What if, when Jesus spoke about “hell,” His audience wasn’t imagining an eternal torture chamber somewhere in the afterlife?

What if they were picturing a valley they actually knew?

In Week 2 of Rethinking Hell, we zoom in on Gehenna—the word Jesus used most often that many English Bibles translate as “hell.”

Gehenna comes from Ge-Hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom, a real location outside Jerusalem with a dark history of child sacrifice, idolatry, prophetic judgment, and national destruction.

So when Jesus warned His first-century Jewish audience about Gehenna, what were they actually hearing?

In this episode, we explore:

• The disturbing Old Testament history of the Valley of Hinnom
• Jeremiah’s prophetic warnings concerning the valley
• Why Gehenna became a ...