One of the more difficult and misunderstood topics of the Bible is the doctrine God’s Word teaches us about Hell. As we open to Matthew 25, consider the Biblical Doctrine of Hell.
There are many opinions, many disputes, and many misunderstandings. As with almost all disputes about the Bible, each can be answered by a look at the actual passages and not merely by talking about them.
So today, we open to the greatest living authority on Hell, who spoke more about it than all the other writers of the Bible combined: His name is Jesus, and if you doubt that there will be an endless, conscious, horribly painful torment of un-forgiven sinners in a literal Hell, then understand that you’re protesting the clear, plain and simple teaching of Jesus Christ, and no one else.
Jesus is the Author of Hell, the Preacher of Hell, and the One who threatens humans with endless hellfire torments.
The conclusion that anyone who reads the New Testament Gospels can only be:
Jesus believed there was a literal Hell,
Jesus warned of a literal Hell, and
Jesus threatened humans with eternal conscious torment in a furnace of fiery wrath from an Almighty and Holy God.
Bottom line:
Jesus Authenticates Hell’s Horrors:
Jesus speaks more of Hell than anyone else in the Bible and more than all the Scripture writers combined.
He also describes Hell’s horrors and does so in more terrifying terms than all the Old Testament Prophets & Judges and the New Testament Apostles combined.
The Hell Jesus repeatedly and vividly describes was not some earthly condition of great pain or suffering to be endured, nor was it some temporary place of purging sins. Jesus boldly warned of a place of “unquenchable fire” (Mk. 9:43), where humans would be tormented in the next life (Luke 16:28), and where they would wail and gnash their teeth forever as they endured “eternal punishment” (Mt. 25:30, 46).
Jesus threatened people with Hell from start to finish in His ministry.
If He had not, it probably would have been easy for us throughout the centuries to think the Apostles & Prophets may have gotten it wrong. Eternal, conscious, endless torment is impossible to think about clearly. It revulses our sense of reasoning, overpowers our mental processing, deadens our sense of understanding, and then overloads us.
Hell is real, horrible, and very much a topic for Christ’s ministry.
Before we launch into the vivid lessons in Revelation about Hell, we will travel through the best source on the topic. Jesus Christ is the supreme authority on the topic of Hell. He is also the clearest and most profuse teacher on the topic. No other writer of Scripture speaks as often, or as deeply on the doctrines of Hell that our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus Explains Hell’s Duration (ROK-33)
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