Earth is Hell
Question: You said that the scriptures indicate that this earth is hell. I do not recall reading that. Where did you get that idea?
JJ: There are a number of scriptures from the Bible as well as the LDS that verify this.
For the Mormons powerful evidence is found in this scripture:
“These [the inhabitants of the telestial kingdom] are they who are thrust down to hell. These are they who receive NOT of his fulness…” D&C 76:84&86
And where is the telestial kingdom? The Mormon temple ceremony answers:
“Brethren and sisters, this represents the Telestial Kingdom, or the world in which we now live.” [earth where people are thrust down to hell]
Here is a good one from the Bible:
“And the sea gave up the dead which were in it.” Rev 20:13
What is the sea? The scripture explains: “The waters [the sea] which thou sawest where the whore sitteth are the peoples, and multitudes, and nations and tongues.” Rev 17:15.
The sea then is “the peoples, and multitudes, and nations and tongues” of this earth.
We are told that “Death [Physical death II Nephi 9:11] and Hell [the spiritually dead in hell. II Nephi 9:12] delivered up the dead which were in them.” Thus we see that on the last day ALL the spiritually dead, including those still living on the earth and all the Spirit world [Death and Hell] will be judged, and those who cannot abide the judgment must suffer a “second death” and be cast into the lake of fire [or another round of numerous lives of sorrow].
When Nephi was interpreting the filthy water in his vision he said it was “hell”. His brothers then asked: “Doth this thing mean the torment of the body in the days of probation, or doth it mean the final state of the soul after the death of the temporal body, or doth it speak of the things which are temporal? And it came to pass that I said unto them that it was a representation of things BOTH TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL.” I Nephi 15:31-32
Here we have it in plain English. Hell is both temporal and spiritual. Men can suffer for their sins both in and out of the body, and since this temporal existence is part of “hell” how are men going to be sent there after they die if they are not born again?
“There cannot any unclean thing enter into the kingdom of God; wherefore there must needs be a place of filthiness prepared for that which is filthy.” I Nephi 15:34.
Nephi tells us that that place which is prepared is hell, of which the filthy water in the vision was a symbol of, and such symbol “was a representation of things both temporal and spiritual.” Therefore, those who suffer the temporal hell are sent back to the “temporal” earth.
There is more evidence of this from the Bible.
Jesus said: “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” Matt 10:28
The physical body does not follow us after death yet Jesus said the body could be destroyed in hell. The only place the body could be destroyed in hell is by destroying it on this earth.
In Revelation we are told that the New Jerusalem descended on the earth. After this happened it is written: “For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Rev 22:15
It appears that those who go to hell in the future, after the descent of the New Jerusalem, are still on the earth, but just outside the location of the New Jerusalem.
Humans do not need to go to some fiery pit to suffer in hell. The earth is very well equipped to mete out justice and fulfill the law as written by Paul:
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;” Gal 6:7-8
Burning for eternity in a literal lake of fire would be overkill and would be a punishment not equal to any crime. To the contrary, the scripture tells us the punishment will be comparable to what has been sown. The deeds that are sown in the flesh “shall of the flesh reap corruption;”
We are in the flesh on this earth, not in the world of spirits. If you are a thief you will come back and become a victim of thieves, if you are an unfaithful spouse you will come back and suffer others to be unfaithful to you.
This earth is the perfect place for justice to be served.
Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. – Jean Jacques Rousseau
Sept 21, 2011
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