Hell And The Lake Of Fire
The World To Be Segment 2
By John Torell
June 30, 2025
Unbelievers End Up In Hell When They Die
A person who is not saved has a soul and a dead spirit. If that person ask God for forgiveness and for Jesus to be his savior, then the spirit becomes alive, or is born again. Ephesians 2:1-6
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
The soul is the real person. The physical body is a vehicle that the soul must have to operate on earth. The soul has a brain and a soul body. When we think, it is done with our soul brain and then we express it via our physical brain that is in control of the physical body.
The teaching that the 7th Day’s Adventist (SDA) has, that when people die, their bodies and souls reside in the grave and will remain there until Jesus comes back, is a false doctrine cooked up by Ellen G. White, co-founder of the SDA church.
Jesus very clearly told us, that God is not a God of the dead, but of the living.
I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
The bosom of Abraham (Paradise)
When Jesus spoke about the rich man and Lazarus what took place after they died, He made it very clear that despite that their bodies were dead, both of them were very much alive; Lazarus in Paradise (Abraham’s bosom) and the rich man in hell. Both were cognitive, and the rich man was tormented in hell and asked Abraham for two favors: for him to send Lazarus with some water and then send him to the home of his father, so he could warn his brothers to live in such a way, that they would not end up in hell.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
And he said unto Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.
And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:
Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Hell is God’s Jail
Hell is God’s jail and offenders are kept there under severe torment until they will be brought up to earth to stand trial at the Great White Throne Judgment
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Hell is run by God’s holy angels and Satan and the fallen angels and demons are not in hell; they are currently on the earth. These holy angels are prison guards and they have no pity on the people in hell.
Once people reject Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and then die, there is no mercy or compassion for them. If Christians could understand this, they would be out witnessing day and night.
Every year 45.1 million people end up in hell. That means that the holy angels are processing 125,000 persons per day as they are brought to the gates of hell. I want you to think about the wailing of men, women and children as they stand in the processing center and waiting for their turn to be booked, given a number and then being led into hell itself, where they are placed in a humongous cavern, filled with billions of people in chains, with flames sweeping over them with a heat, that will make the person to scream himself into insanity.
And yet insanity is fleeing from them and they constantly see their lives as they lived on the earth prior to their death. Just like the rich man, they are thinking of their loved ones on earth, they do not know Jesus and in time, they will join them in hell.
I can see the so called Prophet Muhammad praying day and night that no more people would be converted to Islam. I can see Joseph Smith and Charles Taze Russel praying day and night, that the organizations they founded would disintegrate and that no more persons would become Mormons or JW witnesses. Every new convert will mean more pain for them.
I want you to imagine the sound of billions of people screaming at the top of their lungs as flames of fire are baking them in this cavern called hell. It is more than horrible; it is awful; it is beyond description.
Hell is filled with people dating back to the time before Noah’s flood. The Bible does not tell us if Adam and Eve repented of their sins and put their trust in the future Redeemer. We do know that Abel pleased God with his offering, but the Bible does not say if Cain repented of his sins and put his trust in the future Redeemer.
Since Adam and Eve lived more than a thousand years before they sinned, their children numbered in the billions. From the time they sinned to the Flood of Noah is another 1,676 years. That means that the population on earth at the flood would have been doubled. Currently there are some 7 billion people living on the earth.
Imagine some 7 billion people dying in the flood and all of them except Noah and his family ended up in hell.
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it
And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Enemies are meeting in hell
Hell is full of royalties, emperors, generals and other heads of states. Soldiers from the different armies from Babylon to Rome all ended up in hell when they died in battles. And they were surprised when they found out that all their enemies, whom they killed, were there too.
The French soldiers that served under Napoleon are cursing him, that they fought for nothing. And instead of finding Christ, they died in their sins.
The German, French, English and American soldiers that fought each other in World War I are cursing their leaders and telling them that they died for nothing in the trenches in France. Very few soldiers were born again that ended up in heaven.
Most soldiers who fought one another in World War II, American, Japanese, French, Germans, British, Canadian, Russian and Australian are looking at each other in hell, realizing that they died for nothing and their future is the Lake of Fire.
