What you're about to read is hard to believe. . .
“AND IN HELL, HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES, BEING IN
TORMENTS…..” Luke 16:23
several years ago a book was published titled Beyond
Death's Door by Dr Maurice Rawlings. Dr Rawlings, a
specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular
Disease, resuscitated many people who had been
clinically dead. Dr Rawlings, a devout atheist, "considered
all religion "hocus-pocus" and death nothing more than a
painless extinction". But something happened in 1977
that brought a dramatic change in the life of Dr Rawlings!
He was resuscitating a man, terrified and screaming —
descending down into the flames of hell:
"Each time he regained heartbeat and respiration, the
patient screamed, "I am in hell!" He was terrified and
pleaded with me to help him. I was scared to death. . .
Then I noticed a genuinely alarmed look on his face. He
had a terrified look worse than the expression seen in
death! This patient had a grotesque grimace expressing
sheer horror! His pupils were dilated, and he was
perspiring and trembling — he looked as if his hair was
"on end."
Then still another strange thing happened. He said, "Don't
you understand? I am in hell. . . Don't let me go back to
hell!" . . .the man was serious, and it finally occurred to
me that he was indeed in trouble. He was in a panic like I
had never seen before." (Maurice Rawlings, Beyond
Death's Door,(Thomas Nelson Inc., 1979) p. 3).
Dr Rawlings said, no one, who could have heard his
screams and saw the look of terror on his face could
doubt for a single minute that he was actually in a place
called hell!
". . . THEY DIG INTO THE HELL . . ." Amos 9:2
Another scientist Dr Azzacove Picks from Dr Rawling with
this stunning revelation. He says "As a communist I don’t
believe in heaven or the Bible but as a scientist I now
believe in hell," said Dr Azzacove. "Needless to say we
were shocked to make such a discovery. But we know
what we saw and we know what we heard. And we are
absolutely convinced that we drilled through the gates of
Hell!"
Dr Azzacove continued, ". . .the drill suddenly began to
rotate wildly, indicating that we had reached a large
empty pocket or cavern. Temperature sensors showed a
dramatic increase in heat to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit."
"We lowered a microphone, designed to detect the
sounds of plate movements down the shaft. But instead
of plate movements we heard a human voice screaming
in pain! At first we thought the sound was coming from
our own equipment."
"But when we made adjustments our worst suspicions
were confirmed. The screams weren’t those of a single
human, they were the screams of millions of humans!
(These details are from the translation of an article in a
Finnish newspaper name 'Ammennusatia'.
Do you know why Jacques Costeau, the famous
underwater explorer, quit deep sea diving sometime
before he died? It is said that he stopped because he had
heard in one of the underwater caves he was exploring,
the sounds of people screaming.
There was also another time, when one of his men, who
was in a diving bell in the deepest trench at the Bermuda
Triangle, also had a similar experience. He signalled to be
brought up immediately. After being revived from his
shock, he told others of his frightening experience of
hearing people's screams while under the deepest part of
the sea.
The Bible continually warns of a place called hell. There
are over 162 references in the New Testament alone
which warns of hell. And over 70 of these references
were uttered by the Lord Jesus Christ!
In Luke 16, Jesus Christ gives a frightening picture of hell:
22 . . . the rich man also died, and was buried;
23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and
seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
24 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.
25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus
evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art
tormented.
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.
27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou
wouldest send him to my father�s house:
28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto
them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
(Luke 16:22-28)
HELL IS A PLACE OF FIRE
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this
FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a
FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye
cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF
FIRE."

