-This IMPORTANT INFORMATION explains the BI8LE'S belief about "HELL"---
----1 THESSALONIANS 5:21
SOME SEEM TO TEACH THAT THE “FIRE” AND “TORMENT” AND “SMOKE”, MENTIONED IN REVELATION, ARE LITERAL.
IS THE” TORMENT” AND “SMOKE” OF REVELATION 9:5, 14:11, 18:7, 10, 15 LITERAL ?
IT SAYS ---
9:5. “and it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.”
[ DARBYS BIBLE TRANSLATION]
14:11. “ And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages of ages, and they have no respite day and night who do homage to the beast and to its image, and if any one receive the mark of its name.”[DRB]
18:7,10,15, 7. “ So much as she has glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so much torment and grief give to her. Because she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and I am not a widow; and I shall in no wise see grief:” 10. “ standing afar off, through fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour thy judgment is come. “15. “The merchants of these things, who had been enriched through her, shall stand afar off through fear of her torment, weeping and grieving, “[DRB]
ALSO 11:10, 14:10, 20:10, [DRB] 11:10. “And they that dwell upon the earth rejoice over them, and are full of delight, and shall send gifts one to another, because these, the two prophets, tormented them that dwell upon the earth.”
14:10. “ he also shall drink of the wine of the fury of God prepared unmixed in the cup of his wrath, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy angels and before the Lamb.”
20:10. “And the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are both - the beast- and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of ages.”
NOTE 17:11, “And the beast that was and is not, he also is an eighth, and is of the seven, and goes into—destruction.”
NOTE -TORMENT INVOLVES DESTRUCTION SYMBOLICALLY-
ALSO REVELATION 18:8-11,21, [KJV] 8. “Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. 9. And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10. Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come. 11. And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:” 21. “And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.”
NOTE --“UTTERLY BURNED WITH FIRE”, “THE SMOKE OF HER BURNING” ,”FEAR OF HER TORMENT” ,”SHALL BE FOUND NO MORE AT ALL” , DESTROYED FOREVER. REASONABLY ,THE FIRE , SMOKE AND TORMENT ARE ALL HIGHLY SYMBOLIC, AS IS MUCH OF REVELATION AS 1:1 INDICATES. IS THE “LAKE OF FIRE” LITERAL, OR DOES IT SYMBOLIZE “DESTRUCTION” ? IS “TORMENT” AND “THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT” , LITERAL OR HIGHLY SYMBOLIC OF EVIDENCE OF CONFINEMENT IN DEATH?
SHOULD ONE REALLY BELIEVE A GOD OF “LOVE” , THE PERSONIFICATION OF LOVE, AS 1 JOHN 4:8 SAYS, WOULD TORTURE AND TORMENT A PERSON OR THING FOR EVER AND EVER IN A FIRE?
JEREMIAH 19:5 [KJV] TELLS US THESE WORDS, 5. “They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:”
CASTING A PERSON INTO A FIRE WOULD NEVER ENTER INTO THE MIND OF A GOD OF LOVE, AS HE SAYS HERE ,AND IN JEREMIAH 32:35. SUCH WAS AN “ABOMINATION “ TO HIM.
DO YOU BELIEVE ” THE LAMB WITH 7 EYES AND 7 HORNS” AT REVELATION 5:6, IS LITERAL OR SYMBOLIC?
DO YOU THINK THE HORSES OF REVELATION 6:1-8, AND THEIR RIDERS, ARE LITERAL OR SYMBOLIC?
DO YOU BELIEVE THE SMOKE, FIRE, HAIL, AND FIRE AND BLOOD,SUN, MOON, STARS, OF REVELATION 8 , ARE LITERAL? ARE THE LOCUSTS, SCORPIONS, GRASS, TREE, HORSES AND TRUMPET OF REVELATION 9 LITERAL?
