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Her Gates Will Never Be Shut: Hope, Hell, and the New Jerusalem is unavailable, but you can change that!

Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of fire and brimstone--these mainstays of evangelical tradition have come under fire once again in recent decades. Would the God of love revealed by Jesus really consign the vast majority of humankind to a destiny of eternal, conscious torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to know who is saved from the flames...

reduced to ashes (Mal 4:3); while the very wicked are punished in Gehenna for “ages to ages.”38 That said, the rabbis of the Mishnah hashed through a great range of opinions and theories about Gehenna (too many to ignore). Among them, the great Rabbi Akiva (AD 50–135)39 is noteworthy for his insights and testimonies about the details of afterlife Gehenna. The Rabbis did not all agree on the nature or duration of Gehenna, their thoughts developing and regressing over centuries. But from what they