by June McGee

Created on: May 15, 2009   Last Updated: May 16, 2009

I assume that the title line here is alluding to what will happen when the end of this world comes. OK. Then someone tell me where in the Bible it says that God is going to send people (human beings) to hell. Several chapters in the Book of Revelation tell us that this is not going to happen.

Before I begin to explain how the Bible says that people (human beings) are not going to go to hell, I need to have something understood, and that is this - How many countless warnings will man have to receive before he realizes that God is getting ready to act? From God's perspective, taking care of us is much like us as we raise our children. When we see them doing something we don't want them to do, something dangerous, or something which could injure others, we warn them not to do it again. And then, if we are forgiving parents, we may issue several more warnings after that initial one. And if they become so disobedient as to end up going to prison, we then have no choice but to let them go to prison. In a sense, this is how God is being toward us. Over the ages of the New Testament there have been so many, many warnings and we just seem to get more arrogant and disobedient with each one which passes. God's mercy and patience with us is only going to extend so far and then, in a matter of speaking, if we don't straighten up we will go to prison. Can you understand what I'm trying to tell you here? But still, that "prison" is not hell.

Let me start by saying that hell is the place where the devil, Satan, lives. When his end is at hand he is not going to be allowed to remain there, as we will see a little later in this article. And if Satan is not going to be there, then what is the point in sending people there? The truth is, again, as we will see, that hell itself will no longer exist after all is said and done.

In the Book of Revelation, the 19th Chapter and the 20th Verse, the Bible says:

"And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. And both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone."

It should be apparent from the reading of this verse that the false prophet, the beast, and all of those who worshipped the beast or his image, will be cast into a lake of fire.

Revelation 20:10 states:

"And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false

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