Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, answers a Facebook question from Nancy who wants to know how do you explain hell and what is the difference between Hades and Hell? Christians have not always recognized the distinction between Hades which is transitional and Hell which is eternal.
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God bless you and thank you Hank for your explanation of Hades and Hell.🙏🙏❤️
Hell for the most part means Gehanna and is a garbage dump, valley, just outside of the walls of Jersalem. This garbage dump is always burning to keep it from heeping up and expanding and the smoke is always rising from it. In this place, people that did not follow the Jewish customs, their corpses was also thrown into this valley. Due to the refuse and dead bodies, maggots and worms would feed on the garbage and bodies that were not smouldering. In Jewish customs if a persons body was burned upon death, that was a clear sign they were not going to Heaven. Every beliving Jew had their death well planned out and how their body was to be preserved for the rejoing of their spirit to their body in the future. If your body went to Gehanna, that was the end. Your body AND soul was completely annihilated. What does it say in the bible? Fear Him that ANNIHILATES BOTH SOUL AND BODY in Gehenna. It also says that when an unbeliever dies, their body goes back to the earth from where is came from and the life spirit returns back to GOD who gave it. In the Garden of Eden, there was one Tree that Adam and Eve had NOT partaken of, and that was the Tree of Eternal Life. GOD so Loved Adam and Eve and mankind that He removed them from the Garden so they could not eat of That Tree. For if they did, they would have Eternal life with their sins.
This answer just confuses me more. The description Hank gives of Hades sounds like what the Catholics call Purgatory. An intermediate place we all go when we die, where our sinful nature is burned away in cleansing fire, before the final judgement to heaven or hell. But I thought it was an apocryphal idea only Catholics believe in?
Awesome explanation!
The demons are chained in the Tartare = hell. Hell is a late word used as a box for many words.
Your first mistake is that you said it's a Parable.!!
It's NOT a Parable, IT WAS AN ACTUAL EVENT CHRIST TOLD HIS HEARERS.!! Hope you correct your teachings.!!
Also, the lake of fire, mentioned only in Revelation 19:20 and 20:10, 14-15, is the final hell, the place of eternal punishment for all unrepentant rebels, both angelic and human (Matthew 25:41). so, those who have rejected Christ and are in the temporary abode of the dead in hades/sheol awaiting the final judgement and have the lake of fire/hell as their final destination.
Hard to believe one, single, human would choose hades and hell and continue choosing them when they experience it. Torment with no end; what's the point? Will there be any productivity going on or something to occupy people in this place, or just neverending pointlessness? Stunning thought.
please can someone explain to me if you commit fornication will it be hell or purgatory?
I think It's of great significance to understand that in a parable there are certain aspects that carry the moral or point. Other details are there only to make the story graphic, worth remembering, and whole in the mind's eye of the listener. It is important to interpret the parables in the light of other scriptures, and try to understand the basic principles they mean to teach.
I would agree, amongst other things, the parable of the rich man and Lazarus does indeed teach us about some form of punishment through a role reversal after death in the next life, but I don’t think in this parable, “being in Hades” is meant to be teaching that there is some form of transitional punishment between death and the resurrection. My reasoning is as follows : –
Rev 20:13 : – in this verse, we see that [both] Hades and the sea give up the dead in them. If Hades is a place of temporal torment for those in a disembodied state, then the parallel must be, the sea is a place of temporal torment for those in a disembodied state. Personally, I don’t think this is the imagery Rev 20:13 is presenting, therefore I reason that Hades and the sea are references to earthly and watery graves, and not places of intermediate punishment.
What if Cerberus is our mouth!? =)
1- Hades reigns on the depths of the realm of our body "our belly", Hades can symbolize our appetite, our eating instinct.
2- The entrance to Hades' realm is guarded by Cerberus, a three-headed monster with a snake tail that only lets the dead in and never lets anyone back out.
3- The entrance to our belly starts with the mouth ! =) Cerberus is our mouth with three heads (lips, teeth and tongue) it devours the dead (dead food in the sense that it is inanimate and doesn't move), the snake tail represents our throat that swallows food. The swallowed food no longer comes out of our insides, just as the dead no longer come out of hell.
4- Cerberus is also found in Dante's Divine Comedy, where he is the guardian of the third circle of hell. and guess what! =) It's the circle of the sin of gluttony! =) So, in Dante too, Cerberus is associated with the food! =)
5- Cerberus also appears in one of the 12 labours of Hercules. Hercules, who symbolizes the will, have to curb the animal desire to eat all and a lot =)
Hades is a greek god?
That wasn’t a parable. It’s an actual story with real people
i understand that Hell, as a place, is eternal, but that doesn't mean all it's occupants have to be eternal. how can there be a second death and at the same time be tormented eternally in hell? Bible also says to fear Him who can kill the body and the soul; well, if the soul is never killed then it seems to be an empty warning/threat.
Thank you. I use to think once your dead and buried you no longer exist until judgment day.