Questions & Answers - Herbert W Armstrong - August 1976

Herbert W Armstrong

QUESTION: "In your booklet 'After Death - Then What?' it states that the stories about 'boiling pots' [in hell] or the 'pearly gates' are sheer myth. But the Bible is clear. In Revelation 21:21, it is written: 'The twelve gates were made of pearls, each gate from a single pearl.' Please explain this for me." ANSWER: Our statement in the booklet referred to the myth of a "heaven" with pearly gates where good people go when they die, The verse in the book of Revelation is referring to the gates of the city of New Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven to this earth (Rev. 21:2). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library