HELL FIRE EXPLAINED Why Everything You Were Taught About It Was Wrong COSMIC ED 26

Forget the myths and speculations, hellfire is not what you think. In this episode, we uncover everything related to Hellfire, the mystery of judgment, and God’s eternal order.

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Chapters

• 0:26 Book Launch & Series Context
• 1:24 Hellfire: Myths And Misconceptions
• 4:49 Underworld Vs. Hellfire Defined
• 10:56 Nephilim Spirits, Demons, And Redemption
• 17:37 Holding Realms And Final Judgment
• 23:12 Where Is The Lake Of Fire
• 32:08 Progressive Revelation And Future Insight
• 39:38 Scriptural Trail To God’s Throne
• 49:12 Eternal Fire From God’s Presence
• 57:03 Brimstone, Sodom, And Wormholes

Transcript

Speaker: 0:13

Hey family! Before we dive into our discussion today, I've got exciting news. My new book stars, God's Cosmic Plan of Redemption is finally out. Let me tell you, our entire DIY Salvation Cosmic Edition series is based on this book, and this book will reveal to you how God's cosmic plan extends to the rest of the universe, not just our planet Earth. And in it, you find all the details that we discussed during DIY Salvation Cosmic Edition. It is a powerful prophetic book and it will change the way you see everything. You can get your copy now on Amazon. It is available on paperback, on Kindle, and also in digital formats. Alright, let's get into today's topic. Today I am explaining hellfire and why everything you thought you knew about it is wrong. See, the location and the nature of hellfire was what brought me into researching this topic, and I searched for many years, and there were no writers who could give me the information that I was looking for. I told you before that revelation is progressive. So over the years, I have kept on, you know, following God. He get gave me the information that I'm going to be sharing with you today, bit by bit, over the years. Alright, so the location and the nature of hellfire, I found out that has it has often been treated as topics of conjecture and also topics of speculation. Many Bible scholars claim that the Bible does not say much about it. Yet in my studies, I have found out that the Bible speaks with remarkable clarity, but only when we pay attention to what it is, what is written. The Bible contains a wealth of clear and consistent, very consistent references, which I'm going to be sharing with you tonight that reveal the nature of hellfire without ambiguity. The common misconceptions about hellfire that we know is that some people believe that hellfire is deep beneath the earth's crust. As if you know there is a fiery furnace or a fiery cavern hidden right at the planet's core, right? Other people say that hellfire is merely a state of mind, maybe is a symbolic expression of inner torment or separation from God. I'm sh- I mean, people that say this, they probably are making references to the Bible, okay? Other people still insist that hellfire is a temporary place, you know, where souls will eventually be purified or destroyed. But perhaps the most dangerous misconception of all is the belief that hellfire does not exist. See, hellfire exists, it does, but then there's another group of people. This one, I don't even know what to make of it. The people who are angry at God for creating hellfire, and they ask, How can a loving God create a place of fire and judgment? So tonight we're going to be stripping away centuries of myth, of folklore, fear-based theology, and what will remain is what the Bible actually says about hellfire. I found out that the problem is not that the evidence has not always been in the scriptures, but it's rather that many people don't know that it's there, or they refuse to believe what the word of God plainly declares. So my purpose in teaching this is not to instill fear in you, but to bring clarity and to bring understanding to one of the most misunderstood subjects in Christianity. Every subject in DIY salvation, I'm telling you, it's guaranteed to bring you closer to God and to know Him and to love Him. Even this topic about hell. So let's begin. What is hellfire? In our last episode, we talked about the underworld. That was like the final part of the Earth universe. Okay, and we said that the underworld is a vast spiritual realm that includes Hades, includes it includes the Abyss or the Pete, it also includes the bottomless peace, and we also talked about Tataros. Now these realms are often called hell, not hellfire, hell. The reason why is because the King James Bible generally translates these different compartments of the underworld as hell in English. But if you were to look at the original language of the Bible, you will find Hades or you will find Sheol or you'll find Tataros, you know, or the bottomless pit and the Abyssal and so on and so forth. Now, make no mistake, all these spiritual realms of the underworld are not hellfire. That's the reason why I add the fire there. They are not hellfire. So we have to distinguish between the underworld on the one hand and hellfire. All right, the experiences of the beings that dwell in the underworld, we know that they are indeed hellish, right? Filled with torment and separation from God. Because being in the underworld is a kind of death. Death is actually separation from God. Okay. Although it feels strange from our perspective as three-dimensional being beings to call it death. Why? Because we can still perceive their activity, we can still perceive the activity of demons and the devil, you know, in our world today. So we don't, it's hard for us to reconcile the fact that they are actually dead. Death is separation from God. Okay, so that's true for demons. We just talked about demons that live in the underworld. But remember, I've told you and I've also distinguished between demons and evil spirits. And I told you that evil spirits are actually the spirits of the Nephilim, okay, and they are descendants, all right. So they are evil spirits because they are not pure, they are not made purely from the fire of God. For the Nephilim, the Bible calls them dead, dead, not just dead. We know the other ones are separated from God, but they are dead, dead because they are spiritually dead while they're still walking. Okay, the reason is because of their hybrid nature, they do not carry the fire of God, like I said, and they are therefore not part of the kingdom of God. So when they die, they remain dead. They were already dead when they were alive, and then when they die, they remain dead. This means that they are unrecognized in the kingdom of God, they are contraband beings, okay, and they are unfit for the fire of God and unable to exist in the realm of God. I know these things people talk about it. How is that? How is it that you know these beings are on the earth and we say that there is no salvation for them? They are not even capable of salvation, they are not even capable of being redeemed. For you to be redeemed, you first have to be a spirit that is born of God. Do you get you have to be a spirit, you must have existed from the pure fire of God. For you to become to be a Nephilim, it means that you're