You know it's the end of the liturgical year when you get readings like those of today.
The book of Revelation proclaims the role of hell in the last things:
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the pool of fire.
(This pool of fire is the second death.)
Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life
was thrown into the pool of fire.
Hell is primarily the destination of death itself, not of any of us.
The victory of Christ is not about sending any of us to hell, and indeed the church has never claimed for sure that anybody has even gone there, but consists primarily in sending death and hades themselves to hell.
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