The Fire / Pit IS in the Earth's center.
The Fire IS Everlasting.
Fallen Spirits... are cast into the Fire...
Forever and Ever Those Spirits Are in Torments...Spirits never Die.
Their Forever Torment IS Separation from God.( and since Alive, fully aware of their Separation from God, and no release from that pit).
Since A Spirit, a man IN Christ...is At REST/PEACE with Christ...
A Spirit in the Fire pit Forever Shall Never Have REST/Peace<--- that is their eternal Torment.
Living souls IN hell, Unsaved, are experiencing a separation from God. They ARE Living souls, out of Dead Bodies, Having the same "senses" as when in their living Bodies...they can, hear, see, taste, talk, touch...but they are not ON the Earth, enjoying what we see ON the Earth, seeing flowers, sky, beautiful things, smelling pleasant smells, talking pleasant things, tasting pleasant things, feeling/touching pleasant things....they are in discomfort, hot, thirsty, smell the putrid smell of sulfur, can not have a pleasant talk with God, NOT with God...and no Hope to Be with Him in Rest and Peace...<--- that is Their Torment.
First thanks for the reply, second how can someone be Tormented without a JUDGMENT? is not the Judgment last?
and as for the dead, is not Ecclesiastes 9:5 correct? "For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten." so how can the dead Having the same "senses" when alive?
Now I agree with some spirits that are in Prison, for scripture clearly defins this, 1 Peter 3:19 "By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;"
1 Peter 3:20 "
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water."
Will they be, after Judgement cast into the Everlasting Fire pit? Yes
To clarify...that is After their Judgement.
Their Body is raised from it Dead state.
Their soul returns to its Body (since a Body can not come back to Life Without a living soul returning to its body)...
The Body (and Soul) stands in Judgement.
will this contradict what you said before, concering the soul and dead bodies. but the final Judgment is the Lake of fire the final judgment.
any soul that returns to a resurrected body is .... alive. but not in a body with spirit it's unconscious as Ecclesiastes 9:5 correctly states.
it's the here and now, Matthew 18:32 "Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:"
Matthew 18:33 "Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?"
Matthew 18:34 "And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him."
Matthew 18:35 "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you,
if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses."
A good read on this is in Matthews 11:23 & 24, Luke chapter 17 and a few more places, and examine the witness there.
but Amos 4:10 makes it clear, "I have sent among
you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses;
and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:11 "
I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and
ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD." (BINGO, the BURNING)
Amos 4:12 "
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel."
Amos has spelled it out for us clear as day.
and on a NATIONAL SCALE, back to Amos 4:10 & 11 "
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils:
yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
Amos 4:11 "I have overthrown some of you,
as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD."
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I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt" . TODAY'S scripture, Revelation 16:8 "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him
to scorch men with fire."
Revelation 16:9 "And men were scorched with great heat,
and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues:
and they repented not to give him glory."
Revelation 16:10 "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,"
one might want to make a cross reference of Amos 4:10 & 11 and Revelation 16:8-10.
the prophet and king David said it best, Psalms 51:7 "Purge me with hyssop,
and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
Psalms 51:8 "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice."
Psalms 51:9 "Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities."
Psalms 51:10 "
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
Psalms 51:11 "Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me."
I believe the torment is just what our Lord Jesus stated in Matthew 18:35, mental and phyicially defined, or shown. for a good example of this, look on the saved side. if we do wrong toward our brothers and sisters,
and do not repent, excuse my speach, for what I'm about to say, I'm not
cursing, but the Holy Ghost/Spirit will worry the
HELL out of you untill you get it right with your brother or sister, untill then you will catch "
HELL" until you do. I'm just being plain and simple. for the Lord Jesus said, Matthew 18:35 "So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." what he means is you have an ought with your brother, lay you gift at the altar and get it right with your brother or sister FIRST, then come back to God and offer your gift.
PICJAG.