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“And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments.
. .” Luke 16:23
What you're about to read is hard to believe. . .
We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell.
We'll present documented evidence for a place called
hell. Don't take what you're going to read lightly. If
what you read is true — YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER!
Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond
Death's Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a
specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular
Disease, resuscitated many people who had been
clinically dead. Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist,
"considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing
more than a painless extinction". But something happened
in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of
Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and
screaming — descending down into the flames of hell:
"Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the
patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and
pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . .
Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He
had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in
death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing
sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was
perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was
"on end."
Then still another strange thing happened. He said,
"Don't you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go
back to hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally
occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in
a panic like I had never seen before."
(Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson
Inc., 1979) p. 3).
Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his
screams and saw the look of terror on his face could
doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a
place called hell!
The Bible continually warns of a place called hell.
There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone
which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references
were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!
In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of
hell:
22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,
and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 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.
25 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.
26 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.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that
thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto
them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
(Luke 16:22-28)
HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in
this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into
a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing
of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF
FIRE."
THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into
hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, " . . .
seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in HELL"
When Jesus Christ died His soul went into hell.
And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says:
"For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the
whale's belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH. "
The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth!
Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended first into the
LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH."
On page 85 of Beyond Death’s Door, Dr. Rawlings writes
patients who described hell said, ". . . this place
seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some
way."
Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees
the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:
"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell,
is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is
also called 'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21)
and 'the abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .
The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be
real and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. .
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To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows
much more about the earth's interior than is actually
the case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be
about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with
much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people
who have ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies
are the same size as their physical bodies."
(Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220)
The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article
entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface,
Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have
recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A
TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"
Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a
lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming
everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount
St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by
reporters, "when HELL surfaced upon the earth." The
book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an
erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".
Thousands of years ago, the Bible described a place
called hell in the heart of the earth that matches
exactly what science is discovering.
YES! THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL!
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