"Tartarus"

"Tartarus"

"Tartarus," a verb, is translated Hell only once in the New Testament. It is found in 2 Peter 2:4 :

"For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell (tartarus), and delivered them unto chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment."

Now concerning the same angels, mention is made again in Jude 1:6 :

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day (Great White Throne Judgment)." The exact location of Tartarus is not known. This place is not Sheol or Hades, or the eternal Lake of Fire; which is the same place as "Geenna" or Gehenna in the Greek. These are all separate places. In Matthew 25:41 we learn that, eventually, the lost and the wicked angels will be together in their final place of torment, which is the everlasting Lake of Fire. This place was originally created by God for the Devil and his angels, prior to God's creating man on the Earth. Since Adam plunged the whole human race under sin and its condemnation, those who do not escape by the blood of Christ will share their eternal torment with the ones it was created for.

"Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed (lost), into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."

Even though the exact location is not given, we have located it under the Earth's surface, so we may refer to it from time to time on our diagram.