Currently unsaved soldiers from Russia and Ukraine meet each other in hell, when they are killed, and it must be awkward for Israeli soldiers who died without Jesus, meeting the Hamas fighters in hell. What did these Jewish soldiers and Muslim Hamas fighters gain? Nothing, they have a common future, the Lake of Fire.
Soldiers and the people from the different nations are cursing their rulers, who abused them and deceived them. The cry in hell is: “Why did not someone tell us about Jesus?
People who have been successful in life, rich, famous and looked up upon by people in the world, but they have never made Jesus Lord of their lives and when they die, they end up in hell. This is an eternal failure that will last for eternity.
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
The Lake of Fire
But there is more bad news, that is worse than the thought of hell, THE LAKE OF FIRE.
One day the flames will go out in hell and the billions of people will suddenly be without pain. Holy angels will shackle them and then bring them up to the surface of the earth, to stand trial at the Great White Throne Judgment. For a time there is no pain for them, as they stand watching Jesus. One by one they will be judged for what they had done on earth and then they will receive a sentence according to their sins.
Once they have been sentenced they are flown to the Lake of Fire, which is a closed system in space and here they will be shackled in their own space and then the flame is turned on, and the pain inflicted will be according to how evil they were on earth. But the worse punishment for them all is to know, that they shall live like this for eternity, the punishment will never end.
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
The Reign of the Antichrist
The general teaching of the reign of the Antichrist is seven years. This is what the Baptist, Evangelical and Pentecostal churches have adopted as its doctrine. That the number seven years is not found in the Bible does not matter, this has been repeated since around 1900. It is based upon the prophetic word given to the prophet Daniel and recorded in Daniel 9:24-27.
This is a theological construction, that cannot really be backed up by Scripture, but since it has been repeated for almost 124 years, it is now considered truth.
What does the Bible say about the length of the reign of the Antichrist? The apostle John was given the information, when he was in heaven, that the Antichrist shall reign for one hour.
And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Since there are 24 hours in a day for us humans, we will take 1000 years and divide it by 24 and we will come up with that one day for the God is 41.6 years in human time. That means that the Antichrist will rule for 41.6 years and then Jesus will come back and cast him into the Lake of Fire – Revelation: 19: 19-21
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST
The earliest prophecies in the Bible regarding the Antichrist are found in the book of Daniel, who lived from 623 -538 B.C.
Daniel was told that this person was going to be “vile” (wretchedly bad, highly offensive, repulsive, disgusting) and he will come in peaceably and obtain his kingdom by flatteries. He will not have a large army, but through deception shall he take power with a small amount of people. He will enter peaceably and then he will wreak destruction upon the inhabitants of the land – Daniel 11:21-24
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.
And with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant.
And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and shall become strong with a small people.
He shall enter peaceably even upon the fattest places of the province; and he shall do that which his fathers have not done, nor his fathers' fathers; he shall scatter among them the prey, and spoil, and riches: yea, and he shall forecast his devices against the strong holds, even for a time.
And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
And Solomon did evil in the sight of the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
8 And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the Lord God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
Solomon demanded that every year he was to receive 666 talents of gold and he built a throne, that had six steps leading up to the top and on each side were stationed 12 lions made of metal and a person standing before this throne, would see 666, his Kabalistic number
Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round behind: and there were stays on either side on the place of the seat, and two lions stood beside the stays.
And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps: there was not the like made in any kingdom.
Since 500 B.C. the Jews have 3 sets of books, the Old Testament, the Talmud and the Kabbala. The Kabbala consists of around 550 books, compared to the Bible’s 66.
THE TWO MESSSIAHS
When Jesus had been incarnated into a human body, He started His ministry around the time He was 30 years old. He became popular with the people, since He was healing the sick and casting out demons, but the Jewish leadership of the high priest, the Levites, Pharisees, Sadducees and Herodians rejected Him, because He claimed that He was God as well as man. The reason they demanded the crucifixion was that He claimed His divinity.
Solomon - The Kabbalah - Apostasy
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