by Terry Watkins “And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments. . .” Luke 16:23 What youre about to read is hard to believe. . . Were going to examine the place the Bible calls hell. Well present documented evidence for a place called hell. Dont take what youre going to read lightly. If what you read is true — YOU COULD BE IN SERIOUS DANGER! Several years ago a book was published, entitled Beyond Deaths Door by Dr. Maurice Rawlings. Dr. Rawlings, a specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, resuscitated many people who had been clinically dead. Dr. Rawlings, a devout atheist, considered all religion hocus-pocus and death nothing more than a painless extinction. But something happened in 1977 that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr. Rawlings! He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming — descending down into the flames of hell: Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the patient screamed, I am in hell! He was terrified and pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . . Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was on end. Then still another strange thing happened. He said,Dont you understand? I am in hell. . . Dont let me go back to hell! . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I had never seen before. (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond Deaths Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3). Dr. Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his screams and saw the look of terror on his face could doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place called hell! The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There are over 162 references in the New Testament alone which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ! In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell: 22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. (Luke 16:22-28) HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE The man in Luke 16:24 cries: . . .I am tormented in this FLAME. In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . . Revelation 20:15 says, And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE. THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, . . . seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in HELL When Jesus Christ died His soul went into hell. And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whales belly: so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the HEART OF THE EARTH. The Bible is clear — Hell is inside the earth! Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH. On page 85 of Beyond Death’s Door, Dr. Rawlings writes patients who described hell said, . . . this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way. Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth: So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called the pit (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and the abyss (Rev. 9:2). . . The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real and geographically beneath the earths surface. . . To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows much more about the earths interior than is actually the case. The great pit [hell] would only need to be about 100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have ever lived, assuming their spiritual bodies are the same size as their physical bodies. (Henry M. Morris, The Bible Has the Answer, p. 220) The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article entitled Earths Center Hotter Than Suns Surface, Scientists Say. The article stated that scientists have recently discovered, THE EARTHS INNER CORE HAS A TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT! Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by reporters, when HELL surfaced upon the earth. The book, Volcanoes, Earths Awakening (p.91) describes an erupting volcano as descent into HELL. Thousands of years ago, the Bible described a place called hell in the heart of the earth that matches exactly what science is discovering.
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