The aim of this life is life itself that is meant for a different plane; the quality of this cocoon life can either transport us into a land of darkness and silence or a land where we sing Glory to God, together with the angels of light (Mt.13: 43). There is an unimaginably immense amount of sorrows and pains in hell.

The aim of this life is life itself that is meant for a different plane; the quality of this cocoon life can either transport us into a land of darkness and silence or a land where we sing Glory to God, together with the angels of light (Mt.13: 43). It is a hell of a problem to prove that there is really a place called hell, unless we recognize that the unrepentant gloom that we experience here on earth is the onset of hellish life that we are going to suffer in the next life (Mt.10: 28). Our church Fathers have taught us to ruminate over four things at every moment of our life: death, Heaven, hell and the Last Judgement, not the celebrations like birthday, wedding anniversary, silver and golden jubilees of the same and revel thereafter the hilarious and enormous feasts and festivities after the completion of every decade after the age of fifty. Jesus says that hell is a real place, “ where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched. For everyone will be salted with fire” (Mk.9: 48-49). Jesus says again, “cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth” (Mt.25: 30). Who knows whether this outer darkness bring home the lake of fire that reflects the universal darkness when the earth and the solar system converges as a single ocean of furnace.

At the end of the day when our life here on earth comes to nought, “ And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image. These 2 were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur (Rev.19: 20). The Beast is the Antichrist, and the false prophet, the third entity in the trinity of the Devil (Rev.16: 13) that run by the spirit of this world, is the latter-day church blessed by the Beast as the spoke person for him. St.Peter and Paul also warns, “....heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fire, and the earth and the works that are upon it will be burned up...” (2.Pet.3: 11-16). Just before the birth of ‘a new heaven and earth’ (Rev.21: 1), “Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire”(Rev.20: 14-15).

LOCATION OF HELL:
The religious and Biblical teachings have been that hell is inside the earth, and this is being refuted vehemently by modern theologians and humanists, what to say about even the zealous worshippers of the puritan church. Everybody should agree that the boundary of Heaven or hell is our own mind, but the truth is that the inferno is within the womb of the earth till the earth and this solar system disappear altogether. Their premise is that there can’t have the direction of up or down for the rotating planet in a revolving ocean of everlasting mysteries of apparent contradictions and divergences. The interior parts of our own body is seemingly a synonym of fiery furnace (hell), the inexplicable chemical actions of the same run our physical body, even the attraction or repulsion of individuals depends on such chemical interactions, despite it is being harnessed by the nature of the spirit that dwells in us. “The flaming dart of the evil one” (Eph.6: 16) has a magnetic attraction to our body and its chemicals, as “ my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth” (Ps.139; 15).

The sulphurous element that helps burning is one of the major contents of that land of eternal darkness (Rev.19: 20; 20: 10). There was the element of sulphur in the fire that devastated Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen.19: 24). “ For I am in anguish in this flame of fire” of Hades (Lk.16: 24). Many are the references of this fire and of hell in our literature (Ps.55: 15; Lk.10: 15; 12: 5; Mt.16: 18). We may argue that there will be light if there is fire. In moisture conditions, there is no luminous light but only smoke in that sunless abyss. “...he opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace...’ (Rev.9: 1-6). There are so many references of the scary hell from the beginning of the Patriarchs’ time (Gen.37: 35; 1Sam; 2: 6; Deut.32: 20; Ps.86: 13; Ps.139: 15). Since some of these references reveal that there are different parts of hell, such as outer darkness, lowest part of hell, bottomless Pit, and so on. Like there are different planes of Heaven, there are different areas in that dark world. However, the Lord says that He has the keys of Death and Hades (Rev.1: 18; 20:3).

HELL, INSIDE THE EARTH:
The Hebrew scriptures unfolds the various parts of hell as Sheol, Gahanna, Hades, bottomless Pit... sheol(Hebrew) and Hades used in the new Testament period means the the place of the dead, whereas Gehenna means the place of retribution for evil deeds. “....the ground under them split open; and earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with all the men that belonged to Korah and all their goods...went down alive into Sheol; and the earth closed over them...” (Num.16: 31-35). In line with Indian narratives, there are 7 planes of Heaven, so also are 7 zones of hell. “...so will the Son of Man will be 3 days and nights in the heart of the earth” (Mt.12: 40). Lucifer and his myriads are also chained in the depths of darkness (Jude.6; 2.Pet.2: 4). There were hordes and multitudes at the time Jesus visited them under the earth for the proclamation of the Good news to the chained ones, notably Lucifer and his hosts “ Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come...it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the earth...’you too have become as weak as we! You have become like us’...Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering...(Is.14: 9-20). “For this is why the gospel was preached even to the dead” (1.Pet.4: 6) by Jesus after His death. The legions of devil also admit that their home is the infernal abyss (Lk.8: 31).

