7. In what places is the Greek word “Gehenna” used? Matthew 5:22, 29, 30; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:9, Matthew 23:15, 33; Mark 9:43, 45, 47; Luke 12:5; James 3:6.
NOTE: ‘Gehenna or hell, the lake of fire, is not found until the judgement of the great day. . . . And when gehenna is kindled, it is when, at the end of the millennium, the devil and the wicked of all the earth go up on the breadth of the earth, and compass the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city; and fire comes down from God out of Heaven and devours them. Revelation 20:7-9. There it is, and then it is, and not till then, that Gehenna is found.’ A. T. Jones: Signs of the Times, December 30, 1886.
8. What is meant by “the fire that shall never be quenched’? Mark 9:43, 45.
NOTE: ‘Jesus Christ was a Jew, and in His discourses with the Jews, He used the well-known phraseology of the Jewish prophets. This imagery is borrowed from Isaiah 66:24. “And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against Me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.” All this is predicated of the carcasses of men. Carcass, a dead body. What kind of a worm would prey upon a dead carcass? Evidently the literal worm which preys upon corruption. See Job 17:13,14. What kind of fire would prey upon dead carcasses? Evidently literal fire; and if the worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched, they must be utterly consumed. An unquenchable fire is invariably used in the Bible to denote a fire which cannot be arrested or put out, until it utterly consumes that upon which it preys. See Ezekiel 20:45-48; Jeremiah 17:27; Isaiah 34:8-10; Matthew 3:12.’ James White: Review & Herald, October 17, 1854.