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Hell is sometimes called Hades or Sheol. Some have called it Gehenna because it's a place where the "fires never go out." Still others have simply called it the "grave" because it's the place where the "worm never dies." It is a place for the dead, the place where mankind (Adam) was entrapped after receiving his sentence of death. Adam is the firstborn son of God. Being a son of God, Adam is a god also, but presently is a dead god. Adam now dwells in the world of the dead where the inhabitants know nothing. It is the land of forgetfulness. All creatures in this place dwell in a world of illusion and delusion because a spirit, sometimes referred to as The Great Deceiver, or the Old Serpent, rules it.

Hell is described as a temporal world since nothing in it remains the same without falling apart or corrupted (except the Word of God made flesh). For this reason, the worm or maggot is used in a description of Hell [Mark 9:48] and signifies decay. Every inhabitant in the world of the dead feeds on death. Nothing can exist in the underworld without the destruction of something else that grows or moves whether it be a cow, a lamb, a head of cabbage, or a blade of grass. Even the blade of grass feeds on the destruction of others, for it cannot grow without decaying organic matter in the soil.

Hell is a place where the constant screams and anguish of its inhabitants, people and animals alike, waft up to the ears of God and will continue to do so until Hell itself, is utterly destroyed. Hell is a place of great horror and excruciating pain where no safe place can be found. A man can be sleeping in his bed at home, feeling safe and secure behind locked doors, when a plane, without warning, falls from the sky upon his roof, bursting into a huge fireball. It just as easily could have been an asteroid. Hell is a strange world indeed. All the inhabitants walk in darkness - in Great Darkness! They're like the blind cave fish that have evolved through countless numbers of years in total darkness. Because there is no light, there is no need for their eyes - and their eyes consume away in their sockets and atrophy from lack of use. Their eyes have been covered by a thick skin; a skin that they, themselves cannot cut away.

Jesus spoke to the people of the underworld saying, "Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world" [John 8:23] and also, "My kingdom does not belong to this world" [John 18:36].

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