My understanding is that hell, also called hades, is the waiting place for the dead.
There are two parts of it. Paradise also called Abraham’s Bosom, or Paradise (Lazarus and the thief on the cross).
The other part is the Ghenna part, the part with torment, (the rich man’s part).
When Jesus went into *hell* to preach to those who never heard, it doesn’t specify which part He was in. However, when He led those there out, it must have been the Paradise side, where the redeemed were, and He led them into heaven. So the Paradise side is now empty as those who die can go and pass through it to heaven.
Hell ISN’T the Lake of Fire. The Lake of Fire was prepared for the devil and his angels, and at the end of the book of Revelation, it says that death and hell were thrown into the Lake of Fire. So ultimately anyone who is currently in the torment side of hell, the unsaved, WILL end up in the Lake of Fire, but God never intended that man go there.
Exactly...Catholics get a slight 'glimpse' of this place and call it purgatory but don't know enough scripture to figure out what it really is...They don't even know the gates are wide open...Even if it was purgatory, it couldn't hold anyone in...
So ultimately anyone who is currently in the torment side of hell, the unsaved, WILL end up in the Lake of Fire, but God never intended that man go there.
They will be pulled up out of hell to stand at the White Throne Judgment (where Catholics plan on being judged) to no avail since everyone at that judgment goes into the lake of fire...