Secrets from Beyond The Grave

"Eternal fire" (Jude 7) "Unquenchable fire" (Luke 3:17) "The blackness of darkness forever" (2 Pet. 2:17)

"Darkness forever" (Jude 13) "Everlasting fire" (Matt. 18:8) One reason that the afterlife is "everlasting" is that all humans consist of three

parts--"spirit, soul, and body" (1 Thess. 5:23). The body returns to dust; however, the human spirit is eternal and cannot be destroyed or annihilated. God is a spirit (John 4:24), and angels are spirits (Ps. 104:4). Satan is an angelic being and thus a spirit. A spirit, whether an angel or a human spirit, can be separated from God, but it can never be annihilated. This would explain why God will never destroy Satan and the fallen angels but will confine them in the lake of fire "forever and ever" (Rev. 20:10). Since the body was made from the earth, it returns back to the earth (Gen. 3:19). At death, when the human spirit departs from the body, it returns to God, who gave it (Eccles. 12:7). The Dead Sea and Hell in the Millennium When Christ returns to the earth, He will rule from Jerusalem for one thousand years (Rev. 20:2-7). Jerusalem is twenty-five hundred feet above sea level. The Dead Sea is about thirteen miles from Jerusalem and is thirteen hundred feet below sea level, which is the lowest place on earth. Because of the history of the region, from Sodom to the temptation of Christ and the history of the brimstone, smoke, and fire in the region, the Dead Sea fits the best location for the following prophecy to be fulfilled: And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh. --Isaiah 66:23-24, KJV There are several translations of this passage: They shall go forth, and shall look upon the dead bodies of the sinners who have rebelled against my word; because their souls shall not die, and their fire shall not be extinguished; and the wicked shall be judged in Gehenna.16 And they shall be to a satiety of sight to all flesh.17 And they shall be as a vision to all flesh.18 They shall be an astonishment to all flesh; So that they shall be a spectacle to all beings.19 The imagery from Isaiah is as follows. During the time of the future reign of the Messiah in Jerusalem, there will be an opening somewhere on the earth where living men can look into hell and see the departed souls of men whose "worm shall not die." This is not some metaphor or allegory, as Christ quoted this passage using the plain sense of the Scripture and a literal interpretation. Since the center of all global and spiritual activity will be in and around Jerusalem, and during the one-thousand-year reign all nations are required to attend the yearly Feast of Tabernacles (Zech. 14:19), then the logical location for this chamber to be opened for men to view would be in Israel. At this present time there is a road that runs parallel with the western half of the Dead