already hybrid and you do not have the pure fire of God. That means that anytime you come close to the fire of God, he burns you up, like you're completely destroyed. In fact, it's God's mercy that they are even far away from Him right now, because the moment they come close, see the fire will burn them up and destroy them. So they do not have the capacity to endure. It's just like saying, Will clones go to heaven? That's another way to look at it. Will clones, human clones, you know, that we created on this realm, will they go to heaven? Of course not. They do not have the capacity, you know, to live in the kingdom of God, the the glory world. They don't have the capacity, so they are unable to exist in God's realm, and that's the reason why they are called dead, dead. Okay, so now don't make any mistake about it because this is actually different from genetically altered human beings. I know that there are human beings that were genetically altered, either to become super so soldiers or to become sexual objects, you know, things like that. And they were not hybrids by birth, but by virtue of the evil, you know, of men, whether they were kidnapped or their parents submitted them to the system or by whatever means that they got there, you know, they became genetically altered. Let me tell you, these people are already, they have the spirit of God in them, so that means they are capable of being redeemed as long as the gospel can get to them. It doesn't matter whether they changed your blood, they altered your blood, they altered so many things, they're able to control you by one programming or the other. You can be saved. But the key is for you to come in contact with the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. So such people are legitimate human beings and they can be saved, they are filled with the Holy Spirit, they are redeemed by Christ Jesus, and it is really, really tragic that children are the ones that are sometimes you know taught this from little, you know, they try to program into their minds that they cannot be saved, you know, which is a lie used by these wicked people to exploit and program them into destructive ways. Okay, but the truth still remains that redemption is possible for every true, pure human soul, right now. None of the compartments of the of the underworlds, not Hades, not the Abyss, not Tatarus, none of them is the lake of fire. I already said that. What are they? They are temporary prisons beneath the earth. Under that's why it's called the underworld. Okay, it stretches the fabric of space and time, the fabric of reality. The lake of fire or hellfire is distinct. It is not a chamber within the underworld, it is actually the final destiny of the wicked. That means everyone you see in the underworld is in prison, it's awaiting the final judgment. They're not all awaiting trial, okay? Because we've already been tried. It's very different from the ways of the world of our work on planet earth. These are not people awaiting trial, they have already been tried. Satan's judgment is already sure, they've already been tried, okay, and they've already been judged. For you as a human being, as long as after if you die and you make it down to the underworld, you your testing is over. The testing is here and now. That's the reason why you must not take your life, you must endure the hardships, you know, you must win, you must pray, you must grow spiritually because the testing is here and now. Once you leave this earth, leave the earthly body now, and you become a spirit, and you make it to the underworld. Unfortunately, the trial is already over, your judgment is already done, you already know where you're ending. It means that you're going to be lumped up together with the devil and his angels. So the underworld is a holding place, is a prison. The people on the underworld are waiting for their final destiny. So the reason why they're waiting is because God just wants it, God doesn't really like, I don't think he likes this idea of thrusting people into hellfire, right? So he has to like extend it for as long as he can, you know, and then once he doesn't want to do it several times, he wants to do it once in all of eternity. Like it's not something that he's looking forward to, just once for and for all, you know. So that's the reason why he has to wait, and then you know, the underworld gets populated by people who reject God, you know. Hell is the final destiny of the wicked after the last judgment, it is the place of ultimate destruction, it is the eternal separation from God. This that one is forever and ever and ever. The folks in the underworld right now, you know, they are there, but they are still engaging in their rebellion because they are still projecting onto the earth. You see demons possessing people, oppressing people, you see Satan causing all forms of havoc in the world today. You know, they're still doing continuing their acts of rebellion. But when it comes to the time, when it comes to hellfire, all of these things will cease completely. Although spirits do not die in natural death, hellfire is the one realm that can consume the spirit itself. That's why Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10, verse 28, he says, Fear him who is able to destroy both the soul and the body in hell. The Greek word for the word soul there is psyche, it means you know, not just the mind and emotions, because we know that man is tripartite, right? So we know that there is he has a he's a spirit, he has a soul, and we often say that the soul is the mind, the will, the emotions, the intellect, right? And then we say he lives in a body, okay. So when we see the word soul here, we're not just talking about the mind, the will, and the emotions, we're talking about the very essence of life itself is the fact it's the soul there encompasses both spirit and the soul as we know it. Okay, so Jesus was teaching that only God has the power to utterly erase both the material and the immaterial being. So the soul encompasses both the spirit and the soul, and then it says also the body in hell, the complete being. When human beings die, they go to the underworld. Their bodies die on this earth because their bodies, their three-dimensional bodies, cannot pass on to the next world, is not able to withstand it. Withstand, you know, the portal to go to the next world. So they have to shed this body, unless that body is spiritually enhanced, right? To be able to pass through. Just the same way Enoch's body or Elijah's body was enhanced for him to be able to live in heaven. So right now they're in heaven, they're not, they never died, they didn't shed their bodies down here, but their bodies were spiritually enhanced, so they're able to pass on to the next world. So if that's the way human beings they shed their bodies here, and then they go to the next level, they go to to either heaven or they go to the underworld. Now, in that next level, a human being ends up being just a soul, a soul and a spirit. Okay, he does no longer have a physical body, but God God is saying, Jesus is saying here that see, when we're talking about hell, the entire spirit soul body will