When and Where is Hell?
Hell can mean Death too. Did God create Death?
First of all, we need to establish which hell are we talking about:
* There is the non-biblical hell teaching of burning forever.
* There is the biblical hell, or temporary grave, for the sleeping dead.
The Bible's hell is mankind's stone-cold temporary grave for the sleeping dead.
Cemeteries are found all over the world, and the definition of cemetery is: sleeping place (R.I.P.)
So, biblical hell ( grave ) is found all over the Earth.
We know plants and insects do die. Can you imagine what the earth would look like if No plants or insects ever died ?
However, the difference is that God purposes that His human creation can gain ( Not death ) but everlasting life. Most people to live forever happy-and-healthy on Earth.
Jesus taught ' sleep in death ' at John 11:11-12; John 11:13-14
Jesus was well educated in the old Hebrew Scriptures which also teach sleep in death.
- such as Psalms 6:5; Psalms 13:3; Psalms 115:17; Psalms 146:4; Daniel 12:2; Daniel 12:13; Ecclesiastes 9:5
So, while in the Bible's temporary hell ( grave ) the dead sleep in death until resurrected out of biblical hell. Jesus has the keys to unlock 'hell ' - Revelation 1:18
Acts of the Apostles 24:15 uses the ' future tense' that there ' is going to be ' a resurrection.....
The ' future tense ' is used because a happy-and-healthy physical resurrection will take place during Jesus' millennium-long day of governing over Earth.
Then, even ' enemy death ' will be No more on Earth - 1 Corinthians 15:26; Isaiah 25:8