Question:
“IS IT HELL, HADES, TARTARUS, SHEOL, GEHENNA?”
Dear
Reader, there’s nothing like Rome using the ‘Greek’ and ‘Hebrew’
to muddy the waters to raise doubts and sow confusion!
That
is their stock and trade … to bring back the separated brethren … true
Christians with eternal security … indeed any false pretend Christians.
We
must remember that “little by little but above all not too much zeal”
is their
motto …
TO
DRAW PEOPLE AWAY FROM THE INERRANT AND INFALLIBLE KING JAMES ENGLISH …
TO
HERD US ALL BACK TO MOTHER ROME!!!
Their
Bible model and example is serpent talking to Eve saying “Yea, hath
God said
…” (Genesis 3:1)
And
so we look at five terms above … only one of which is in the Bible … hell.
Hades,
tartarus, sheol, gehenna are
simply made-up red herring
terms for those who will not believe the English language King
James
Bible.
So
called Christian writers have been Pied Pipered into following the
unsaved
Greek and Hebrew twisters … “Oh! How wonderful … the light that has
been shed
by the Greek and Hebrew scholars! Let us bow down and worship them!”
Dear
Reader, places mentioned in the King James Bible concerning the next
world and
worlds to come are …
1.
Heaven
for the saved … Christ is now in heaven at the right hand of God
the
Father as follows … and the saved are there … having been put into
Christ …
“But
this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
down on
the right hand of God;”
(Hebrews 10:12)
“Knowing
this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of
sin might
be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is
dead is
freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that
we shall
also live with him:” (Romans 6:6-8)
2.
Hell
for the unsaved … also called the pit and the nether
parts of
the earth …
Hell
in the old testament is for the unsaved …
“For
a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell,
and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the
foundations
of the mountains.” (Deuteronomy 32:22)
“Yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
(Isaiah
14:15)
“To
the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for
their
height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither
their trees
stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all
delivered unto
death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of
the children
of men, with them that go down to the pit.” (Ezekiel 31:14)
3.
Abraham’s
bosom was for the righteous old testament saints … it no longer
exists.
“And
it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels
into Abraham's
bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell
he lift
up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus
in
his bosom.” (Luke 16:22-23)
4.
The
lake of fire as the final destination for those in hell … and for
the beast
(the antichrist) and the false prophet (the Roman Pope)
“And
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second
death.” (Revelation
20:14)
5.
The
spirits in prison are the fallen angels cast out of heaven with
Lucifer
“By
which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;” (1 Peter
3:19)
They
shall be kept in darkness and ‘chains’ as well …
“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;”
(2 Peter 2:4)
6.
Satan
in his own special prison … is still in existence until …
“And
when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out
of his
prison,” (Revelation 20:7)
Then
to be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone … with the beast
(antichrist)
… and the false prophet (Rome’s Pope) as follows …
“And
the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and
brimstone,
where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be
tormented
day and night for ever and ever.” (Revelation 20:10) …
along with those already in hell.
OBJECTIONS:
The
Greek has three words … Gehenna, Hades, Tartarus and the Hebrew
of Sheol.
Q:
‘Gehenna’
is the Greek interpretation of the Hebrew ‘Gehinnom’ … a burning
rubbish dump
South of Jerusalem … isn’t this what the Bible is referring to?”
A:
“NO.
What this has to do with a burning hell in the middle of the earth is
anyone’s
guess? How can a place of burning rubbish be equated to an everlasting
burning
of people in hell? It doesn’t!”
Q:
“Aren’t
hades and sheol the same?”
A:
“The
Greek use of ‘hades’ means the place of ‘The Unseen’ … is a mystical
unseen
land for the departed spirits of man … and is quite a pleasant
place.
Dear
Reader, the Bible’s ‘hell’ is a place of everlasting fire and torment
for
actual bodies.
The
Jewish Hebrew has a name called ‘Sheol’ which is the place of the
departed dead
… but for actual bodies that have died on earth. This is not a
place for
the departed spirits of man.”
Q:
“What
about ‘Tartarus’?
A:
Simply
a term for the disobedient spirits under Lucifer … but he will not be
there as
he has his own special prison (Revelation 20:7)
Conclusion:
In
reading the above, you will see that the King James Bible tells us far
more
about all these places than substitutionary words for the word ‘hell’.
In
a
nutshell:
Hell
has three parts:
1.
Hell
has a prison for the unsaved man.
2.
Hell
has a prison for the fallen rebellious angels (spirits)
3.
Hell
has a prison for Satan.
The
lake of fire will be the final home for the above to join the antichrist
and the false prophet.
All
the other ‘academic’ terms of Greek and Hebrew
equivalents and
transliterations are nothing but gobbledegook, jibber-jabber
and
flim-flam … Pied Piper terms
thrown about to confuse, mislead and bamboozle
… to add so
called ‘deeper richer Greek nuggets’ of meaning to the ‘insipid, weak
and
pathetic’ English … above all … to call into question … Gods final
written
inerrant and infallible scriptures … the English King James Bible.
As
the saying goes K.I.S.S. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!
“But
I have a Ph.D in blah! blah! blah! blah!”
“Oh?
… a Pile of Horse Dung!”
“I
read, understand and believe the plain King James English!”
Harley
Hitchcock
January
2025
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