ARE THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH LITERAL, OF REVELATION 21? ECCLESIASTES 1:4 SAYS “THE EARTH ABIDETH FOREVER”. IS THE SEA LITERAL? ISAIAH 57:20 SAYS “THE WICKED ARE LIKE THE SEA”. WHY NOT
LET THE BIBLE DO THE INTERPRETATION.
HOW ABOUT “THE GREAT RED DRAGON WITH 7 HEADS AND 10 HORNS” OF REVELATION 12, IS IT LITERAL?
SURELY YOU MUST AGREE MUCH OF REVELATION IS HIGHLY SYMBOLIC, INCLUDING “THE LAKE OF FIRE”, AND “SMOKE” AND “TORMENT”.
REVELATION 1:1 TELLS US CLEARLY, “ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and - signified it - by his angel unto his servant John:” SIGNIFY MEANS “TO SHOW BY A SIGN” , OR BY A “SYMBOL”.
REVELATION USES MANY, MANY, SYMBOLS, AND FOR THE MOST PART THE REST OF THE BIBLE HELPS ONE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THESE SYMBOLS REPRESENT. IS “SMOKE” LITERAL IN THE 12 TIMES USED IN REVELATION? HOW ABOUT IN ISAIAH 34:10, AND 51:6, AND 65:5, AND JOEL 2:30, ACTS 2:19, PSALMS 18:8, AND JOB 41:20 ?
HOW IS “FIRE” USED IN THE BIBLE AT DEUTERONOMY 4:24, AND 9:3, AND 32:22, AND 2 SAMUEL 22:9, PSALMS 18:8, AND 79:5, AND 89:46, PROVERBS 25:22, ISAIAH 30:27,JEREMIAH 15:14, AND 23:29.EZEKIEL 21:31, AND 36:5, AND 38:19, NAHUM 1:6, MALACHI 3:2, LUKE 12:49 ? LITERAL OR SYMBOLIC?
DO YOU BELIEVE THAT IN THE 26 TIMES USED IN REVELATION, THAT THE “FIRE” IS LITERAL? REVELATION 20:14 SAYS “THE LAKE OF FIRE”, IS “THE SECOND DEATH”. THIS IS WHERE “THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET” ARE CAST ALIVE INTO, AS REVELATION 19:20 SAYS.
WHO DOES THE “BEAST” AND “FALSE PROPHET” SYMBOLIZE, SINCE THEY ARE NOT LITERAL ? HOW ARE THEY SYMBOLICALLY CAST ALIVE INTO “THE LAKE OF FIRE”, “THE SECOND DEATH”?
THE FIRST DEATH IS ADAMIC DEATH INHERITED FROM ADAM, [ROMANS 5:12] AND FROM WHICH THERE IS A RESURRECTION THROUGH THE RANSOM PROVISION OF CHRIST JESUS. [ MATTHEW 20:28, JOHN 3:16, AND 1 JOHN 2:2] THOSE CAST INTO THE SYMBOLIC “SECOND DEATH” HAVE NO HOPE OF A RESURRECTION, AND DESTROYED FOREVER.
NOTE WHAT 2 THESSALONIANS 1:6-9 READS, 6. “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: [BY CHOICE, KNOWINGLY AND ,WILLFULY] 9. Who shall be punished with -everlasting destruction -from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;”
“EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION”, NOT LITERAL TORMENT. WHAT IS THE PENALTY MAN BRINGS ON VILE CRIMINALS, TORMENT, TORTURE, OR DEATH? IS MAN MORE JUST THAN GOD ALMIGHTY? THE BIBLE SAYS THE WAGES SIN PAYS IS “DEATH”. [ROMANS 6:23, GENESIS 2:17, AND 3:19]
NOTE WHAT EZELIEL 28:18,19 ALLUDES TO ABOUT SATAN THE DEVIL,
18. “Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. 19.All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more”
“BRING TO ASHES”, “NEVER BE ANY MORE”; YES, EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION, NON EXISTANCE, IS HIS DESTINY, ALONG WITH ANY LIKE HIM. EXODUS 22:20 [KJV] SAYS, “ He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.”
