23 minutes in hell (14 page)

Luke 3:9 — Every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Luke 3:17 — … but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.

James 3:6 — … and it is set on fire by hell.

Revelation 9:2 — … and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace.

Revelation 20:10 — … was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone… and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Hell

Psalm 55:15 — Let them go down alive into hell.

Psalm 88:3 — My life draweth near to the grave.

Psalm 139:8 — If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

Proverbs 5:5 — … her steps lay hold of hell.

Proverbs 9:18 — … her guests are in the depths of hell.

Proverbs 27:20 — Hell and Destruction are never full.

Isaiah 5:14 — Sheol [hell] has enlarged itself.

Habakkuk 2:5 — … he enlarges his desire as hell.

Matthew 16:18 — The gates of hell shall not prevail against it (KJV).

Matthew 23:33 — How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Luke 12:5 — But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell, yes, I say to you, fear Him!

2 Peter 2:4 — … cast them down to hell…

Revelation 20:14 — Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.

Hell desolate (no life of any kind)

Isaiah 59:10 — We are as dead men in desolate places.

Ezekiel 26:20 — I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit.

Humiliation/shame (endured in hell)

Isaiah 5:14–15 — Therefore Sheol has enlarged itself and opened its mouth beyond measure…. People shall be brought down, each man shall be humbled.

Isaiah 5:15 — People shall be brought down… and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled.

Isaiah 57:9 — … and even descended to Sheol.

Ezekiel 32:24 — Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Revelation 16:15 — Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

Life short

Psalm 39:5 — You have made my days as handbreadths.

Psalm 102:3 — For my days are consumed like smoke.

Psalm 103:15–16 — As for man, his days are like grass… for the wind passes over it, and it is gone.

James 4:14 — For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Location

Deuteronomy 32:22 — For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell.

Job 11:8 — They are higher than heaven… deeper than Sheol.

Job 33:24 — Deliver him from going down to the Pit.

Job 33:28 — He will redeem his soul from going down to the Pit, and his life shall see the light.

Psalm 9:15 — The nations have sunk down in the pit.

Psalm 28:1 — I become like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:3 — … that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:9 — … when I go down to the pit?

Psalm 40:2 — He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay.

Psalm 49:17 — For when he dies he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalm 55:15 — Let them go down alive into hell.

Psalm 55:23 — But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction.

Psalm 73:18 — You cast them down to destruction.

Psalm 88:6 — You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.

Psalm 139:15 — … in the lowest parts of the earth.

Psalm 143:7 — … lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Proverbs 7:27 — Her house [the harlot] is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 9:18 — … that her guests are in the depths of hell.

Isaiah 14:9 — Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming (KJV).

Isaiah 14:19 — But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch… who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trodden underfoot.

Isaiah 38:18 — For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Isaiah 44:23 — Sing, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout, you lower parts of the earth. [Paradise indicated to be in the lower part of the earth before the ascension of Jesus.]

Isaiah 57:9 — … and even descended to Sheol.

Lamentations 3:55 — … from the lowest pit.

Ezekiel 26:20 — Then I will bring you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 28:8 — They shall throw you down into the Pit.

Ezekiel 31:14 — … for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth… with them that go down to the pit (KJV).

Ezekiel 31:16 — … when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit (KJV).

Ezekiel 31:17 — They also went down into hell… (KJV).

Ezekiel 31:18 — Yet you shall be brought down… to the depths of the earth.

Ezekiel 32:18 — … cast them down to the depths of the earth… with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:21 — … shall speak to him out of the midst of hell… they have gone down.

Ezekiel 32:23 — Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:24 — … who have gone down… to the lower parts of the earth… now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:25 — … yet they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:27 — … who have gone down to hell.

Ezekiel 32:29 — … with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:30 — … who have gone down with the slain… and bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Amos 9:2 — Though they dig into hell…

Matthew 11:23 — … will be brought down to Hades.

Matthew 12:40 — … so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

2 Peter 2:4 — … but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness…

Revelation 9:1 — … to the bottomless pit.

Revelation 20:1, 3; 9:1–2; 17:8 — …the bottomless pit.

No hope

Job 8:13 — … and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish.

Proverbs 11:7 — And the hope of the unjust perishes.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 — But for him who is joined to all the living there is hope.

Isaiah 38:18 — Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Lamentations 3:18 — My strength and my hope have perished from the LORD.

Ephesians 2:12 — … having no hope and without God in the world.

1 Thessalonians 4:13— … lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

No mercy

Psalm 36:5 — Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens.

Psalm 62:12 — Also unto You, O LORD, belongs mercy.

Psalm 103:4 — … who redeems your life from destruction, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies.

Psalm 103:17 — But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him.

No peace

Isaiah 57:21 — “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Ezekiel 7:25 — Destruction comes; they will seek peace, but there shall be none.

No purpose

Psalm 6:5 — For in death there is no remembrance of You.

Psalm 88:5 — … whom You remember no more.

Psalm 88:12 — … in the land of forgetfulness…

Proverbs 10:28 — … but the expectation of the wicked will perish.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 — … and his name shall be covered with darkness (KJV).

