Secrets from Beyond The Grave

sin--eternal death by fire.

The Antichrist and the False Prophet

Then the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. --Revelation 19:20 The beast is identified as the Antichrist, the final world dictator, who will plunge the world into its most difficult time in history (Dan. 12:1-2). The false prophet of Revelation 13:11-16 will organize world religions around his counterfeit miracles, emphasizing worship of the Antichrist and this new system. Christ will fight the "battle of Bozrah" (Isa. 63:1-4), return to heaven with garments covered with blood, and organize a return to Earth with the armies of heaven (Rev. 19:14), appearing as the "lion of the tribe of Judah!" Christ will intervene in the battle of Armageddon (Rev. 16:16), head to Jerusalem, and touch down on the Mount of Olives (Zech. 14:4). Immediately Satan will be bound and cast into the abyss (Rev. 20:2-3). This will be followed by the separating of men who have received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image, and the capture and removal of the Antichrist and false prophet from their global headquarters in Jerusalem to their confinement in a "lake of fire." This "lake" burns continually with fire and brimstone. All of the predicted events related to Christ's return--Bozrah, Petra, Armageddon, and the Mount of Olives--center in and around Israel. Thus Satan's binding in the abyss and the casting of the beast into the lake of fire should be somewhere in the same region when the End Time events are unfolding. "Hell Cannot Be Real" The thought of an eternal Creator condemning His creation into a confined cavern of fire, brimstone, and smoke is very unacceptable in our contemporary society. Thus, hell is considered an allegory or a metaphor, and many assert that the warnings of hellfire cannot be taken literally. Oddly, the same theologians who deny the existence of hell believe that heaven is an actual place and the dwelling place of God. Imagine this: God is real, but Satan is a metaphor. Heaven is real, but hell is an allegory. Streets of gold certainly exist, but the fire of hell is only symbolic of the fiery trials on Earth. Hell is mentioned twenty-three times in the New Testament, and not once is there ever an implication of hell being anything but a literal place with literal fire and the eternal abode of lost souls. "The Fire Cannot Be Real" A second argument is that hell may be an actual place, but the fire mentioned in Scripture is not literal. In the New Testament, the word fire is found eighty-three times, and only six times is there a meaning other than literal fire . (For example, James said in James 3:6 that the tongue is a fire.) There is no biblical indication that the fire in hell is not literal fire. There is a question, however, of how a spirit body reacts to literal fire. Consider the following. Elijah was carried into heaven in a "chariot of fire . . . with horses of fire" (2 Kings