be completely annihilated, completely done away with. Okay, and this is what the Bible calls the second death. So the man dies here on earth, or Satan is considered dead because he's separated from God already, and they're already dead, but yet there's going to be another death, which is going to be the final death. Revelation chapter 20, verse verse 14 says, And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. So hellfire is right now not yet inhabited, it is empty. Nobody has yet been sentenced there. The Lord has reserved it for the final judgment that day when every rebellion will meet its utter end. And let it be clear: the lake of fire was not created by Satan. Is there anything that Satan has created? And it will never be Satan's throne, just like we told you that the underworld is not Satan's kingdom or his throne, it's not it's not a rogue place away apart from God, right? No, it's it's it can never be. Hellfire is not a party either, it is not a kingdom and it is not located inside the underworld or beside the underworld or even around the underworld. So, then, where is the location of the lake of fire? So, several respected Bible scholars, I told you I did it, I did a serious research on this, including Finis Dake, have pointed out that the lake of fire has no known location in the present universe. Dick explains in his annotated reference Bible that the lake of fire is not in existence within our present heaven and earth, which we know from GI Salvation that they are what? Two distinct and separate universes. He says that it will come into being after the old creation has passed away. So Diggs believes that hellfire is only going to come into existence after the old heaven and the earth have passed away. So you see, we all agree that hellfire is not part of the underworld. Okay. Revelation chapter 20, verse 11 is what he uses to support his statement, which is that he saw, and I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was no found no, there was found no place for them. So that means that when this white throne judgment happens, the entire visible creation will disappear. So if the heaven and the earth have fled away, then the lake of fire cannot be inside of them. It then means that the lake of fire exists beyond this world, outside the physical universe as we know it. He has a point. Alright? In other words, hellfire belongs to the eternal order, not this temporary order. Okay, and then he goes ahead to say that the underworld, Hades, Tataros, the Abyss are temporary holding realms within this fallen cosmos, but the lake of fire is eternal, is revealed only after the final judgment when time as we know it has ended. Now, other Bible teachers have also reached the same conclusion. Henry Morris called the lake of fire a realm outside the boundaries of the renewed creation. Clarence Larkin described it as a spiritual dimension revealed after the old earth vanishes. John Valvord says it likely exists beyond space and time in the unapproachable light of God turned to judgment. So they all have a point. But like I said earlier, the Bible contains a plethora of clear, consistent references that reveal the nature and the location of hellfire without ambiguity, and I'm going to be sharing that with you tonight. Now remember, these great men they wrote in different eras. For example, Claren Larkin published his Dispensational Truth, God's Plan for the Ages in 1918. Henry Morris wrote the revelation record in 1983, the year I was born. And then John Valvode released the revelation of Jesus Christ in 1966. That means that the newest of these works, right, is more than four decades old. And this is 2025, an entirely different generation, a prophetic era of unveiling. Remember what I always say revelation is progressive. Truth builds layer upon layer, especially when it comes to the truth of God's word. Even in technology, okay, technology advances. Why? Because revelation is progressive. Somebody had to discover the light bulb before we could even think about electricity, and before we could even think about having electric cars. Do you get that? So all these things are progressive over and over and over again. Thank God for the works of these great men. Their writings really formed the foundation for our understanding, for my personal understanding, that I can even study and teach you these things today. But you see, now in this time and age, God is unfolding mysteries that were hidden from generations past. That's the reason why I'm telling you the information that you're going to get from that you get from DIY Salvation is amazing. And I'm even looking forward to the next generation because if the current gen alphas, for example, have this revelation, this information that we're sharing on DIY Salvation, and they have it from now when they are very little. Imagine what revelations they would come up with. I can I see I believe strongly that in the next generations, people will no longer die. And it will not be because of medical science, it will be because that they now understand how to tap into immortality. I'm telling you, I believe it very strongly because God has given me the word for immortality. I have the complete material on it already, and I'll publish it very soon. But imagine when God has already revealed it to me. I am very sure and certain because if God reveals it to me, our people in our generation would get a hold of it. Some people will practice it, some people will try and fail, some people will actually work. But when it comes to the next generation, they would have seen somebody practicing mortality and seen somebody, you know, go to heaven, like leave this place without dying, just the same way Elijah left and the same way Enoch left. And they would propose in their heart that their bodies will not rot in in the grave. And they will propose in their heart that they are going to do it exactly because they've seen somebody do it before. That's the reason why you see somebody who is a if you're a writer, for example, and you have kids, your kids will have no struggle with writing, they will just write naturally, even if it's not their their calling per se, they will just know how to write because they've seen you use words in the house, you know, with them. It's just normal for them. Someone who grew up with music in the house will just become a musician, you know, so easily and might be a better musician than his father ever was. Okay, so that's what I mean. So the spirit of truth is helping us to see, you know, not just what hellfire was described to be, but where hellfire truly belongs in God's eternal order. Now let's look at the location of hellfire. The Bible does not state the coordinates of hellfire, yet we can trace it through several connected Bible verses, and I want to take you along with me tonight. Okay, listen, you might want to sit down for this part because where these clues are leading, right? Is nothing short of mind blowing. I'm telling you, every biblical trail points to one place as the location of hellfire. You ready for it? The location of hellfire is the throne of God itself. Can you believe it? All clues point towards