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What is the Worst Part about Hell?

 1.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the regret
* Is not the remorse
   - for wasting a lifetime
   - for not searching or listening for God
   - for the foolishness that was traded for Heaven

 2.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Isolation - no friends, no family, no companionship
* Is not the Sightlessness - pitch black existence

"... to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.”
The Bible - Book of Jude - Chapter 1 - Verse 13

 3.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Sorrow - constantly remembering the opportunities to be saved, but refused because of stubborn pride

"... shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
The Bible - Book of Matthew - Chapter 8 - Verse 12

 4.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Sounds of Suffering of others - screams of agony of others constantly piercing the darkness
* Is not the Thirst - continual thirst for only a drop of water

"And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame."
The Bible - Book of Luke - Chapter 16 - Verse 24

 5.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Banishment from the presence of God

"Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;"
The Bible - Second Book to the Thessalonians - Chapter 1 - Verse 9

 6.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the presence of Demons - The devil and his disciples will also suffer with other inhabitants

"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."
The Bible - Book of the Revelation - Chapter 20 - Verse 10

 7.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Shame and Contempt -

Dan 12:2  "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt."

The Shame here is an open rebuke.
The Contempt is a repulsive abhorrence.

 8.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the constant burning Torment and Fatigue -

"And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night"
The Bible - Book of the Revelation - Chapter 14 - Verse 11

 9.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the Wrath of God -

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him."
The Bible - Book of John - Chapter 3 - Verse 36

This is not a Dark Cloud over one's life, but anger from God, who is capable of anger in an infinite way.

 10.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the fact it is under Lock and Key -

"I ... (Jesus) ... have the keys of hell and of death."
The Bible - Book of the Revelation - Chapter 1 - Verse 18

This is not a "Time Out" or being made to sit in the corner or having to go to your room without supper.  This is locked away and the key melted down.

 11.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the waking of each day to the same suffering and angst
because there will be No Waking, because there is no sleep

 12.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the fact that there is No Return

Luke 16:26  "And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence."
The Bible - Book of Luke - Chapter 16 - Verse 26

This is not as if you have a round-trip ticket.  Once the door is closed, the sound of its opening will never be heard again.

 13.  The worst part about Hell
* Is not the pangs of guilt
* Is not the evidence of being a fool
* Is not the admission to following after the wrong companions
* Is not the stripping of all cover for sin
* Is not knowing that everyone in Heaven knows you deserve Hell

 14.  The worst part about Hell is ...
it will NEVER END.  It is ...
* Everlasting
* Forever
* Eternal
* Non-Stopping and Non-Ending

"And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."
The Bible - Book of Matthew - Chapter 25 - Verse 46

A person might think
they could stand any kind of suffering for a while
but in Hell the agony will ...
* never stop
* never slake
* never diminish
* never postpone

1 year from death it will still be going.
10 years from death it will still be going.
100 years from death it will still be going.
1,000 years from death it will still be going.
100,000 years from death it will still be going.
1,000,000 years from death it will still be going.
1,000,000,000 years from death it will still be going.
1,000,000,000,000 years from death it will still be going.
1,000,000,000,000,000 years from death it will just be getting under way, but even at that, it will never end.

Let me say it another way.
If there was a fly that lived on the nearest star, made a trip to earth to take 2 steps and fly back to his star, then upon arriving at his star made another trip, walked 2 steps and flew back, again and again until he had worn the earth down with his 2 tiny steps to the size of a baseball.  If he flew at 4 miles per hour each trip would take 1.4 billion years, not counting the time to take the 2 steps.  To wear down a hole in the earth the size of a pin head, might take 1000's of trips.  To wear the earth down to the size of a pin head would not even be the first second of eternity in the Lake of Fire and Brimstone.