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by **Remnant** » 08 Oct 2010, 21:12

First lets look at this place called Hell

In studying the word Hell in the Scriptures, we find three different Greek words translated "Hell".

1. Luke 16:22,23, "...the rich man also died, and was buried; And in Hell (Hades)..."

2. Matthew 23:33, "Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell (Gehenna)?"

3. 2 Peter 2:4, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell (Tartarus)..."

These three different words which are three different places we find translated by the one word Hell. A study of these will help us to understand what God's Word teaches about Hell.

Tartarus

First, the Greek word Tartarus is found only once in the New Testament. In 2 Peter 2:4 we read, "For if God spared the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (Tartarus) and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment

Let us also read Jude 6, "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."

Hades is the one that the unbeliever will go to if they die today.

In Old Testament times and in the days of Christ's ministry upon earth, the spirits of all the dead departed to a place known as Sheol in the Hebrew and Hades in the Greek. Sheol or Hades was divided into two sections — one for the saved called Abraham's bosom and one for the unsaved which was the place of torments. These two places were separated by a great gulf so that one could not pass from one to the other.

Since Christ's resurrection and ascension the righteous dead are no longer in Hades but are in Paradise. Today when the saved die they go directly into the presence of Christ which is far better (2 Cor. 5:8). But what about the unsaved dead? Their abode has not yet been changed. When an unsaved person dies he goes directly to Hades (Hell) which is the place of torment. The Bible makes it clear that all the unsaved dead go the Hell and remain there until they are resurrected to appear before God at the Great White Throne Judgment. In Revelation 20:13 we read, "...death (the grave) and Hell (Hades) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their worth.

Hades was the place for the unsaved dead in the time of Christ and still is. The Bible passage that best presents a picture of Hades (Hell) is Luke 16:19-31.

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