The Darkness of Hell

Have you ever considered what it would be like if suddenly you became blind and everything went dark? No longer would God's creation fill your mind with beauty and splendor. It would be a terrible curse never to see your loved ones or fully experience the happy moments of your life.

My subject today is the darkness of hell. Those who reject God and His sacrificial Son will forever dwell in darkness.  

Deuteronomy 28:29

And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

Jude 1:13

Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

There is darkness when people refuse the light and walk in spiritual blindness, but this is not what I am preaching about. I'm preaching about the darkness of Hell that will continue forever and ever in an infinite amount of time in Hell.

It will be lonesome and loathsome in Gehenna fire. No friends to talk to or to see. The apparatus for seeing had been put out.

Proverbs 13:9

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

John 9:39

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

After the final sentencing of the lost and the damned are cast into the lake of fire, darkness will ensue. No longer will light fill their eyes with beauty but darkness will fill them with gloom.  

This promise will be fulfilled in more ways than one:

Romans 11:10

Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.

The people of Gehenna had already been spiritually darkened but in Hell they will also be physically darkened. Their decaying and abscessed body will forever be blinded. 

It is said that fear of darkness is not the fear of darkness itself but fear of possible or imagined dangers concealed by darkness. The term they use is Nyctophobia. Nyctophobia is a phobia characterized by a severe fear of the dark. Everyone in Hell will be living out this fear in the utmost degree. There will be fear of that which goes bump in the night when one experiences Gehenna fire or Hell.

                                                          

I live in the country. One evening while approaching my studio I was surprised to see a black snake hanging near my front door wrapped on an electrical pipe. I departed immediately from the danger that was close to my face. How dreadful I feel for those in Hell who will never see the dangers that God had planned for them in Hell. Salvation is such a simple matter yet many would rather suffer in Hell than do homage to the Son of God by accepting His free gift.

Experts state that the lack of light can cause mood changes. They call it SAD. How sad it is to have SAD. It can make you depressed by giving you mood swings, anxiety, sleep problems, or even suicidal thoughts. The symptoms of SAD are what you will find in Hell.

The pit of Hell is cast into the lake of fire prior to judgment day. Those not written in the book of life are cast into the lake of fire. It is in the lake of fire where darkness will really take its toll. You would think in a large lake you might run into some friends or family members. You certainly will not find them having no sight and if perhaps you did come close to another person it will be impossible to make contact. You own feasting WORM of hell will keep you close to its side and will not share you with anyone. Their WORM will keep them in Hell isolated and alone throughout eternity and it will all happen in darkness.