the throne of God. So I'm going to take you with me and we're going to start connecting the dots, right? The very first thing you need to know about the about hellfire is that the Bible describes hellfire as the lake of fire. I told you that the Bible is literal, it is not a metaphor, it is a supernatural reality. Okay, the law of first mention, the first time that the the that hellfire was mentioned as a lake as the lake of fire, Revelation chapter 19, verse 20 says, and the beast and the false prophet were both cast alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone. Right now, in Revelation chapter 20, verse 10, we see that the devil is cast into the lake of fire, and the devil that received deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophets are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. So we see Satan himself being cast into the lake of fire. So hellfire is a lake. Okay. In Revelation chapter 20, verse 14 to 15, he says, And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. How many times have you heard the word lake of fire mentioned? The Bible was not mincing words. At the mouth of two or three witnesses, a matter is established. Two witnesses is enough. This matter has right now we've mentioned four witnesses. Okay, so this reveals that the lake of fire is the final judgment, the second death, and it is after the great white throne judgment. Okay, so don't forget it's a lake of fire. Revelation chapter 21, verse 8 says that the fearful, who ends up in the lake of fire? The fearful, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the warmongers, the sorcerers, the idolators, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone. This is the second death. There's another thing you need to know about the lake of fire, it burns with fire and brimstone. Okay? So it tells us that everybody who rejects God's righteousness will end up there. So remember the first rule of Bible interpretation: the Bible means what it says literally. If the Bible calls hellfire a lake of fire multiple times, then let me tell you that is exactly what it is. It is a lake that burns with fire and brimstone. So that gives us a very, very hot clue. Where else in the Bible do we see something resembling a lake or a river that burns not with magma or molten rock, it burns with living fire itself. You know, you know already. I know that you know, surprisingly, of course, the Bible reveals such a phenomenon. So let's look at it. Daniel chapter 7, from verse 9 to 10. I beheld Daniel speaking. He says, Till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sick seat, the ancient of days speaking about Papa God, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool, his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousand thousands ministers unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were open. This is a nice clue. It tells us that a fiery river flows from God's throne. Ha! This aligns with Psalm 97 from verse 2 to 3 that describes the existence of God. How does it explain it? He says clouds and darkness are round about him, righteousness and judgment at the habitation of his throne. That means his throne is set upon what? Righteousness and judgment. The foundation of his throne is righteousness and judgment. Then, in case you're not sure what it means by righteousness and judgment, he says a fire goes before him and burns up his enemies roundabout. So you know now that God's throne is set upon what? Fire. So now, if you've been listening to DIY Salvation, you're like, ah, Pastor E now, now I thought you said God's throne was set upon water. Why is it that it's set upon fire now? Because this fire that goes before him is the same eternal river of judgment and the and glory that is issuing from the throne of God. It is the fire of his holiness, quite alright. But you see, it gives us a fresh perspective on the firmament because we know that the firmament is the river of life that flows from the throne of God. So, what is this fiery stream? Is it another river? No, it is the the same, one and the same river. It the Bible says, if I revelation, it says that it is a sea mingled with fire. Revelation chapter 15, verse 2. And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire. So occasionally you would see the sea is clear as crystal. So you would think that he's walking upon a crystal pavement. Meanwhile, is river, is water, is the sea. Okay, and other times he's boiling with fire. That's when God's judgment, because it tells us now when judgment is about to happen, then that's when that happens. You see that, okay? So Deuteronomy chapter 4, verse 24 describes God as a consuming fire, even a jealous God. Okay, so this verse and tells us the essence of that fiery sea. It says that fiery sea flows from God Himself, and we now understand the reason why the stream sometimes burns with holy fire. It's because God is because of God's holy love and his jealousy and his what righteous judgment. When he's angry, the fire begins to burn. Ha! You saw God like a physician. I'm sure. For real. So all these verses of scriptures that we've just read now, you see, together they reveal a consistent and unified image that before the throne of God is a river of fire, is a sea of fire, the river of his presence, from which both life and judgment from is still that from that river that we were all born. We came out from that river, that river of life. Okay, scientists have already Said that every one of us, like matter, if you break us down to the smallest level, we find what fire at the end of the day. So that was what we're created with your spirit. That is the original. Okay. Our second clue that proves my point that hellfire is before the throne is this hellfire. We've seen several scriptures that say that hellfire is not temporal, it is eternal fire. It doesn't go out, right? So to prove this point, we have to look for places where we find eternal fire in the Bible and see what they say. Okay. One of such places is Genesis chapter 19, verse 24. Talking about Sodom and Gomorrah. When Sodom and Gomorrah was judged, then the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven. Very, very detailed as to how this happened. Do you understand? It was not just brimstone and fire from anywhere, it was from the Lord out of heaven. So there are two things to note from this verse of scripture. One is that the fire came from the Lord out of heaven. It didn't just come from all the several realms of heavens, right? Or different heavens. No, it came from the Lord. It came from the God realm, not from the earth universe, not from all the several levels of heaven. It came from the God realm. So for something to come from the God realm, you know that it is eternal. Everything that exists in the God realm is eternal, right? The second thing to note from this verse is that the fire was mingled with brimstone, which is a unique combination that we find again only in the lake of fire. Isaiah chapter 30, verse 33 tells us how the how hellfire was kindled, and it says it's the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone that kindles hellfire. So I've told you before that the