In the midst of the sea

Revelation 20: [10] And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

[11] 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 found no place for them.
[12] And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
[13] And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
[14] And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
[15] And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Notice, there’s hell and then there’s the lake of fire. The ultimate destination is the lake of fire. They’re held in hell until the Great White Throne Judgment, then they’re judged according to their works and cast into the lake of fire which is the second death and that’s the end of it.

Hell is sort of like the jail where you’re held until you’re sent to your final destination, the Big House over here, explains Richard Jordan.

You remember the rich man in Luke 16. He died and was buried. What do you bury? The body. “And in hell he lifted up his eyes.” What would have lifted up his eyes in hell? His soul.

Lost people will be resurrected in a body and their soul and they’re going to be lost spirit, soul and body just like the Believer will be restored spirit, soul and body.

What about that sea mentioned there in verse 13? When you see the thing about the sea giving up the dead, that’s not talking about people buried at sea in the Atlantic or the Pacific and that kind of stuff. People get all kind of weird ideas.

People have the idea that if you have your body cremated then you can’t be resurrected. Well, cremation is a fast decomposition. You think burying somebody in a casket, putting formaldehyde in their veins and setting them in a casket to rot slow . . . that’s a slow decomposition. You think being a carnival for maggots is a less offensive thing? That’s what Job said; I didn’t invent that phrase. Job said, “Though worms eat my flesh.”

If you’re thinking that the method of disposing of your body, when it goes back, “for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return,” is going to have something to do with resurrection, well you’ve bought into some kind of doctrine of pagan mythology rather than Bible.

If hell is located in the heart of the earth, and the earth is fled away and going to be renovated, the question comes, “Where is the lake of fire?” That never bothered you? It bothers me; I want to know about that . . . to be continued tomorrow along with a different topic.

Here is an old post:

"Fire and water must have made you their daughter," is a line from a famous tune from 1970 named Fire and Water. If you think about it, references to fire and water in American songs are quite common. Of course, Satan's minions, we know from the Bible, are huge fans of both.

When Jesus Christ returns at the Second Coming, Zechariah 10:11 tells us, [11] And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart away.

Similarly, Habakkuk 3 says, [9] Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.

[10] The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
[13] Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.

The "head out of the house of the wicked" is the Antichrist. He’s the head of the satanic policy of evil and the judgment on the rivers . . .

The cloaking effect in the rivers, where they’re trying to hide, and the Red Sea, the Dead Sea, have places where there are openings that go down into the heart of the earth into hell—places where some of Satan’s emissaries hide in these waters.

When Christ comes back and judges these things, He’s not just pitching a hissy fit and being capricious; there’s a connection between the satanic program and that stuff.