ALSO PSALMS 92:7-9 STATES, “ When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:8. But thou, Lord, art most high for evermore. 9. For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.”
“DESTROYED FOREVER”, “PERISH”, IS THE DESTINY OF THE INCORRIGIBLY WICKED, NOT LITERAL TORTURE OR TORMENT IN A LAKE OF FIRE.
NOTE ROMANS 9:22 [KJV] “ What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:”
PHILLIPIANS 3:19 [KJV] “ Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)”
2 PETER 2:1 [KJV] “ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”
“DESTRUCTION” , MEANS “BRING TO AN END, RUIN” .
NOTE JUDE 5 [KJV] “ I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.”
AND PROVERBS 10:29 [KJV] “ The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.” AND 15:11, “ Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?”
[ SEE ALSO PROVERBS 21:15, AND 27:20, JEREMIAH 17:18, ISAIAH 34:2, JOB 31:12, PSALMS 37:38, AND 55:15,23, AND 73:18,27, AND 88:10,11 ]
YES, “HELL”, “SHEOL”, “THE GRAVE”, “THE PIT”, ALL INVOLVE DESTRUCTION, NOT TORMENT; GOING BACK TO DUST, WITH A HOPE OF A RESURRECTION.
“GEHENNA” INVOLVES ETERNAL DESTRUCTION, WITH NO HOPE OF A RESURRECTION.[see root words for "hell" in Hebrew and Greek and meaning]
”TORMENTORS” INVOLVE CONFINEMENT, “JAILERS”, AS SEEN IN MATHEW 18:34,35 [KJV] 34. “And his lord was wroth, and delivered him- to the tormentors,- till he should pay all that was due unto him. 35. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses. “ [WEYMOUTH BIBLE] 34. “So his master, greatly incensed, handed him over- to the jailers- until he should pay all he owed him.”
HELL, HADES, SHEOL IS A PLACE OF CONFINEMENT IN THE SLEEP OF DEATH, THE COMMON GRAVE OF HUMANKIND, UNTIL THE TIME COMES FOR THEIR RESURRECTION. [ACTS 24:15]
JOB 14:13 [KJV] READS, “ O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!” [YOUNGS BIBLE] 13. “ O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.”
THE ROOT HEBREW WORD FOR “GRAVE” IS “ SHEOL”, THE SAME ROOT WORD FOR “HELL”. IF JOB WAS SUFFERING WHY WOULD HE WANT TO GO INTO HELL OR SHEOL ? WHY? BECAUSE IT IS THE COMMON GRAVE OF ALL HUMANKIND.
“TARTARUS” OF 2 PETER 2:4 INVOLVES A DEEP ABYSS, AND DIFFERENT THAN “HELL”. [YOUNGS BIBLE] 4. “ For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast [them] down to Tartarus, did deliver [them] to judgment, having been reserved, “
IN DENSE DARKNESS SPIRITUALLY, IS WHERE WICKED ANGELS WERE CAST AFTER THEIR REBELLION IN NOAH’S DAY. THEY WERE CAST OUT OF GOD ALMIGHTY’S PURE AND CLEAN HEAVENLY ORGANIZATION OF FAITHFUL ANGELS, DISFELLOWSHIPPED, UNTIL THERE FINAL JUDGEMENT AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEAR RULE OF THE MESSIANIC KINGDOM. [ JUDE 6, GENESIS 6:1-4,13, REVELATION 20:9]
AGAIN IN REGARD TO “THE SECOND DEATH”, MEANING PERMANENT DESTRUCTION, AS IF CAST INTO A “LAKE OF FIRE” SYMBOLICALLY, NOTE WHAT IS FURTHER STATED IN THE BIBLE.
REVELATION 20:6,10,14,15 [KJV] “Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resuecrrtion: on such -the second death- hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.” 10. “And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”
14. “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” 1 CORINTHIANS 15:25,26 [KJV] 25. “ For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26. The last enemy that shall be-destroyed -is death.”