firmament is the breath and the word of the Lord, right? Farmament we know is also a stream. But here it is talking about the lake of fire, and it calls it a stream of brimstone. So direct. Like you can't miss it. I'm telling you that once you listen to all of DIY Salvation Cosmic Edition series, right? Bible interpretation will be a lot easier for you. Revelation chapter 19, verse 20 states that the beast and the false prophet were both cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. So it tells us that the fire that fell on Sodom and Gomorrah traveled straight from the God realm through all the several layers of heavens, heavens, through the heaven universe, down through the several layers of heavens in the earth universe, located our planet Earth, went right through it, down, located Sodom and Gomorrah, and fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah. How is that even possible? Now you can see that the Bible proves to us that wormholes are possible. A wormhole is a shortcut through space and time, right? It connects realms, and there are so many scenarios in the Bible that shows that wormholes were obviously utilized. I'm telling you, for example, Elijah was snatched up to heaven and the chariot of fire. How did the chariot get here? How did he disappear with Elijah? Wormhole. Otherwise, they'll travel for God knows how many billion years before they get to heaven, right? Jesus ascending to heaven, this time without a spacecraft, he just started ascending. Not even a chariot of fire, right? It shows that how did Jesus get to you know it was not the when he was ascending to heaven, it was not the first time he was going to heaven, right? Because immediately after he rose from the dead, he had to go and show himself at the temple in heaven first before the father, before coming back again. Do you get that was the reason why he told Mary Magdalene, don't touch me. I have not yet gone to show myself to the father. Do you get so it wasn't the first time he was doing it? And he did that within the space of how many days? He went all the way to the heaven universe. You know what we've talked about, and he went right on into the realm of God just like that, without a spacecraft. Do you get my point? Without a space spacecraft, no, you know the distance between stars is quite in in the universe, it's quite some, you know, millions or billions of years, right? But Jesus did that in the space of how many earth days? Do you get so we know for a fact that wormholes exist. Science theorizes about it, they haven't proven it yet. The Bible proves it. Science is catching up with the Bible. Even King David in Psalm 18, verse 9, he described God as bowing the heavens. What does he mean by bowing the heavens? He bowed the heavens also and came down, and darkness was under his feet. Remember that the heavens is synonymous with the firmament. So God just bent it, you know, and crossed over, you know, used his leg and crossed over. You can see that is a wormhole, obviously, right? Isaiah chapter 64, verse 1 speaks of God as tearing open or splitting apart the heavens. Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, tear it open, that you would come down and the mountains might flow down at your presence. So you see that these prophets they spoke as though the heavens, that's the firmament, is a curtain that can be torn or can be bent or stretched, and rightly so, because the Bible says so that God stretched the firmament as a curtain and hung the earth upon nothing. You know, we've we've studied this over and over again. So back to my point. The only place where we can find everlasting fire in all created realms, fire that can never go out. Because we see in our realm in the universe, you can see that stars are dying. So that means they are, and why are they dying? They are burning out of hydrogen, and that's what's going on. So once that happens, okay, they're dead. Okay, stars are dying. Stars, it's just imagine our sun, as big as it is, as bright as it is, will eventually die one day. Okay, so there is no everlasting fire in this realm, right? There's no everlasting fire in the earth universe. In the heaven universe, also, there's no everlasting fire. How do I know that? Because I know that in the heaven universe, time behaves differently. As long as time behaves differently, time exists. That means there is an end to things, only that it's going to take longer. And how much longer? Like a thousand years. A thousand years to our own earth day. Okay, so we know that dystrophy is kind of like a little bit is slow down. Obviously, because of that, we know that in the heaven universe there's no everlasting fire. The only place that everlasting fire will exist is in the God realm before the throne of God. Matthew chapter 25, verse 14, Jesus said, Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. So it is everlasting fire because it issues from the eternal one himself. 2 Thessalonians chapter 1, from verse 8 to 9 makes it very clear. It says, In flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, who shall be punished with what? Everlasting destruction from where? The presence of the Lord. It doesn't get clearer than this. The everlasting fire proceeds from the presence of God. Therefore, the lake of fire is in the presence of God. Revelation chapter 14 from verse 10 to 11 says, He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone. Where? The presence of the lamb is the throne of God. Glory to God. Hell is not outside God's domain, it is before the face of God. So why is it that we have always imagined hellfire to be far away from God? Maybe by you know, we just imagine one big ditch somewhere and fire is burning inside. In fact, it's when we look at the the way the black holes are in our current world, we believe that fire must be down, down, down, down inside, burning there, right? As if it's kindled. No, it's the breath of God that kindles the fire. All right. Just imagine. It's because see, the reason why we have always imagined it to be far away from God is because Satan has labored to conceal this truth. Imagine his humiliation. He will be tormented in the presence of the very ones that he deceived, he oppressed, and ruled over. That's the reason why he lies. He paints hell as a party. It shows you that he is he is unrepentant and will never repent because of his pure pride and denial, his childish defiance before eternal judgment. Now let's address the elephant in the room. Why would a loving God create hellfire? First, we've already seen that hellfire flows from his holy love, from his jealousy, from his ultimate judgment, right? So we know God to be a reckless lover. But his love has boundaries. Make no mistake about it. And those boundaries have consequences. God will not let you abuse him just because he loves you passionately. And this is something that we all must learn. We must learn to balance love with ironclad boundaries that protects us from abuse in all our relationships. I mean all our relationships, even relationships with your children. Boundaries that will protect you, and all your boundaries must have consequences if they are crossed. And you