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The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDENTH UP FOR EVER AND EVER: and THEY HAVE NO REST DAY NOR NIGHT.
–Revelation 14:10-11 (KJV)–

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.
–Revelation 20:10 (KJV)–

Where THEIR WORM DIETH NOT,
and THE FIRE IS NOT QUENCHED.
–Mark 9:48 (KJV)–

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Dr. John R. Rice, Hell: What the Bible Says About It (Sword, 1945), pp. 12-14.

Blessed is he who has got
His transgressions forgiven
And his sins hidden
Blessed is the man whom the Lord
Do not ascribe misdeeds
And is without deceit in his spirit

Buried it deep inside
But soon a sprout came forth
It kept on growing
I couldn’t hide
When I kept it to myself
Slowly my bones corroded
And my vitality vanished
Like in the summer dry

Too many people living this life
Who can take their guilt away?
Their minds are rotting
And causing endless pain
Soon they are demented and put away

I confessed my sins to You
And did not hide my guilt
I said “I want to confess my
Misdeeds to you”
And he took my sins and guilt

He is my sanctuary

–Extol, “Burial”–

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Dr. Robert Peterson, Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment (P&R, 1995).

GET RIGHT WITH GOD NOW!
–J.B.–

This time, I think you pointed right at you
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?
I ask you what side, you pointed it out
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on? Get out

A waste of time if you don’t believe
Can’t decide to hit the ground
Make your mind
But you’re holdin’ me down
And over again
Down
And over again
Down

This time I think you pointed right at you
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?
I ask you what side, you pointed it out
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?

A waste of time if you don’t believe
Can’t decide ’til you’ve hit the ground
Make your mind
Or you don’t believe
Can’t decide ’til you hit the ground
Make your mind
‘Cause you’re holdin’ me
Down
And over again
Down
And over again
Down
And over again

And don’t think that I don’t know
Because I do, nice try
‘Cause that’s what you really like, like, like, like

Lights all dim out, you said
Say somethin’ else
Decide, whose side you’re on

Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?
Come on!
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?

Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?
Whose side are you on?

–Deftones, “Combat”–

Six in ten DEMOCRATS identify with some form of socialism; and that’s the reality…Always sold as a left wing populism, but its not, there’s nothing populist about it, it doesn’t end with populism, it ends with DEMOCIDE.
–(3:12-3:47)–

In other words, CONCENTRATION CAMPS!
Genocide: killing millions of Christians, Jews,
and others who don’t believe in socialism and communism.
Maybe we should start calling them the Democide Party.
–J.B.–

The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral,
sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part
in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.
–Revelation 21:8 (NKJV)–

The serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals
the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say,
‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
–Genesis 3:1 (NIV)–

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing,
but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
–Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:15 (NKJV)–

Originally from here.

CANTO 28

Whilst eagerly I fix on him my gaze,
He ey’d me, with his hands laid his breast bare,
And cried; “Now mark how I do rip me! lo!
“How is Mohammed mangled! before me
Walks Ali weeping, from the chin his face
Cleft to the forelock; and the others all
Whom here thou seest, while they liv’d, did sow
Scandal and schism, and therefore thus are rent.
A fiend is here behind, who with his sword
Hacks us thus cruelly, slivering again
Each of this ream, when we have compast round
The dismal way, for first our gashes close
Ere we repass before him.  But say who
Art thou, that standest musing on the rock,
Haply so lingering to delay the pain
Sentenc’d upon thy crimes?”—“Him death not yet,”
My guide rejoin’d, “hath overta’en, nor sin
Conducts to torment; but, that he may make
Full trial of your state, I who am dead
Must through the depths of hell, from orb to orb,
Conduct him.  Trust my words, for they are true.”

More than a hundred spirits, when that they heard,
Stood in the foss to mark me, through amazed,
Forgetful of their pangs.  “Thou, who perchance
Shalt shortly view the sun, this warning thou
Bear to Dolcino: bid him, if he wish not
Here soon to follow me, that with good store
Of food he arm him, lest impris’ning snows
Yield him a victim to Novara’s power,
No easy conquest else.”  With foot uprais’d
For stepping, spake Mohammed, on the ground
Then fix’d it to depart.  Another shade,
Pierc’d in the throat, his nostrils mutilate
E’en from beneath the eyebrows, and one ear
Lopt off, who with the rest through wonder stood
Gazing, before the rest advanc’d, and bar’d
His wind-pipe, that without was all o’ersmear’d
With crimson stain.

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Originally from here.

