THE FOUR

LAST THINGS

ALWAYS KEEP THESE IN MIND

DEATH

JUDGMENT

HEAVEN

HELL

DEATH

This is the dissolution of the union

between the soul and the body

This must happen to everybody, I

repeat everybody

REMEMBER THESE ABOUT DEATH

Death is a punishment for sin

Gen 2:17

Gen 3:19

Rom 5:12

Rom 6: 12

GENESIS 2: 17

“But of the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil

you shall not eat, for in the

day that you eat of it you

shall die."

SECOND FACT ABOUT

DEATH

Death is the moment on which our

eternity depends

John 9: 4: “We must work the works of

him who sent me while it is day;

night is coming when no one can

work.”

THIRD FACT ABOUT DEATH

No one is certain about the time and circumstance of

death

Luke 12: 40: “You also must be

ready, for the Son of Man is

coming at an unexpected

hour."

FOURTH FACT ABOUT DEATH

Everybody

Will

die

JUDGMENT This is the account of the soul before God. At the

end of time, God will sit on his judgment throne or

seat and judge all men.

There are two kinds of judgment.

- Particular Judgment

- General Judgment

PARTICULAR JUDGMENT

Immediately after death the soul stands before the

tribunal of Christ to face the particular judgment.

Luke 16:22

Luke 23: 43

LUKE 16: 22

“The poor man died and was

carried away by the angels to

be with Abraham. The rich

man also died and was

buried.”

GENERAL JUDGMENT

At the end of the world, all men will stand before

the judgment seat of God and give an account

of what they did on earth

General judgment does not change ones state

during particular judgment

HELL

Pope Benedict XII states:

“ We also define that, according to God’s general ordinance, the souls

of those who depart this life in actual mortal sin descend

straightaway after death into Hell, where they suffer its torments; yet

nonetheless, in the day of judgment all will appear before the tribunal

of Christ, there to render an account of their actions.”

HELL IN SCRIPTURE Matt. 3: 10-12

Matt 22: 13

Matt 25: 41

“Then the king said to the attendants, Bind him hand

and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where

there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Mt 22:13

WHERE IS HELL

Hell is certainly a place, and it seems from

scripture that it is within the earth, though there

are many theories on this point.

The story of Core, Dathan, and Abiron.

Numbers 16: 31- 33

NUMBERS 16:31-33

And as he finished speaking all these words, the ground

under them split asunder; 32 and the earth opened its

mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and

all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods.

33 So they and all that belonged to them went down alive

into Sheol; and the earth closed over them, and they

perished from the midst of the assembly.

The church has decided nothing definite

on the subject on where Hell is.

The most important thing is what St.

Chrysostom talks of: “ We must not ask

where Hell is, but how we are to avoid it.”

THE PAINS OF HELL

There is basically two pains or

punishment in hell.

- The pain of loss

- The pain of sense

PAIN OF LOSS

This is the loss of the direct vision

of God

This means a total separation of all

the powers of the soul from God,

where the soul has not even the

slightest rest.

PAIN OF SENSE

This possibly consist of the torment of fire.

While the fires of the Hell is a physical reality, it is not a

material fire like that which we are familiar with in

everyday life.

The fires of Hell is able to cause torment to both the body

and soul.

It burns without consuming and without needing a

continuously renewed supply of fuel.

THE DEGREES OF PUNISHMENT

NOT ALL THE PAINS OF THOSE IN HELL ARE

EQUAL.

The worse one’s life earthly life has been, the more

sufferings one suffers.

Rom 2:6 “For he will render to every man according

to his works”

HEAVEN

In Scripture it is used to denote the place of the angels and

the souls of righteous people.

Mt 5: 3-12

1 John 3: 2 “Beloved, we are God's children now; it does

not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he

appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he

is.”

WHERE IS HEAVEN

It is uncertain where heaven is.

But about heaven we know that

it is a place outside and beyond

the limits of this earth.

HAPPINESS IN HEAVEN Essentially the happiness of heaven is seeing God

immediately and directly, clearly and distinctly, face to

face, as He is in himself.

This direct vision of God is called beatific vision.

In heaven the blessed also get to know and understand

all the mysteries they believed here on earth

DEGREES OF HAPPINESS IN HEAVEN

During their time on earth, the righteous obtain for

themselves greater capacity to know and love God.

John 14:2 “In my Father's house are many

rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you

that I go to prepare a place for you?”

Mt 16: 27

PURGATORY

It is a place where souls suffer for a time after death on

account of their sins.

Those who go to purgatory are those who departed this

life in venial sin; or that they have not fully paid the debt

of temporal punishment due to those sins of which the

guilt has been forgiven.

PURGATORY IN SCRIPTURE

2 Macc 12: 43- 46

“He also took up a collection, man by man, to the amount of two thousand

drachmas of silver, and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In

doing this he acted very well and honorably, taking account of the

resurrection. For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would

rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead.

But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall

asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he made

atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.”

1 Cor 3: 10- 15

THE PAINS IN PURGATORY

Souls in purgatory suffer

pain of loss and pain of

sense.