The Bible also relates this terrible place to “the lake of fire and brimstone” (Revelation 20:10). Then John wrote, “Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire” (v. 14). Hades is another Greek term that was translated “hell” in the King James Version. But it is distinct from the lake of fire, the final doom of unbelievers. Hades is the place where the unrighteous go at the moment of death. Jesus’ story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke 16 shows
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