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 bamboozleto 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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