Biblical Names of Hell

INTRO

Last week—biblical names of heaven

Descriptions of hell

DISCUSSION

Hell

Hell—hades (Mt 16:18)

Hell—Tartarus (2 Pet 2:4)

Hell--Gehenna (Mk 9:43)

Everlasting punishment (Mt 25:46)

a place of retribution

Not a place of purifying or cleansing like the catholic idea of purgatory

Everlasting fire (Mt 25:41)

everlasting (aionios)—without end, unending duration

The deep (Lk 8:31; Rev 20:1-3)

the abode of the dead—another word for Hades

Lake of fire (Rev 20:10)

Fire and brimstone (sulfur) (Rev 19:20; 21:8

Death and hell (hades) cast into it (Rev 20:14-15)

Furnace of fire (Mt 13:42)

Outer darkness (Mt 25:30)

Outer—farthest, extreme

Wyandotte caves—as close to total darkness as you can get

Hell will be darker than that

Destruction (Mt 7:13)

Many are going

EXHORTATION

Hell is a prepared place for a people unprepared.

Are you ready?