Ecclesiastes 9:10 — … for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave.

No rest (from torment, also no physical rest or sleep)

Isaiah 57:20 — … when it cannot rest.

Revelation 14:11 — And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night.

Odors/stench

Mark 9:25 — He [Jesus] rebuked the foul spirit… (KJV).

Revelation 18:2 — … a prison for every foul spirit.

Pit

Job 33:24 — Deliver him from going down to the Pit.

Job 33:28 — He will redeem his soul from going to the Pit.

Job 33:30 — … to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

Job 33:18 — He keeps back his soul from the Pit.

Psalm 30:3 — … that I should not go down to the pit.

Psalm 30:9 — … when I go down to the pit…

Psalm 40:2 — He also brought me up out of a horrible pit.

Psalm 55:23 — But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction.

Psalm 143:7 — Do not hide Your face from me, lest I be like those who go down into the pit.

Isaiah 38:17 — But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption…

Isaiah 38:18 — For Sheol cannot thank You, death cannot praise You; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.

Ezekiel 32:23 — Her graves are set in the recesses of the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:25 — Yet they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:29 — … and with those who go down to the Pit.

Ezekiel 32:30 — And bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

Revelation 9:1 — To him was given the key to the bottom- less pit.

Revelation 9:2 — And he opened the bottomless pit, and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace.

Revelation 11:7 — … the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit…

Revelation 17:8 — … the beast that you saw was, and is not, and will ascend out of the bottomless pit.

Revelation 20:3 — … and he cast him into the bottomless pit…

Prison

Proverbs 7:27 — … is the way to hell, descending to the chambers of death.

Isaiah 24:22 — They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison.

Profanity

Ezekiel 22:26 — … so that I am profaned among them [vulgar and blasphemous language].

Ezekiel 28:14–16 — You were the anointed cherub who covers… therefore I cast you as a profane thing [Satan profane].

Righteous judge

Deuteronomy 16:18 — … and they [judges] shall judge the people with just judgment.

Deuteronomy 16:20 — You shall follow what is altogether just.

Deuteronomy 32:4 — … for all His ways are justice, a God of truth and without injustice; righteous and upright is He.

Psalm 7:9 — … for the righteous God tests the hearts and minds.

Psalm 96:10 — He [God] shall judge the peoples righteously.

Psalm 96:13 — He shall judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with His truth.

Proverbs 11:1 — … a just weight is His delight.

Proverbs 17:26 — … to punish the righteous is not good.

Ecclesiastes 3:17 — God shall judge the righteous and the wicked.

Isaiah 45:21 — … a just God and a Savior.

Zechariah 8:16 — Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace.

Acts 17:31 — He will judge the world in righteousness.

Thirst

Zechariah 9:11 — I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Torment on earth from Satan or demons

1 Kings 18:28 — … and cut themselves… until the blood gushed out on them.

Torment in hell

Psalm 74:20 — … for the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty.

Psalm 116:3 — … and the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

Amos 5:18–19 — It will be darkness, and not light… leaned his head on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

Matthew 24:51 — … and will cut him in two… . There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 12:47–48 — … shall be beaten with many stripes… shall be beaten with few.

Worms

Job 21:26 — They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them.

Job 24:20 — The worm should feed sweetly on him.

Isaiah 14:11 — The maggot is spread under you, and worms cover you.

Isaiah 66:24 — … for their worm does not die.

Mark 9:44 — … where their worm does not die.

Mark 9:46 — … where their worm does not die.

Mark 9:48 — … where their worm does not die.

Wrath

Exodus 15:7 — You sent forth Your wrath.

Job 21:30 — The wicked are reserved for the day of doom; they shall be brought out on the day of wrath.

Job 31:23 — Destruction from God is a terror to me.

Psalm 73:27 — For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.

Psalm 90:7–11 — We have been consumed by Your anger, and by Your wrath we are terrified… . Who knows the power of Your anger?

Proverbs 11:23 — The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

Isaiah 66:15 — … to render His anger with fury.

Jeremiah 4:4 — … lest My fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it.

Jeremiah 25:37 — … of the fierce anger of the LORD.

Lamentations 4:11 — The LORD has fulfilled His fury, He has poured out His fierce anger.

John 3:36 — The wrath of God abides on him.

Romans 1:18 — For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness.

Romans 5:9 — We shall be saved from wrath through Him.

1 Thessalonians 1:10 — … Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

2 Thessalonians 1:8 — … taking vengeance on those who do not know God.

2 Thessalonians 1:9 — These shall be punished with everlasting destruction.

Hebrews 10:31 — It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

2 Peter 2:9 — … to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.

Appendix B

Comments on Hell from the “Hall of Fame”

Many people have studied God’s Word and other resources to understand the subject of hell. Often their study is based on personal experiences of their own or the experiences of others. Often it is carefully researched from annals of theology and historical fact. In my research of the subject after my experience in hell, some of these “Hall of Famers” have provided me with tremendous insight and support of what I experienced for myself in hell.