{"id":3092,"date":"2026-06-30T22:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T02:25:32","slug":"the-purpose-for-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3092","title":{"rendered":"The Purpose for Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>THE PURPOSE FOR HELL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NAHUM 1:9&nbsp;&nbsp; What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EZEKIEL 33:11&nbsp;&nbsp; Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REVELATION 21:1-4&nbsp;&nbsp; 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOHN 3:16&nbsp;&nbsp; For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PSALM 37:20&nbsp;&nbsp; But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISAIAH 65:17&nbsp;&nbsp; For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MATTHEW 13:40-43&nbsp;&nbsp; 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ROMANS 6:23&nbsp;&nbsp; For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>ISAIAH 14:12-15&nbsp;&nbsp; 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>REVELATION 20:15&nbsp;&nbsp; And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EZEKIEL 28:14-18&nbsp;&nbsp; 14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HEBREWS 2:14&nbsp;&nbsp; Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>JOHN 14:6&nbsp;&nbsp; Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PURPOSE FOR HELL NAHUM 1:9&nbsp;&nbsp; What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time. EZEKIEL 33:11&nbsp;&nbsp; Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/?p=3092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Purpose for Hell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-todaysbibleverse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godtalkwithsharon.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}