's go back to Ecclesiastes, and now to chapter 12, verse 7. Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 7.

Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 7.

Then the dust shall return to the earth as it was. When you and I die, our bodies, which are made of clay dust, will return to the earth, will corrode back into the earth.

And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

So, when you and I die, when our beloved ones died, the physical human body of the time will get become God-correct. But God will take that spirit.

That recording of what the person learned, what the person is, how the person thinks, of his character, of his personality, is saved in that spiritual filing cabinet until the day of the resurrection. Look at Acts chapter 7, verse 59.

Acts chapter 7, verse 59. And so they found Stephen, you know the story of Stephen, and then they killed him. And as he was calling on God and saying, look who's he praying to? He was praying to, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

He knew he was going to die. But he asked God through the Word, the Son of God, to hold, to save his spirit, till the time of the resurrection.

And indeed, it's the same thing that Christ did. Think about it. In Luke 23, verse 46.

Just before he died. And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, he said, Father, in your hands I commit my spirit.

Having said this, he breathed his last.

The breath of life had gone back to the Father. His spirit was held until his resurrection, which is three days and three nights after that.

And as we read, a little early in Acts 2, verse 27, where it says, He was not left, the Holy One, to not see corruption. He was there, indeed, for three days and three nights. But his spirit was, put another way, saved. You know, like when you do a backup, you save, it was saved. Which means, that Word document that you saved, you haven't lost it. It has not ceased to exist, because you can restore it, and you've got everything there. So Christ, having died for three days and three nights, He did not cease to exist. He's eternal. He was not alive, but His life potential was saved, till He had a new body, and that life potential was put on, and He continued living. That He did not cease to exist. He's eternal.

His life potential was not destroyed. You see, your life potential is only destroyed at the second death. So you're not a king that can kill the body, but cannot kill your life potential.

So, when the Bible talks about Hades, that is basically the grave, a temporary position that you and I are in, until we resurrect it.

Our human spirit is saved, yes, in heaven, somewhere. God's got it. And when you and I are resurrected, we get a brand new, spanking, healthy body, no handicaps, no more of those aches and pains, because it's a brand new version 10. No, whatever. It's a brand new model. Perfect.

And that spirit is restored, rebooted, in the modern language, rebooted into that new body. And voila! It's a healthy, fresh spirit body that they may have, sooner the better. So, Hades is just that grave that the body goes into temporarily. The body is destroyed. It doesn't matter. God just makes you a better body. He's all powerful.

If you decide to be cremated, that's okay. You have not hindered God's power. You have not hindered God's power.

Because in the end, your body will perish and will corrupt you.

So that's one word for hell in the Bible. There's another word for hell, which is in 2 Peter 2, verse 4. And this is the only place where the Greek word is used in the Bible, in 2 Peter 2, verse 4. So let's look at that. 2 Peter 2, verse 4.

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cost them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment. This word hell is a Greek word called Tartarou. Tartarou is a place of restraint. Or put it another way, the word place is actually correct. I should have said it's a condition of restraint.

It's a condition of restraint. These angels that have sinned, they did not stay in their own, let's call it, what they should be doing. They rebelled. God put them into a condition of restraint that says, you can only do this and no more. Thank God. Thank God. They are restrained, and they can do no more. It says, reserved, it says, in chains of darkness, they held in this position, in spiritual chains, not physical chains, of course, some spiritual capability that God has, and it says, reserved for judgment, because in their say, you and I will judge the angels. So they reserved for judgment. If you look at Jude 6, it explains that a little bit further, Jude 6, and says, and the angels, Jude 6, sorry, it's not chapter, verse, there's only one chapter, there's no chapter, so, Jude 6, and the angels would not keep the proper domain. In other words, they not stay in the condition that God designed them to be in. They rebelled, but left their own abode. He has reserved in a velocity of chains.