have to enforce those consequences no matter what, right? Okay, so God did not create hell originally for mankind. And who are these people? They were all spirits in they are still, I mean, they are all spirits in the earth universe, right? And I told you that the earth universe is a realm for testing free moral agents. This is Matthew chapter 25, verse 14 that says that God prepared hell for the devil and his angels. Revelation chapter 20, verse 10 and 15 confirm that the devil, the beast, the false prophet, eventually be cast there. But unfortunately, human beings, men who remain unredeemed, and who take on the image of the beast will end up sharing the same fate with the devil and with his angels. Why, though? Because of uh, you know, Satan's rebellion exposed a cosmic gap, but God in his wisdom turned that fall of Satan into opportunity. And what opportunity was that? He used it to bring forth humanity, you and I, a race of free moral agents that will eventually be trained to bridge the cosmic gap and be united with him forever. If you do not understand what I just said about the cosmic gap, you have to go and listen to the episode that is titled The History of the World and How Satan Became the Accuser of the Brethren. All right. In the end, the gap will be bridged, redemption will be complete, like I said. All right. So more facts about hellfire. I've already said that hellfire is kindled by the breath of God. The lake of fire connects directly to the breath of God and to the tongue of God, right? Isaiah chapter 30 from verse 27 to 28 says, Behold, the name of the Lord cometh, his tongue as a devouring fire, his breath as an overflowing stream. This verse of scripture supports the other one that I just mentioned earlier on that talks about the stream of brimstone. Okay, this imagery is really quite profound because you see the tongue of God as a devouring fire, his breath an overflowing stream. This is the same stream that sustains libel, the same one that we came out of, that spirits come out of, you know, but this is the same stream that will eventually execute judgment. So it tells us that God will also executes judgment through what words because it talks about his tongue as a devouring fire. That the instrument of judgment is God's tongue. So you should learn that you're made in the image of God. So the instrument of judgment against the enemy in your life should be what? Your tongue. You need to rebuke the enemy. Say what you want to see and what you do not want to see, rebuke it and cancel it in the name of Jesus. And the next time you receive a word of God, receive it with respect. Like put some respect on that word. Do you get? Because everything will align for your good based on that word. Put some respect on it. All right. The second fact is that hellfire is also the river of God. I have already shared this with you. It is his word, it is his breath. The river that flows from the throne is not just water, it is the word and the breath of God. That same breath gives life and it can also kindle judgment. And it is from that river that we are having the water that we drink today, or albeit a very, very anadulterated version of the water. Okay, it's not the pure river of life because if we drink it, we cannot even we can't even drink that one. No wonder the Bible says that Jesus upholds all things by the word of his power. The firmament that holds the cosmos together is nothing less than that river of divine thought. See, God has different ways of saying the same thing by river, you know, breath, fire. He has the same way of saying so many things. I wonder why and how we miss it. The firmament is the river of divine thought, is God's breath, is his word, is his essence flowing through all of creation. The third point is that all life begins and ends in the breath of God. Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 7 says, Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall what? Return unto God who gave it. It doesn't matter whether it is evil spirit or good spirit. And I'm talking, I'm when I'm saying evil spirit, I don't mean the spirit of Nephilim. I mean whether it is a bad spirit or a good spirit, it will all eventually return unto God who gave it. The good spirit will live with him in eternity, you know, in the God realm, but the bad spirit will return back to source in hellfire. Okay, so all life begins and ends in God's breath. His word contains creation, his breath will give life, but it also reclaims life. That's why it says that God gives and he got takes back. Blessed be the name of the Lord. God has been revealing this truth all along, but somehow, blinded by darkness, we have failed to see it. Right? This next point is very, very interesting, it's very key. The lake of fire is under the feet of God. So we already know that lake of fire is under the feet of God because the river of life flows under the feet of God. The his footstep is in the sea. When the Bible says that his footsteps is in the sea, it's not just it's literal because he walks on water, literally. When Jesus walked on water and the earth, it was something he like it's it's his personality, it's what is his nature, right? So the lake of fire is not only a place of final judgment, it is also the very location where Jesus' ultimate victory will be displayed. Why do I say so? In Psalm 110, it says, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. Do you see that? This is a foundational prophecy that reveals that Jesus will be exalted. And this particular prophetic word was quoted multiple times throughout the Bible. This means that it is extremely important. So, according to the Bible, every enemy of Jesus will be subdued and placed under his feet. How much clearer does this get? This prophecy has already been fulfilled in part, which is the part that Jesus is now seated at the right hand of the Father. But that final part when his enemies will be made his footstool is yet to come. Hebrews chapter 10 from verse 12 to 13 explains that this man, speaking about Jesus, after he had offered one sacrifice for saints forever, sat down at the right hand of God, he now says, from henceforth, expecting that his enemies will be made his footstool. So Jesus is seated in glory, he's waiting for the time when all opposition, including sin, death, disease, the devil, poverty, will all be placed under his feet. Glory to God. So when will this happen? When will the enemies of Jesus be made his footstool at the white throne judgment? And who are these enemies that must be made his footstool and put under his feet? They include death, hell, the devil, and the demons. First Corinthians chapter 15 from verse 25 to 26 says, For he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. You notice how death is described as an enemy of Christ, right? Death too will be cast into the lake of fire. Death will be placed under the feet of Jesus. In the book of Revelation, chapter 6, verse 8, death and Hades are portrayed as masculine spirits, you know. They are real entities, they are not abstract concepts, they are spirits. And finally, Satan, the ultimate enemy, will also be destroyed. His final place will be