So before Jesus came along, did all people go to "hell" ?

Answer 1

.False religionists have hatched the "no-hell" plot to gain adherence to their movements. Because multitudes--even 70 percent of the preachers-no longer believe or like to even consider that such a place exists, a new group can grow quickly if they, discount the claims of the Holy Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ by preaching pleasing platitudes which cater to rebellious minds. But Romans 3:4 says, Let God be true, but every man a liar. I don't care if every human being or preacher says, "I do not believe it." When I can find it 162 times in my New Testament, I will believe it! It is the Word-we must believe it!

A popular trend today is to take the Hebrew words sheol and the Greek words hades and gehenna and state that they all mean the grave, though they are translated "hell" in the Word of God in the majority of instances. Let's take the Old Testament Hebrew word sheol. Why would God have to use this word to picture a grave when the Hebrew word queber logically depicts and portrays it? Consider the following five points in the Old Testament:

1. The body never goes to sheol but goes to queber 37 times. Why? Because queber is the grave for bodies and sheol is the place for departed spirits.
2. Sheol is never on the face of the earth but queber is located there 32 times. Why? Because graves are on the earth. Sheol, the place for departed spirits, is in some other realm of God's creation.
3. Man never puts another man into sheol but he does put a man into a queber 33 times. Why? Because man has the power to put other men into graves but does not have the power to put souls into sheol.
4. Man never digs or makes a sheol but he makes and digs a queber six times. Why? Because man has the power to make a grave but he does not have the power to make a sheol for departed spirits.
5. Man never speaks of a man as touching sheol, but he touches a queber five times. Why? Because, again, it is a grave on the earth and he has the power to touch it. But he has no power to do anything about sheol, the place for departed spirits.
To look at all the Old Testament instances involving sheol would take months of study. Besides, Christ has brought to light, life, and immortality-that which has to do with a never-dying soul-through the gospel or the New Testament (see 2 Timothy 1:10). Therefore, let's study hades and gehenna and see if they mean the grave or the place of eternal suffering.

You may ask, "Why did the Lord Jesus use two words-hades and gehenna? Are there two places?" Yes. Do you wish to know why?

Let me illustrate it this way: All of us know the difference between a local jail and a penitentiary. If a man is taken in a crime, he is not put into the penitentiary until he has had a trial. When he has had his trial and is found guilty, he is transferred to the penitentiary. Get this next statement, for it is so important to a direct understanding of the Bible subject of hell. When Jesus uses the word hades, He is referring to the local jail, the place where the sinner is held until the judgment morning. Then, at Judgment Day, all sinners come out of the local jail (hades), appear before the Judge, are found guilty, and then transferred to gehenna, the final penitentiary for souls.

Let me also add that the term gehenna is synonymous with the Lake of Fire. Revelation 20:13, 14: The sea gave up the dead which were in it: and death and [hades-that is the Greek word for hell] delivered up the dead ...And death and hell [hades] were cast into the lake of fire [gehenna]. This is the second death. l repeat that hades is the local jail and, gehenna, the final penitentiary. Any sinner who dies, even at this hour, does not go to gehenna, but to hades, where the rich man is located (see Luke 16:23). At Judgment Day, he comes out of hades, meets Christ at the trial, and then is transferred to the final penitentiary of lost souls--gehenna.

Let's consider eleven instances Christ uses in the New Testament to depict and describe hades--the temporary local jail.

Matthew 11:23: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell. That is the Greek word hades, where the rich man of Luke 16:23 is located.

Matthew 16:18: Thou art Peter, and upon this rock l will build my church; and the gates of hell [hades] shall not prevail against it.

Luke 10:15: And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell [hades].

Luke 16:22, 23: The rich man also died, and was buried: And in hell [hades] he lifted his eyes, being in torments.

Acts 2:27: Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [hades].

Acts 2:31: His soul was not left in hell [hades].

