Wide awake in hell, talking to Antichrist

“Every time the veil is lifted from the time of death to the time of resurrection, or what we call that intermediate time, you find people, when the Bible speaks about it, as being conscious of what’s going on around them,” explains Jordan.

“In Revelation 6, for one example, you’ve got some people who’ve been martyred. They wouldn’t take ‘the mark of the beast,’ they testified for the gospel of the kingdom and they were killed. They were decapitated; they were martyred for their faith.

“Revelation 6:9-11 says, [9] And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
[10] And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
[11] And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

“You see how he says, ‘I see their souls under the altar’? Now, is what he’s going to see, is it going to be a big dormitory with everybody’s snoring and cutting ZZZZs? Verse 10 makes clear they’re awake; they’re conscious of what’s going on.

“Verse 11 says they’re each given a white robe. Now you know if somebody handed you a robe, you’d get a look at it and see, ‘Does this thing fit? Yeah, I think it does.’

“They get these things on and that’s conscious activity! And they’re told, ‘Now rest a little.’ What does that mean? That they’re going to go take a nap? No, it’s talking about just quit being concerned and worrying about it; God’s on His time schedule. The prophetic clock is ticking. It’s a, ‘Don’t worry; just chill out,’ kind of a thing.

“My point is, when you see saints between the time of their death and awaiting resurrection, you see them conscious, not only of the immediate surroundings but of things going on in other places.

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“In Isaiah 14, you see the same thing’s true about hell. What you have is a prophetic picture of the future. At the end of the tribulation period, when the Antichrist has been brought low and destroyed, you’ll see in verse 4, ‘That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!’

“They’re mocking the Antichrist as he’s taken out and cast out into the bottomless pit. Notice verse 9: 'Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.'

“It says hell from beneath is MOVED to meet thee! Have you ever thought about what kind of welcome the pope gets when he dies and goes to hell? Unsaved people say, ‘Well, I go to hell and I’ll have a lot of friends!’ Yeah, they’ll all be just like you. That’s going to be wild crowd, isn’t it?

“When it says hell is moved ‘to meet thee at thy coming,’ they’re not coming to shake hands and pat you on the back and say, ‘Boy, we’re just glad you’re here! Har, har, har! C’mon, we got a game going in the back room!’

“The verse says ‘it stirreth up the dead for thee.’ These people are wide awake, moving around and talking, and yet they’re in hell. Hell is where people go from the time they die until the resurrection at the Great White Throne judgment when death and hell is cast into the lake of fire.

“Hell is like the county jail where they go until they’re taken and sentenced and then sent to the Big House. They’re not unconscious in hell; the reality will be MORE consciousness, greater consciousness, not less or no consciousness.

“They’re wide awake, they know what’s going on and they’re ready to go out and greet the Antichrist when he shows up and they’re going to talk to him.”