Hell Was Prepared for the Devil and His Angels
Then
shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed,
into everlasting fire,
PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS
(Matthew 25:41). God never intended
for one single person to end up in Hell. It
is NOT God’s will that anyone should perish in their sins and go to Hell...
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness;
but is longsuffering to us-ward,
NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH,
but that ALL should come to
REPENTANCE”
(2nd Peter 3:9). It is NOT God’s fault if men and women are stubborn and
unwilling to REPENT of their unbelief. Hell
was NOT created for human beings but rather for Satan and his horde of
demons. We are ALL without excuse for
the wrong decisions we make in life—we CANNOT blame God. Perhaps other humans influenced us to make some wrong decisions but
that’s not God’s fault. I often tell
people, “Don’t give up on God because men fail you."
Let
Job be our example, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” (Job
13:15). What a statement!
Demons KNOW That Their Day of Judgment is Coming
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes,
there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding
fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee,
Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither
TO TORMENT US BEFORE
THE TIME?” (Matthew 8:28,29). All
demons know that judgment day is coming for them. These
demons in Matthew chapter eight were afraid that Jesus was going to confine
them to the pits of hell before their time was come. Evidently
some angels are so wicked that God has bound them in chains, awaiting the
Day of Judgment. We read of such
angels in Jude, “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left
their own habitation, he hath
RESERVED IN EVERLASTING CHAINS
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day” (Jude 6). Jesus
had the power to send these demons to the everlasting chains of
confinement." For
if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down
TO HELL, and delivered
them into
CHAINS of darkness,
TO BE RESERVED
unto judgment” (2nd Peter 2:4). These
demons are reserved in chains awaiting the day of God’s judgment. Even
Satan himself will be bound in chains during the one-thousand-year
millennial reign of Christ upon the earth, “And I saw an angel come down
from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and
A GREAT CHAIN
in his hand. And
he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years”
(Revelation 20:1,2). So we learn that
Hell was only intended to be the place of reservation for the fallen angels.
Demons Acknowledge That Hell is a Place of Torment
Notice
that the demons in Matthew 8:29 asked Jesus if He had come to TORMENT them.
Hell
is a place of torment. The demons
know that judgment day is approaching. Presently,
many of the demons are free to roam about through the earth. We see this in 1st Peter 5:8, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your
adversary the Devil, as a roaring lion,
WALKETH ABOUT,
seeking whom he may devour. "Satan
is alive and well folks! The Devil
wants to render you useless for God, “The thief cometh not, but for to
steal, and to kill, and to destroy...” (John 10:10). Satan
is that murderous thief. We are told
in Revelation 12:12, “Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for
the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that
he hath but A
SHORT TIME. "Satan's
days are numbered! This particular
Scripture verse is referring to Satan’s mischief during the tribulation
period. The Devil is always good for nothing and up to something. Satan
knows the Bible better than any human being but is a rejecter of the
truth—he is full of hatred and deliberately changes and counterfeits the
truth. After the seven-year
Tribulation Period, Satan knows that He will be bound in chains for one
thousand years. This time of Satan’s
rage during the last three and a half years of the Tribulation Period is
known as the time of “Great Tribulation.” The Bible warns of the atrocities of that coming time.
Demons Tremble and Fear God
Also
notice in Matthew 8:29 that the demons said, “what have we to do with Thee,
Jesus, thou Son of God? ”In other
words, “we’re minding our own business, why are you here? ”The
demons fear God! We read in James
2:19, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils
also believe, and
TREMBLE.” The
fallen angels know that their time of judgment is inevitably approaching.
Hell was created for the Devil and his angels as a jail to contain
them until the judgment. Why certain
angels are free to roam the earth and others are reserved in chains unto
judgment?—the Bible does not say. We've
seen already from the Scriptures we’ve studied that demons are afraid of
Jesus, afraid of being tormented before their time.
The Great White Throne — The Final Judgment of the Unsaved
We read these interesting words in Revelation 20:14, “And DEATH AND HELL were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. "How can Hell be cast into the Lake of Fire? How can death be cast into the Lake of Fire? There are two different Greek words used here. The Lake of Fire is the Greek word Gehenna. The word “hell” in Revelation 21:14 is the Greek word Hades. So we learn from the Bible that Hades will be cast into Gehenna. Hades is a temporary place, but Gehenna will be the eternal home of the damned.
Hell is a jail where the unsaved await trial and sentencing before being cast into the prison of the Lake of Fire. Please understand that if you are not a Believer—you are already condemned! ... “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:18). Death is man’s great enemy! All the wealth, fame and worldly enjoyments a person may experience in this lifetime CANNOT go with them beyond the grave. Once you're dead, it’s over! It'll be too late to live for God when your six-feet-under.
Death means SEPARATION. The first death is the SEPARATION of body from soul and spirit. This is true of the saved and of the unsaved because we must ALL experience the first death. Only the unsaved must experience the second death. If you’re a Believer, you will receive your resurrected incorruptible body at the Rapture (before the Tribulation Period); If you're NOT a Believer, then your body will be resurrected after the Millennium to stand before God at The Great White Throne of Judgment. "And the sea gave up THE DEAD which were in it; and death and hell delivered up THE DEAD which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works” (Revelation 20:13). There will be a reuniting of the body, soul and spirit at The Great White Throne of Judgment. Body, soul and spirit will all be cast into the Lake of Fire
The Bible makes reference to the body being
destroyed in Hell... “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not
able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy
BOTH SOUL AND BODY
in hell” (Matthew 10:28).
Those in Hell will be cast into the Lake of
Fire. The
second death is a SEPARATION of your body, soul and spirit from God for ALL
ETERNITY! How sad. If
man will not accept the gift of eternal life from God, then he will receive
the only other alternative—eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire. God
never created mankind to be put in such a horrible place, but there is no
other place for him. Hell was
created for the Devil and his angels. I
take it that this is a place where God never goes. The second death means eternal and absolute separation from God.
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