And the darkness, for judgment of the great day. Yeah, that capability of holding them, you can't destroy them until God releases it. That's why it's everlasting until God decides to let it go. And that time is the judgment of the great day. So they will be judged. There will be a day of judgment for them and for mankind. So the second word used for hell in the Bible is tarsaru. So one, it basically means the grave. And the second one is a condition of restraint, waiting for judgment, within those selling angels, which are now demons, are held. And they cannot get out of that because they have a lasting change. In other words, they can't get out of what they are restricted to. Thank God! Imagine, help them, they'll create. So there is the second word, and then there's a third word for hell in Greek, which is called gehenna. And that comes from the word, a valley of hinem, and that means gehenna, valley of hinem, which is a place near Jerusalem, next to Jerusalem, where rubbish, it's like a rubbish dump, where a fire would be going on and the rubbish would be burnt. And that fire would be smoldering there all the time and burning. Rubbish and including dead bodies which would be thrown in there as well.

And that symbolic of the gehenna fire, the fire of the second day, wherein sinners will die or perish forever. In other words, because Christ died for mankind, every human being will resurrect, good and bad, good and bad. When they resurrect, they'll give them a new body, and the spirit is put into them. If they're in the first resurrection, that's a spiritual body which will have eternal life. If it's the second resurrection a thousand years later, there will be a physical body left for a period of probation. Now, some of them would have already made up that too bad, so they don't need that period of probation. God knows who they are, and then they will be resurrected for when the time of final judgment is pronounced. That is described by Christ. Let's look at a few examples here in Matthew chapter 5. Matthew chapter 5 verse 22. Matthew 5 verse 22. That is often the sermon on the Mount. I mean, very often after the Beatitudes, during the part of the sermon on the Mount. But I say to you, Yahweh is talking about, you have said you shall not murder. Verse 22 says, But I say to you, whoever is angry with his brother, without a cause, shall be in danger of judgment. And whoever says this brother, Raka, shall be in danger of the Council. But whoever says, you fool, shall be in danger of hellfire. The Greek word there is Gehenna. Shall be in danger of Gehenna. Another example is, for instance, in verse 29. And it says, if your right eye causes you to send, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than your whole body to be cast into hell. Gehenna. That's that second day.

Another example, verse 30. And if your right hand causes you to send, cut it off and cast it in from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than your whole body to be cast into hell. Gehenna.

So, there will be a time when there is going to be a judgment. And so, we're either going to be judged or receive mercy. Yes. If we receive mercy, there will not be that judgment. But in that judgment, at the end of that probation period, if you don't repent and if you don't change at the end of that probation period, which we think probably a hundred years, but at the end of that, if you're still rebellious and you don't want slime, and you stubborn! And you're resisting it with gnashing of teeth, And that's why in Matthew 10, verse 28. Matthew 10, verse 28. It says, Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill your life potential, your potential to live eternally. How God holds that? Holds that to your spirit. But run and fear him who is able to destroy both your life potential and your body in the hand of fire. In other words, that life potential which is held by the spirit of man and man, which means God can destroy his spirit. Because that's what will happen. The spirit of man and man will be destroyed by the hand of fire. And so understanding therefore, understand the meaning of words, how can be translated from Hades, which is just burial, your dead body buried in the grave. Yes, it's a condition of restraint for angels. And yes, there will be a hellfire at the end in judgment. Understanding that clearly, it all fits beautifully with God's plan of salvation, which is explained by his Holy Days. That's why when we throw away God's Holy Days and the step in that, we are throwing away our only hope. So I appreciate that in the sermon. And now let's look at a few difficult scriptures that people use. One of them is about Lazarus and the rich man. So let's explain some of those difficult scriptures. And that's in Luke 16. Now, I'm not going to read the whole section from verse 19 to 31. You can read that in your own time, or you'll probably know it. But basically, Luke 16, starting from verse 31, a paper paper, starting from verse 19 to verse 31. What do we have is a parable. Now, some people say, Oh, well, that's the true story. It's a parable. What is a parable? A parable is a simple story used to illustrate a lesson, either moral or spiritual. A parable is a story used to illustrate a point. A lesson. All parables, all analogies, if you take them too far, they actually break down. So you've got to be careful of that. But take the basic things of the parable to get a lesson from it. And now we have a man, and one was rich, and the one was poor, and the rich never cared about the poor man. And so there's a lot in it, a lot in it, because Christ is talking about us in a context. You see, you've got to understand the context. You see, Christ was talking to the Pharisees, and they were a bunch of rebels. And so in that context, you can see that in verse 14, he says, uh, now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard these things and they derided him.

