And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15). The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD (Luke 4:18-19). God anointed Jesus Christ to preach (teach) the GOOD NEWS, to PROCLAIM LIBERTY, and to HEAL. As the Body we have the same anointing. So many wish to teach the good news by preaching the bad news. Because of the ommissions found in most of their works, I am providing the following information to the believers.

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” Says the LORD of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch” (Malachi 4:1). An all comsumming fire is coming. “You shall trample the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day that I do this,” says the LORD of hosts (Malachi 4:3). The all comsumming fire will comsume the wicked. “For a fire is kindled in My anger, and shall burn to the lowest hell; it shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains” (Deuteronomy 32:22). The consuming fire reaches beyond the bondries of hell. “Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” (Revelation 20:14-15). The fire is the final resting place for hell.

Satan has always, from creation, taught that the wicked shall not die. Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:1-5). “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life” (Matthew 25:46). Second or final death, no additional resurrections – as God said, surely die.” Death is forever. Those that are dead in life, will be dead for ever. Those that are alive in life (alive in Christ) shall live forever.

The name Gehenna was derived from a burning garbage dump near Jerusalem (the valley of Hinnom) where trash was burned (the same word used sometimes for hell is a burning trash dump). Sheol refers to the grave (pit in the earth for a body or bodies to be placed after death). Abyss is used to refer to a pit (a deep hole in the earth); to the ocean floor; or to hell (the same word used sometimes for hell is the darkest part of the ocean bottom). “And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day” (Jude 1:6). Reserved in chains in a place of darkness until the day that hell is cast into the lake of fire.

Why do some teach death as an everlasting torment. Because in Revelation 14:9-11 it is documented that some will live in the lake of fire, tormented forever. Also in Revelation 20:10 it is written, “The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.” The scriptures are either true or they are not. If the scriptures records both, that a fire will burn up the wicked leaving them neither root nor branch and that there are some that will be tormented day and night forever and ever, then both are true. We are anointed to preach the good news of salvation. We are anointed to set at liberty those that are headed for the lake of fire to be tormented forever and ever. We are anointed to heal those that are headed for an eternal death, without root or branch. Our mission is to have compassion and heal and to pluck out of the fire – to do both as required. And on some have compassion, making a distinction; but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh (Jude 1:22-23).

2007, Tim D. Coulter Sr.