There has been false teachings in the past where believers lose their salvation and so that can influence Strong's Concordance and even Biblical scholars today. There are scriptures warning believers to repent or else be cast into "hell" BUT the Greek word from which the English word "hell" is translated from is "geena' or "gehenna" which is a place on earth and thus never referring to the after life "hell" at all.
Such verses are: Matthew 5:21-23 KJV about being angry with your brother without cause and not making peace between the two.
Matthew 5:28-30 KJV about lusting after a woman with your eye and not making an effort to prevent yourself from doing that like look at something else and think about something else.
Matthew 10:27-28 KJV about the danger of not witnessing or resisting His leading to witness thus denying Him before men, destroying soul and body in this "hell" but if you consider that there are 2 different kinds of inheritance in His House, as the ones that depart from iniquity shall be vessels unto honor in His House, thus those that do not depart from iniquity by the time the Bridegroom comes, shall become "damned" as vessels unto dishonor in His House, vessels of wood and earth ( 2 Timothy 2:18-22 KJV ). Thus that first inheritance of what might have been, the soul & body as vessels of gold and silver, is destroyed in becoming that vessels of wood & earth and so in that sense, the soul's & body's first inheritance is destroyed as in reduced but the spirit is still saved.
These are all addressing believers in Jesus Christ and the consequence for not doing what He has asks us to do is "hell", but this again, is not the afterlife "hell" but the "hell' on earth when left behind at the rapture.
So when Jesus is referring to believers being in danger of "Gehenna" it is a refuse dump located outside the city of Jerusalem as symbolic of being left behind from that City of God in Heaven. On the flip side from what is being denied from saved believers, it is what they shall be receiving in this Gehenna also known as the valley of slaughter per Jeremiah 7:32 KJV & Revelation 2:18-25 KJV & Revelation 18:1-24 KJV
So when you read Strong's Concordance, you have to lean on Jesus Christ for discernment & wisdom in seeing that Gehenna which has always been a reference to a place on earth, is why Jesus is referring to that Gehenna as a hell on earth rather than the afterlife.
The Greek word "geena" defined as in Strong's Concordance : "of Hebrew origin (1516 and Hinnom 2011); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment:--hell." as found at this site: Textus Receptus Greek Text King James Bible With Strongs Dictionary
There are places where Jesus is clear as to where he is cutting believers off the vine to; note verse 6 of John 15:1-8 KJV and that is a place on earth that He is cutting the believers off to be with the unbelievers on earth for when He sends that fire on the earth per verse 49 of Luke 12:40-49 KJV
If you doubt that they are still saved, in spite of 2 Timothy 2:18-22 's exhortation to go to Jesus for help in discerning & departing from iniquity to get ready, notice the stripes that the servants that are cut off in Luke 12:46-48 are receiving per the knowledge they had for not being ready and the knowledge they did not have for not being ready as both are getting stripes. Then read verse 6 of Hebrews 12:1-11 KJV
Another example of "hell" on earth which sometimes can be overlooked per Strong's Concordance is how Sheol in Hebrew defined as "or shol {sheh-ole'}; from 'sha'al' (7592); Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates:--grave, hell, pit." as actually referring to a place on earth where the deads are.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
I suspect the judgment given in the past will be repeated towards Babylon USA in the near future at the pre great tribulation rapture event as given in this post already in Revelation 18:1-24.
I know that when it comes to the Greek word "pneuma" for spirit in English, it does not always refer to the Person of the Holy Spirit. Per Strong's Concordance "from pnew - pneo 4154; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind. Compare yuch - psuche 5590." And so discernment & wisdom from the Lord is needed to understand in the context of the message being given, what that spirit is.
So obviously, when it comes to eternal security of the believer, we need His help to discern what that "hell" is that He is sending unrepentant but saved believers to because of His word that He shall lose no one.
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. KJV
Such verses are: Matthew 5:21-23 KJV about being angry with your brother without cause and not making peace between the two.
Matthew 5:28-30 KJV about lusting after a woman with your eye and not making an effort to prevent yourself from doing that like look at something else and think about something else.
Matthew 10:27-28 KJV about the danger of not witnessing or resisting His leading to witness thus denying Him before men, destroying soul and body in this "hell" but if you consider that there are 2 different kinds of inheritance in His House, as the ones that depart from iniquity shall be vessels unto honor in His House, thus those that do not depart from iniquity by the time the Bridegroom comes, shall become "damned" as vessels unto dishonor in His House, vessels of wood and earth ( 2 Timothy 2:18-22 KJV ). Thus that first inheritance of what might have been, the soul & body as vessels of gold and silver, is destroyed in becoming that vessels of wood & earth and so in that sense, the soul's & body's first inheritance is destroyed as in reduced but the spirit is still saved.
These are all addressing believers in Jesus Christ and the consequence for not doing what He has asks us to do is "hell", but this again, is not the afterlife "hell" but the "hell' on earth when left behind at the rapture.
So when Jesus is referring to believers being in danger of "Gehenna" it is a refuse dump located outside the city of Jerusalem as symbolic of being left behind from that City of God in Heaven. On the flip side from what is being denied from saved believers, it is what they shall be receiving in this Gehenna also known as the valley of slaughter per Jeremiah 7:32 KJV & Revelation 2:18-25 KJV & Revelation 18:1-24 KJV
So when you read Strong's Concordance, you have to lean on Jesus Christ for discernment & wisdom in seeing that Gehenna which has always been a reference to a place on earth, is why Jesus is referring to that Gehenna as a hell on earth rather than the afterlife.
The Greek word "geena" defined as in Strong's Concordance : "of Hebrew origin (1516 and Hinnom 2011); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment:--hell." as found at this site: Textus Receptus Greek Text King James Bible With Strongs Dictionary
There are places where Jesus is clear as to where he is cutting believers off the vine to; note verse 6 of John 15:1-8 KJV and that is a place on earth that He is cutting the believers off to be with the unbelievers on earth for when He sends that fire on the earth per verse 49 of Luke 12:40-49 KJV
If you doubt that they are still saved, in spite of 2 Timothy 2:18-22 's exhortation to go to Jesus for help in discerning & departing from iniquity to get ready, notice the stripes that the servants that are cut off in Luke 12:46-48 are receiving per the knowledge they had for not being ready and the knowledge they did not have for not being ready as both are getting stripes. Then read verse 6 of Hebrews 12:1-11 KJV
Another example of "hell" on earth which sometimes can be overlooked per Strong's Concordance is how Sheol in Hebrew defined as "or shol {sheh-ole'}; from 'sha'al' (7592); Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates:--grave, hell, pit." as actually referring to a place on earth where the deads are.
Deuteronomy 32:21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains. 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
I suspect the judgment given in the past will be repeated towards Babylon USA in the near future at the pre great tribulation rapture event as given in this post already in Revelation 18:1-24.
I know that when it comes to the Greek word "pneuma" for spirit in English, it does not always refer to the Person of the Holy Spirit. Per Strong's Concordance "from pnew - pneo 4154; a current of air, i.e. breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit:--ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind. Compare yuch - psuche 5590." And so discernment & wisdom from the Lord is needed to understand in the context of the message being given, what that spirit is.
So obviously, when it comes to eternal security of the believer, we need His help to discern what that "hell" is that He is sending unrepentant but saved believers to because of His word that He shall lose no one.
John 6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. KJV