And so Christ gives them this parable to bring out the point.

To bring out a point. And so the point is, yeah, you Pharisees, you think you're rich, you think you know it all. You fall off spiritual knowledge, proud and arrogant. And you better than this poor man that he was humble and spiritually speaking, you recognize that he didn't have at all. And you just looked at him in an arrogant way. So as an analogy, it's beyond money. It's really talking about spiritual richness, not physical richness. It went right over the head. Gone. But anyway, now we have verse, verse 22. And so it was the beggar died. So what happened when he did? You buried! Dead! He's buried. And he says, and he was carried by angels to Abram's bosom. In other words, when does that happen? You know, no, no! It's the first resurrection. And he was in the first resurrection. Because, yes, maybe the Pharisees thought they were rich, but spiritually speaking. But this beggar, spiritually speaking, was actually very close to God. So, nowhere in the Spirit was giving kind of a time dimension. And that's where people go wrong. So not giving as a time dimension. So in due time, when, obviously, when the angels resurrect and put it into Abram's bosom, in other words, in a close relationship with Abram, which is in the first resurrection to be the children of God and being part of that inheritance through Abram, the rich man also died and was buried. He also died and buried.

And then he says, he was being, and he was in Hades. And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes. Or, as some version may say, he was in Hades, and he lifted, and he was in torments, and he lifted up his eyes. So it depends what sequence. But the point is, he was in Hades. He was in the grave. He lifted up his eyes. How do you lift up your eyes from the grave?

A resurrection. That's what it is. A resurrection. When does that resurrection happen? After the thousand years. You see, now, where the eye is giving a description of the plan of God and timing and when all these things happen. So he was dead, and now he was resurrected. And now, he looks up, and now he's thinking, because when you're dead, we know you can't think. We went through those scriptures. When you're dead, you can't think. We went through those scriptures. So now, for him to be able to think, and to be in torments in Hades alive, and what is he? He is confronted by the end of fire. He's confronted by the end of fire. Or be late for fire. And you can go into Revelation, run about chapter 20, where it says there's a first resurrection, and then a thousand years later, then the others will be a later resurrection. And basically, what do we have? We have Abram, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the faithful ones in the first resurrection. Spirit beings, eternal life. And you have the others, in a second or third resurrection, and they're still human beings. So there's basically a chasm, there's a gap, there's a difference between these and the others. Because ones are spiritual, living eternally, and the others are physical, and particularly this one, which is facing, that's unrepentant, and he's facing the end of fire.

Now, look at continue reading. And he saw, lift up his eyes, and it was resurrected. And he was still imagine, because he saw the end of fire coming upon him. And he says, and he saw Abraham afar off, unless he was in the bosom. Why was he far off? Because they were in the first resurrection, and spirit beings, and they did not have. So far off, there was no way of getting from one to the other. Verse 24, then he cried and said, Father Abraham, and most enemies, and sent Lazarus, that he made the tongue of his finger in water, and called my tongue. Now, if you are burning in fire, your old body is burning, why do you only want the tip of water in your tongue?

That's an interesting one. Just a little tip of water in your tongue. That's an interesting one.

But anyway, he's tormented, because he knows he's going to die forever. So, you can see Isaac Parable is bringing up a point to the Pharisees. He's talking to the Pharisees.

And in fact, a few chapters earlier in Luke 13, verse 27 through 29, Luke 13, verse 27 through 29, he said, but he will say, I'll tell you, I tell you, I do not know you, where you from? Depart from me, you workers of iniquity.

