The passage describes a future time when God will gather His people to Jerusalem and they will worship God for eternity (Isaiah 66:18–23).

5 июн. 2024 г. · Mark 9:48 does not mean that there are literal worms in hell or that there are worms that live forever; rather, Jesus is teaching the fact of unending ...

The word their, in the phrase "their worm," is used merely to keep up the "image" or "figure." Dead bodies putrefying in that valley would be overrun with worms ...

Mark 9:48 is a description: "where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched." This verse is found within a larger portrayal of the horrors of hell.

17 июл. 2012 г. · The undying worm of Isaiah 66:24 and Mark 9:48 serves as no challenge to the conditionalist view of final punishment as the permanent execution of the wicked.

Thus, the context of Mark 9:48 is a sobering reminder for believers to be vigilant in their pursuit of holiness, to avoid causing others to stumble, and to be ...

Jesus is now moving south toward Jerusalem and is passing through Galilee where he announces his passion and resurrection for the second time (9:30-31).

Jesus refers to a local method of garbage disposal to emphasize the permanent consequences of unrepented sins.

(i) Every man has a right to his own thoughts. Every man has a right to think things out and to think them through until he comes to his own conclusions and his ...