Question 29. What is the punishment for sin in the next life?

 

Question 29. What is the punishment for sin in the next life?

Answer. The punishment for sin in the next life is eternal separation from the peaceful presence of God and the extreme suffering of body and soul in the fires of hell without ceasing.

 

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

It is expressed as fire and brimstone. In Revelation 20:14, “Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.” The second death is said to be the lake of fire. The word lake of fire means “wooden tent.” In Genesis 6, the tent of the ark was translated as brimstone. “Wooden tent” symbolizes Jesus Christ and the Word of God. The lake of fire (wooden tent) symbolizes the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, and it means that everything was burned by the Word and the Holy Spirit. The fire symbolizes the Holy Spirit. The lake is water, and it symbolizes the Word of God. Being thrown into the Holy Spirit and the Word of God means the second death.

The first death means being born into this world and having the spirit imprisoned in the body, and the second death means that the saints are buried with Jesus Christ in their old self (physical body) while living in this world. Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinners, but for believers, that death is realizing that they are dead and uniting with the death of Jesus Christ. This is the second death.

For those who live in the world and participate in the second death in advance, the kingdom of God will come. However, for those who do not reach the second death while alive, after the death of the body, the spirit will face the second death in Hades. That is, they will receive the judgment of fire in Hades. The judgment of fire reminds us of Sodom and Gomorrah.

What kind of place is Hades? In the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, they both died and went to Hades. Lazarus was in Abraham’s bosom, and the rich man was in the flames, and there was a great chasm between them that they could not cross. Those in Abraham’s bosom will enter the kingdom of God through the coming of Christ. However, those who went to Hades, including the rich man, will be judged by the second death through the fire of the Word and the Holy Spirit.

The Pharisees pointed out that Jesus was eating with tax collectors and sinners. That is why Jesus spoke in Luke 16. “There was a rich man.” The rich man refers to the Pharisees and scribes. When the Bible speaks of a rich man, it does not refer to the rich of the world, but to “those who try to keep their own righteousness before God.” It refers to a person who has nothing to ask of God.

This is what Jesus said to the church in Laodicea in Revelation 3:17: “Because you say, ‘I am rich, I have acquired goods, and I have need of nothing,’ and do not realize that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” This means that they do not have a fervent desire for the kingdom of God.

A beggar is a synonym for poverty. Poverty is poverty with respect to the kingdom of God. Those who are poor in spirit have left the kingdom of God, so when they realize this, their spirit is like that. A beggar is someone who dares not raise his head before God, like tax collectors and sinners.

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