<TITLE>21. Par 149-156</TITLE>L-149 Now, hell, we'll go back to that awhile. I tell you that--that there cannot be... I do believe in a burning hell. Yes, sir, the Bible said so, the lake of fire. Now, but that cannot be an everla--it cannot be an eternal. It could be... The Bible never says it's eternal; it says everlasting hell. Don't say the word "eternal"; it says an everlasting hell. Now, it's prepared for the devil and his angels; an everlasting hell, not an eternal one.
Now, after... That soul may be tormented there for its doing for ten million years, for all I know. I don't know what everlasting might be in God's sight. It might be for five minutes; it might be for a million years; it might be for ten million years; but there will come a time when that soul will cease to be.

L-150 Here's what the Bible said. See, see?
He that overcometh shall not be hurt by the second death.
The first death is separating from our loved ones. We'll go in the Presence of God, never out of His Presence. See? Now, if there's a second death, then it has to be the death of the soul. And then he that overcomes the world, or overcomes the things of the world, has Eternal Life and shall not be touched by the second death. There you are: Eternal Life. But the--the sinner... The Bible said, "The woman that lives in pleasure is dead while she is alive." That right? "The soul that sinneth, it shall surely die." What is die? Completely separate, no more. See? Now, it's cut off, is right. It's cut off; there's no more to it. How long will it be to take that? It'll go down through the same process it come in, and it'll come to a place till there will neither be nothing left of it. It'll just go back from ever what it's made out of.

L-152 We can take the cell, and break the cell to one cell, to another cell, till you'd come down to the first cell; break into that cell, then you got the chemistry of the blood; you come into different chemistries of the blood, and then you come down to a little part in that cell that's life. They can't find that. They know nothing about it. Now, that life will finally come to a spot till it is no more. What are the chemistry of that life? I don't believe it has any chemistry. It'd be spiritual.
And then, in that, finally it'll completely separate and be no more. That's what the Bible says. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." And they that overcome in these church ages here shall not be hurt by the second death. The body dies first; the soul dies next; and it will be no more. See? Now, do you believe that's the Bible that said that?

L-154 Now, remember, if hell is eternal, then the Bible's wrong when it said hell was created. And then if a man's going to burn for eternity in hell, then he'd have to have Eternal Life to be conscious to burn. Is that right? Well, how many forms of Eternal Life is there? One (That's right.), just one Eternal Life.
Now, don't go away and say, "Brother Branham don't believe in hell." Brother Branham does believe in hell. The Bible teaches there's a hell. Just as sure as there's a--a place for rest, there's a place of--of punishment. And God will certainly make a soul that sins against Him be punished. And for rejecting Jesus Christ as your Saviour, you'll certainly will be punished for it. But there'll be a time when you'll be no more. But how many millions years that'll take for you to go back to that, I don't know. But sometime...

L-156 You're a time being until you're borned again; then you're an eternal being. And the only way you can get it is have part of God in you, being Eternal Life. Can you see it? Certainly.
He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches;...
I love Him. Don't you? I'm so glad to have Eternal Life. That doesn't bother me any more, because that we have Eternal Life now. And I know that, and I trust that everybody will have it, all of us.


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