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NASB | Hebrews 9:27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Hebrews 9:27 And just as it is appointed and destined for all men to die once and after this [comes certain] judgment, |
Bible Question (short): Judgement, Sheol, and Hades |
Question (full): I have a few questions that I have been contemplating for quite a while now: 1) The bible seems to imply that judgement - for the wicked and righteous - is summed up in a single event. Paul described it as 'the day' (1 Cor. 3:13); Jesus referred to it as 'the last day' (John 12:48). My question is: because we die and have time before this judgment, as the scripture speaks of our spirits surviving after death, then how is it that those in Hades are in torments before the final judgment that renders them unto the second death - the lake of fire? If the punishment is inflicted by God, then what is the necessity of even having a second death? If the punishment is intrinsic on behalf of the condemned (that is, due to their wrath and refusal to accept the objective good), then how would this suffering differ from the warnings Jesus spoke about concerning the Lake of Fire (anger, wailing, casting into outer darkness, etc.)? Could it be that when Jesus spoke of condemnation, He did not specify any difference between the intermediate state (Hades) and the final state, that being the lake of fire? Theologians seem to imply that when Christ speaks of Gehenna, He is referring to the lake of fire. Is there any possibility that those who die unredeemed continue in a state of 'rest' - or soul sleep - until their coming judgement? 2) How do we reconcile the idea of the spirit surviving the body with such passages as Ecclesiastes 9:10 and Psalm 146:4, both of which seem to imply that death, and sheol, are entities that lack any action or recreation? If God is the God of the living, and Ecclesiastes 9:10 seems to be in the context of everyone - good and evil -, how is it that those who died in the Old Testament were with Him, but also without knowledge, wisdom, work or device? Could it be that the OT idea of death was incomplete? Or could it simply be that sheol strictly means the grave and nothing more (even though its Greek counterpart, Hades, literally means 'the unseen world')? blessings, John |
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