So if Hell is the true place of eternal torment how is it that Hell is cast into the Lake of Fire? Sounds to me like Hell really isn't, the Lake of Fire is that eternal place of torment.
Dan 12:2 “
And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
”Please note:- all those who believe in purgatory.
First of all we can see that while you are in the grave you are in a sleeping state and not in a spiritual state floating around until Jesus Christ comes. There are two groups of people that will be resurrected namely those which will join God and experience everlasting life and then those that will eventually be destroyed.
Joh 5:28-29 “
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
It confirms here that there will be two resurrections ie. the resurrection of life and the resurrection of damnation. It also confirms that all the dead in the graves will hear His voice and will be resurrected, and NOT IN PURGATORY.
Job 19:25-26 “
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.”
Job confirms here that we will have a fleshly body when we are resurrected.
Zeph 3:8 “
Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.”
Here is also proof that the unsaved plus the earth shall be devoured by fire. Nothing of the unsaved will exist after this, as this is what devouring means.
1 Thes 4:16-17 “
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and shall we ever be with the Lord.”
From this text we can see that firstly that the dead in Christ, the saved ones who are dead in their graves, will rise first. The other living saved ones will join the dead ones, now living saved, on the cloud on its way to heaven.
Why am I quoting all of this? First of all, to prove to all purgatory believers that purgatory does not exist where spirits will be flying around in a separate area until judgement day and secondly, there will be no Everlasting Hell Fire. The everlasting Hell Fire would also not be fair to the person who sinned the least. Why must he be punished for the same length as Satan? Once the non-saved have been destroyed or devoured, that is it. There will be nothing left.
