Bottomless Pit (Abussos (Gk))
Used 9 times in N.T. 7-Rev, Lk 8:31, Rom 10:7
Lk 8:31 - Madman of Gadarenes
“Place where demons don’t want to go”
place where satan is chained during millennium
5th trumpet of tribulation - Rev 9:1-12 “locusts” come out of bottomless pit
Who is there II Peter 2:4, Jude 6 – demons
2nd half of Tribulation pit opened released - Genesis 6
Satan released “a little season” then cast into “lake of fire”
Lake of Fire
Rev 19:20 Beast and false prophet “cast alive into ..”
Ultimate eternal hell Rev 20:10
Who is there - no one
After tribulation - Beast, false prophet
After millennium - Rev 20:10 Satan - final hell
After Great White Throne - Rev 20:13-15 all unsaved humanity
Sheol (Heb O.T.) 66 times / Hades (Gk N.T.)
“World of the dead”
Before the resurrection two parts (righteous = Paradise Lk 23:43
Abrahams Bosom Lk 16:22-23
/unrighteous)
What is the waiting place like (Lk 16:19-24) - Lazarus
After resurrection Eph 4:8-10
Hell (same as lake of fire) Topheth (O.T.) / Gehenna (N.T.) (lit. Valley of Hinnom south of Jerusalem)
Topeth - II Kings 23:10
Gehenna only used by Jesus 12 times
Mat 5:29-30 “Body” of unsaved goes into Gehenna
Today - No one there (they are in Hades)
Hinnon - idolaters burned then children, sacrificed to Moloch(II Chron 28:3,33:6)
God cursed valley (place of burning) Jer 7:28-34