And there will be weeping and mashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom, and you yourselves trashed out, waiting for the gain of fire. And so, that's what he's talking about.

We're going to... oh, by God, we're going to do what's pleasing to God, which is a way of love.

Otherwise, you're going to be thrust out into the lake of fire, and you can read in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1 through 4, where it says, remember the law, because those people will be ashes under your feet, gone, ashes. So, the parable of Lazarus and the rich man, he's not a parable about going to an eternal hell, no. The way people understand burning in a fire, forever, forever, no. But it's an example to Pharisees, which were spiritually arrogant, pointing out their need to be spiritual, humble, and putting on the beatitudes, which start from humility, and to be like Christ. And therefore, that parable is bringing a very important lesson for eternal life. And the point is, those people were practicing iniquity. They were rejecting God's laws, the foundations, as we heard in the sermonette, they were rejecting those foundations. So, that's one difficult scripture people use. There's another difficult scripture people use. It's about these immortal wounds, these bugs that never die, they're mortal.

Have you ever heard about these immortal bugs? That's in Mark chapter 9, verse 43. And 44, look at that. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, maimed, rather than having both hands to go to hell. Then, of course, you've got to get in a fire, into the fire that shall never be quenched.

How is it never quenched? How is it never quenched? Because it doesn't, it just lets it burn out. It's not quenched. If I take a piece of paper and I burn it, and I let it burn, and I don't quench it, after a while, it'll stop burning.

But I didn't quench it. It just burns out. So, but it's convenient. Where their worm never does not die.

Well, it's not the bodies that don't die. It's the worm that does not. It's their worm.

It's not the bodies. It's the worm.

Those are garabs or maggots. They larva. You know, you've got flies. You know, when you've got dead bodies and things attach, you've got flies and they yak. And those flies, what they do? They lay eggs. And those eggs become larva, worms.

And those worms eat that rubbish.

And then what they become? They pop it. They become like a little cocoon thing. And then out of that, they become flies. And then the cycle continues. Do the worms die? No! Why? Because they pop it and they become flies. They go through a metamorphosis. Therefore, the worms never die. Not that they're mortal. The flies die. But the worms, well, maybe you see a worm and you squash it and kill it. But the point is, it will reach an hole. But the point is, it will reach an hole. But the point is, it will reach an hole. The process, those worms pop it, become like a little cocoon thing. And then out of that, flies come out.

Look at Isaiah 66, verse 24. Isaiah 66, verse 24.

Isaiah 66, verse 24.

And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the man. So the body, the corpses, the man have died, the corpses. Who have transgressed against me. For their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched. And they shall be in a boron, to all flesh. But the men are corpses. They dead. But the worms are just part of that process of flies and they lay eggs, and those eggs, you get worms, and those worms pop it. And from that, they become flies again, and the worms don't die. And the fire is not quenched, because it stays there burning, burning, burning, until it burns out.

So, that difficult scripture can be explained. And no, it does. For instance, look at Revelation chapter 10, I think part of it, chapter 20, verse 10. Revelation 20, verse 10. Revelation 20, verse 10.

The devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone with the beast and the false prophet. Look carefully in your Bible at the word, are, and tell me if it's in italics or not.

And if it's in italics, you know that it means it's not there in the original, but it was added by the translators. So, the translators, to try and make it easy for you to understand, they put are. But you know what they did? They made it more difficult for you to understand, because what they should have pleased is where. They were thrown into there a thousand years before, and now they're dead! They burned! So, the beast and the false prophets were thrown in there a thousand years before. But now, they're not alive there, burning for a thousand years. No, they're corpses. They're dead, and their worms go there, and the flies, and a thousand years later, they're gone! They're burned! They're where? And they will be tormented day and night forever. Okay, today, I'll say proudly, talking about the devil. But it's interesting to see forever and ever. The word forever is E-I-S-I, which means into. And the ever is the word eion, which means world or age.

