about hell, meaning a place where people are kept alive to be tormented forever, the answer will be “nothing.” That picture is not in the Old Testament. If we look in the Greek Old Testament for gehenna, the word translated “hell” in the New Testament, again we will find nothing. But if we go to the Old Testament asking what it says about the end of the wicked, we will meet our first great surprise. And we will learn very much indeed, from all parts of the Old Testament, through at least three methods