Question:
Is hades different from the Lake of Fire?

Answer:
Yes, hades is different than the Lake of Fire. Hades is a condition of the soul out of the body; it is not a place. But the Lake of Fire is the place “prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41) where the unsaved will be for all eternity. No one is in gehenna or the Lake of Fire yet.

After the battle of Armageddon, when Christ comes to set up His kingdom, the “beast” and the “false prophet” will become the first occupants of the Lake of Fire (Revelation 19:20). At the end of the thousand year reign of Christ over the earth, they will still be there and will continue there to be tormented “day and night forever and ever” (Revelation 20:10).
It is most important that you “believe” on Christ and know that you “have,” right now, “everlasting life” (John 3:16). Christ did not come to condemn the world but that the world might be saved (John 3:17). When we are saved we become a “new creation in Christ” (2 Corinthians 5:17-19). Why we become a new creation in Christ and have God’s righteousness is because God made Christ to be sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21).
In 2 Corinthians 5:1-4 we find four different conditions:
1. Verse 1 speaks of our physical body as “OUR EARTHLY HOUSE.”
2. Verse 2, “OUR HOUSE WHICH IS FROM HEAVEN,” is the new spiritual body we’ll have in heaven, suited for our spirits.
3. Verse 3 tells that the unsaved, when they die, will be unclothed, but on the day of judgment will be found “NAKED.” They don’t have the covering of Christ’s righteousness.4. Verse 4 relates that “UNCLOTHED” refers to the time between physical death and the resurrection of our bodies when Christ comes. Our spirit and soul are unclothed when the body dies because they are without a body. When people talk about looking forward to getting out of the miseries of this world, Paul says that would be desiring to be “unclothed” or getting out of the body. Paul says he desires not to be unclothed (separated from the body), but CLOTHED with our new spiritual body which is from heaven. Philippians 3:21 tells us that when Christ comes, the body we now have will be “changed” or transformed into a body like the body Christ has since He rose from the dead. He walked through closed doors with that body (John 20:19).