Did Jonah burn in hell?

Answer: Yes, he did actually go to hell.

In Jonah 2:1, Jonah said, “out of the belly of Hell cried.”

Some people might think that this is referring metaphorically to the belly of the whale.

However, Jonah continues at Jonah 2:6: “He went down to the bottoms of the mountains.”

So he was at the bottom of the mountain. Why, hell is underneath the mountains of the earth.

“The earth with her bars is about me forever.”

So the Earth is surrounding Jonah, earth is surrounding him with her bars.

When does the Earth have bars?

That’s hell.

Jesus Christ said at Matthew 16:18 that “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” So that is referring to hell’s gate.

Matthew 12:39-40 say that the sign that he will have, is the sign of the prophet Jonah. And Jesus will be three days, three nights in the heart of the Earth.