Metaphors for Physical Death and Soul Sleep Should Not be Confused with Annihilation

What is Hell to You?

Hell is the place that if are to go there permanently, you will be made known by God that you belong there and won't even put up a fight, because as your life is recounted, you will be shown your clear choice was to reject His only begotten Son.

For Christians it is different, as the fire fulfills a vital function that works as follows. At judgment seat all Christians are judged. Those whom God considers non-overcomers shall receive the effects of the fire to burn off the dross of their false works so God can place them into outer darkness to lose the reward of reigning with Christ during the 1000 years.

An analogy for Christians is most helpful here. Say you are painting a house and you are careful not to spill the paint or get it on your hands or clothing. In that case, you would not need to dip your hands into gasoline, since there is no paint needing to be removed. The house by the way is like the Church. The paint when used properly is like our righteousnesses for the Church in contrast to Christ as our righteousness; when used improperly and erratically are our self-works, not led by the Holy Spirit.

But if you were sloppy, you would need to use the gasoline to take the paint off, and it stings (like being dipped into hell to burn off your false works). Now you smell like gasoline. This after-smell will take some time to go away, even a 1000 years. A long bath is needed which can be likened to outer darkness, a period of being disciplined by God while Christians and Saints of Old enjoy glory a thousand years ahead of other Christians and Saints of the Most High God.

While the carnal or fleshly Christian is confined to the long bath (like the 5 unwise virgins), the spiritual Christians (the 5 wise virgins) will be at the dinner table of the millennial reign (Matt. 25.1-12).

God encourages us to "overcometh" so that we may receive the reward of being both kings and priests. After the 1000 years, rewards are done away with and we will no longer shed a tear for those who are sent to hell.

Hades or Sheol is the place timeless unawares, rest or soul sleep for both the saved and unsaved (Lazarus & Rich Man). Resurrection for the saved out of Hades takes place at the end of this age, separated by a 1000 years before the unsaved.

Hades was destroyed by Christ. Ever heard of the "Harrowing of Hell?" Yeah, it's that.

Anyone who says there's such a thing as soul-sleep is a heretic.

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If you don't believe in soul sleep you may still be saved, but your thinking is askew. How strange for a person's spirit to be in heaven disjoined apart from his soul and body. Very strange indeed!

Your profile is very strange by the way. You said you are going to Hell yet you believe the first question for salvation. Does that mean you believe the answer to the first question is true, but you reject it for yourself personally, admitting therefore you are going to Hell?

Those who are alive and left will not precede those who are asleep. Hence, hades must remain, bot the good side (Abraham's bosom) and the bad side (where the Rich Man went).

Soul Sleep is Real

Some take Jer. 51.39,57 to teach annihilationism (that there is no resurrection). "When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.... And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts" (Jer. 51.39,57). However, permanent sleep is just a metaphor or euphemism for physical death as in Ps. 76: "Our boldest enemies have been plundered. They lie before us in the sleep of death. No warrior could lift a hand against us" (v.5). This verse does not teach about what happens after death; that is taught in passages such as Is. 66.24: "And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." The worm can never die because what they feed on never dies. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment" (Heb. 9.27). If we are appointed once to die, we can never die again after judgment. Judgment comes to those who are alive.

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