The Gospel of the Kingdom of God
In this series we shall study
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Plans, Prophecies, and Expectations
The Kingdom Is At Hand!
The Kingdom’s Nature
The Kingdom Comes
The Kingdom’s Citizens
The Kingdom’s Laws
The Kingdom’s Rewards
The Kingdom’s Defenders
The Kingdom’s Future
WARNING:
Today’s sermon
includes
frightening
imagery.
– The Kingdom’s Alternative: Hell
The Gospel of the Kingdom
The Kingdom’s Alternative
• Outline
– Hell is a placed prepared for certain beings
– What happens after death?
– Judgment
– Symbolic Word Pictures of Hell
A place prepared…
• Jesus said that a place has been prepared
in the next life for the saved (John 14:3)
• He also described another prepared place
– For the beast & the false prophet (Rev. 19:20)
• Represent systems of false religion and blasphemy
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For the devil, Satan (Rev. 20:10)
For the devil’s angels (Matt. 25:41)
For Hades and Death (Rev. 20:14)
For anyone not in the Book of Life (Rev. 20:15)
• Sinners (Rev. 21:8)
• The accursed ones (Matt. 25:41)
– Sound like your kind of company?
• Hell is a real place occupied by real beings!
What happens after death?
1. Physical body dies
2. Spirit goes to Hades (Luke 16:19-31)
3. Resurrection
4. Judgment
5. Saved to heaven, lost to hell
Judgment
• Rev. 20:12-13 – all judged from the book
• “Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the
eternal fire which has been prepared for the
devil and his angels” (Matt. 25:41)
Symbolic Word Pictures of Hell
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Lake of fire (Rev. 20:10)
Furnace of fire (Matt. 13:42)
Eternal fire (Matt. 25:41)
Darkness (Matt. 25:30)
Away from God (2 Thess. 1:9)
Undying worm (Mark. 9:48)
The Gospel of the Kingdom
The Kingdom’s Alternative
• Summary
– Hell is a placed prepared for certain beings – but it is
not God’s desire for any of us to perish.
– When you die, you go to Hades to wait
– Resurrection, then Judgment
– Hell: eternal suffering in a conscious state of awareness
The Gospel of the Kingdom
• You don’t have to go to hell!
• Obey the Gospel: believe, repent, confess, be
baptized, and the blood of Jesus will wash away
your sins, so that you can stand justified before God
and gain eternal life in heaven.
• If you have become overcome by sin, repent and
return today!
Hear , believe, and
obey the Gospel today!