ADAMIC DEATH IS “DESTROYED”, BROUGHT TO NOTHING, RUINED, WHEN ALL WORTHY ARE RESURRECTED FROM THEIR GRAVES; IT IS AS IF CAST INTO A SYMBOLIC LAKE OF FIRE. CAN”DEATH AND HELL” BE LITERALLY TORMENTED FOREVER IN A FIRE ?
THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST’S “BRIDE” AND RULE WITH HIM AS “KINGS AND PRIESTS” ARE GIVEN” IMMORTALITY”, AS STATED IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15, AND CAN NO LONGER DIE OR BE “DESTROYED”; SO “THE SECOND DEATH” HAS NO POWER OVER THEM. HELL, SHEOL, HADES, IS A PLACE, AND WHEN HELL IS EMPTIED OF ALL IT’S DEAD, IT IS BROUGHT TO NOTHING, NON EXISTANT.
HOSEA 13:14 [KJV] SAYS, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.” [YGB] 14. “ From the hand of Sheol I do ransom them, From death I redeem them, Where [is] thy plague, O death? Where thy destruction, O Sheol? Repentance is hid from Mine eyes.” [ SHEOL, HADES, HELL, GRAVE , ARE ALL THE SAME]
THE “LAKE OF FIRE” IS LIKENED TO THE” SECOND DEATH”, ALSO REFERRED TO AS “GEHENNA”; THE VALLEY OF HINNOM, WHERE GARBAGE AND DEAD BODIES WERE THROWN AND BURNED; AND WHAT WAS NOT BURNED, THE WORMS CONSUMED— JESUS USED THIS TO SYMBOLIZE EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION—THE JEWS THREW THE BODIES OF DEAD CRIMINALS THERE, AS THEY FELT THEY WERE UNWORTHY OF A RESURRECTION, SO DID NOT BURY THEM IN GRAVES OR TOMBS.
MATTHEW 5:20,29,30 [YGB] 22. “ but I - I say to you, that every one who is angry at his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment, and whoever may say to his brother, Empty fellow! shall be in danger of the sanhedrim, and whoever may say, Rebel! shall be in danger of the gehenna of the fire. “
29. “ ‘But, if thy right eye doth cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to gehenna. 30. ‘And, if thy right hand doth cause thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast from thee, for it is good to thee that one of thy members may perish, and not thy whole body be cast to Gehenna.” [NOT HELL, HADES]
MATTHEW 10:28 [YGB] “ ‘And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in Gehenna.” [NOT HELL BUT “GEHENNA” –“DESTROY” BODY AND SOUL, NOT TORMENT]
LUKE 12:5 [WEYMOUTH’S BIBLE] “ I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who after killing has power to throw into Gehenna: yes, I say to you, fear him.” [ POWER TO DESTROY A PERSON FOREVER IN “GEHENNA”, NOT “HELL”]
JAMES 3:6 READS [WEY] “ And the tongue is a fire. That world of iniquity, the tongue, is placed within us spotting and soiling our whole nature, and setting the whole round of our lives on fire, being itself set on fire by Gehenna.” [NOT HADES, HELL, AND NOT LITERAL FIRE ]
MARK 9:43-50 [WEY] 43. “ If your hand should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life maimed, than remain in possession of both your hands and go away into Gehenna, into the fire which cannot be put out. 44. [] 45. Or if your foot should cause you to sin, cut it off: it would be better for you to enter into Life crippled, than remain in possession of both your feet and be thrown into Gehenna.
47. Or if your eye should cause you to sin, tear it out. It would be better for you to enter into the Kingdom of God half-blind than remain in possession of two eyes and be thrown into Gehenna, 48. where THEIR WORM DOES NOT DIE AND THE FIRE DOES NOT GO OUT. 49. Every one, however, will be salted with fire. 50. Salt is a good thing, but if the salt should become tasteless, what will you use to give it saltness? Have salt within you and live at peace with one another.”
