Hell


Hell is the place described in Scripture as the place of the damned. It is the place where all sinners will spend eternity. Satan, fallen angels,and fallen people, will find their place there. Hell is pictured as a place of torment, sorrow, and loneliness for those who choose to rebel against God. It is a place where the wicked go and endure pain, agony, and endless suffering from burning fire. The punishment of hell is forever.

Matthew 24:38-41

God created Hell for the express purpose of dealing with the Devil and his angels. God created hell to destroy the rebellion of Satan and sin. It was never created for people, but when Adam and Eve first sinned in the Garden of Eden, God had to accommodate the human fall. The Scripture clearly teaches that hell has been enlarged because of human sins.

Isaiah 5:14

It is apparently ruled by a prince or king. In Revelation 9:11 it says (And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.)

During the Tribulation demons are released from it to inflict punishment on those on the earth. In Revelation 9:1-3 the Bible says (And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.)

It is also the place where Satan will be bound for a thousand years during the millennial reign of Christ.

(Revelation 20:1-4)

Where is Hell located?

Hades is always referred to as down.

Matthew 11:23 and Luke 10:15

Also, Hell is referred to as being in the heart of the earth.

Matthew 12:40

In Luke there is an account of a rich man in Hell.

Luke 16:19-31

In Luke 16:19-31 We have the story of Lazarus and the rich man. It tells us that before the Ascension there were at least two separate abodes in hades. One was referred to here as Abraham's bosom, which was apparently the place of paradise of Old Testament believers at the time of death.

Luke 23:43 and II Corinthians 12:4

All the righteous dead of the Old Testament dispensation were kept there before Jesus paid the price of redemption. There was no torment or suffering in Abraham's bosom. Once Jesus paid the eternal price required by God this compartment was emptied and the righteous were allowed into heaven. The other compartment was a place of the unsaved dead. It is clearly a place of conscious torment and agonizing pain.

Luke 16:23-25

It is also clear that the rich man still had his memory during the torment.

Luke 16:25-31

The unsaved dead await their final judgment at the Great White Throne.

Revelation 20:11-15

At the resurrection [of the dead] Hades must give up its dead again. For a final judgement.

Where does the word Hell come from?

The term HELL is used to translate one Hebrew word in the Old Testament and several different Greek words in the New Testament. In Deuteronomy 32:22 "hell" is translated from the Hebrew word SHEOL.

Deuteronomy 32:22

The corresponding Greek word for Hell is HADES, which is used eleven times in the New Testament. Hades is the intermediate between decease and the doom of GEHENNA(dwelling place or house of the devil).

GEHENNA itself is translated as "Hell". The word occurs twelve times in the New Testament,and is a designation for eternal punishment taken from the Hebrew GE HINNOM which refers to the Valley of Hinnom that makes up the south and east sides of Jerusalem. The valley also became the place where dead bodies of animals and criminals were burned. As a result, GEHENNA became synonymous with eternal punishment, the fire of hell. It describes the punishment connected with the final judgment, a punishment that has eternal duration, not annihilation. (Matthew 23:15, 33, 25:41, 46)

Gehenna is stated in Scripture as having been prepared for the Devil and his angels.(Matthew 25:41)

It is the place where the dead are thrown at the final judgment and it is there referred to as the second death,the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:13-14)

Its punishment is of eternal duration. (Matthew 25:41, 46, 23:15, 33)

This will be the place of final doom for the demons, the Beast, the False Prophet, and Satan. (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:14)

After the unsaved go before the Great White Throne and face the judgement of God they are cast into hades or gehenna. When an unrighteous person dies, the spirit and soul are separated from the body. The body goes back to the dust of the earth, and the spirit and soul go to hades to be tormented. (Revelation 20:11-15)

Those that die before Judgement Day will also go before the Great White Throne. The Bible is clear that there will be a resurrection of the body and some will awake to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame and contempt.(Daniel 12:22 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 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.)

There is coming a time when the lost will be in the physical, resurrected body to face the pains of eternal punishment.

Another Greek word translated "hell" is the word TARTAROO. Tartaroo is only found once in the New Testament in,( II Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to HELL, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment), where it is said to be the place where God cast some of the angels that sinned and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment.

The Greek word ABYSSOS is also used in a similar sense to refer to a prison for demons. (Luke 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.)(Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.)

Hell is a very real and scary place. It should not be taken lightly!

More scriptures concerning Hell found in the Bible.

Ask yourself:

         

Would you rather die in Hell or Live in Heaven? Do you know where you are heading? Do you have the Key to Life?


Do you have the answers to these questions. . .

You should.