THE BIBLE GIVES THE LOCATION OF HELL
When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He descended into
hell. In Acts 2, Peter is speaking, verse 31, " . . . seeing this
before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul
was not left in HELL" When Jesus Christ died His soul
went into hell.
And in Matthew 12:40, Jesus Christ says: "For as Jonas
was three days and three nights in the whale's belly: so
shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the
HEART OF THE EARTH. "The Bible is clear — Hell is inside
the earth!
Ephesians 4:9, says of Jesus: "Now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended first into the LOWER
PARTS OF THE EARTH."
On page 85 of Beyond Death Door, Dr. Rawlings writes
patients who described hell said, ". . . this place seems to
be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way."
Scientist and Bible teacher, Henry Morris also agrees the
Bible plainly teaches that hell is in this earth:
"So far as we can tell from Scripture, the present hell, is
somewhere in the heart of the earth itself. It is also called
'the pit' (Isa. 14:9, 15: Ezek. 32:18-21) and 'the
abyss' (Rev. 9:2). . .
The writers certainly themselves believed hell to be real
and geographically 'beneath' the earth's surface. . .
To say this is not scientific is to assume science knows
much more about the earth's interior than is actually the
case. The great 'pit' [hell] would only need to be about
100 miles or less in diameter to contain, with much
room to spare, all the forty billion or so people who have
ever lived, assuming their 'spiritual' bodies are the same
size as their physical bodies." (Henry M. Morris, The Bible
Has the Answer, p. 220)
The Birmingham News, April 10, 1987 had an article
entitled "Earth's Center Hotter Than Sun's Surface,
Scientists Say". The article stated that scientists have
recently discovered, "THE EARTH'S INNER CORE HAS A
TEMPERATURE OF OVER 12,000 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT!"
Have you seen pictures of a volcano erupting, spewing a
lake of fire from inside the earth — consuming
everything within miles just from the heat? When Mount
St. Helens erupted in May 18, 1980, it was described by
reporters, "When HELL surfaced upon the earth." The
book, Volcanoes, Earth's Awakening (p.91) describes an
erupting volcano as "descent into HELL".
YES! THERE IS A PLACE CALLED HELL!
In Numbers 16, the Bible gives the account of people
falling into hell alive! "And THE EARTH OPENED HER
MOUTH, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and
all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their
goods. They, and all that appertained to them, went
down alive INTO THE PIT, and the EARTH CLOSED UPON

Caspar Peucer, a famous fourteenth century astronomer
and physician, who also researched and documented the
volcanoe eruptions at Heklafell wrote some very
frightening information in his research findings. Peucer,
claims (as others) that "fearful howlings, weeping and
gnashing of teeth" could be heard "for many miles. . ." as
these volcanoes erupted: "Out of the bottomless abyss of
Heklafell, or rather out of Hell itself, rise melancholy cries
and loud wailings, so that these can be heard for many
miles around . . . there may be heard in the mountain
fearful howlings, weeping and gnashing of
teeth." (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting the Earth, The
History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p. 73)
And Caspar Peucer is not alone. There are others who
believe they have heard "cries and screaming" coming
from volcanoes. Most have tried to ignore the obvious.
Some simply explain the "sounds of hell" to some
rational meaning. But they are there. . ."The fearsome
noises that issued from some of their volcanoes were
certainly thought to be the screams of tormented souls
in the fires of hell below". (Haraldur Sigurdsson, Melting
the Earth, The History of Ideas on Volcanic Eruptions, p.
73)
Inside this earth, this very moment, there are millions of
lost, tormented souls — burning, weeping, wailing —
without any hope whatsoever!
In Mark 9:46, Jesus Christ says about hell: "Where THEIR
WORM dieth not, and the fire is not quenched."
Jesus said explicitly — THEIR worm — not a worm, or the
worm — but THEIR worm. The Bible teaches that
Christians will one day have a body like the Lord Jesus
Christ. Scientists recently discovered cracks on the ocean
floor where fire was leaking out. Do you know what they
found around these fire-breathing vents in the crust?
Eight-foot long worms, found no other place in the
world! The book, The Deep Sea, by Joseph Wallace (p.39),
reads, "Perhaps the strangest of ocean creatures recently
discovered are Riftia, the giant tube WORMS. Measuring
up to 8 feet in length, the worms are ONLY FOUND NEAR
DEEP SEA VENTS."
And Jesus Christ said, "Where THEIR WORM dieth not,
and the fire is not quenched."
National Geographic magazine truthfully titled their story
on Volcanoes "Going To Hell". When PBS did a series on
The Savage Earth, one episode was titled "Hell's Crust:
Our Everchanging Planet". Everything we know.
Everything we observe. Echoes the truth of a place called
hell.
Nature magazine recently discovered (July 2002) what
the Bible knew over 3,000 years ago. Inside this earth is
"fire and brimstone": "Volcanoes may be more like hell
than anyone realized. Eruptions disgorge streams of
molten sulphur, the brimstone of evangelical preachers,
which burns up before it can be preserved for posterity,
new research in the journal Geology shows". (Nature,
Science Update, July 22, 2002)
HELL IS A PLACE OF TORMENT
Jesus says of the man in Luke 16:
23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in TORMENTS. . .
"
24 ". . . for I am TORMENTED in this FLAME."
28 ". . .PLACE OF TORMENT."
It is humanly impossible to comprehend the Bible

