HELL YES!

...should not PERISH! – Jn 3:16.

During His time on Earth, Jesus spoke so often of the eternal consequences of our Sin. He, much more than any other Bible character, emphasizes the reality of an everlasting Hell; and it's quite interesting that a key affirmation of that doctrine is enmeshed in the most beloved verse of all time.

John 3:16 states that the reason God sent His Son to the world is so that we “should not PERISH”

There’re some who would claim that “perish”  here means ANNIHILATION.

While that may make comfortable reading, it lacks scriptural backing.

The Bible affirms the reality of the perpetual existence of the soul – whether godly or not. Prophesying of the Last Day, Daniel said, “many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan 12:2). And in Mat 25:46 our Lord, speaking of evildoers, declares that “...these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal”

Jesus did not come to send us to Hell but to save us from it, (Jn 3:16-18); and it's most confounding that today some, instead of receiving this deliverance, would rather argue against Hell’s existence.

I'd rather hold on to God’s Word than risk my eternal destiny on some logical/emotional argument I find on the Internet. The term “eternal” in Mt 25:46 is used of both punishment and life. To deny one is to deny both!

Beloved, God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1Jn 5:11). Let's chose Him today, for whoever believes on Him, “HAS everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life” (Jn 5:24).

AMEN.

More Blessings await you today; you’ll not miss them in Jesus’ Name.

GREG ELKAN