For part 1 THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF BURNING IN HELL FIRE DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER, Revelation 14:11?
For part 2 The true meaning of Revelation 20:10.
Part 4. The true meaning of Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."
Part 5 Scriptures Proving THE UNSAVED Will Not Have ETERNAL LIFE ROASTING IN HELL FIRE FOR EVER AND EVER.
Welcome to Part 3. The true meaning of Mark 9:44
King James Bible
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Very sadly modern Christianity does not represent true Christianity from the time of Jesus and the disciples.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 1 John 4:1.
The TRINITY faith is terribly confused and is bursting with countless false teachings, and Bible contradictions and false modern Bible translations.
Here is another misunderstanding and false teaching within the TRINITY faith.
Mark 9:44
There are Trinitarians who believe Mark 9:44 which says: Where their (worm) dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, means: their (worm) is the soul of a person that survives death and does not die.
They continue to believe: and the fire is not quenched, means the unsaved will BURN in FIRE FOR EVER and EVER, and they will never die.
Let's clear up another Christian confusion and discover the true meaning of Mark 9:44 which says: Where their (worm) dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
There are many quotes in the new testament taken from the old testament, just like Matthew 1:23 which is a quote from Isaiah 7:14 for Jesus as Immanuel.
However many Christians are again confused with the words saying: God with us, in the end of Matthew 1:23 and wrongly believe God with us, is Jesus as GOD, when God with us simply means, God with us is actually ''Yahweh'' The One True ALMIGHTY GOD of Israel was with His people by and THROUGH, DWELLING with His SON Jesus.
Just as Isaiah 8:8: the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.” Just as Isaiah 8:9: for God is with us, which is the same as Matthew 1:23 "God with us."
Now here is an obvious fact.
If Jesus was meaning in Mark 9:44 what most Christians believe that their (worm) is the soul of a person that survives death and NEVER DIES, then this belief contradicts the whole Bible, and Jesus own teachings, who tells us GOD will DESTROY, meaning (PUT TO DEATH) the sinners, the unsaved, and the wicked as He tells us in Matthew 10:28 because the penalty of SIN is DEATH Romans 6:23, NOT eternal life in the lake of fire, which Jesus confirmed was the SECOND DEATH Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and having become abominable and murderers and the sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their portion is in the lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
DEATH means ANNIHILATION, and NOT ETERNAL LIFE, which is so simple and obvious to understand, and yet most of Christianity do not understand this simple fact.
There should not be any contradictions in the Bible, and if there is, then it should raise a red flag, proving there is something wrong, or we are not correctly understanding one or more of the Bibles teachings, probably because we have been deceived by false teachers.
The shocking truth is, as the TRINITY faith is full of Bible contradictions, this is obvious proof on its own that the TRINITY faith is a false religion, believing in a false Gospel, teaching Jesus is GOD, when the truth is instead Jesus is the SON of His One True GOD John 10:36.
According to the Trinity faith, both the saved and the unsaved who have died, have not died, but are still alive in heaven of Hell, when the truth is instead all the DEAD are at present ASLEEP:
For this we declare to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living, remaining unto the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those having FALLEN ASLEEP. 1 Thessalonians 4:15.
Let's now see what the true meaning of Jesus teaching: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. Mark 9:44
To understand what Jesus meant by saying Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched Mark 9:44, we need to dig deeper into the Bible and travel back through the old testament and discover the meaning of Gehenna.
The Englishman's Concordance tells us there is 12 Occurrences with the word Strong's Greek: 1067. γέεννα (geenna)
I will now pull out all the verses with the word (Gehenna).
Matthew 5:22: "....whoever shall say, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into Gehenna."
Matthew 5:29: "....it is better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to be thrown into Gehenna."
Matthew 5:30: "....better for you that one of the parts of your body perish, than for your whole body to go into Gehenna."
Matthew 10:28: "....rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul [Greek: ψυχή] and body in Gehenna."
Matthew 18:9: "It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than with two eyes to be thrown into the Gehenna...."
Matthew 23:15: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you... make one proselyte...twice as much a child of Gehenna as yourselves."
Matthew 23:33, to the Pharisees: "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how shall you to escape the sentence of Gehenna?"
Mark 9:43: "It is better for you to enter life crippled, than having your two hands, to go into Gehenna into the unquenchable fire."
Mark 9:45: "It is better for you to enter life lame, than having your two feet, to be cast into Gehenna."
