The trend today is to think 'to rot in prison' is the worst punishment one can be given.  Even if prison was a horrible place without all the luxuries of life, etc. it certainly isn't the worse thing that will happen to someone.

Will the Islamic folks be disappointed that there are not 23 virgins waiting for them?  Actually, there will be far more than 23 or whatever the number they say...

Let's look at what the Scriptures say about God's vengeance.  Folks who think God is not 'into vengeance' have obviously lost their belief in the Scriptures!

Vengeance: The infliction of pain on another, in return for an injury or offense.

• Such infliction, when it proceeds from malice or more resentment, and is not necessary for the purposes of justice, is revenge, and a most heinous crime.
• When such infliction proceeds from a mere love of justice, and the necessity of punishing offenders for the support of the laws, it is vengeance, and is warrantable and just.
• In the case from the Scriptures, vengeance is a just retribution, recompense or punishment.  In this latter sense the word is used in Scripture, and frequently applied to the punishments inflicted by God on sinners.

Old Testament!
This is the stuff that our little kids don't seem to learn about God anymore...

Isaiah 1:24 - Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
Jeremiah 5:9-14 - Shall I not visit for these things?  saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?   Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD's.  For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith the LORD.   They have belied the LORD, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:   And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them. Wherefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
Jeremiah 5:29-31 - Shall I not visit for these things?  saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Jeremiah 9:9-11 - Shall I not visit them for these things?  saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.  And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 46:10 - For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
Nahum 1:2-8 - God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.  The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.  He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.  The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.  Who can stand before his indignation?  and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger?  his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.  The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.  But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
Ezekiel 25:16,17 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethims, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.  And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
Micah 5:15 - And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.  (read the whole prophecy in that chapter about Jesus!)

From Moses: Deuteronomy 32:35-43 -To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.  For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,  Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings?  let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.  See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.   If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.  I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.   Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

From the people:
Psalm 149:7-9 - To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;  To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints.  Praise ye the LORD.
Psalm 58:9-11 - Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.  The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.  So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Gospels / Early Acts!

• Damnation of Hell - Matthew 23:33 - Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
• Greater damnation - Matthew 23:14 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
• Destruction - Matthew 7:13 - Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
• Eternal damnation - Mark 3:29 - But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
• Eternal life or eternal damnation
• John 5:28,29 - Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.  Matthew 25:46 -  And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Rejected by God who moves on to Gentiles!

• Romans 10:19 - But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
• Romans 11:8-10 - (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day. And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them: Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
• Romans 11:11 - I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
• Romans 11:20 - Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
• Romans 11:30 - For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

To the Lost -

• Romans 2:3,4 - the goodness of God
• Romans 2:5-6 - wrath stored up until their judgment day!
• Romans 13:2 - damnation
• Philippians 3:19 - destruction
• II Thessalonians 1:9 - everlasting destruction
• I Timothy 6:9 - drown in destruction and perdition (love of money!)
• Romans 12:19; II Thessalonians 1:5-9 - The promise of His coming wrath!

• We have no vengeance or 'pay-backs' coming from God!  Jesus paid it all!
• However, our works still have to go through the fires of judgment!
• We still can reap what we sow - and even according to Scriptures - Galatians 6:7,8 - Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.  For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
• Results of not shunning, withdrawing from, avoiding, etc. - more ungodliness, deception and deceiving others, etc.  (see previous sermon notes)
• I Corinthians 3:14,15 - Lose rewards at Judgment Seat

• Luke 21:22 - days of vengeance
• Miss the rapture - and 'easy' salvation!
• False gospel, etc. false peace, not able to buy sell trade, etc. 666.
• Tough gospel walk - with faith and not taking a mark - needing a constant confession of sins - or lose it entirely!
• Misery after a false peace, etc.
• II Peter 2:1 - swift destruction!
• II Peter 3:16 - wrest scriptures unto their destruction
• Hebrews 10:30 - The Lord's judgment of 'his people.'
• Revelation 4-18; Matthew 24, etc. - Major destruction on the earth -
• Jude 7 - Cities suffering eternal fire as an example!
• Jude 11-13 - The promise of blackness of darkness forever -
• Isaiah 2:10-22 - details of destruction, etc.!

2nd Coming of Christ

• Revelation 19
• II Thessalonians 2:8 - destroyed with the brightness of His coming!
• Revelation 19:18,18 - fed to the birds!
• II Peter 2:12 - perish in their own corruption!
• Luke 18:7,8 - avenge his own elect!

• Revelation 19:15 - ruleth with a rod of iron
• Revelation 20:8,9 - deceivers devoured by fire!
• Names taken out of the book of life - KILLED!
• Revelation 22:18,19 - Plagues from changing God's words!

• Mark 9 - gnashing of teeth!
• (23 verses all in Gospels, early Acts or Hebrews to Jude.  Hmmm - see II Corinthians 13:10!
• Luke 16 for detailed account
• etc.

• Revelation 20:11-15 - out of the pan into the fire!

Nobody is annihilated or blinked to nothing - or reincarnated, etc. If so, there would be no terror of the Lord.  That is just teaching that tries to deceive folks by taking the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. Luke 8:12