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10 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 25

In spite of the vain attempts of many preachers to amazing truth from your own Bible!
make DEATH mean SEPARATION FROM 1. If people persist in disobeying
YEHOVAH GOD, YOU CANNOT reconcile YEHOVAH, WHERE did the Messiah warn
this with Scripture. Nor does DEATH mean they would ultimately find themselves? Mark
ETERNAL LIFE in the horrifying torments of 9:43-45. Won’t they find themselves in “HELL
an imaginary “hell.” FIRE” -- GEHENNA FIRE -- A PLACE OF
The false doctrine of a non-consuming, DESTRUCTION?
but only torturing “hell fire,” which is used to 2. Are whoremongers, murderers, liars,
frighten so many deceived human beings, is a and such types -- people who use the various
preposterous LIE! Its author is the father of lies members of their bodies, such as their hands,
-- Satan the Devil! (John 8:44.) If you are one feet and eyes to DISOBEY the commands of
who has been deceived by this doctrine, and are YEHOVAH God -- ultimately to find
suffering mental torment because of it, MAY themselves in this “lake” of fire and brimstone?
YEHOVAH GOD HELP YOU TO UNDER- Revelation 21:8.
STAND THE TRUTH! COMMENT: A LARGE FIRE often
has the APPEARANCE of a fiery lake. That is
HELL is Partial Destruction of Earth’s WHY this colossal world-end FIRE IS
Surface by Fire COMPARED to a “LAKE” of fire!
3. Will it cause their death? Revelation
And now comes a most interesting 21:8. WHICH death will it cause? Same verse.
revelation! Of what does hell itself consist? COMMENT: ALL of us must die
Forget now all ideas you may have had as to ONCE, because we just “wear out” (Hebrews
what hell may be, and all that you have been led 9:27), but if anyone dies the SECOND death,
to believe it might be. Read now IN YOUR referred to in Revelation 21:8, it is because that
OWN BIBLE what YEHOVAH God the Father person has been JUDGED guilty of persistent
reveals “hell fire” is GOING TO BE. For “hell disobedience. The SECOND death is ETER-
fire” DOES NOT EVEN EXIST YET! -- NAL death!
astounding as that may sound. Here’s the 4. Does Revelation 20:13 verify the fact
that the devil will be cast into
The Lake of Fire will probably be molten lava that will flow from
this coming lake of fire only
under the earth’s mantle.
AFTER the coming judg-
ment?
5. Will ALL mortals
NOT written in the book of
(eternal) life be cast into this
lake of fire? Revelation 20:15.
COMMENT: HERE IS
YEHOVAH’s -- not man’s --
but YEHOVAH’S descrip-
tion of what “hell fire” WILL
BE! It is yet in the future,
having never occurred before.
And nothing is said anywhere
in the entire Bible about
DESCENDING BENEATH
the earth into this final “hell

What is “Hell”?