Mark 9:47: "It is better for you to enter the Kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into Gehenna."
Luke 12:5: "....fear the One who, after He has killed has authority to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, fear Him."
Another book to use the word Gehenna in the New Testament is
James 3:6: "And the tongue is a fire,...and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by Gehenna."
And the Strong's Concordance tells us the meaning of Gehenna:
geenna: Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly
Original Word: γέεννα, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: geenna
Phonetic Spelling: (gheh'-en-nah)
Definition: Gehenna, a valley west and South of Jerusalem, also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly
Usage: Gehenna, and originally the name of a valley or cavity near Jerusalem, a place underneath the earth, a place of punishment for evil.
(a transliteration of the Hebrew term, Gêhinnōm, "the valley of Hinnom") – Gehenna, i.e. hell (also referred to as the "lake of fire" in Revelation).
Gehenna ("hell"), the place of post-resurrection torment (judgment), refers strictly to the everlasting abode of the unredeemed where they experience divine judgment in their individual resurrection-bodies. Each of the unredeemed receives one at the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11-15), i.e. a body that "matches" their capacity for torment relating to their (unique) judgment.
From studying I have read In the beginning the word Gehenna came from the valley of Hinnom where evil kings of Israel sacrificed their children to their gods.
And in later times we know Gehenna became a dump outside a valley of Jerusalem, where dead animals and bodies were burned.
The word Gehenna has become a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly, called the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was not found having been written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Let's now look at the verses in question: Mark 9:44,46,48, King James Bible,
Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
Mark 9:44 & 9:46.
KJV: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. .. (Both verses identical to each other, and to 9:48, which is still in the main text)
Reason: Both verses 44 and 46 are duplicates of verse 48, which remains in the text. Verses 44 and 46 are both lacking in א,B,C,L,W,ƒ1, and some mss of the ancient versions, but appear in somewhat later sources such as A,D,K,θ, some Italic mss and the Vulgate. It is possible that verse 48 was repeated by a copyist as an epistrophe, for an oratorical flourish.[18] The UBS text assigns this omission a confidence rating of A. Lincoln H. Blumell, A Text-critical comparison of the King James New Testament with certain modern translations, Studies in the Bible and Antiquity, vol. 3 (2011) page 86.
From my research and understanding, Jesus was referring to God's Judgment against the Wicked seen in Isaiah 66:
15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
17 "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together," says Yahweh.
18 "For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory. 19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh. 21 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.
22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me," says Yahweh, "so your seed and your name shall remain.
23 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me," says Yahweh.
24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Conclusion:
The words by Jesus saying: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched Mark 9:44, is simply a future prophecy of destruction of the unsaved as we read in Isaiah 66:15
For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
Bible scholar Sr Anthony Buzzard told me:
The worms are simply those eating the dead carcases of the wicked. The Day of the Lord is the same event as the Parousia.
God will resurrect the dead saints and reward all the true people of God with immortality.
The wicked will be Burned UP and disappear as smoke Ps 37
So as we have seen, the Trinitarian doctrine who believe Mark 9:44 which says: Where their (worm) dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, they say means: their (worm) is the soul of a person that survives death and does not die, but burns for ever and ever, is wrong, but is instead figurative of a place of punishment and destruction.
I have added the whole verse that Jesus quoted from below:
Isaiah 66:
Rejoice with Jerusalem
7 "Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she delivered a son.
8 Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth?" says Yahweh: "shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the womb]?" says your God.
10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
11 that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory."
12 For thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream: and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted in Jerusalem."
14 You will see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.
God's Final Judgments against the Wicked
15 For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
17 "Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together," says Yahweh.
18 "For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory. 19 "I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of Yahweh. 21 Of them also will I take for priests [and] for Levites," says Yahweh.
22 "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me," says Yahweh, "so your seed and your name shall remain.
23 It shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me," says Yahweh.
24 "They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they will be loathsome to all mankind."
Please go to Part 4. The true meaning of Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."
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Related articles:
For part 1 THE FALSE TEACHINGS OF BURNING IN HELL FIRE DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER, Revelation 14:11?
For part 2 The true meaning of Revelation 20:10.
Part 4. The true meaning of Matthew 25:46
And these will go away into eternal punishment; but the righteous into eternal life."
Part 5 Scriptures Proving THE UNSAVED Will Not Have ETERNAL LIFE ROASTING IN HELL FIRE FOR EVER AND EVER.
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