TAKE NOTE: Hell is locked down, Jesus has the keys to hell to give every soul an opportunity to repent their sins by being born again and again. Those who choose Jesus before they die, receive everlasting life. But every single person who dies who did not choose Jesus will be born again and again until judgement day, by the Grace of Jesus to save everyone from hell. It is however your own choice not to choose Jesus as your savior and you may reject Him until He comes, He will never force you to love Him.
Joh_3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
HINNOM IS NOT HELL BUT IS THE LIVING HELL PARENTS PUT THEIR CHILDREN TROUGH FOR THEIR god's ON EARTH BY LETTING THEM BE BURNED ALIVE.
It was near the walls of Jerusalem, "by the entry of the gate Harsith" (Jer_19:2); the Valley Gate opened into it (Neh_2:13; Neh_3:13). The boundary between Judah and Benjamin ran along it (Jos_15:8; Jos_18:16). It was the scene of idolatrous practices in the days of Ahaz (2Ch_28:3) and of Manasseh, who "made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom" (2Ch_33:6), but Josiah in the course of his reforms "defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children (margin "son") of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech" (2Ki_23:10). It was on account of these evil practices that Jeremiah (Jer_7:32; Jer_19:6) announced the change of name. Into this valley dead bodies were probably cast to be consumed by the dogs, as is done in the Wâdy er-Rabâbi today, and fires were here kept burning to consume the rubbish of the city. Such associations led to the Ge-Hinnom (New Testament "Gehenna") becoming the "type of Hell" (Milton, Paradise Lost, i, 405). See GEHENNA.
Jer 7:31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jer 7:32 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
The hell Gehenna
gē̇-hen'a (γεέννα, geénna (see Grimm-Thayer, under the word)): Gehenna is a transliteration from the Aramaic form of the Hebrew gē-hinnōm, "valley of Hinnom." This latter form, however, is rare in the Old Testament, the prevailing name being "the valley of the son of Hinnom." Septuagint usually translates; where it transliterates the form is different from Gehenna and varies. In the New Testament the correct form is Geénna with the accent on the penult, not Géennǎ. There is no reason to assume that Hinnom is other than a plain patronymic, although it has been proposed to find in it the corruption of the name of an idol (EB, II, 2071). In the New Testament (King James Version margin) Gehenna occurs in Mat_5:22, Mat_5:29, Mat_5:30; Mat_10:28; Mat_18:9; Mat_23:15, Mat_23:33; Mar_9:43, Mar_9:15, Mar_9:47; Luk_12:5; Jam_3:6. In all of these it designates the place of eternal punishment of the wicked, generally in connection with the final judgment. It is associated with fire as the source of torment. Both body and soul are cast into it. This is not to be explained on the principle that the New Testament speaks metaphorically of the state after death in terms of the body; it presupposes the resurrection. In the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) Gehenna is rendered by "hell" (see ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT). That "the valley of Hinnom" became the technical designation for the place of final punishment was due to two causes. In the first place the valley had been the seat of the idolatrous worship of Molech, to whom children were immolated by fire (2Ch_28:3; 2Ch_33:6). Secondly, on account of these practices the place was defiled by King Josiah (2Ki_23:10), and became in consequence associated in prophecy with the judgment to be visited upon the people (Jer_7:32). The fact, also, that the city's offal was collected there may have helped to render the name synonymous with extreme defilement. Topographically the identification of the valley of Hinnom is still uncertain. It has been in turn identified with the depression on the western and southern side of Jerusalem, with the middle valley, and with the valley to the E. Compare EB, II, 2071; DCG, I, 636; RE3, VI.
The hell Topheth
tō'feth (התּפת, ha-tōpheth, etymology uncertain; the most probable is its connection with a root meaning "burning" - the "place of burning"; the King James Version, Tophet, except in 2Ki_23:10): The references are to such a place: "They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire" (Jer_7:31). On account of this abomination Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom should be called "The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place to bury," the Revised Version margin "because there shall be no place else" (Jer_7:32); see also Jer_19:6, Jer_19:12, Jer_19:13, Jer_19:14. Josiah is said to have "defiled Topheth" as part of his great religious reforms (2Ki_23:10). The site of this shameful place would seem to have been either at the lower end of the VALLEY OF HINNOM (which see), near where Akeldama is now pointed out, or in the open ground where this valley joins the Kidron.
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