Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 17:32:39 -0800
From: preach@ix.netcom.com (Charles F. Hockenbarger )
Subject: Topeka = HELL

                  TOPEKA = TOPHET = HELL

Yes, the very name of this pagan place is "Hell"!  "Topeka" means 
"Hell"!  With a zip code of "666" (the mark of the Beast), a moniker of 
"The Golden City" (Babylon, mother of whores and sodomites), and a 
mascot of "Ichabod" (the glory of GOd has departed), are you surprised 
that the meaning of the word "Topeka" is "Hell"?  Here's the proof:

"Topeka" derives from the French word "Topag" (a noisy den), which is 
the equivalent of the Hebrew word "Topheth" or "Tophet", a place near 
Jerusalem, so called from the drums and tabrets beat upon there in the 
valley of the son of Hinnom ("Gehinnom") to drown out the cries of the 
infants offered there to Molech.  Into Tophet was brought all the filth 
and dung of the city, and there those condemned to die were burned 
alive; so that it was an image and picture of hell itself, where the 
fires of idolatry and death continually burned, and where a foul stench 
continually arose.  Thus the word Tophet is used for Hell in the Old 
Testament, and the word Gehenna (from Gehinnom, or the valley of 
Hinnom, where Tophet was located) is used for Hell in the New 
Testament.  Thus we read:

"And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley 
of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the 
fire, which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart."  
(Jer. 7:31).  "For Topheth is ordained of old: yea, for the king it is 
prepared; he hath made it deep and large.  The pile of it is fire and 
much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth 
kindle it"  (Isa. 30:33).

The king by whom and for whom Tophet is said to be prepared and 
ordained from before the foundation of the world, is none other than 
the King of kings, our Lord Jesus Christ.  The pile of fire and much 
wood alludes to the burning of bodies in this place, the wood (sticks 
or faggots) being ungodly sinners who go there and are the fuel for the 
fire of Hell forever.  This fire and the fuel of it is kindled and 
sustained forever by the breath (or word or decree) of the Lord, like a 
stream of brimstone.  The Targum is, "the word of the Lord, like an 
overflowing torrent of brimstone, shall kindle it."  THe meaning is, 
that in the final Hell of punishment, the wrath of God will be like a 
continual stream of brimstone, keeping up the fire of it, so that it 
shall ever burn, and never be quenched; hence it is called a lake 
burning with fire and brimstone; into which Satan, the beast, and false 
prophet, and all the worshippers of antichrist, will be cast.  (Rev. 
14:10; 19:20; 21:8) The allusion is to the fire and brimstone rained by 
the Lord God upon Sodom and Gomorrah.  (Gen. 19:24) [See, Gill's 
expositor, Vol. 5, pp. 178, 179, London, 1810.]  Topeka (Tophet), Sodom 
City U.S.A., a city of church raiders and church bombers, where 
sodomites control the government, and bloody, state-sponsored religious 
persecution rages against the servants of God, has the name, 
population, and essential attributes of Hell itself.

"The Golden City"

"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great 
is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the 
hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and HATEFUL 
bird."  (Rev. 18:2)

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