Hellfire fabrication exposed by the Bible (Simplified)

The Point of this blog post is to....
1. Let you know what the bible says regarding the dead.
2. Why the Lake of Fire is a metaphor for Eternal death/destruction.
3. Point out the difference between Tartarus, Hades,and Gehenna.

Hell/Hades/Sheol/Pit = Grave
Genesis 42:38"[The righteous man Jacob]However, he said: “My son will not go down with you, because his brother is dead and he alone is left. If a fatal accident should befall him on the journey you would make, then you would certainly bring down my gray hairs to the Grave[Hades/Sheol] in grief.”

Job 14:3[Job requesting to be sent to Hell?]"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!"

Dead people are Unconscious

(NWT)Ecclesiastes 9:5  "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten."

(ESV) Ecclesiastes 9:6"Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun."

(NLT)Ecclesiastes 9:10"Whatever you do, do well. For when you go to the grave, there will be no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom."

(ESV)Psalms 115:17"The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any who go down into silence."

1Thessalonians 4:13"Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep [in death], so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope."

 Psalms 13:3 Look upon me and answer me, O Jehovah my God. Give light to my eyes, so that I may not fall asleep in death,

(NWT) Psalms 146:4 " .His spirit goes out, he returns to the ground; On that very day his thoughts perish.

     Lake of Fire(Gehenna) is the Second death

      (NWT)Revelations 20:13-15 "And the sea gave up the dead in it, and death and the Grave [Hell/Hades/Sheol] gave up the dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds. 14 And death and the Grave were hurled into the lake of fire. This means the second death, the lake of fire. 15 Furthermore, whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled into the lake of fire."
    
    Revelation 21:8"..... their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This means the second death.”

 Sodom and Gomorrah afflicted with symbolic everlasting fire

       
       Genesis 19:24"Then Jehovah made it rain sulfur and fire on Sod′om and Go·mor′rah—it came from Jehovah, from the heavens."

       Jude 7 "In the same manner, Sod′om and Go·mor′rah and the cities around them also gave themselves over to gross sexual immorality and pursued unnatural fleshly desires they are placed before us as a warning example by undergoing the judicial punishment of everlasting fire."

      

      2 Peter 2:6 "And by reducing the cities of Sod′om and Go·mor′rah to ashes, he condemned them, setting a pattern for ungodly people of things to come."

       Everlasting fire = Everlasting destruction/death

Luke 12:5 "But I will show you whom to fear: Fear the One who after killing has authority to throw into Ge·hen′na.[Lake of Fire] Yes, I tell you, fear this One.

Matthew 10:28 "And do not become fearful of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather, fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Ge·hen′na[Lake of Fire[

2 Peter 3:7".......reserved for fire and are being kept until the day of judgment and of destruction of the ungodly people."

1 Corinthians 3 16:17 "Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple+ and that the spirit of God dwells in you?+ 17  If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, and you are that temple."

2 Thessalonians 1:9 " These very ones will undergo the judicial punishment of everlasting destruction from before the Lord and from the glory of his strength, "

Proverbs 27:20"Sheol[Hades] and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied."

Proverbs 15:11"Hades and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?"

Tartarus= Prison-like condition for disobedient angels

2 Peter 2:4 "For if God didn't spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;"

Jude 6  "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day."

Satan can't be ruling the world from the Land of the Dead, He also wouldn't have been in heaven.

  
Job 2:1,2"Afterward the day came when the sons of the true God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and Satan also entered among them to take his station before Jehovah.
2  Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Jehovah: “From roving about on the earth and from walking about in it.”"

1John 5:19 "We know that we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.

John 16:11" then concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged."

Satan wasn't kicked out of Heaven until a later prophecy in Revelation.

Revelations 12:7-9"And war broke out in heaven: Mi′cha·el and his angels battled with the dragon,..........8 but they did not prevail,.........9the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, "

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