Differentiations in Hell
The eternity of those who have known the truth and turned aside is far worse than that of those who did not know the truth. This fact is borne out by the testimony of another Colombian youth who was taken by the Lord into hell (recorded by the International ministry, Light for the nations):
"We came to the most terrible section of hell, where the worse torments happen--the centre of hell. There we saw the most concentrated forms of torment; such torments that a human being could never express them. The only people here were those who knew Jesus and had known the Word of God. There were pastors, evangelists, missionaries, and all type of people who had once accepted Jesus and knew the truth, but had lived a double life."
There were also backsliders; their suffering was a thousand times worse than any one else. They were shouting and begging the Lord for mercy, but the Word of the Lord says in the book of Heb. 10:26-27, "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses."
Those souls were there because they had preached, fasted, sung, and lifted their hands in the church, but in the streets and at home they committing adultery, fornication, lying , or robbery. We cannot lie to God. The Bible say that to whom much has been given much also will be required (Lk. 12:48).
God then allowed us to see women who had once been Christian sisters while on the arth, but they didn't live a righteous life before the Lord. One said to the other, 'You cursed wretch! It's your fault that I am in this place! You didn't preach to me a holy gospel! And because you didn't tell me about the truth, I am now here in hell.' They would say these things to each other in the midst of the flames; and they hated each other because there is no love, mercy or forgiveness in hell.
There were thousands of souls who had known the Word of God, but their lives weren't clean before the holy presence of the Lord. The Lord said, 'You cannot play with God or with the flames of hell either!' He also told us, 'My sons, all the suffering on the earth concentrated in just one another is nothing, NOTHING compared with the suffering that a person has in the best parts of hell.' If it is that terrible for those who suffer least in hell, how much worse must it be for those in the centre of hell, who once knew the Word of the Lord and walked away from it."
The Lord makes that very clear in Luke 12:47-48, "...And that servant who knew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.48 But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more."
We need to understand that all have sinned, and the wages of sin is death, and by the consequence, is an eternity to be spent in the terrors of hell. Whilst there are degrees of suffering in hell, any aspect of hell has been said to be 1,000 times more painful than any pain experienced here on earth.
(excerpt from Heaven's Glories and The Untold Horrors of Hell by Dr. Brian Bailey).