the lake of fire beneath the feet of the Lord of glory. Hallelujah. So the lake of fire is not just a pit, it's not a pit of judgment, is the fool of divine victory, the visible proof that every enemy has been subdued under the authority of Christ Jesus. Glory to God forever. I like this next point. The lake of fire is also under the feet of the saints. Malachi gives us a very, very powerful image. He says, For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yes, and all that do wickedly shall be stubborn. And the day cometh that shall burn them up, said the Lord of hosts, and you shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet. In that day shall I do this, saith the Lord. This is a prophetic picture of the day of the Lord, right? The day of divine judgment. The proud and the wicked will be burned up and reduced to ashes, while the righteous will stand above them. Revelation chapter 15, verse 2 supports this and says, And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image stand on the sea of glass, having the hars of God. Wow. So we see the overcomers, the saints standing on a sea of glass mingled with fire. And this fiery sea is located where, right before the throne of God, just like Daniel saw in Daniel chapter 7, from verse 9 to 10. The saints will stand upon the sea of fire. He does not consume the saints. It's water. Remember, it's water. So we would have our glorified bodies will act like Jesus's body or like God's bodies because we will walk on water, we'll walk on fire. Glory to God. We'll stand upon it unharmed, worshiping God with harves in our hands. Why is this possible? Why and how is this possible? Because we would now be living in the realm of God fully. That's what I've been telling you. That the new Jerusalem will be God's house. The new Jerusalem universe is a brand new universe that houses all of us. All of us, we're going all going to be beautiful, bright, burning stars, you know, lights that cannot be hidden under a bushel. And we will all be situated in our father's house, the new Jerusalem universe. The river of life will literally be our pavement. We will walk on it just as God does right now. And everything else, every opposing realm, every fallen system, every enemy will be right under our feet. This is our destiny as the redeemed, not just to escape judgment. Okay, so if there's anybody you need to talk to about Jesus, you know, someone that is a loved one, your loved ones, they need to know Jesus so that it's not just about escaping judgment, but to reign above judgment, to walk on the very fire that once consumed the wicked. Hallelujah. Okay, the final point this is this is where everything comes together. Believe it or not, the lake of fire is the ultimate show of mercy because it is actually a return to source. You heard me say this before that it is a return to source. The lake of fire reveals something that a lot of people ignore or they miss. Even in judgment, God's actions are never random or meaningless. He is still very merciful. God is not a destroyer like Satan, otherwise, all of us would have been wiped out since, right? Satan tears down for destruction's sake. God restores order even through fire, he's a God of justice, right? And judgment. God is a recycler. Even in annihilation, he absorbs the spirits back into his fire. He reabsorbs everything. Do you understand? Because that is his fire that is bringing out souls and spirits and is sustaining the entire universe, you know, and yet he still puts Satan back in there. Huh. Again, it tells us that there are many compartments in the river of life, right? Because I've told you also that the river of life also contains like different worlds, so there must be different worlds in there. So I'm sure that Satan will not be mingled up with the rest. The rest of the bad guys, right? But the point is that God recycles, you know, the spirits back into his fire, and he also recycles their fallen stars, you know, into streets of gold for the new Jerusalem. Go and find out how gold is created, and you'll find out that it's you, you you will understand the reason why the new Jerusalem is a golden city, because it is built on all those recycled gold and precious stones that are formed from this total destruction of both the heaven universe and the earth universe colliding together when it will happen and all those stars fall to the ground, you know, like leaves off of a tree. At that point, now there will be a lot of gold, a lot of precious stones, and that is what God uses to recreate or to fix the new Jerusalem universe. Is that not awesome? So if we look closely, we find that the lake of fire is not just about punishment, but it's about returning all things to their source. The best way I can explain this to you is if you've seen the movie The Sandman, right? The series The Sandman, the recent one, you find that when the Corinthian, you know, was became so evil, and then the Sandman was able to get a hold of the Corinthian, what did he do? He, when the Sandman kills any of his creation, it's kind of like taking them back into source, even if the other creations will be feeling like, oh, oh, that was so mean and all of that, but then he takes them back into source, and then sometime later you find out he recreated the Corinthian and made him such a pure version, even if it looked exactly the same, but he made him a pure pure version. Well, the Bible doesn't tell us that God is going to recreate Satan or anything like that, no, but it's a return back to source. It tells you that even Satan and his cohorts, they know these things, right? They know it because for you to show up in the video in a movie or a series, such as The Sandman that talks about hybrid beings, right? You know that it was powered by people who believe in those things. Do you get powered by so-called hybrid beings as well, so that they will be able to parade their story as them being pure and all of that. But my point is that they know that the fire of God, hellfire, is a place of returning back to source. Okay, returning back to source. God is Alpha and He is the Omega, He is the beginning and He is the end, He's the beginning of all things, He's the end of all things. Everything that ever came from Him must ultimately return to Him. Do you get? And everything, that's why I told you that. See, there is no other God apart from the God of the Bible. There is no order, He is the only one. Religion is just it, is just something that Satan parades to be able to push people away from knowing God. When you get to know God, you find out that religion is the last thing on his mind. God wants to have a relationship with you. If religion is the method through which you're going to get to him, good and fine. But in the end, at the end, God just wants to know you, he wants to be to be close to you, he wants you to get to know him as well. Everything that ever came from him must ultimately return to him. When Satan, his demons, and the rebellious people, the unredeemed, are cast into the lake of fire. See, they are not simply being destroyed, they are being returned to the very element of defire that once gave them their first pack