Is Hell a Real Place With Eternal Fire and Torment? Will Friends Have Parties and Fun in Hell?

        Hell is a real place, it's as real as the house or apartment that you live in, or the place where you go to work or School. Throughout the Bible Jesus tells us numerous times about the dangers of being placed in Hell.
Hell will be horrible; nothing like it can be experienced here on the Earth. If you suffer from some bad disease like cancer that causes extreme pain all the time, or if you burn 90% of your body in a house fire, it does not come close to what the torments of Hell will be like.

        If you die without knowing and believing in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, you will find yourself in Hades, and at the last judgment you will be placed into Hell, where you will be forever.
The numerous verses the Bible uses to describe Hell, tells us that it will be for eternity, with no hope of reprieve. There will be eternal pain, without lessening, there will not be a few hours or even a few minutes where it won't be too bad, the torment will never cease.

        If we are allowed to be amongst others when we are placed in Hell, it will offer no comfort, there will be no parties, no laughter, no mindless talking or joking, nothing but screams and torment, forever.
Those that are placed into Hell will also be amongst creatures that are so horrifying, that their very presence will add to the torment of the constant burning of the flames. Satan himself and all of the falling angels that rebelled with him against God, will be there too. It will be worse than being in a den of starving lions, forever.

        As much as the torments of the fire and the eternal pain, the Bible even tells us that God himself will remove his very presence from you, in that you will know that you have absolutely NO hope of any kind. You will scream in agony and cry out, knowing that God does not even hear your pleas for help, and he never will again.
I was about to finish this section, when something made me think of the following.
How horrible is Hell? It's so horrible that the son of God, left Heaven where he is treated as the Lord, with continuous honor, praise and love. He came to the Earth and lived for 30 some years as a human man, he walked hundreds if not thousands of miles trying to warn people about Hell and telling them about his gift of salvation to save them from it, then he went through the tortures of being whipped, slapped, beaten, spit upon, had a crown of thorns pressed into his head, and then crucified, so we can avoid Hell.
I'd say that by Jesus doing all that he did for us, he is warning us that Hell must be a very terrifying place to be, forever.

Do You Believe In Hell?

Family, of the three categories we are writing about in this treatise, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, the most frightening, and the one we really don't want to hear about is Hell! And Satan has been working overtime in this century denying his existence, and more than that, the actuality of a place where the damned will go to be punished, for their sinful way of life on earth, by being thrown into raging fires with demons hosting them for eternity.

       Hell is mentioned one hundred and forty-six times in the Bible. If we add Gehenna to the configuration, it's another twelve times. So, I think we are standing on good authority, when we speak of the existence of Hell. We hear Jesus Himself saying to Peter: "And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." (Matt 16:18)

       And if that is not enough, in Revelation I, in the first Vision, we again hear Jesus say: "Once I was dead, but now I am alive forever and ever. I hold the keys of death and the nether world (Hell)."
To repeat what we said many times, "Yes, my brothers and sisters, there is a Hell!" and it's not a place you want to visit. Hell has become a formidable term, so much so that it has been removed as a word from the modern Bibles. It has been replaced by the word "netherworld" in the New Testament, and "nether world" in the Old Testament. But no matter how anyone would like to remove it from sight, or soft-pedal it, it's there, and will always be there.

       In recent years, dissident theologians have dismissed the term Hell and its concept. But the Catholic Catechism has no problem addressing Hell, by its proper name, or by definition. It states: "To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from Him forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the Blessed is called `Hell.

      "The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of Hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into Hell, where they suffer the punishments of Hell, `eternal fire'. The chief punishment of Hell is eternal separation from God, in Whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.

          In another section, the Catholic Catechism teaches: "God predestines no one to go to Hell; for this, a willful turning away from God (a mortal sin) is necessary, and persistence in it until the end. In the Eucharistic liturgy and in the daily prayers of her faithful, the Church implores the mercy of God, who does not want `any to perish, but all to come to repentance.

