Bible Study Discussion Thread: biblical text connections and differences between Sheol, Hades, Tartarus, the Abyss, Bottomless Pit, Gehenna, and the Lake of Fire. Even though some bibles have come to lump them all together as "hell" in English translations, they are not the same.

Sheol is the Hebrew word for the Place of the Dead, the place were spirits go when the human flesh earthly body has expired. The word is also used as a term for the Grave as we see Jacob use it when he thought Joseph was dead, Genesis 37:35 is the first use of the word Sheol

Sheol is used 65 times in the Hebrew Scriptures prior to the New Testament texts, translated in some bibles as hell, grave, and pit rather than Sheol. Sheol was not known to be a realm of constant burning hell-like fire, research Abaham's Bosom.

The Greek New Testament equivalent for the Hebrew word Sheol is Hades. The Hades description is Sheol, a place where human spirits go when the flesh human earthly body dies. It is used 11 times, and again is translated as hell in some English bibles, but it is the underworld.

Side note, the English word hell actually comes from the Nordic word for Sheol and Hades, it is called Hel, the place were spirits go. Just as Hades was said to be run by Hades, Hel was run by Hel, seemingly as Beelzebub apparently ran Sheol by Hebrew understanding.

Sheol is said to have a deep bottomless pit or cavern where fallen Angels were chained, Hades has the same which is called Tartarus where defeated Titans were chained. Peter discusses this in 2 Peter 2:4. Also translated sometimes as hell, it is not a fiery pit but a dark cavern

The deep cavern in Sheol and the Tartarus section of Hades are both described as a bottomless pit or an Abyss, in the Greek text of the Holy Scriptures it is known as the Abussos. It appears in Revelation 9:11

The word Gehenna is the word the Messiah used 12 times to refer to where the wicked will be sent to at the end of time, after the Day of the Lord at the end of this Age. This is a place of destructive fire, what people could call hell-like.

Similar phrase for Gehenna is Lake of Fire. Again, this place could be described as hell-like, but also it is the place reserved for the wicked at the End of Time according to Revelation 19:20, 20:10, 20:15, and 21:8. It is not populated before then according to Holy Scripture

Think about all this as someone during the time the Gospels and Epistles were written, the way the Early Church was taught what this means. "Hell" as it has been come to be called appears to be Gehhenna, the Lake of Fire, used at, and only at, the End of Time, not before then.

Something to further think about, punishment for the Adversary, Satan the Ancient Serpent, is to be tossed into Gehenna by Messiah and the Almighty Father. "Hell" is not run by Satan, nor is he in it. Holy Scriptures state he is the ruler of this fallen world, earth, temporarily

Side note 1.1, deep inside Mount Herman is where people before, during, and after the time of the Ministry of the Messiah had said the fallen angels/titans were chained, it was a way to access Tartarus/The Abyss that was referred to in Scriptures and gentile records

Side note 1.2, Tartarus was in Hades, so if a way to enter Tartarus was in Mount Herman, logic would have it that access to the realm of Hades, the underworld, would be at or near that mountain as well

Side note 1.3, the goat faced pagan deity Pan actually had a major temple complex built in the town of Caesarea Philippi, with part of the temple that accessed a cave being called the Gate to the Underworld, Hades. The town was located at the foot of Mount Herman

Side note 1.4, town of Caesarea Philippi, at the foot of Mount Herman, is where the Messiah proclaimed His Ministry officially to the Apostles in Matthew 16, and note the Messiah refers to the Gates of Hades in 16:18. He went to that location and said that there for a purpose

Side note 2.1, review the depictions of pagan deity Pan on the Greek vase and sculpture, note the horns, goatee, and hoofs. Compare it to depictions of Satan in Medieval art and 1800s AD comics.

Side note 3.1, part of the depiction of the pagan deity Pan is that he has a goatee, and most of the time Satan is displayed the same way. The goatee is actually originally called a goaty, the etymology of it linked to someone looking like a goat or the goat deity Pan

Side note 4.1, Basically what appears to have happened, starting during the Medieval period and solidifying in popular culture of the mid 1800s AD through the early 1900s AD is Satan was depicted with the characteristics of the pagan deity Pan. Including horns, hoof, goatee.

Side note 4.2, Satan also was depicted in the Medieval period as having the role of being the lord of “Hell” where he tormented souls, replacing the role of Hades as the lord of Hades. Gehenna was mixed in, and the underworld of Hades became the fiery lakes of “hell”.

Satan has people thinking he rules “hell” when in fact he will be tossed into the Lake of Fire as punishment at the end of this Age, and tricks people to think he looks like Pan when he was physically created beautiful and spiritually tricks people into thinking he is of Light

Thread Addition: it has been discussed that the deep carven of Sheol is Tartarus of Hades, also called bottomless pit and the Abyss, in Greek Abyssos, and this is where fallen angels have been locked in chains. Note Revelation 20, makes sense that Satan becomes locked there also

What I also find interesting about the Abyss where the fallen angels are said to be locked away for a time, it is the place the evil spirit demons of Legion begged the Messiah not to be sent to as stated in Luke 8:30-31

While in research on this topic I found this verse,
Revelation 6:8 speaks of the horse rider named Death, and that Hades, not the hell-like place of Gehenna, followed that rider. The texts says that those who die by this rider are not sent to “hell”, but to the underworld

Side note, the biblical Greek word for Death, such as in the Angel of Death or the Revelation horseman named Death, is Thanatos. So if you saw Avengers Infinity War, think about that in relation to Thanos and the role he plays

Also during research of the Holy Scriptures I saw this verse, Revelation 1:18 where Messiah says he has the keys to control Death, and keys to Hades which is Sheol. This is told to John after the Messiah Resurrected and his Ascension to Heaven. Somethings to ponder and research