And if thy hand offend thee cut it off:it is better for thee to enter into life maimed than having two hands to go into hell into the FIRE THAT NEVER SHALL BE QUENCHED: Where their worm dieth not and the FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.
Mark 9:43-44
Can we find an Old Testament reference for this?
If so we can understand his meaning.
The reference here goes back to
Isaiah 66.
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For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me saith the Lord so shall your seed and your name remain.
And it shall come to pass that from one new moon to another and from one sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me saith the Lord.
And they shall go forth and look upon the carcases of the men that have TRANSGRESSED against me: for their worm shall not die neither shall their FIRE BE QUENCHED. And they shall be an abhoring unto all flesh.
Isaiah 66:22-24
This is the ONLY OTHER REFERENCE POINT for hell that I know of in the Old Testament.
The hell Yeshua speaks of in
Mark 9 is GEHENNA.This was a garbage dump outside Jerusalem.
All of the trash as well as bodies of criminals were thrown into it.
In course of time the Jews connected Gehenna with the FIRE OVEN of MALACHI.
The CARCASES Isaiah speaks of are DEAD BODIES! A CARCASE is the remains of a dead body.
People living in the coming kingdom will periodically look out on this sight of the TRANSGRESSORS who had to be destroyed as a solemn warning against sin.
The worm that dieth not is simply showing worms may live off CARCASSES.
Let us look at the phrase FIRE SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED in biblical context.
But if you will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day and not to bear a burden even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof and it shall DEVOUR the palaces of Jerusalem and IT SHALL NOT BE QUENCHED. Jer.17:27
The Chaldeans came and burned the city. Jer.39:8
Is that unquenchable FIRE still burning today?
The FIRE THAT SHALL NOT BE QUENCED means NOTHING can put it out.
But when it finishes the job GOD gives it to do it will go out of itself.
So again this biblical reference about hell teaches us of the DESTRUCTION of the wicked.
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