[ ROOT HEBREW WORD FOR “HELL” USED IN THE KJV IS NOT “HADES”, BUT “GEENNA”, GEHENNA, SYMBOLIC OF EVERLASTING DESTRUCTION] THE DEATH OF THE INCORRIGIBLY WICKED IS ETERNAL, LIKE A” FIRE “THAT DOES NOT GO OUT , AND A “WORM “THAT CONSUMES FOREVER. IF THE “WORM” WAS LITERAL, IT WOULD POSSESS IMMORTALITY, DEATHLESSNESS, SO CLEARLY IS HIGHLY SYMBOLIC.
ISAIAH 66:23,24 [KJV] 23. “ And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD. 24. And they shall go forth, and look upon the -carcases of the men -that have transgressed against me: for- their worm shall not die-, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”
THE WICKED IN “GEHENNA” , ARE CONSUMED IN DEATH FOREVER, COMPLETELY DESTROYED BY ALMIGHTY GOD. THOSE IN “HELL” OR “HADES”, “THE GRAVE” , ARE AS IF “SLEEPING” IN DEATH, AWAITING A RESURRECTION. [SEE JOHN 11:11-14, REVELATION 20:13, ROMANS 6:7, AND 1 TIMOTHY 2:5,6 , ALSO DEUTERONOMY 31:16, JOB 7:21, AND 2 SAMUEL 7:12]
NOTE , IN THE “PARABLE” OF THE “SHEEP AND GOATS”, NOT LITERAL “SHEEP OR GOATS”, VERSE 41 REFERS TO THE “EVERLASTING FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS”, THE SECOND DEATH, EVERLASTING DEATH, THE PERFECTLY JUST PENALTY FOR WILLFUL, KNOWING, UNREMORSEFUL, UNREPENTANT, INCORRIGIBLE WICKEDNESS, FROM WHAT ALL THE SCRIPTURES IN THE BIBLE INDICATE.
“PARABLES” ARE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND ARE NOT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY THIS IS TRUE OF THE PARABLE OF “THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS “ WHICH SOME SEEM TO BELIEVE IS LITERAL. [ SEE PARABLES IN MATTHEW 13 AND 25]
HOW DO YOU VIEW THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTURES THAT SPEAK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE AT DEATH ? JEREMIAH 51:39,57 [KJV] 39. “In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD” . 57. “ And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts”.
NOTE -“SLEEP A PERPETUAL SLEEP, AND NOT WAKE” DEAD FOREVER- NO RESURRECTION, FOR SUCHLIKE ONES ? PSALMS 145:3,4 [KJV] 3. “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. 4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”
NOTE- “HE RETURNETH TO HIS EARTH- HIS THOUGHTS PERISH” –RETURNS TO “DUST” AS GENESIS 3:19 CONFIRMS- MIND, BODY, CEASES TO EXIST -
PSALMS 37:20,38 [KJV] 20. “But the wicked shall –perish-, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall -consume; into smoke- shall they consume away.” 38. “But the transgressors shall be –destroyed- together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.”
“PERISH” –“DESTROYED” –“CUT OFF”-- “CONSUME AWAY” – WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN TO YOU ?
PSALMS 31:17 [KJV] “ Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.”[ IN “SHEOL”]
ECCLESIASTES 3:19,20 [KJV] 19. “For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
ALSO 9:5,10, [KJV] 5. “ For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.” 10 “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”
[YOUNGS BIBLE] 10. “All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.”
NOTE “SHEOL” AND “GRAVE” ARE THE SAME. LIKEWISE IS “SHEOL” AND “HELL” . THEY DO NOT INVOLVE A “PERPETUAL SLEEP”, AS DOES GEHENNA.
JONAH 2:2 READS [KJV] 1.” Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish’s belly, 2. And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of -hell -cried I, and thou heardest my voice.”
[YOUNGS BIBLE]
1. “ And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish. 2. And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of -sheol -I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.”
