Thanatos: The God of Death

I made this podcast to answer all those questions your Sunday School teacher hoped you’d never ask.

But today, I remember being a Sunday School teacher myself, and I remember teaching Revelation chapter 20, and here’s the question I was afraid of being asked.

Revelation 20:14 says

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

Now, here’s what I didn’t want to have to explain: how do you throw death?

If Hades refers to hell, then I can understand Hades being thrown in there, for reasons I’ll get to later.

But how can “Death” be dumped in there, too? What does that even mean?

And as I said, I puzzled over this verse for years.

But in studying the Abyss, as we’ve done the past two weeks, I think I have found an answer to this question.

I find the throwing of death to be weird, and I’d like to explore why it’s in the Bible.

Turn to Revelation 20, and let’s get weird.

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