HELL: Hell in the Old Testament is simply a reference to “the grave” Hebrew ‘sheol’. In the New Testament Hell in Greek is the word “hades”. Once again, popular theology would aggrandize the concept of an ‘evil one’ ruling in a place of eternal burning for the torture of the wicked! When Jesus referred to hell fire in the New Testament, he used the word ‘Gehenna’. It is a reference to the Gehenna fire which refers to the continuously burning of garbage and dead animals in the valley of Ge Hinnom south of Jerusalem. The reference by Jesus to this place gave visualization to the end result of godless living. If we compare this to 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 when Jesus shall “In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel…”, we can see how the end is to come for the godless in reality. To be clear: there is no eternally burning place of torment officiated by the devil and his demons, but is typically reference to the utter annihilation of the godless. Ecclesiastes has given us clear depiction of the state of the dead in Ecclesiastes 3:19,20 & 9:5,6. “The dead know not anything”!