Hell Awaits No One

Prologue

Hell - as we commonly know it- awaits no one? In fact, there's no hell that is waiting for the lost. However, the grave, which is the mythical Hebrew Sheol or Greek Hades, has its gates open for the dead of all generations, first to the last. [Sheol or Hades has to be understood as METAPHOR to represent a place of the dead. Read Luke 16:19-31]

First, the lost who have died are in their earthly graves while waiting their judgment, which is already determined. Second, at the last day of humankind - at judgment - the lost who are living at this precise moment will perish as fire comes down from heaven. The whole earth, now desolate, becomes their open grave for no one is left living to bury the dead.

Both groups, all dead, i.e., first death, form the entire community of the lost, which will be resurrected for the execution of their judgment at the Day of the Lord. [Read Revelation 20:4-6] This is what the Scripture says as second death. [Revelation 20:14-15]

Types of these Two Fates
First Death of the Lost

Numbers 16:31-35 NIV

As soon as he finished saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them and their households, and all those associated with Korah, together with their possessions. They went down alive into the realm of the dead, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they perished and were gone from the community. At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting, “The earth is going to swallow us too!”

And fire came out from the Lord and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.

For the whole narrative read Numbers 16:1-50

A Prophecy: The Second Death

Revelation 20:11-15 NIV

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.The lake of fire is the SECOND DEATH. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.

For the whole narrative read Revelation 20

Epilogue

All lost go to their earthly graves at the moment of death. They wait for their final fate, which comes after being resurrected to appear before the Lord Jesus Christ to hear their judgment, which is the second death. The eternal fire, who is GOD, consumes them leaving no trace except their ashes. Ultimately, they are NO MORE.[Job 4:8-9; 20:4-8; Psalm 37:10; 59:13; Isaiah 26:14; Ezekiel 26:20-21]

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