You may, as I did for a long time, have had casual thoughts that ‘Hell and the Lake of Fire’ were the same. They are not. Neither is each meant to receive the same class of sinners. Many folks mindfully merge them into one godforsaken penal colony where human sinners are automatically cast, upon dying, among the withering demons where all are damned to an eternity of punishing sufferings and untold agonies. That is not Biblically accurate. Also, would you believe me if I told you that during the Old Testament times that no matter if people were good or bad, they went straight to Hades? Hades and hell are two different places. God created Hades as the temporary realm for both good and evil people who died. Old Testament people referred to the good part of Hades as 'paradise.'