2006-06-20 09:40:53 · 16 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In Revelation it has the Lake of Fire for the false prophets? Three diffrant places.
2006-06-20 09:45:54 · update #1
We note that “the lake of fire and sulphur” could not be a literal place of torment. (Revelation 19:20) If Satan were to suffer excruciating torture there for all eternity, Jehovah would have to preserve him alive. Yet, life is a gift, not a punishment. Death is the punishment for sin, and according to the Bible, dead creatures feel no pain. (Romans 6:23; Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10.) Moreover, we read later that death itself, along with Hades, is cast into this same lake of fire and sulfur. Surely, death and Hades cannot suffer pain!—Revelation 20:14.
27 All of this reinforces the view that the lake of fire and sulfur is symbolic. Further, the mention of fire and sulfur calls to mind the fate of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, destroyed by God because of their gross wickedness. When their time came, “Jehovah made it rain sulphur and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah.” (Genesis 19:24) What befell the two cities is called “the judicial punishment of everlasting fire.” (Jude 7) Yet, those two cities did not suffer everlasting torment. Rather, they were blotted out, obliterated for all time, along with their depraved inhabitants. Those cities do not exist today, and no one can say for sure where they were located.
In harmony with this, the Bible itself explains the meaning of the lake of fire and sulfur: “This means the second death, the lake of fire.” (Revelation 20:14) It is complete, utter destruction without hope of a resurrection. Thus, while there are keys for death, Hades, and the abyss, there is no mention of a key for opening the lake of fire and sulfur. (Revelation 1:18; 20:1) I t will never release its captives.—Compare Mark 9:43-47.
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2006-06-20 09:51:01 · answer #1 · answered by Jeremy Callahan 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When we die, we are buried. There we stay until the day of judgement. At that time, God will raise the dead to be judged. Believers and followers of Christ will be saved; the other will be sent into the lake of fire.
Hell is the name/place. The lake of fire is the description.
2006-06-20 16:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by Who C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both are the result of bad translations. Hell was a garbage dump outside Jeruselem and "Lake of Fire" is just a bad translation for "Hot Tub"
2006-06-20 17:00:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The lake of fire is in hell
2006-06-20 16:42:21 · answer #4 · answered by jennycoyjen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I know is that Hell is the dimension that your soul goes to to be separated from God, the abode where all spirits created by God that chose to be separated from God exist. The Lake of Fire might be an illiteration to describe what the pain of separation from God feels like.
2006-06-20 16:44:31 · answer #5 · answered by The Nag 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lake of Fire is another way of saying hell, which is politically incorrect to say.
2006-06-20 16:45:02 · answer #6 · answered by Not_Here 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hell is just a waiting room now.. when it is cast into the lake of fire it will be the hell we all think of.. after the judgment
2006-06-20 16:42:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. They are both the swame thing. Hell is the place you go after death if you do not accept Jesus Christ as your savior. If you reject him, He will reject you....you will go to Hell (the lake of fire).
2006-06-20 16:44:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the lake of fire is in hell
2006-06-20 16:42:37 · answer #9 · answered by A J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. When the bible refers to the "lake of fire" It's refering to hell itself.
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2006-06-20 16:42:34 · answer #10 · answered by Lola and Giselle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