"88 Facts Proving Hell Not the Grave (Cont'd.)

Other Ridiculous Conclusions (Cont'd.)

Cast into the grave where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:11-12; 22:13; 24:51; 25:30).

Who has warned you to flee from wrath in the grave (Matthew 3:7).

Killed and cast into the fire of the grave (Matthew 3:10).

Burn in unquenchable fire of the grave (Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17).

Tares are burned in the grave fire (Matthew 13:40, 50).

Cast them into the grave of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:42).

A two-fold more child of the grave than yourselves (Matthew 23:15).

Be cast into everlasting fire in the grave (Matthew 18:8-10).

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

These shall go away in the grave of everlasting punishment (Matthew 25:46).

The angels that sinned have been reserved in everlasting chains and set forth for an example of suffering the eternal fire of the grave (Jude 6-7).

He opened the grave and out of it came forth smoke of a great furnace that darkened the sun (Revelation 9).

The smoke of the grave rose up for ever and ever (Revelation 19:3).

Satan shall be cast into the grave of fire and brimstone and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever (Revelation 20:7-10).

Death and the grave were cast into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:14).

All sinners shall have their part in the grave that bums with fire and brimstone (Revelation 21:8; 22:15).

Are you come to torment us (demons) in the grave before it is time to be tormented (Matthew 8:29).

Warn my 5 brethren lest they also come to this grave of torment in the fire (Luke 16:19-31).

He (Lazarus) has comfort in his grave but you have torment in yours (Luke 16:19:25).

He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the grave and they shall have no rest day or night for ever and ever (Revelation 14:9-11).

Many other statements just as ridiculous could be made if we, like false cults, forced a meaning into Scripture that is not there - that hell is the grave: that there is no consciousness after death; that eternal fire and eternal punishment in hell are false.

• 75. Hades is spoken of as being completely defeated (1 Corinthians 15:55). This is sufficient proof that no grave is referred to.
• 76. The fact that the soul is immortal proves that it remains in consciousness some place between death and the resurrection. Since it does not go to the grave but to hell then hell is not the grave.
• 77. Since the soul is immortal and the body is mortal (Genesis 3:19; Ecclesiastes 3:19-21) then it is clear that the body only goes into the grave to see corruption until the resurrection to immortality when (if wicked) it will be punished in hell with the soul or (if righteous) will be permitted to enjoy eternal bliss.
• 78. Since the body only is to be changed in the future resurrection of the dead, then the body only will come out of unconsciousness in the grave so it can be made immortal as the soul and spirit, and be rewarded in heaven according to its deeds or be punished in hell according to its deeds (Daniel 12:2; John 5:28-29; Revelation 20:11-15).