description of hell. Nothing on earth can compare with
it. No nightmare could produce a terror to match that of
hell. No horror movie could describe its fright. No crime
scene with all its blood and gore could begin to match its
horror.
It will be beyond anything humanly imaginable!
The Bible warns in Psalm 9:17, you will not only be in hell
— you will BE TURNED INTO HELL! You will literally BE
HELL! “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the
nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17
The Bible describes it as weeping (Matt 8:12), wailing
(Matt 13:42), gnashing of teeth (Matt 13:50), darkness
(Matt 25:30), flames (Luke 16:24), burning (Isa 33:14),
torments (Luke 16:23), everlasting punishment! Jesus
Christ says in Matthew 25:41, "Depart from me, ye
cursed, into EVERLASTING FIRE, prepared for the devil
and his angels."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a
FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth."
HELL IS FOREVER!
Rev. 14:11: "The smoke of their TORMENT ascendeth up
for EVER AND EVER: and they have NO REST DAY NOR
NIGHT." Just look how the Bible warns of the eternity and
permanence of hell:
everlasting fire - Matthew18:8, 25:41
everlasting punishment - Matthew 25:46
everlasting chains-Jude 1:6
eternal damnation -Mark 3:29
eternal judgment -Hebrews 6:2
eternal fire -Jude 1:7
unquenchable fire - Matthew 3:12
the fire that never shall be quenched -Mark 9:43, 44, 45,
46, 48
fire unquenchable - Luke 3:17
mist of darkness is reserved for ever - 2 Peter 2:17
the blackness of darkness for ever - Jude 1:13
What could possibly be worth eternity in hell? No
wonder Jesus Christ warned so much about hell! No
wonder Jesus said in Mark 8:36, "For what shall it profit a
man, if he shall gain the whole world, and LOSE HIS OWN
SOUL?"
Hebrews 9:27 says, "And as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this THE JUDGEMENT"
Friend, it is appointed unto man once to die . . . and one
day — YOU will die . . .
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments . . .
But God is a God of LOVE. . . Why would a GOD OF LOVE
send me to hell? Yes, God is a GOD OF LOVE — but God is
also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD demands payment for
sin. Otherwise God would NOT and could NOT be HOLY.
Because God is holy — sin MUST be condemned. Joshua
24:19 says, ". . he is an HOLY GOD;. . . he will NOT forgive
your transgressions nor your sins."
BUT FRIEND I HAVE GOOD NEWS!
God does NOT want you in hell because hell was not
made for man. Matthew 25:41 says, hell was, ". . .
prepared for the devil and his angels:"
Because God is a GOD OF LOVE, and He LOVED YOU so
much, He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to this earth to die a
cruel death on a cross to pay the price a HOLY GOD
demands for your sins.
Roman 5:8 says, "But God commendeth his love toward
us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
God does not send someone to hell. You choose hell
when you reject Jesus Christ. When you refuse God's love
gift of eternal life in Jesus Christ. . .
Millionaire Ted Turner, said in an interview,” I’m looking

forward to dying and being cast into Hell. That's where I
belong." You say —a fool! But friend, when you say "No"
to Jesus Christ and His payment for your sin — you are
saying the same thing! "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,
repent from all your sins, confess and forsake them,
become a new creature in Jesus and you will be saved
from the terror of hell.

I guess the volcanoes on mars have their own "hell" too...were gnashing of Martian teeth and wails are heard...lol