Bible variants replace Gehenna, with generic - Hell Deletions, additions, replacements - alter God's WORD If Jesus said - Gehenna If Matthew, Mark and Luke compiled - Gehenna If James wrote - Gehenna Do you want to read - hell, or Gehenna? Hinnom - not much info found to date Ben = Hebrew for - son. Son of Hinnom = Ben - Hinnom gi-bn-enm = ravine of Ben-Hinnom. Read KJV - The ravine had described boundaries. Location still disputed - today. Soloman's failures - creates high places in the ravine (Ben-Hinnom, Gehenna), to worship idols with his foreign wives and concubines. Read KJV - moabites - ammonites - edomites - zidonians - hittites moabites create chemosh - from moab - son of Lot's daughter. ammonites create molech - from benammi - son of Lot's other daughter. edomites create qos - parallel god. zidonians create ashteroth - from Sidon, Lebanon. hittites create sun god storm god - from Turkey. Israel worships idols with passing children through the fire. Tophet = area in Gehenna where drums and cymbols made loud noise. Loud noise to drown out babies screaming. Half bull, half human idol, had hands in cradle position to hold burning babies. chemosh idol had beveled lap to row little babies down a fire. Worship of idols for over 400 years. Josiah tears down the high places - turns ravine into a garbage dump. Dead priests exhumed - all idols broken down. Priests and idols pulverized into powder. Dung of the city poured over everything, and lit on fire. The ravine - Gehenna - BURNS CONTINUOUSLY. Jerusalem Dung Gate - leads to Gehenna Jesus knows the entire history from inception Jesus preaches imagery of continual fire burning at Gehenna ravine. This imagery gives hearers of His WORD, visual and mental pictures. Read part of KJV - Mark compiled - into the geenan, into the fire, the unextinguished. Read part of KJV - Mark compiled - into the geenan, into the fire, the unextinguished. Read KJV - Mark compiled - into the geenan, of the fire. Jesus uses repetition to emphasise burning Repetition of imagery increases impact Humans burnt their babies to strange gods Abortion clinics burn aborted babies - today What will God do to those that are still passing babies through the fire? YHVH through history, uses the example of Gehenna as a reminder. A reminder to all who now read about it. Everlasting - Lake of Fire First death = separation from body into Unperceived Unseen, or into Heaven. SecondDeath = separation from God - into - Lake of Fire Lake of Fire - also reserved for satan and messengers who missed the mark. Death and Unseen (sheol,hades,hell) will be THROWN into - Lake of Fire What's it all about? Second Death - separation - from God