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Bro. Branham taught that hell is a literal place of punishment created for the devil and his angels, involving torment by fire and brimstone, as illustrated by the rich man in hell who begged for water to cool his tormented tongue. Evidence: [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶31–¶33, ¶240]
He described punishment as severe and consuming, worse than natural fire, lasting for a space of time—possibly millions or billions of years—where souls are tormented for their sins before annihilation. Evidence: [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶230–¶237; HEBREWS, CHAPTER SIX 2 — 57-0908E: ¶251–¶259]
The lake of fire is distinguished from hell, with hell cast into it; there the wicked burn for "aeons" (spaces of time) in torment but are ultimately consumed and become extinct, as only God possesses Eternal Life (Zoe), and anything created or perverted has an end. Evidence: [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶226, ¶230; THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE — 60-1206: ¶139; REVELATION, CHAPTER FIVE PART II — 61-0618: ¶154]
Bro. Branham rejected an eternal hell, arguing that "forever" or "everlasting" means a limited duration ("ainion" or "aeon"), not Eternity, which has no beginning or end; the lost are not tormented forever but punished until they cease to exist. Evidence: [QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶31–¶33; THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE — 60-1206: ¶116–¶119; HEBREWS, CHAPTER FOUR — 57-0901E: ¶226–¶228]
“They shall go away into a time of punishment.” The word is used, a-i-n-i-o-n. Ainion, which means “times, a time, a limited time.”
[QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶31]
“Cast into the lake of fire, and shall burn for aeons.” Aeons means the “spaces of time.” They may burn for a hundred million years in punishment but, finally, they have to come to an end; to be extinct, altogether.
[QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS HEBREWS PART I — 57-0925: ¶230]
There cannot be an Eternal hell. Cause if there ever was an Eternal hell, then there always was an Eternal hell... Hell was created, it isn’t Eternal.
[THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE — 60-1206: ¶116]
I do believe in a burning hell... the lake of fire... That soul may be tormented there for its doings for ten million years... but there will come a time when that soul will cease to be.
[THE SMYRNAEAN CHURCH AGE — 60-1206: ¶139]
Hell was created for the devil and his angels... you cannot have Eternal Life unless you’re saved. And if you burn Eternally, you got to have Eternal Life.
[REVELATION, CHAPTER FIVE PART II — 61-0618: ¶154]
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