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Saturday, June 12, 2010

Bible Questions Answered: Perish-John 3:16

Bible Questions Answered:
I have a friend who's religion teaches that when someone goes to hell they perish, that's it, they are forever gone. One of their scriptures they used was John 3:16. Why do some people say hell is forever a place of agony then?
Sheila/ Monroe, New York

Bible Answer:

Text:
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish*, but have everlasting life.

Perish-Greek-Apollumi (Ap-ol-loo-mee): To destroy fully, die, perish. (Note-this taken from the word Apo.)
Perish-Greek-Apo (Apo): Usually denotes separation, departure...”

(All translations-Abingdon's Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.)

So what are we left to believe about John 3:16 and the word perish?

One thing we can do is to ask Jesus about the word!
Jesus uses the word elsewhere....yes, a place where we will come to know exactly what He means by the word perish (Apollumi).

Matthew 9:17 KJV (Jesus addresses Publicans and sinners.)
16 No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish*: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Perish-Greek-Apollumi (Ap-ol-loo-mee): To destroy fully, die, perish. (Note-this taken from the word Apo.)
Perish-Greek-Apo (Apo): Usually denotes separation, departure...”

Here again our Saviour uses the very same word “Apollumi, let us see just what it means, and then it will guide us to it's meaning found in John 3:16.

Matthew 9:17 KJV
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles*: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

* Bottles-Greek-Askos (As-Kos): A leathern (skin) bag used as a bottle.

Wine was not put into bottles, but wine-skins.
Wine skins, were just that the skins, or hides of animals, mostly goats. The hides were sown so as to make a jug, to of course hold wine.

Now a new skin, (being new and strong and elastic), could easily hold a new fermenting wine as it became enlarged through the fermentation process.

But were new fermenting wine, be placed in an older goat skin (which over the years had lost all of it's elasticity) why the wine-skin would burst, the wine-skin would perish* (Matthew 9:17).

Perish-Greek-Apollumi (Ap-ol-loo-mee): To destroy fully, die, perish. (Note-this taken from the word Apo.)
Perish-Greek-Apo (Apo): Usually denotes separation, departure...”

Well, having read this story, from our Lord, we see exactly what He means by perish!

Did the wine-skins disappear, if they burst?
After all isn't that what the word perish means?

Absolutely not!
No, of course the burst wine-skins did not disappear, if they burst, they were merely ruined!

And that is what our Lord meant when He used the word “perish,” in John 3:16, ruined, forever marred for all of eternity.

John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (be forever ruined)*, but have everlasting life.

Hell, Jesus taught is forever and ever, time without end.
Hell will, one day be cast into the Lake of Fire (Revelation 20:14).

Eternal Punishment:

Matthew 3:11,12 KJV (John the Baptist)
11 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but He that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
12 Whose fan is in His hand, and He will throughly purge His floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Matthew 13:41-42 KJV
41 The Son of Man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 18:8 KJV
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

Matthew 25:41 KJV
Then shall He say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from Me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:


Mark 9:43-48 KJV
43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Revelation 14:9-11 KJV
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 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:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Revelation 20:10 KJV
And 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.

What a picture in John 3:16, there is of sin. Sin is “missing the mark,” sin, is to be marred, to be ruined.
Not annihilation, far, far from it, but eternal torment.

II Peter 3:9 KJV
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

John 3:16-18 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Salvation Prayer