(21) IS THERE FIRE IN HELL ?

(Matt.9:47-48)- If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Where their worm (Torment) dieth not, and the fire is not quenched./ (Matt.13:41-42)- The Son of man (Jesus) shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth./ Luke 16:1 begins a Parable with 'There was a certain rich man'. LUKE 16:19 begins another Parable with ' There was a certain rich man'. This is the Parable of Lazarus and the rich man. Some consider this a true story, but people who die have no intermediate body. A person's spirit leaves his body at death. The spirit of a saved person then is absent from the body and present with the Lord, in Paradise. -(2 Cor.5:8). The spirit of an unsaved person, at death, is reserved in Hell until the Great White Throne judgement at the end of Jesus' millenial reign. After kneeling before Jesus for judgement he will be cast into the Lake of Fire. (Rev.20:13-14)- The sea gave up the dead, death and hell gave up the dead and they were judged according to their works. Death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. / In the Hebrew Bible (Our Old Testament) The word 'Sheol' is used 65 times. Sheol means 'place of the dead'. Sheol was translated into English 31 times as Grave, 31 times as Hell and 3 times as Pit. So, hell, pit and grave are the same place. The spirit of old Testament Saints could not go to heaven like our spirit can, because their sins had not yet been paid for by Jesus' death on the cross. So, the spirits of the saved and unsaved dead were in hell (The Grave). But, the spirits of the Saints were also in Hell, but separated and in 'Paradise'. When a person dies, there is no time, as far as they're concerned. Regardless of how long a person's spirit has been in Paradise waiting for the resurrection, it's as if he just closed his eyes and then immediately opened his eyes to see, all of us who are saved, there together with Jesus,and we are all rising to meet Jesus in the air at the Rapture. (Luke 23:42-43)- Jesus told the thief on the cross, "Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise". (John 20:17)- At Jesus' resurrection, Mary Magdalene was the first to see him. When she recognized Jesus, Jesus told her, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father". Jesus had been to Paradise, but He had not yet been to heaven. (Eph.4:8-10)- When he ascended 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./ There are some who believe that Jesus went to Hell to suffer in the flames, but not so. On the cross Jesus said, "It is finished.-(John 19:30) (Acts 20:28)- Jesus purchased the Church with his blood. It didn't take any more. Christians who die, also, don't go to the flames before they can go to heaven, because Jesus paid for our sins and we are counted as sinless because of Jesus. (Rom.4:8)- Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin./ There is no reference to any place like 'Purgatory' in the Bible. Jesus' mother Mary is not a mediator like Jesus. (1 Tim. 2:5)- There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus./ (John 16:23)- And in that day you shall ask me (Jesus) nothing. Verily verily, I say unto you, whasoever you shall ask the Father in my name, He will give it to you./ Jesus and the thief died on the cross and then both descended into Paradise. Jesus then took the captives in Paradise to heaven. But first He resurrected and talked to Mary. He told Mary (John 20:17), "Go and tell my disciples, I ascend to my Father and your Father; and to my God and your God"./ Jesus then immediately took Paradise to the presence of the Father in heaven. If, he meant he would ascend 40 days later, he could have told them himself for he would see them in the locked room that very evening, after walking with two disciples to Emmaus. When interpreting scriptures, we must keep in mind that scripture interprets scripture. Without taking any verses out of context, we must take all scriptures that are pertinent and fit them together for a proper understanding without contradiction. The Lake of Fire must be in the center of the earth. The first person to go into the Lake of Fire will be the Antichrist, at Jesus' 2nd coming at the end of the 7 yr Tribulation. Then, at the end of Jesus' millenial reign on earth, at the White Throne Judgement, all of those living in the flesh and the rest of the dead resurrected; also some saved that die during the millenium. Jesus will divide them right an left. The saved get their eternal body. Now, it's time for Jesus to take us all, in our eternal bodies, to heaven; leaving all the lost, in their bodies of flesh on the earth. (More about our eternal body in Post (11) THE GAP THEORY - CREATION) (2 Pet.3:10)- But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up./ As the earth burns, the lost are in this Lake of Fire. Their bodies will burn completely, then the fire recedes back into the earth taking the spirits of the lost to their eternal separation and torment. When Jesus finishes remodeling the earth into a Garden like Eden, we will descend back to earth in the New Jerusalem. -(Rev.21:10-27) In the New Jerusalem we will have our mansions and streets of transparent gold. We can walk out the gates into an earthly paradise. There will be no oceans of salt water. (Mal.4:3)- And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. Con