I'm sorry, blazing...please expound on this. I have never heard of this in my life as a believer and minister of the gospel.
Thanks in advance.
Luke 16:19-31
Series of five parables: the lost coin, the lost sheep, the lost son, unjust steward, rich man and Lazarus. -
Abraham's bosom would need to be quite large to fit men into it -
Dip of the finger, one drop of water will not be enough to cool him - Conversations between heaven and hell - how blissful could heaven be if you could hear the cries of the lost from hell? -Who is He speaking to? vs 14 The Pharisees, lovers of money. They believed that if you were rich you were blessed by God and if you were poor you were cursed. They always prided themselves on being “related” to Abraham - John 8:39,44 -In the parable the rich man goes to hell and the poor beggar goes to heaven. -The rich man addresses Abraham as “Father Abraham” just like the pharisees called Abraham father in John 8:39. -The
rich man represents the pharisees. Jesus is challenging their thinking about money. -
The beggar represents the gentiles (Matthew 15:21-27) beggars eating crumbs. - Matthew 21:31 even the tax collectors and harlots will enter the Kingdom before you. -What was Jesus trying to teach in this parable? -The importance of witnessing.
Israel failed to warn the gentile world and they were guilty of their death. You only have one life to live.
Hell is the grave, The Grave. The entire theory of souls burning forever comes from a parable and if you can't accept that it’s a parable, well it will be very difficult to understand that Hell is the grave. But the fact of the matter is that, that is what hell is
a Grave
2 Peter 3:10 (KJV 1900)
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
That being said, let’s go to Jeremiah where he talks about the condition of the earth after Jesus has come and removed all the saints, which is called the First Resurrection. There are TWO. Of course this is where people get confused, they think this is the time where they have a second chance, but nowhere in scripture is that found.
As you read below, the earth is now back to where it was originally, void, dark, abyss. No light, no human. Because they died at the coming of the lord. Those beings that died were the lost. The rest of the dead that were lost remains in their graves and now the earth is a Grave. Because the only thing that is still here is the dead lost.
Jeremiah 4:23–26
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; And the heavens, and they had no light. 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, And all the hills moved lightly. 25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man,
Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, And turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
Isaiah 24:3
The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: For the Lord hath spoken this word.
Isaiah 11:4. With the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8. When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God.
Psalms 68:2. Let the wicked perish at the presence of God
Revelation 20:5. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
Jeremiah 25:33
33 And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: They shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; They shall be dung upon the ground.
Jeremiah 4:25
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, And all the birds of the heavens were fled.
Luke 17:37 speaks of the bodies of the wicked and mentions the vultures gathered around them Revelation 19:17, 18 The wicked who are left behind at Christ's coming are left dead.
there is no suggestion in the texts that the "soul" is cast in at one time and the "body" at another. The immortal-soul doctrine, by defining "soul" as the real man and the body as but a fleshly prison house, really asks us to believe that the real man goes immediately at death to hellfire, and then at some distant future date God raises the body, which has turned to dust, and consigns it to the fires. We avoid such an irrational and un-Scriptural conclusion by understanding the phrase "soul and body" to mean the whole person, viewed physically and mentally in his entirety, “the whole body." But when are persons cast bodily into the judgment fires? At the last great judgment day, when the wicked dead who have been raised, and who have been judged guilty, are "cast into the lake of fire." (See Rev. 20:11-15.)
The word for "bottomless pit" in the original Greek is "abussos," or abyss. That same word is used in the Greek version of the Old Testament in Genesis 1:2 in connection with the creation of the earth, but there it is translated "deep." "The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. The words "deep," "bottomless pit," and "abyss" here refer to the same thing--the earth in its totally dark, disorganized form before God made order of it. Jeremiah, in describing this earth during the 1,000 years, used virtually the same terms as these in Genesis 1:2: "without form and void," "no light," "no man," 'black." Jeremiah 4:23, 25, 28. So the battered, dark earth with no people alive will be called the bottomless pit, or abyss, during the 1,000 years just as it was in the beginning before Creation was completed. Isaiah 24:22 also speaks of Satan and his angels during the 1,000 years as "gathered in the pit" and "shut up in the prison."
So while the saints are in heaven reviewing the books, Judgment is being made over the lost. The saints will remain in heaven for 1,000.00 years.
Revelation 20:4 (KJV 1900)
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them:
1 Corinthians 6:2 (KJV 1900)
2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
The new Jerusalem comes down to rest on the earth which is now flatten and is a plain. The dead lost are now awake, those who have lived since the beginning of the creation of the earth. All men that were not saved are now awaken.
Revelation 21:2 (KJV 1900)
2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Zechariah 14:4 (KJV 1900)
4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, Which is before Jerusalem on the east, And the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, And there shall be a very great valley; And half of the mountain ... The new Jerusalem will settle where the mount of Olives now stands. The mountain will be flattened to make a great plain, upon which the city will come to rest.
Revelation 20:5
5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the resurrection of the damn.
Revelation 20:7–9
7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city.
"Fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 20:10 (KJV 1900)
10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.... Which just means until it is now ash.
Malachi 4:3
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet In the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Isaiah 65:17 (KJV 1900)
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Isaiah 47:14 (KJV 1900)
14 Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; They shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: There shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
Revelation 21:1 (KJV 1900)
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 Peter 3:13 (KJV 1900)
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Revelation 21:3 (KJV 1900)
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:4 (KJV 1900)
4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. Here the scripture says the former things are passed away.