CliffsNotes on Canto XXVIII (28)

The canto opens with Dante wondering how to describe the sinners in the ninth chasm. This is the place of the Sowers of Discord and Scandal, and the Creators of Schism within the papacy. He warns that the punishment in this part of Hell is bloody and grotesque. Indeed, the sinners in the ninth chasm are damned to walk around the chasm until they arrive at a devil who slashes them with a long sword, according to the nature of their sin (cp. Matthew 24:51).

The first one Dante sees is Mahomet, disemboweled, who tells him that his son-in-law, Ali, is in the same condition and that all the others are horribly mangled in some manner. As they circle the chasm, the wounds heal, but when they complete the circle, the wounds are renewed by a devil with a sword.

Mahomet explains that these sinners were responsible for scandal and rift, and therefore, they are torn apart as they tore others apart in life. Mahomet asks Dante to tell Fra Dolcino, who is still alive, to store food for the winter or risk joining him in the chasm. After asking Dante to warn his friend, Mahomet moves on.

In keeping with the theme of Divine Retribution that runs throughout Inferno, the sinners in the ninth chasm, the Sowers of Discord, are brutally split and mutilated, just as they split and mutilated aspects of religion, politics, or kinsmen. Each sinner is punished according to degree of sin, as well as suffering punishment specifically geared toward their particular sin.

Dante obviously sees Mahomet as one of the chief sinners responsible for the division between Christianity and Islam. Dante blames Mahomet’s successor, Ali, as well. Dante describes these two shades as being split in two, just as he feels they split the church.

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it;
for their wickedness is come up before me.
–Jonah 1:2 (KJV)–

Thou shalt not lie with mankind,
as with womankind: it is abomination.
–Leviticus 18:22 (KJV)–

The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man,
neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment:
for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
–Deuteronomy 22:5 (KJV)–

God says that the Sodomites were
“wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly” (Gen. 13:13),
and their sin was to Him “very grievous” (18:20).
–Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About the Homosexuals (Sword, 1978), p. 8–

SICK!

You’re not imagining things: many pastors avoid this topic; and there are several common reasons. Topics like homosexuality are highly charged in today’s culture. Many pastors worry they’ll be misunderstood as just attacking people rather than addressing the behavior from a moral or Biblical perspective. Pastors know these issues affect people sitting in the pews: people addicted to porn, couples living together, church members with homosexual family members, etc. Because they want to keep people coming back and open to hearing the gospel, some avoid topics that feel “too confrontational.” Addressing sexual sin can create conflict with influential and wealthy church members. Pastors sometimes feel pressure–spoken or unspoken–to “keep things positive.” Some pastors genuinely want to address these topics but fear doing it in a harsh or simplistic way. They may not feel equipped to speak with both Biblical conviction and so-called pastoral compassion. So pastors are actually pressured by church staff to keep the show going with non-confrontational sermon topics like hope, grace, purpose, dream fulfillment, and forgiveness. And to classify subjects like homosexuals as just a “negative” topic to be removed from all church communications. They are increasingly focused on being “seeker sensitive,” which often means avoiding topics that would make newcomers feel uncomfortable.

And so these pastors have failed to be watchmen, and the people’s blood is on their hands, and they’re guilty of not warning sinners of the hell-deserving danger they’re in! Because they don’t adequately point out the specific sinfulness of their homosexual, shackin’ up lifestyles. They might say the word “hell” or the word “cross” if they’re really daring in the typical Rick Warren influenced seeker-sensitive church, but no, they’re not going to boldly confront the homosexual lifestyle, because they ultimately want homosexual money to be tithed to their churches. And so they cave into the sissified gay affirming church culture instead of being truly prophetic. Such pastors should be viewed as wolves in sheep’s clothing, carnal, and not filled with the Holy Spirit. Homosexuals, the Bible says, “shall not inherit the kingdom of God,” and these pastors could obviously care less about them (1 Corinthians 6:10). If they’re gonna die and go to Hell, then they better do it, and decrease the surplus population! But let’s keep things “positive” around here; and not preach against the unmentionable sin of the homosexuals in this holy sanctuary. Ezekiel 33:6: “If the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” Lazy purpose-driven pastor! You’re no preacher! Can’t you see all those dead homosexual ghosts that died of AIDS a few years ago, rolling around in the lake of fire, screaming and yelling in pain? They used to listen to you preach! They used to come to church and pay you a tithe. But can you see ’em down there in Hell right now? They’re all down there because of YOU! Because you were too afraid of the conflict that would come from warning them about their sin from the pulpit. And so now God will require their blood of you! This means God holds you guilty for their suicide! You could’ve warned ’em about the cliff they were headed for, but you just let ’em fall right into a lake of burning lava!