fires and he has distorted this teaching to turn people from God to join him. There is no hell fire today under the earth or elsewhere.
Q33 Will fire that God sends burn forever once it has been started?
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:46
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and His angels.
NOTE: The fires will burn until all evil is removed. It is a punish-ment not a pun-ishing.
Q34 What kind of fire was it said that Sodom and Gomorrah would suffer?
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7
Q35 If Sodom amd Gomorrah are set forth for an example , what can we see there today? Are the fires still burning eternally?
That it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, Genesis 13:10
Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. Genesis 19:24,27,28
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah. Deuteronomy 29:23
But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; Isaiah 13:21
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: Zephaniah 2:9
NOTE: Here God has provided an example of eternal fire. The fire and brimstone destroyed and its smoke was as the smoke of a furnace. Later it became a land of salt which could not be sown with crops, and patches were still smouldering. Then the record describes it as a place of salt pits, where nettles grow and the whole land as a desolation. Therefore the fire was a destroying fire and continued to burn until all was consumed.
Q36 How does the Bible describe the fires of judgement?
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 2 Thessalonians 1:8.9.
These shall go away into everlasting punishment. Matthew 25:46
NOTE: Punishment and destruction are acts with a beginning and an end, God does not say eternal ‘punish-ing’. Another Bible word used of these fires is unquenchable. This means that once started this fire cannot be put out by any means—but from everything |
