Lastly one more question where is hell? (Not a troll i just never got a valid answer before)
Greetings Zray,
There are three Greek words translated as Hell:
Tartartus: used only once in in 2 Peter 2:4 in reference to those angels that sinned, which is most likely referring to those angels who took wives from the progeny of men and whose offspring became giants. Where they will remain in gloomy darkness until the great white throne judgment. Though the word Tartarus is not used, I believe that Jude males reference to these same angels when he said:
"And the angels who did not stay within their own domain, but abandoned their proper dwelling, He keeps under darkness, in eternal chains for judgment on that great day." Jude 6
Sheol/Hades: Referred to as the abode of departed spirits of the unrighteous, which is in the depths of the earth. This is the same place that the rich man of Lazarus fame went to and was/is in torment in flame. After the millennium, those in Sheol/Hades will be resurrected and will stand before God at the great white throne judgment, where they will be held accountable for every sin they ever committed. (Luke 16:19-31, Rev.20:11-15)
Gehenna: Also called the lake of fire and the second death. This is the final place of punishment for all whose names are not written in the book of life, the location of which is not revealed, but most definitely will not be on this earth. Below is a list of all the references to Sheol and Hades.
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Job 14:13 - If only you would hide me in Sheol and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set me a time and then remember me!
Job 17:13-16 - If I look for Sheol as my home, I make my bed in the darkness;
If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’; To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’; Where now is my hope? And who regards my hope? “
Will it go down to the bars of Sheol? Shall we
descend together into the dust?”? Shall we together go down into the dust?”
Job 21:12-13 - They sing to the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the flute. “They spend their days in prosperity, and suddenly they
go down to Sheol.
Job 24:19 - Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.
Job 26:6 - Naked is Sheol before Him, And Abaddon has no covering.
Psalm 6:4-5 - Return, O LORD, rescue my soul; Save me because of Your lovingkindness. For there is no mention of You in death; In Sheol who will give You thanks?
Psalm 9:17 - The wicked will return to Sheol, Even all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 16:10 - For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay.
Psalm 18:5 - The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
Psalm 30:3 - O LORD, You have brought
up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not
go down to the pit.
Psalm 31:17 - Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You; Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol.”
Psalm 49:14 - As sheep they are appointed for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall rule over them in the morning, And their form shall be for Sheol to consume So that they have no habitation.”
Psalm 49:15 - But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, For He will receive me. Selah.”
Psalm 55:15 - Let death come deceitfully upon them; Let them go down alive to Sheol, For evil is in their dwelling, in their midst.[/quote]
Psalm 86:13 - For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol
Psalm 88:3 - For my soul has had enough troubles, And my life has drawn near to Sheol
Psalm 89:48 - What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
Psalm 116:3 - The cords of death encompassed me and the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I found distress and sorrow.
Psalm 139:8 - If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.
Psalm 141:7 - As when one plows and breaks open the earth, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
Prov.1:12 - Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
Prov.5:5 - Her feet go down to death, Her steps take hold of Sheol
Prov.7:27 - Her house is the way to Sheol,
Descending to the chambers of death
Prov.9:18 - But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are
in the depths of Sheol
Prov.15:11 - Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD, How much more the hearts of men!
Prov.15:24 - The path of life leads upward for the wise That he may keep away
from Sheol below.
Prov.23:13-14 - Do not hold back discipline from the child, although you strike him with the rod, he will not die. You shall strike him with the rod and rescue his soul from Sheol.
Prov.27:20 - Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, Nor are the eyes of man ever satisfied.
Eccl.9:10 - Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
Songs 8:6 - Put me like a seal over your heart, Like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, Jealousy is as severe as Sheol; Its flashes are flashes of fire, The very flame of the LORD.
Isa.5:14 - Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure; and Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din
of revelry and the jubilant within her,
descend into it.
Isa.14:9 -
Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
Isa.14:11 - Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been
brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering
Isa.14:15 - Nevertheless you will be
thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit
Isa.28:15 - Because you have said, "We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a pact. The overwhelming scourge will not reach us when it passes by, For we have made falsehood our refuge and we have concealed ourselves with deception."
Isa.28:18 - Your covenant with death will be canceled, and your pact with Sheol will not stand; When the overwhelming scourge passes through, Then you become its trampling place.
Isa.38:10 - I said, "In the middle of my life I am to enter
the gates of Sheol; I am to be deprived of the rest of my years."
Isa.38:18 - For Sheol cannot thank You, Death cannot praise You; Those who go
down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.
Isa.57:9 - "You have journeyed to the king with oil And increased your perfumes; You have sent your envoys a great distance And made them go
down to Sheol.
Ezk.31:15-17 - Thus says the Lord GOD, "On the day when it went
down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it. I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I made it
go down to Sheol with those who
go down to the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath. “They also
went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its strength lived under its shade among the nations.
Ezk.32:21 - The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol,
'They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword
Ezk.32:27 - Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised,
who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living.
Hosea 13:14 - Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? O Death, where are your thorns? O Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight.
Amos 9:2 - Though they dig into Sheol, From there will My hand take them; And though they ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down.
Jonah 2:2 - and he said, "I called out of my distress to the LORD, And He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.
Hab.2:5 - "Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man, So that he does not stay at home. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, And he is like death, never satisfied. He also gathers to himself all nations And collects to himself all peoples.
Hades:
Mt.11:23 - And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No,
you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
Mt.16:18 - And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the
gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
Luke 10:15 - And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will
go down to Hades.
Luke 16:23-24 -
In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because
I am in agony in this fire.’
Acts 2:27 - because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.
(Note: this verse ties both Psalms 16:10 and Acts 2:27 where the words Sheol and Hades are used interchangeably).
Acts 2:31 - Having foreseen, he spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was He abandoned into Hades, nor did His flesh see decay.
Rev.1:18 - I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.
Rev.6:8 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and the
one sitting on it,
the name of him
was Death, and Hades was following with him; and authority was given to them over the fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
Rev.20:13 - And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.
Rev.20:14 - Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
Characteristics of:
- Is down under the earth - Gen.37:35, 42:38, 44:29, 44::31, Num.16:30, 16:33, Deut.32:22, 1 Sam.2:6, 2 kings 2:6, Job 11:7-8, 17:16, Ps.30:3, 86:13, Prov.9:18, 15:24, Isa.5:14, 14:9, 14:11, 14:15, Isa.38:18, Ezk.31:15-17, Ezk.32:21, Ezk.32:27, Mt.11:23, Lk.10:15,
- Has multiple levels - Deut.32:22, Job 11:7-8,
- Referred to as the pit - Job 17:13, Ps.30:3, Prov.1:12, Isa.14:15, Isa.38:18, Ezk.31:15-17
- Has Gates/Bars - Job 17:16, Isa.38:10, Mt.16:18
- A place of torment in fire – Lk.16:23-24
- Is a literal entity representing the same location – Rev.6:8, 20:14
Sheol (sheh-ole') The underworld (place to which the spirits of people descend at death)
Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates -- grave, hell, pit.
Hades (hah'-dace) The unseen world:
hádēs (from
1 /A "not" and
idein/eidō, "see") – properly, the "unseen place," referring to the (invisible) realm in which the unrighteous dead reside, i.e. the present dwelling place of all the departed (deceased);
Hades.