King David consoles, all those who seek his life” shall go down into the depths of the earth” (Ps.63: 9). “.. and darkness was upon the face of the earth” (Gen.1; 2; Ps.18: 9). It is also a fact that all those good people who died before the crucifixion death of Christ were kept under the earth, as Paradise was inaccessible and unconquerable on account of evil angels’ imperial rule of the cosmos and aerial realms, stretching between the earth and Paradise. The wizard said to Saul about the deceased Samuel, “ I see a god coming out of the earth “(1.Sam.28: 12-14). St. Paul also justifies this truth. “In saying, ‘He ascended’, what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things (Eph.4: 8-10). It proves beyond doubt that there were fissures or gulfs to separate between the different planes in hell till before the resurrection and seating of Jesus at the right side of the Father, as it goes in tune with the conversation between Abraham and Lazarus. “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt, and send them down, her and the daughters of majestic nations, to the nether world, to those who have gone down to the Pit....”(Eze.32: 17-32). “....for they are all given over to death, to the nether world among mortal men, with those who down to the Pit”.... You shall be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether world; you shall lie among the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword”(Eze.31: 14- 18). As the trees of Eden can only go into the earth, not to any other planet, the hell is proved to be located inside this planet.“ Capernaum, you shall be brought down to Hades” Mt. 11: 23). It is likely that all the righteous souls have been planted in Paradise after inducting the robber who had been plucked from the cross by redemption.

Let us look at other writings. “The earth is hollow. The north and south poles are like marshy places that are the gates of hell. There are different continents, mountains and rivers inside hell, also there are beasts and trees that bearing fruits of many kinds. Just as there are different races on earth, there are different kinds of people there, it seems” (Phenomena, by J.Mitchell, pp.72-73). It continues, “ ...In Hades, there are souls of the dead people and people of natural origin also; they continue to have relationship with this world. The struggle between these races forced the peripheral occupants, known as Milesians, drove others to the Hades” (this translation may not be accurately correct since I lost the original English book). “The explorers who traveled into hell certify that the centre of the hollow is not only inexplorable but also is that they are preparing for a warfare with the outside world”(William Reed). It may be assumed that the nations that have the proximity to the gates of hell be made a prey of the dark world first, before they ravage the whole world with their pernicious and atrocious reign.

Everything that started with renaissance that culminated in the Industrial Revolution (high-tech life) is likely to consume the religious and moral life at the time the underlings ravage the earth later, as foretold by prophet Daniel and other visionaries. This period is known as the ferocious iron reign of Antichrist. The coal that supplies electricity, the mother of all other inventions, resembles the colour of the abysmal darkness, which engulfs the whole global technological village with the diabolic gloom in this planet by the use of electricity. The natural fire and warmth of this globe is replaced by the fire of natural gas and the fire of the nether world gloom, the predator of the celestial light that once kindled this planet with luminous light till lately from the beginning of time during the long period of the age of cart which run with different animals. Assumingly, the last age is called the Iron Age (Dan.2: 40) because the element of iron is rich in the belly of the nether world and is on blaze by mixing with other substances. The importation of this coal and iron culture at the culmination of time has hardened everything in this world like iron products, including the conversion of our heart. Plastic is a byproduct of the underworld oil ( so-called tears of the lamenting souls, if said in a light hearted manner), and that again can be made as very hard.

The evil trinity’s first person, the Beast, and the false prophet, the third person, will be dumped into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur (Rev.19: 20) after seven years’ of iron rule. The dragon, the author of Death and the second person of the evil trinity will be hurled into the lake of fire after a 1000 years (Rev.20: 1-3, 14-15), while the first heaven and earth have passed away (Rev.21: 1-4; 2 Pet. 3: 13). This makes one point clear that the limitless lake of fire is inclusive of this planet as well as similar other planets of this solar system.

NATURE OF LIFE IN HELL:
The nature of life beyond the surface of this planet is out of our control and imagination (1.Cor.13: 12), despite the ferocity of its sufferings is exposed to certain individuals who were transported there. There is an unimaginably immense amount of sorrows and pains in hell (2.Sam.22: 6; Ps.116: 3; pro.27: 20; Lk.10: 28; Mt.23; 33). The eye witness accounts of some people’s temporary transportation to hell is given as follows.

In hell, he found himself in dense darkness; “frequent masses of dusky flame suddenly appeared before us, rising as though from a great pit and falling back into it again...As the tongues of flame rose, they were filled with the souls of men which, like sparks flying up with the smoke, were sometimes flung high in the air, and at others dropped backs into the depths as the vapors of the fire died down, furthermore in indescribable stench welled up with these vapors, and filled the whole of this gloomy place...I suddenly heard behind me the sound of a most hideous and desperate lamentation, accompanied by harsh laughter...I saw a throng of wicked spirits dragging with five human souls howling and lamenting into the depths of the darkness while the devils laughed and exulted...Meanwhile, some of the dark spirits emerged from the fiery depths and rushed to surround me, harassing me with their glowing eyes and foul flames issuing from their mouths and nostrils....”

“ The evil spirits took me and began to beat me. They led me down into the earth, which had parted to receive us. I was conducted through narrow entrances and confining, evil smelling cracks. When I reached the very depths of hell, I saw there souls of sinners, confined in eternal darkness. Existence there cannot be called life, for it consists of nothing but suffering, tears that find no comfort, and a gnashing of teeth that can find no description. That place is forever full of the desperate cry: ‘woe, woe! Alas, Alas! It is impossible to describe all the suffering which hell contains, all its torments and pains. The departed groan from the depths of their heart, but no one pities them; they weep, but no one comforts them; they beg, but no one listens to them and delivers them. I too was confined in those dark regions, full of terrible sorrows, and wept and bitterly sobbed for six hours” (The soul After Death, pp.146-148, by Fr.seraphim Rose; Translated into Malayalam under the title: Marana sheksham, pp.128-129 by the author of this article).

Go to hell rather than going Heaven with black despair and bitter melancholy.