       How did Hell begin?
We read in Scripture that the Angels were already created when God formed the Universe: When God created the Angels, He created them with free will! He gave them an opportunity to choose for Him or against Him. However, that choice was instant and irrevocable. Does that sound harsh? We are sure that with all the gifts God gave to the Angels, He allowed them to see the total picture at that time: what their obedience meant to Him and what their disobedience would mean. The decision by Michael and the Good Angels to follow the Lord, was immediate and forever, for all time in memoriam. For the fallen angels, their disobedience was the same.

      Why would angels go against God? Why do we choose false gods, at times, over the One True God, Who we know will never betray us? It is said, that if you were to go to Hell and invite the fallen to come out, they would refuse. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Who would choose suffering over joy? Lucifer was the fallen angels' choice, the anti-god they chose to worship and now they know no other.

       When God put the Angels to the test, He allowed them to see Truth and deceit at that very moment of decision. The Angels were granted full understanding. God offered Himself, the Truth Who would never betray them. And the fallen angels chose Lucifer the great deceiver, and his lies which would always betray. Maybe, because of this there is no forgiveness for the fallen angels, as there is for us, right up to the last breath of our life.

      Whatever they chose, there was no turning back. "He commanded, and they were created; by His command they were fixed in their places forever, and they cannot disobey." (Psalm 148:6) In their pride, the followers of Lucifer had chosen to be instruments of pain and confusion, sin and destruction. In their poverty, no longer in the presence of God, these fallen angels would try to separate all God's children from Him and His unconditional Love for them, whenever they could.

     Scripture says: "He who commits sin is the slave of sin." The fallen angels chose the sin of pride, and they not only became the slaves of pride, but of all the other sins which quickly accompany that (pride) which is the greatest of the seven deadly sins. When Lucifer fell it was through pride. He couldn't stand it that God would choose Jesus to become Man. Man who is below the angels! He would not bow down before a Man who was beneath him! So he refused to obey God, and not satisfied to disobey alone, he led weaker angels to follow him. I can just hear Lucifer's arguments, can't you? "What a slap in the face to us. Did He not make us, specially? Are we not the closest to Him? He betrayed us!" This is probably the first time Lucifer called God imperfect. When he turned away from God, all the evil that was possible took over and he called God by the names, he, Lucifer, would live by: Betrayer, Liar.

      The account of the creation of Hell is given to us in two places in Scripture, once in the Old Testament, and then again in the New Testament. We will give you the account from the Book of Revelation, which is more descriptive than the vision of Daniel. "Then war broke out in Heaven; Michael and his Angels battled against the dragon. The dragon and its angels fought back, but they did not prevail and there was no longer any place for them in Heaven. The huge dragon, the ancient serpent, which is called the Devil and Satan, who deceived the whole world, was thrown down to earth, and its angels were thrown down with it.
"Then I heard a loud voice in Heaven say: `Now have salvation and power come, and the reign of our God and the authority of His Anointed One. For the accuser (the Hebrew word for Satan) of our brothers is cast out, who night and day accused them before our God. They defeated him by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; love for life did not deter them from death.' `So rejoice, you Heavens and you who dwell therein! But woe to you, earth and sea, for the Devil has come down upon you! His fury, knows no limits, for he knows his time is short.'" (Revelations 12:7-17)

      But, St. Paul tells us that if we put on the armor of God, and listen to our Guardian Angel, we will be saved from the fierce fires of Hell. Listen to your Guardian Angel! He is with you to guard you, guide you, protect you, light your way to Our Lord. God has sent him as a messenger to bring His Word to you. Listen to the Saints! You don't dare not listen! Don't let the world make you slide down the primrose path to Hell. Be aware of how Satan has been fighting for your soul since the beginning of time, and how his greatest accomplishment would be to make you believe there is no Satan or Hell. We have been given especially the gifts of our Angel and St. Joseph at the hour of death. Take advantage of these gifts. Thank You Jesus.