1 Corinthians 15:55: O death [hades], where is thy victory. Revelation 1:18: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell [hades] and of death.

Revelation 6:8: Death and Hell [hades] followed with him.

Revelation 20:13, 14, Death and hell [hades] delivered up the dead which were in them ...And death and hell [hades] were cast into the lake of fire.

Plain isn't it? After sinners were judged, death and hades were cast into the final penitentiary-gehenna--synonymous with the Lake of Fire.

Gehenna differs from hades in that gehenna is a place where there are degrees of suffering. After one is judged, after he has been examined as to how much light he experienced, how often he heard the gospel, and rejected it, he is assigned to degrees of punishment in the final penitentiary. Romans 2:5 proves this statement, After thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up [stores up, saves up] unto thyself wrath... [administered in gehenna, the penitentiary].

Gehenna is used by Christ 12 times:

Matthew 5:22: Whosoever shall say Thou, fool, shall be in danger of hell [gehenna] fire. Let us put the cultists substitute there--grave--for they say hell is the grave. Jesus would then be saying, "Sinners shall be in danger of grave fire." That must be strange fire in the grave-I have never heard of it, have you! So Jesus must not be talking about a grave.

Matthew 5:29, 30: And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell [gehenna]. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it, from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell [gehenna].

Matthew 10:28: And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather, fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell [gehenna].

Matthew 18:9: And if thine eye offend then, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better, for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire [gehenna].

Matthew 23:15: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte [convert], and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell [gehenna] than yourselves.

Matthew 23:33: Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell [gehenna]?

In Mark 9:43-47, Jesus says, if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell [gehenna], into the fire that never shall be quenched:

Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thy, foot offend thee, cut it of: it is better for thee to enter half into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell [gehenna], into the fire, that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eves to be cast into hell [gehenna] fire.

Every time Jesus mentions this place, gehenna, He always says it is the place where the worm dieth not and the fire is never quenched (see Mark 9:44, 40, 48). Do not let some cultist tell you this is the grave when the Word of God makes it explicitly clear that this is a place where there is agony, suffering, burning, where the memory dies not, and where the fires never cease.

Luke 12:5: I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell [gehenna]; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Then in James 3:6, He says, The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell [gehenna].

Thus we discover there are eleven passages concerning hades, and twelve passages concerning gehenna. Hades is the local jail where the sinner awaits the judgment morning. At that time he comes out, is judged, and then is transferred to gehenna. Do not let any false religionist, any cultist, tell you that is merely a grave. Hear me, my friend. When Jesus stood on this earth, He pointed to the Valley of Hinnom. In the Old Testament it was a place of sacrifice to pagan gods. In the New Testament it became the garbage dump. The fire burned 24 hours a day to get rid of all the refuse, and Jesus said that hell was going to be like the fires at the Valley of Hinnom.

Answer 2

The old testiment people looked forward to the cross as we look back at the cross for folrgivness. The sacrifices were a picture that Christ was going to make the ultimate sacrifice as it says in Gen 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering, God provided a sacrifice for their offering but abraham also knew that in the future God would provide another sacrifice, His Son. The whole abraham and near sacrifice of Issac was a picture again of Christs sacrifice and abraham called that place Jehovahjireh and the Mountain, the Mount. of the Lord cause almost 2000 years later Christ would die on the same mountain. When the Israelites were on their way to the promised land, they would camp in a cross, like jesus died on, formation. It was prophesied in Isaiah and zechariah that Christ would die for sins. The old testiment ways was how the Lord wanted them to get to heaven but now and only by the completed work of Christ is how we get to heaven. To say all that is to answer your question. Nobody goes to Hell or the Lake of Fire, until after the Great White Throne Judgment. The place the lost go to to wait for their judgment to hell is called hades. Remember the rich man and lazerous, Luke 16:19-31, when the rich man died the bible says, " And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his boosom." now this isnt a parable cause Christ never used names in parables and if it was a parable Christ said it was but here He didnt. You might be thinkink, how do you know the rich man didnt go to hell? Look at Revelation 20:11-15, once again Hell was throne in the lake of fire, hell is mistranslated in the KJV, its hades in the origial Greek. Hope it was helpful for you and God Bless

