The Bible says more about Hell than about heaven. The Bible speaks to the fact that Hell is a real place.

“Hell” is not just one place

The Hell that people are in now is a place called Hades. It is a place that is in the earth where the people who die and have not accepted Jesus as their Savior go temporarily. Sheole was the place where everyone went before Jesus the Messiah. Luke 16:19-31 speaks of the two places in Sheole where all people went. It was seperated by an impassable barrier seperating the place of torment “Hades” and the place of “Paradise” called Abrahams Bosom. When Jesus was raised from the dead “He took captivity captive” after “He also first decended into the lower parts of the earth” (Ephesians 4:8-9). The captives that were taken by Jesus were the people in Abrahams Bosom. He took them to heaven, to be with Him there.

The Lake of Fire

The people in Hades must stay there until after the tribulation and the millenial reign of Jesus ends. That is when the Great White Throne judgement takes place. At that time they will be judged and cast into the lake of fire with the devil and all his angels.

Resurrection of the Physical Body

The resurrection of the physical body will be different for believers and nonbelievers. There is a Rapture that takes all true believers from the earth to be with Jesus in Heaven and it happens before the Tribulation. Believers who die during the Tribulation, will be bodily resurrected after the tribulation at the return of Christ to the earth. Believers will be reigning and ruling with Christ during the millenium.

Hell and Heaven are FOREVER

The Bible makes it clear that what we choose when we are alive will decide where we will spend eternity (FOREVER!). In eternity you will be in your new regenerated body. In Heaven you will not feel any pain. In Hell you will feel mostly pain from torture, and whatever else you feel, will not be any better: thirst, longing, shame, loneliness, despair, hopelessness, powerlessness, abandonment, disrespected, discarded, shunned… The choices we make while we are alive on this earth will detemine where we will go when we die. When Jesus returns, believers who have died, will return with Him. We will live with Him in our supernatural bodies. Those believers who are still alive when He returns will live on in their natural bodies. These people will be regenerated when the millenium ends and everyone is raised from the dead, some to everlasting life, some to everlasting death.