NOTE ACTS 2:27,31 [KJV] 27. “ Because thou wilt not leave my soul in –hell-, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” 31. “ He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in- hell-, neither his flesh did see corruption.”
THE APOSTLE PETER QUOTED PSALMS 16:10, [KJV] “ For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” [DARBYS BIBLE] 10. “ For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.” [DRB] ACTS 2:27. “ for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.” 31. “ he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in hades nor his flesh seen corruption.”
PLEASE NOTE, SHEOL, HADES, HELL, GRAVE, ALL HAVE THE SAME MEANING ACCORDING TO BIBLE TRANSLATORS. CHRIST WAS NEARLY 3 DAYS IN THE GRAVE, SHEOL, HADES, HELL, [ MATTHEW 12:40] AND HAD TO BE RESURRECTED TO LIFE AGAIN BY HIS GOD AND FATHER, AS THE BIBLE SAYS OVER AND OVER. [PLEASE SEE EPHESIANS 1:3,17-23, AND 1 PETER 1:3,21, JOHN 20:17 AND ACTS 2:32-36, AND 5:30,31, AND 7:55,56]
WHY NOT LOOK UP THE HEBREW AND GREEK ROOT WORDS WHERE “HELL” IS USED IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE.
YOU WILL SEE THAT “SHEOL”, “HADES”, “GEENNA”, AND “TARTAROO” , ARE USED; AND “GEENNA” OR “GEHENNA”, AND “TARTAROO” OR ‘TARTARUS”, HAVE MUCH DIFFERENT MEANINGS.
BEFORE GETTING INTO THIS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION, THERE ARE A FEW MORE SCRIPTURES THAT TELL WHAT HAPPENS TO ANY PERSON THAT DIES. [ NOTE ROMANS 5:12 AND 6:23]
JOB:14:10-15 [KJV] 10. “But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the Ghost, and where is he? 11. As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12. So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.[ UNLESS GOD INTERVENES] 13. O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!14.If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. 15. Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.” [ SEE JOHN 5:26-31, ACTS 24:15, MATTHEW 11:20-24 AND 12:41,42] ***
ACTS 2:29-36 [DRB] 29. “ Brethren, let it be allowed to speak with freedom to you concerning the patriarch David, that he has both died and been buried, and his monument is amongst us unto this day. 30. Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn to him with an oath, of the fruit of his loins to set upon his throne; he, seeing it before, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither has he been left in- hades -nor his flesh seen corruption. 32. This Jesus has God raised up, whereof all we are witnesses. 33. Having therefore been exalted by the right hand of God, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this which ye behold and hear. 34. For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand 35. until I have put thine enemies to be the footstool of thy feet. 36. Let the whole house of Israel therefore know assuredly that God has made him, this Jesus whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.”
DAVID WAS DEAD AND BURIED AND NOT IN HEAVEN, BUT IN SHEOL, THE GRAVE, HELL, WHERE JESUS CHRIST WAS ALSO FOR ALMOST 3 DAYS; DEAD, IN NEED OF A RESURRECTION TO LIFE “AGAIN”. ALMIGHTY GOD DID NOT LET HIS BODY DETERIORATE IN THE GRAVE, BUT REMOVED IT AND DISPOSED OF IT, AS HE DID WITH MOSES’S BODY; KNOWING THE TENDENCY OF MEN TO USE SUCH FOR WORSHIP. [JUDE 9, HEBREWS 10:5-10]
JESUS PERFECT BODY AND BLOOD WERE TO BE OFFERED TO GOD ALMIGHTY IN SACRIFICE TO REDEEM HUMANKIND FROM SIN AND DEATH, “A LIFE FOR A LIFE”, LIKE FOR LIKE, [DEUTERONOMY 19:21] THE PERFECT LIFE OF JESUS, FOR THE PERFECT LIFE ADAM FORFEITED TO SIN AND DEATH. [SEE ROMANS CHAPTER 5]
---ALSO see HEBREWS 9:24-26, JOHN 1:29--
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