Did Jonah burn in hell?
Answer: Yes, he did actually go to hell.
Jonah 2:1 – “Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly,”
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.
Jonah 2:6 – “I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.”
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.
What Does “The Earth With Her Bars” Mean in Jonah 2:6?
“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.
Matthew 16:18 – “And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
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.
What Did Jesus Mean by “The Heart of the Earth”?
Matthew 12:39-40 – “But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
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.
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