of existence. They are stripped of glory, they are stripped of form, they are stripped of influence. I don't know if you've had some one of those dreams where you felt as if you were liquid. I've had one of those dreams before, and that dream was was never ending, and I hated it. And I don't want to ever have that kind of dream again, right? Where you're like liquid form, you can't really see yourself as a form. For me, I was see myself like you know, pink substance flowing, you know, on top of mountains, very colorful mountains and hills and all of that. Those kind of dreams, you know, that you feel trapped. You're trying to wake up, you can't wake up. You're trying to wake up, you can't wake up, and then you eventually just wake up out of it. When I got out of that dream, I was very, very, very thankful to God because I understood what hell must must feel like. Because imagine you having form right now. There are spirit beings in with the father right now that are praying to be redeemed so that they can have the opportunity to know Jesus and so that they can actually have an opportunity to rule in God's world in the world to come, right? They are praying for it, they want to be redeemed, they want to be redeemed, and you finally have a body, and you know what it feels like to have, you know, to taste food, to taste all the wonderful joys of life, even to cry, you know, to feel pain, to cry and to heal, to love and to be heartbroken. You know, all of these wonderful things that make up life, that you can actually feel it where they are. They are going to be stripped of glory, they'll be stripped of form, they'll be stripped of influence, all the things that Satan is just parading up and down, feeling as if he's, you know, the king of the world, creating thrones for himself and you know, creating visual effects for people to think that he's really, you know, something out of what it he already is, right? He will be stripped of all of that. He will have, see, right now, he's able to project from where he is. He will not be able to project again when it comes to hellfire. Their essence, their life spark, everything is recycled back into the eternal fire of God. For our God is a consuming fire. We've seen the that fire in the Bible has always been both creative and destructive. Fire can purify God, it can burn away stubble, it can refine, it can consume. The reason why you're not going to go to hell is because you spend time building your spirit man so that it has capacity to live in God's kingdom. So there's there's no why you're around this thing, like you'll not be like, you know, you you'll be able to bribe your way to heaven. No. If you get to the gates of heaven and you cannot, even if they you are able to bribe your way and you get to the gates of heaven, I'm telling you that the glory world, because you did not develop, that's what we tell you to pray. You know, we tell you to pray to fast, you know, to read your Bible, to study, listen to DIY Salvation. The more you listen to, the fire of God in me is being imparted to you. So you're not the same person that listened to this message from the time I started teaching. You see, at the end of this message, you're a completely different person. You have grown in in spiritual glory. Do you understand? So you can't bribe your way to heaven. You get to the gates of hell. If you could, and you get to the gates of heaven, just the the fact, in fact, you've not even gotten to the gates, the glory alone will burn you up. So you are back to hell again. Do you see? So that's the thing. If you have the capacity to live in heaven, it will tell. It there's no separate system where God will say, Okay, you know, these are the good people and these are the bad. No, your your your physical, your spirit man, the position, what you look like, what your spirit man looks like is what will tell everybody in the entire universe whether you're going to heaven or you're going to hell. It's as simple as that. So you have to invest more in building yourself spiritually. Glory to God. Okay, so nothing in God's creation is ever wasted. What begins in fire will end in fire. When all rebellion is contained, it will now be recycled into the lake of fire. Like I said, Satan and the wicked, they are no longer permitted to roam the universe again. They will still exist, but they are now awareness without form. So they are aware. They are aware, forever conscious, but forever excluded. Hi. What a sad state of existence. Matthew chapter 25 from verse 46 calls it everlasting punishment, forever excluded. Revelation chapter 14, verse 11 says that the smoke of their torment will ascend up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night. So that the smoke of their torment will be such that it will be a bright lesson for everybody in the universe to remember them by. Imagine, billions of years after, we look back and think about Lucifer. Gone, just like that. And will be like imagine when he ruled and tormented back when we're on earth. What a memory that will be. Satan will see, he will be in hell, he will see he can never touch, he will perceive he will never participate. They would all exist, but they will never express. Do not be found there. Do not be found there. If you have siblings, if you have people that you can talk to, talk to them, share the word of God with them. At least try. Do you get it's people are bound to reject it, but at least try. Okay? Try and warn them and tell them of it, you know, because where hellfire is, is not a place that anybody, I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy, because they will be aware of the glory of the new Jerusalem, yet they'll be unable to enter it. The very fire that once sustained them will now become their eternal environment, a place, you know, of sight without touch, a place of awareness without interaction. They will be existing without expression, without expression, without expression. Ha! Their torment is eternal because now their separation is final, is eternal. But then guess what? Creation is safe forever. I love it. Creation is safe forever. The lake of fire is not just destruction, but it is containment, it contains them, it purifies the rest of the universe, and it is a restoration of divine order. God's eternal kingdom will remain pure and holy, unshakable forever, because it will be sustained by God Himself. No more devil, no more demons, no more nonsense. As Paul wrote, for of him and through him, and to him are all things, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Glory to God. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father, for your word. Thank you, Father, for revelation. Thank you for insight into spiritual realities. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. If DIY Salvation has blessed you, you can support this work by becoming a monthly partner. You will find the link in the show notes. Click the link and it will take you to the support page. Also, don't forget to go grab my new book titled Stars God's Cosmic Plan of Redemption by Esther Obeley. You can get your copy right now on Amazon. 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