Jesus' Teachings about Hell part three

In Mark 9:43-49, Jesus spoke to unbelievers. Jesus used symbolic language about cutting off a hand, or a foot, or an eye that can cause one to sin. Jesus meant that sin is addictive, and that unbelievers must rid themselves of their worst sins, no matter how difficult and painful that effort may be. Unbelievers must cut out their worst sins in order to stay out of that most terrible place called hell. Following physical death, Christ will sentence the spirits and souls of unbelievers to one of three different places called the sea, death, or hell. This must be true because at the Great White Throne Judgment God will call the dead out of these three different places. Revelation 20:13. Christ sentences the worst sinners to hell. Jesus warned the unbelievers in these verses to put away their worst sins so that He will not have to send them to hell.

But Jesus also taught them that they would enter into life maimed. This statement shows that Christ had to be speaking to unbelievers because believers saved by grace always enter into heaven whole, never maimed. In light of Luke 20:38, Jesus had to have meant that God will recover the lives and goodness that He put into unbelievers for Him to recreate in the end. Revelation 20:5; Revelation 21:5. Christ used the word "maimed" as a symbolic indication that when God recreates the lives of unbelievers, He will not retain their former individualities. God will use His consuming fire to separate their lives and goodness from their total evil which He will cast into the lake of fire. The worst sinners in hell will lose almost all of their former identities in the lake of fire, but even they will still possess a little life and goodness that God will recover for Him to recreate. Such scriptures as Mark 9:41 and Revelation 22:11-12 attest to the fact that God will recover and recreate all of the life and goodness that He originally put into every human. The phrase "every man" of Revelation 22:12 can only mean every human who has ever lived. The phrase "according as his work shall be" can only mean, in light of Revelation 22:11, that God will separate and recover the goodness and life He has put into every human to be recreated, and He will consign all of their death and evil to the lake of fire forever. Such scriptures as Ecclesiastes 3:14; Romans 11:29 and 36, as well as many others, attest to the fact that God can never lose anything He has ever created.

In Mark 9:43 and 45, Jesus described hell a being "the fire that never shall be quenched." In this case, Jesus had to have been speaking about the second death, the lake of fire, because that is the fire that will never be quenched. In I Corinthians 15:26, God promised that He will destroy the first death. God destroys the first death in order to recover the lives of all humans He has ever created. Revelation 20:14 records the very event when God will destroy both the first hell and the first death by casting both into the lake of fire. God destroys the first hell because He has no more use for it. God uses the first hell as His consuming fire to separate life from death in all humans not saved by grace. God separates sin and death from believers saved by grace by washing them in the blood and water that flowed from Jesus' body on the cross. Revelation 1:5; John 13:8; Galatians 2:20.