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1 | VERSE-5, BUT THE REST O THE DEAD | Rev 20:5 | SWIGGY22 | 86142 | ||
IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20, IN REFERENCE TO HEAVEN AND HELL. WHEN YOU DIE ARE YOU JUDGE AT THE POINT OF DEATH AND GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL. BUT IT ALSO SAYS THAT WE ARE IN THE GRAVE UNTIL THE 2ND COMING. THE ONES WHO HAVE DIE WHERE IS THERE SPIRIT IS IT IN HEAVEN OR HELL, OR IS EVERYONE IN THE GRAVE UNTIL THE SECOND COMING. | ||||||
2 | VERSE-5, BUT THE REST O THE DEAD | Rev 20:5 | Morant61 | 86143 | ||
Greetings Swiggy22! Allow me to begin answering your question by re-posting a post I previously made about the words translated as Hell. Then, I will address your specific question. ************************* Allow me to explain my point, but first let me emphasis that I do believe in an eternal punishment in Hell for the wicked. The only problem is that the KJV (along with several other translations) translates four different words as 'hell'. This leads to much confusion over who is in hell, when, why, ect... Here are the four different words: In Hebrew (Sheol) and in Greek (Hades, Tartarus, and Gehenna). Allow me to briefly describe each term. 1) Sheol: Hebrew only uses one word to describe the state of the dead. This word can simply refer to death or the grave in general or it can refer to the spiritual status of all the dead. Prov. 9:18 says of Sheol - "But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave." Thus, Sheol is a place where all the dead go. Ps. 9:17 says that Sheol is a place where the wicked go - "The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God." However, even godly Jacob expected to go to Sheol according to Gen. 44:29 - " If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.?" And, Ps. 89:48 affirms that all men will go to Sheol - "What man can live and not see death, or save himself from the power of the grave? Selah" Thus, this Old Testament word is best translated as 'Death' or the 'Grave' and simply refers to the state of all men at death. It does not refer to what we think of as 'Hell' in the sense of an eternal place of conscience punisment. 2) Hades: This is the New Testament equivalent of Sheol. It has much the same meaning as did Sheol with one exception. That exception being that the New Testament fills the meaning out with the passage to which you refered. Thus, we discover in Luke 16:20-31 that there are compartments in Sheol/Hades . There is a place of punishment where the wicked go to await final judgement and there is a paradise side, Abraham's bosom, where the righteous go to await salvation. This paradise side is now empty. After the death of Christ, complete atonement was made for sin and all those who died 'in Christ' went to be with Him in Heaven. Notice that Jesus did not tell the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in Heaven today, becase Heaven was not available until after the resurrection of Christ. The wicked dead still go to the punishment side of Sheol/Hades and will remain there until the Great White Throne of Judgement. 3) Tartarus: This word is only found once in the Bible. 2 Peter 2:4 desribes it as a place where certain Angels were placed until judgement. Some believe that it may be a lower part of Sheol/Hades. 4) Gehenna: This word describes what we commonly think of as Hell. It is used 12 times in the New Testament and describes a place of punishment, fire, and condemnation. I believe that Gehenna is also refered to in Rev. 20:11-15, where it is called a 'lake of fire'. However, note that this passage teaches that those in Sheol/Hades will be judged and then place into the 'lake of fire'. Thus, no one is actually in Hell right now! *********************** So, in answer to your question, those who die apart from Christ go the Sheol/Hades to await final judgement after the Millenium. Those who die in Christ go, as Paul said, to be with the Lord immediately upon death. At the Judgement, those who are in Sheol/Hades will be resurrected and judged. They will then be cast into the Lake of Fire (which is what we usually think of when we think of Hell). See Rev. 20 Those who are in Christ, will continue to live on with Him in a new Heaven and New Earth. See Rev. 21 and 22. I hope this helps! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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