Answer 3

...Jesus said...John 5:25 'Most truly I say to you, The hour is coming, and it is now, when the DEAD will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who have given heed WILL LIVE..28) So do not marvel at this, because the hour is COMING in which all those in the memorial TOMBS WILL hear his voice and COME OUT...to a resurrection of..

Acts 2:34 David did NOT ascend to the heavens..

Hebrews 11:13 In faith all these died, although they did not get the fulfillment of the promise..35b) in order that they might attain a better resurrection..40) as God foresaw something better for us, in order that they might not be made perfect apart from us.

Mankind went to the memorial tombs, grave, pit, bible hell, sleeping in death, rest, Sheol, hades, until their resurrection.

John 3:13 Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the SON OF MAN.

Daniel 12:13 And as for you yourself, go toward the end, and you will REST, but you will stand up for your lot at the end of the days.

First Resurrection; Rev.20:6. Next resurrection; Rev.20 12,13.

YES.....all people fell asleep in death...

Answer 4

Before and after Jesus people don't go to hell because its a metaphore for how to live your life. Live a life of crime, lust, greed, and your life will be hellish...Live a life that obeys the law, loves deeply, has compassion and empathy for the needy than enjoy heaven on earth. These places are metaphores for the HERE AND NOW and not some crap about being saved or sent...Live a HEAVENLY LIFE! PEACE!

Answer 5

Before Yeshua came along there was Hades. Hades was not made for humanity but for fallen angels those that warred against the Almighty. Those who believed in Yaweh God went to paradise, which scholars believe was in the core of the earth and a gulf divided Hades (hell from were paradise). When Yeshua went to hell he went to take the keys from the enemy of our souls and with Him he took those that were in paradise to Heaven. Read the old testament it is facinating.

Answer 6

No. They could not go to heaven because the propiation of Christ had not yet been accomplished. Instead the bible speaks of a region divided by a great gulf, in Luke chapter 16:19-31, called Abraham's bosom. One side provided rest and the other torment. Check it out.

Answer 7

those that noted the regulation,(before Christ) did not bypass to hell. in accordance to annum they presented there sacrifice to the severe priest to be killed on the modify interior the Holy of Holys. It had to be an animal without spot or blimish and your sins were placed off for one extra year. for the reason that Christ changed into the spotless lamb there is no favor for the old regulation and once you settle for him as your personel savior then you honestly are kept. Now, changed into there those who went to hell--certain--there have been those who had pagan gods and idiols a lifeless ringer for there are people now that worship fake gods and idols. So i wager in case you do not think--you may favor to make some style of a decision. may you rather believe and spend eternity with God or may you rather no longer believe and spend eternity in Hell? If for some reason you do not think now--do you go with to take the opportunity of dieing and going to hell or dieing and understanding that you destiny is guard? even if it is the later---then only get down on your knees and Ask Jesus to maintain away from-

Answer 8

The people of the Old Testament, who worshipped the true God, went to "Abraham's bosom" upon death. When Jesus died on the cross, the bible goes on to say He "led the captives free". Meaning, heaven was opened and the Old Testament faithful, who died before seeing the promised Messiah, are now in heaven.

Since the death of Jesus on the cross, the only way to heaven is faith in Him.

Answer 9

no. The old testament is full of many rules. During that tie, since Jesus wasnt around, they had to make sacrifices with lambs every week. That was their jesus. until he came...

Answer 10

No the Jews were on the right track but many became side tracked by the pharasis man mde rules they kept adding more and more laws to the original comandments

Answer 11

Before Jesus was the old law. He removed the necesity for sacrfice in order to gain forgiveness.