Brief Summary of Hell

Hell

And I can tell you, there is nothing more terrifying than the idea of you…or I…or anyone…dying in their sin.

Its the great disaster…the great calamity…the great peril and terror to our souls for anyone that is outside of Christ.

The penalty for dying in your sin with your sin unatoned for is the second death.

It is suffering eternal, conscious torment under the wrath of God forever and ever in Hell.

The Bible describes it as a place of everlasting shame and contempt (Daniel 12:2).

Jesus called it the outer darkness to describe the terror and dread the soul experiences there under God’s wrath with a conscience that is perfected to feel the full weight of your guilt and every sin against God, with no hope or relief of that fear or those burdens being taken away.(Matthew 25:30).

Its the full weight of your sins coupled with the full weight of God’s wrath poured out against your sins undiluted and in full strength (Revelation 14:10).

Its the place where the fire is not quenched and the worm does not die (Mark 9:48).

Worms in this context feed on death, so Hell is a place where you eternally die but you are never dead so that there is enough death to feed the worm forever.

Jesus called it the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 25:30).

Weeping the great anguish and sorrow of the soul where the pain cannot be bottled up or contained but overflows in a flood of tears.

The gnashing of teeth…the idea where you just grit your teeth and bear it…do all that you can to make it through but it never ends…

Its eternally drowning in the Lake of Fire with a millstone around your neck where you will forever drain the cup of God’s wrath down to the dregs (Revelation 20:14-15, Matthew 18:6).

And its a fiery furnace where Revelation says the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night (Matthew 13:41-42, Revelation 14:11).

Never-ending without one moment or even one second for all eternity of respite or relief with no hope or chance of escape.

That is the terror awaiting everyone who will die in their sins.