What Jesus Told Us About Hell - Soul Choice Ministries

Jesus spoke of three, specific themes that describe hell in the New Testament: Punishment, destruction and banishment. People who would try to argue away these themes ignore not just what the bible clearly states…but what Jesus Himself said.

The first, “punishment” includes eternal fire, burning that shall not be quenched, torment or agony, being beaten with many stripes or few, extreme thirst, weeping and gnashing of teeth, maggots, being slain, being bound hand and foot, experiencing worse punishment than a stone being hung about your neck and being drowned in the sea, and being cut into pieces.

The second, “destruction” mentions damnation, perishing, death, judgment, and eternal ruination.

The third, “banishment” mentions outer darkness, inability to cross over into heaven, inability to escape the damnation of hell, being cast away from God’s presence, and cast into hell fire.

Jesus said that hell is eternal four times, He said that the fire shall not be quenched three times, He said damnation three times, He said they will be cast into outer darkness three times, and said there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth seven times. Three other times in the New Testament it states hell is eternal and three more times in the Old Testament. The term, forever and ever is also mentioned four times in the New Testament.

With all these terms used by Jesus himself, it is scripturally impossible to justify annihilation in hell, or believe that every person will go to heaven.

The terms punishment, everlasting burning, weeping and gnashing of teeth, darkness, thirst, unable to leave, unable to escape, and away from God’s presence, presuppose their existence.

A person cannot be “from God” if they don’t exist. They cannot be “in darkness” but be annihilated. They cannot “weep and gnash their teeth” but be non-existent.

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, John the Baptist, Paul, Peter, James, and Jude all wrote about hell. Besides Jesus, there are twenty-three authors altogether in the Bible who wrote about hell.

If a person can deny or twist over 150 verses about hell, destruction, the pit, burning and darkness, then they simply want to push the truth away in order to justify their own lack of accountability to God.

Here are a few of the verses that mention hell:

Luke 12:4, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more they can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell…fear him.

Matthew 22:13, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away and cast him into outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 24:51, …and he shall cut him in pieces and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Luke 16:23, And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments…”I am tormented in this flame…”

Matthew 25:46, And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Matthew 25:41, Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

Mark 9:47-48, And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire. Where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.

Luke 13:24-24, Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able…There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

If you believe everyone goes to heaven because God is loving, then read these verses:

Philippians 3:19, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, their end is destruction.

Their end is destruction not heaven.

Hebrews 6:8, whose end is to be burned (those who bear thorns and briars are rejected).

Their end is burning not heaven.

Matthew 23:33, How can ye escape the damnation of hell?

To not escape means you still exist.

2 Thessalonians 1:9, Those who obey not the gospel shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power.

Everlasting is the same word used in Romans 16:26, the everlasting God.

Isaiah 33:14, who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

Everlasting is the same word used in Psalms 106:48, the Lord God, from everlasting to everlasting.

John 3:36, He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

Abide means to take up residency.

Revelation 14:10-11, He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night.

A person must still exist to be before God and to have no rest day nor night. Jesus was clear that there is an eternal hell, and people go to hell because

Matthew 12:37 says a persons own words will condemn them.

They go to hell because of the rejection of the provision for their sins, which is Jesus Christ.

Doing nothing or ignoring His offer of eternal life is the same as rejecting Him. It takes a purposeful act from each individual to avoid going to hell.