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    9. “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver” (Ps. 50:22). Psalm 32:10 emphasizes the sorrows experienced, “Many sorrows shall be to the wicked.” “Is it not destruction for the wicked, and disaster for the workers of iniquity?” (Job 31:3). “The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces” (1 Sam. 2:10).
    10. “You who hate good and love evil, who strip their skin from my people, and the flesh from their bones…” (Mic. 3:2). This verse speaks of the country’s leaders doing this to the children of Israel; it is not speaking of this happening in hell. However, where do evil men get their inspiration? To support the thought of devils inflicting pain, see Mark 5:5, which mentions, “…cutting himself with stones.” Also 1 Kings 18:28 says, “…and cut themselves… until the blood gushed out on them.” In Mark 9:18–22 we read that the spirit “seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid…. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him.”
    11. “Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens” (Ps. 36:5). “The mercy of the LORD is… on those who fear Him” (Ps. 103:17).
    12. “I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit” (Zech. 9:11). “For the life of the flesh is in the blood” (Lev. 17:11). (And there is no life in hell.) “Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame” (Luke 16:24).
    13. Edward Donnelly, “Heaven and Hell” (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2002), 33.
    14. “[Jesus] rebuked the foul spirit” (Mark 9:25, KJV).
    15. “These shall be punished with everlasting destruction” (2 Thess. 1:9). “The fear of the wicked will come upon him” (Prov. 10:24).
    16. Of course, God can do anything, but to give scriptural references, in Luke 18:34, when Jesus was telling His disciples about being crucified and dying, we read: “…this saying was hidden from them,” even though Jesus had told them. After King Nebuchadnezzar lost his sanity because of sin and lived like an animal in the fields for a time, we read in Daniel 4:34 that “…my understanding returned to me.”
    17. “You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths” (Ps. 88:6). “He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light” (Ps. 49:19).
    18. “When I was with you daily in the temple, you did not try to seize Me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness” (Luke 22:53). “These are wells without water, clouds carried by a tempest, for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever” (2 Pet. 2:17). “His lamp will be put out in deep darkness” (Prov. 20:20). “…for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever” (Jude 13).
    19. John MacArthur, “Hell—the Furnace of Fire,” Tape #GC2304 http://www.jcsm.org/StudyCenter/john_macarthur/ sg2304.htm (accessed September 19, 2005).
    20. In “One Minute After You Die,” Erwin W. Lutzer says that those in Sheol (hell) have “heightened perception and a better understanding” (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 1997, page 39). Luke 16:23 also infers this when it speaks of the rich man in hell who “saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.” Being a great distance away, how could he recognize Lazarus? Or how did he recognize Abraham, whom he may not have ever known?
    21. “…a land as dark as darkness itself, as the shadow of death, without any order, where even the light is like darkness” (Job 10:22).
    22. “We are as dead men in desolate places” (Isa. 59:10).
    23. “He who goes down to the grave does not come up. He shall never return to his house” (Job 7:9–10). “The eye that saw him will see him no more” (Job 20:9).
    24. “Christian Theology,” second ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1985, 1998), 1242–1243.
    25. “The enemies of the