Let me give you some examples of when that word eion is also used. It's translated the act ever. So forever, the first forever is into, into eion, which is age, into the ages. Look at Matthew 12, verse 32. Matthew 12, verse 32.

See, that's the problem sometimes with translations. You have a good intent, but maybe you translate it incorrectly. And that can happen. Matthew 12. I know, I translate the law. Sometimes you try the best, but sometimes it works. I could have done better and it can go back. But look at it. Matthew 12, verse 32. It says, anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him. But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven him, either he this eion or even age to come.

So yeah, I used inverse age. But there, in Revelation 20.10, they used the word forever, or rather ever. That's interesting, isn't it? I'm going to give you another example. Matthew 13, verse 22. We'll just speak to Matthew just to give you an example, not for us to be going around all over and waste a lot of time.

But let's just Matthew 13, verse 22. Now, you receive seed among the thorns, is he who hears the word. And the cares of this world. Do you know what the word world is in Greek? Aion. The cares of this world. And the symbol of riches. Chapter word. Chapter word. And it becomes unproof. The cares of this Aion. Of this wall, of the society, of this age.

That's interesting, isn't it? That's interesting. While we're there, look at verse 39. Matthew 13, verse 39. The enemy who sowed them is a devil. The harvest is the end of the age, Aion. And the reapers are the angels. That's interesting. You see, yeah, translated Aion into age. In Revelation 20, verse 10, they translated whatever he had. Hmm. That's interesting, isn't it? Look at verse 40. The next verse. Therefore all the cares are gathered and burnt in the fire. So it will be at the end of this Aion. Wow. Interesting, isn't it? Look at verse 49.

And so it will be at the end of the Aion. So, Brethren, that's enough to mention just a few examples. So another one people use, for instance, Jude 7. Look at Jude 7. Jude 7. Jude 7. As Solomon Gomorrah and the cities around him in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone off the strange flesh, are set forth, and as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

So if you go to the area where Solomon Gomorrah is there today, there's a big fire still going on, right? No, it's not. Because that eternal fire, what it is, is the result or the outcome of that fire is an eternal result.

A permanent result. Look at another one in Revelation 14 verse 11. Revelation 14 verse 11. Revelation 14 verse 11. Now, if these few errors creep in into the King James Version, imagine how much they've crept in to the other versions. How much more they get worse? And look at Revelation 14 verse 11. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever. And they're gone. So, brethren, so there are some difficult scriptures. Some of them it's because the way we've translated them. And some of them it's because we need to look at it as just a parable.

Some of them is we must interpret because it's the worms which don't die because they go through a metamorphosis and become something else. And so, in the end, why is there a hellfire? It's because God, in His love, does not want people to suffer pain forever and ever and ever and ever in a fire. You allow them to just be gone quickly in mercy. Yes, it will be torment because they see it's coming. There'll be gnashing of teeth.

But God is merciful. He will not allow them to suffer forever. Imagine if you see it's one of your relatives that refused to repent. If you are living eternity and seeing your relative suffering forever, would you be happy? Of course not. But if you know that person do not want to repent, he says, I can't find, just gone, and that's it. He was given every single possible chance, as it's explained by God's plan through the Holy Days, to have eternal life. Brethren, what is the Unpartnable Sin? The Unpartnable Sin is the sin that does not want to be repented of. It's somebody that will utterly, knowingly, and willingly does not want to repent.

Hopefully, the majority of mankind in the Second Resurrection, when they see the love of God and understand the plan of God, they will not utterly, and knowingly, and willingly be in that position, but rather they will want to choose life rather than death. Brethren, we all are given by God such loving care, because we need to surrender our will to God's will to His way of life.

It's only if you and I refuse knowingly, utterly, and willingly refuse as rebels. Only then, God's are no other option. But God wants you, me, and all our beloved relatives that today don't yet understand that one day we will. God wants them to have eternal life. What a loving, merciful God we have.