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The Truth About HELL! \\ by Terry Watkins \\ \\ “And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments. .

.” \\ (Luke 16:23) \\ \\ What you're about to read is hard to believe. . .

\\ We're going to examine the place the Bible calls hell.

\\ We'll present documented evidence for a place called hell.

Don't take what you're going to read lightly.

\\ If what you read is true — \\ YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER! \\ \\ Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Death's Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings.

Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead.

Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a painless extinction".

But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings!

He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming \\ — descending down into the flames of hell: \\ \\ Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, "I am in hell!"

He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him.

I was scared to \\ death. . .

Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face.

He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death!

This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror!

His pupils were dilated, and he \\ was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was "on end."

\\ \\ Then still another strange thing happened.

He said, "Don't you understand?

I am in hell. . .

Don't let me go back to hell!" . .

.the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble.

He was in a panic like I had never seen before.

\\ (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Death's Door, \\ (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).

\\ \\ Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell! \\ \\ The Bible continually warns of a place called hell.

\\ There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell.

And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!

In \\ Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell: \\ *22 *Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's \\ bosom; and the rich man also died and was buried.

\\ *23 *In Hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom.

\\ *24 *And he cried out and said, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.'

\\ *25 *But Abraham said, "Child, remember that during your life you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus bad things; but now he is being comforted here, and you are in agony.

\\ *26 *"And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us.' \\ *27 *And he said, "Then I beg you, father, that you send him to my father's house -- \\ *28 *for I have five brothers -- in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' \\ \\ (Luke 16:22-28) \\ \\ HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE \\ \\ The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". .

.I am tormented in this FLAME."

\\ In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: \\ there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

\\ In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE, . .

." \\ Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." \\ \\ \\ HELL IS A PLACE OF TORMENT \\ \\ Jesus says of the man in Luke 16: 23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in TORMENTS. . .

" \\ *24 *". . .

for I am TORMENTED in this flame."

\\ *28 *". .

.PLACE OF TORMENT."

\\ \\ It is humanly impossible to comprehend the Bible description of hell.

Nothing on earth can compare with it.

No nightmare could produce a terror to match that of hell.

No horror movie could describe it’s fright.

No crime scene with all it’s blood and gore could begin to match it’s horror.

\\ \\ You'll see HELL. . .

\\ You'll smell HELL. . .

\\ You'll breathe HELL. . .

\\ You'll hear HELL . . .

\\ You'll feel HELL. . .

\\ \\ It'll be beyond anything humanly imaginable!

The Bible describes it as weeping (Matt 8:12), wailing (Matt 13:42), gnashing of teeth (Matt 13:50), darkness (Matt 25:30), \\ flames (Luke 6:24), burning (Isa 33:14), torments (Luke 16:23), everlasting punishment!

Jesus Christ says in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE, prepared for the devil and his angels."

In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

\\ \\ \\ *HELL IS FOREVER! * \\ \\ All who enter hell — abandon all hope!

\\ The horror of hell — for even one second is unbearable — but FOREVER!

Jesus says in Matthew 25:41: \\ ". . .

Depart from me, ye cursed, into EVERLASTING fire, . .

." \\ Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT."

\\ \\ What could possibly be worth eternity in hell?

No wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell!

No wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?" \\ \\ Jesus Christ took hell very serious. . .

\\ \\ Jesus Christ says in Mark 9:43-47, \\ *43 *"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: \\ *45 *And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: \\ *47 *And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire."

\\ \\ Jesus Christ took hell so serious — He could say without the slightest hesitation — to remove your eye, cut off your hand or foot, if that would keep you out of hell! \\ \\ If hell is not real — Jesus Christ was the most deceived man that ever lived!

I’ll challenge anyone to read the words of Jesus Christ and tell me they are the words of a deceived man!

Jesus Christ knew exactly what He was talking about!

How did Jesus describe hell?

\\ \\ Jesus Christ spoke more on hell than any other subject.

\\ Just look at how Jesus described hell: \\ \\ \\ WHAT JESUS CHRIST SAYS ABOUT HELL! \\ \\ "fire" Matt 7:19, 13:40, 25:41 \\ "everlasting fire" Matt 18:8, 25:41 \\ "eternal damnation" Mark 3:29 \\ "hell fire" Matt 5:22, 18:9, Mark 9:47 \\ "damnation" Matt 23:14, Mark 12:40, Luke 20:47 \\ "shall be damned" Mark 16:16 \\ "damnation of hell" Matt 23:33" \\ resurrection of damnation" John 5:29 \\ "furnace of fire"Matt 13:42, 50 \\ "the fire that never shall be quenched "Mark 9:43, 45 \\ "the fire is not quenched" Mark 9:44, 46, 48 \\ "Where their worm dieth not" Mark 9:44, 46, 48 \\ "wailing and gnashing of teeth "Matt 13:42, 50 \\ "weeping and gnashing of teeth "Matt 8:12, 22:13, 25:30 \\ "torments" Luke 16:23 \\ "tormented in this flame" Luke 16:24 \\ "place of torment" Luke 16:28 \\ "outer darkness" Matt 8:12, 22:13 \\ "everlasting punishment" Matt 25:46 \\ \\ \\ WHAT IF JESUS IS RIGHT?

\\ \\ Hebrews 9:27 says, \\ "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this THE JUDGEMENT:" \\ \\ It is appointed unto man once to die . . .

and one day — YOU will die. . .

And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments. . .

\\ \\ As you leave your body — you realize something is happening.

You hear a sound. . .

getting louder and louder. . .

screaming . .

.weeping. . .

wailing.

Terror and fear beyond anything you could imagine overtakes you.

\\ "This can’t be happening!"

you scream.

\\ \\ Your nostrils are filling with the awful stench of burning souls.

Your face ignites from the heat.

Flames are now blazing from your eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth — every opening in your body, flames are roaring out.

Your body \\ is sizzling and crackling from the flames.

Your body is now madly thrashing and convulsing from the horrible pain.

"Why don’t I die?", you scream.

\\ \\ You begin weeping and gnashing your teeth with the millions.

"When will this pain stop?"

But you know it will never stop. . .

The darkness is so terrifying, it begins engulfing you.

You feel something moving in the darkness. . .

something horrible is happening.

\\ \\ "No! No! This can’t be happening" you scream — as your worm is emerging.

You begin cursing the day you were born.

You scream — "Oh God, why didn’t you warn me?"— but you remember the preacher pleading with you to receive Jesus Christ.

You remember reading that gospel tract.

You cry — "God don’t you care?" — but you remember John 3:16 "For God so loved the \\ world, that he gave his only begotten Son . .

." \\ "God is a God of love — He won't allow this", you cry — but you remember \\ John 3:36, ". . . he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."

\\ \\ And you soon realize, that Jesus Christ was right — \\ there is a place called hell.

\\ \\ AND YOU ARE THERE — FOREVER! \\ \\