A study of the word Hell

The lowest hell is referred to in the New Testament as Tartaros. It has been reserved for the fallen Angels who left their first estate and took the daughters of men as wives and procreated with them and in doing so, the result was the birth of children who became the giants of old. These offspring were abominations in the eyes of God. They were destroyed from the face of the Earth partially by the Noahic Flood but their total demise came by the sword of the Israelites during the reign of King David. The foundations of the mountains can be considered to be the ceiling of Sheol. Hence, the foundations of the mountains are set on fire by hell fire.

A prophetic utterance. Jesus is the Holy One that took on the sin of the whole world and paid the price of commending His Spirit to the Father. The soul of Jesus then descended into Tartaros where he preached to the spirits {fallen Angels}, but God the Father did not leave Jesus there. As we all know Jesus Christ was the first fruit of those who will be resurrected from among the second dead and sits now at the right hand of the Father.

These are references to the omnipotent and omnipresent characteristics of our three times Holy God. All of creation is open to examination by the most high God.

A prophetic utterance made hundreds of years before the Apostle Paul wrote [1 Corinthians 15] or John the Revelator wrote [Revelation 20] and the "wicked" referred to here is a reference to saved apostate Preachers/teachers just as much as it is a reference to the unsaved.

This is a prayer of King David and there are prophetic utterances in this Psalm as well.

Notice the description of the abode of death. Notice that the word chambers is plural. As stated before, during the period of time prior to the resurrection of Christ Jesus the chambers of death were Paradise, Hades, and Tartarus.

Paul said it like this: Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: [1 Corinthians 2:6-7]

And lo and behold we find these verses in [Revelation chapter 20]: And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

In another place the Psalmist says: Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

So we see right away that just because one is saved does not mean that the fires of hell won't be use to chastise the Christian for the duration of 1000 years. Jesus was speaking to His disciples {the saved} at this particular time while the multitude was further down on the mountainside. 

Geenna was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the unfaithful and their future destruction. It was outside the city and therefore a place of dishonor. Those to whom this verse is directed are the children of God.

Thus we see that those whom rejected Christ in Capernaum are already suffering the same everlasting fate as those of Sodom and Gomorrah. Notice that the Greek text says "Hades". Only the unsaved go to Hades after they die.

This is the promise of Christ that the kingdom of Satan would not prevail against the kingdom of Jesus, the Christ.

And the same grave error is being committed by the Laodicean Church and their congregations of today. 

Again, this admonition could just as well have been addressed to the Laodicean Church and it's preachers of today. 

Again, Christ is speaking of the saved and yet apostate believer. Revelation 20:6

The rich man was not saved having lived his entire life in unbelief. 

Again, a reference to the descending of Christ into Tartarus, which is the deepest pit in Hades, to preach to the fallen Angels and the ultimate resurrection of Christ before His body could decompose, three days and nights later.

Again, a reference to the resurrection of Christ.

2 Peter Chapter 2 and Jude are sister Chapters and are addressing the subject of unfaithful, apostate, Christian false teachers. Their destiny is 1000 years of blackness of darkness and being held in that state for the purpose of being reserved unto "the judgment of the great day" at the Great White Throne. 

One might say: But we have been taught all of our lives that believers will not be judged at the Great White Throne! To which the answer must be that we live in an the season of the Church dispensation wherein false teachers and Preachers of unsound doctrines abound. Did Christ not say to the Churches of this season Because thou sayest *, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Did Martha not say to Jesus concerning Lazarus: "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day." [John 11:24] She was speaking of the resurrection we find in [Revelation 20:12].  Please note that judgment begins with those of the house of God.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

Our scriptures never uses the term "small and great" in reference to the unsaved but rather always uses the term in reference to the saved. 

The word "stand" is a reference to the resurrection to which Martha alludes. It is the act of standing up from a state of being dead. In this case it is a reference of being resurrected from the second death after having been reserved unto the last day of judgment at the great white throne.

Martha could not possibly know if Lazarus was going to be one of those believers that would rule and reign with Christ during the 1000 years prior to the Great White Throne judgment, but she did know that Lazarus was saved and that meant that Lazarus would ultimately be resurrected at the last day of judgment and that it would be determined there that his name was in the Book of Life. Had our Lord Jesus not said as much? Let's take a look.

John 6:39, 40, 44, 54 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing * *, but should raise it up again at the last day. 

 

And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

There is more to be said concerning the last day if you wish to read The Second Resurrection.

Let us continue.

Praise God!!! How did Jesus gain possession of the keys of Hades and Death but that His soul went into the pit of Hades after He died and pried them from the cold dark fingers of them that had them in their possession at that time? Praise God!!!

But death and hell will find their everlasting destination to be the Lake of Fire very shortly

The dead who are delivered up for judgment here are the unsaved and their destination is the everlasting lake of fire. This is everlasting second death and there will be no escaping from there.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all * * sleep, but we shall all be changed, 

The term "sleep" is used many times in the Scriptures in reference to death. In this context it is a reference to the second death, Hence, this verse could be translated as the following.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all be held by the second death but we shall all be changed, 

Only not all at the same time. Some Christians will be changed at the out-resurrection from among the second dead see The Mystery of the Second Death  for a greater understanding of the second death and it's ramifications. And some Christians will be changed at the last trump and the last day.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 

There is more to be said concerning the last trump. Please read The Second Resurrection.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.