Used by permission of Dr. Herb Evans.
HELL versus HADES/SHEOL
IF
hades is a place of TORTURE
as you suggest then even CHRISTIANS
are being tortured as the word "hades" means the GRAVE (see
Acts and I Corinthians) and ALL
dead people are there including the saints! -- UNTIL
the resurrection!!!! So are all CHRISTIANS
being tormented in hades? –
Cultist College President
Hell’s
Prison Paradise versus Hell’s Penal Prison
Luke
23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To
day shalt thou be with me in
paradise.
Odd
that the cultist should characterize us as having HADES
as a place of torture rather than a place of punishment. The Geneva
Convention is against torture. Still, the
saints once occupied one part of
SHEOL/HADES (the unseen world)
in the nether parts
of the earth, and the saints were once comforted in this paradise
prison (GARDEN OFEDEN)
like Lazarus and could drink water water. The thief on the cross went
to this prison paradise until Christ rose from the dead. This is also
where Abraham and the patriarchs went after being gathered unto their
people. Nevertheless, the wicked occupied and still occupy another
part of SHEOL
in the nether parts of the earth, where they like the rich man were
and are tormented. They are all tormented in the flame of hell’s
penal prison.
Hell
is the Hole or Pit
Psa
86:13 For great is
thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my
soul from the lowest hell.
Deut
32:22 For a fire
is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn
unto the lowest hell, and shall
consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations
of the mountains.
2
Sa m22:6 The sorrows of hell
compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; Psa 9:17
The
wicked shall be turned into hell,
and all the
nations that forget God.
Isa
33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the
hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell
with the devouring fire?
who among us shall dwell
with everlasting
burnings?
If
you were in the navy, you would well know what being thrown in the
hole meant. The English word HELL
means hole and it is no secret
that the Hebrew word SHEOL
is also translated PIT
as well as hell. The lowest hell
(the grave of the soul and not the body) is where the souls go to
experience either sorrows and everlasting burnings or comfort.
Fire and burnings are to be found
there and also trees and water, depending to which part the souls go.
Hell’s
Contrasts of Comfort and Torment
Ezek
31:16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I
cast him down to hell with them that
descend into the pit: and all the
trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink
water, shall be
comforted in
the nether parts
of the earth.
Ezek
31:18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the
trees of Eden?
yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto
the nether parts of the earth: thou
shalt lie in the midst of the
uncircumcised with them
that be slain by the sword.
This is
Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
2
Cor 12:4 How that he was caught up into paradise,
and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to
utter.
Rev
2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the
churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
of life, which is in the midst of
the paradise of
God.
Still,
SHEOL (O.T.) HADES
(N.T.) WAS
a place of conscious punishment AND
also a prison paradise of conscious comfort with a great gulf fixed
between. The saved portion of this
paradise was Eden with trees and water, something the rich man saw
and wanted. The lost portion was and still is the Penal prison of
torment.
Christ
Released the Paradise Prison Captives
Judges
5:11, 12 They that are delivered
from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall
they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even
the righteous acts toward the
inhabitants of his villages in Israel:
then shall the people of the LORD go
down to the gates. Awake,
awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead
thy captivity captive, thou son of
Abinoam.
Psa
68:18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led
captivity captive: thou hast
received gifts for men; yea, for
the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among
them.
Isa
61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is
upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings
unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the captives,
and the opening of the prison to them
that are bound;
Mat
27:52, 53 And the graves were opened; and many bodies
of the saints which slept arose, And
came out of the graves after his
resurrection, and went into the holy
city, and appeared unto many.
Eph
4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he
ascended up on high, he led captivity captive,
and gave gifts unto men.
Christians
do not any longer go to HADES.
Hades has been emptied of the saints, where they were held captive
until after Jesus was crucified and resurrected, then they were taken
to heaven. Some of those which arose from the dead appeared to many.
Christ led captivity captive. So, Luke 16 is not a parable and does
not have the interpretation that your wackiness tries to pontificate,
as you and your cult gainsay and contradict the Lord Jesus Christ.
When prisoners were taken in war, said captivity was led captive and
marched to the prison. When they were released from the enemy’s
prison by their leader, the captivity was led captive and marched to
freedom in VICTORY.
Instead
of dwelling on the Hebrew and Greek words Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and
Tarturus, folks might start calling the various hells as Hell # 1,
Hell # 2, Hell # 3, the devil’ hell, the final hell, the angel’s
hell, and etc.
–by Herb Evans
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