Tartarus

ByBuiltByGod

Sep 23, 2026

The deepest abyss of the underworld, described in as the prison where God confined the fallen angels who sinned in the days of Noah. Unlike Hades (the human realm of the dead) or Gehenna (the final lake of fire), Tartarus is a maximum‑security spiritual prison reserved exclusively for rebellious supernatural beings. Peter uses a unique Greek term—Tartaroō—to describe these angels being “cast down to hell” and bound in chains of darkness . The Ethiopian Canon (especially 1 Enoch 10) expands this picture, describing the Watchers being sealed in the earth’s deep valleys for 70 generations . In Christian theology, Tartarus represents the lowest dimension, the place where Christ issued His Kerussō proclamation—a royal decree of victory—after His death and before His resurrection .

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