You have put me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the depths. Sacred Scripture. The five Bible verses that mention “the lake of fire” show it to be a symbol rather than a literal lake. Some suggest that sheol simply means the grave, which seems to make sense, apart from the fact that there is another Hebrew word for “grave”: qehver (6913). In a hotbed of human depravity, a place that all God-following Jews avoided at every cost, Peter stood up and declared the divinity of Yeshua. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life crippled, than, having your two hands, to go, , into the unquenchable fire, (where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched). Hell - Norse, the realm of the Dead, ruled over by Hela, daughter of Loki, a place of cold. After a week of researching Sheol, which often gets translated as “Hell”, I thought I’d be feeling rather grim at the end of it all, but the word has actually given me a great amount of hope and positivity. Too many people get their idea of Hell not from the Bible, but from literary works such as Dante's Inferno and Paradise Lost (fictional stories). But he also called God out… where is the promise that you swore to David. Ethan prayed the prayer, and through Hosea, YHWH answered: YHWH: Yet I have been YHWH your God since the land of Egypt; and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no Saviour besides Me. As was first mentioned, people have many definitions for the word hell. Sheol is not hell… at least not in the sense of our present cultural interpretation of the place, (a place of eternal suffering and damnation, with fire and brimstone and torment). And if you are a child of YHWH, it’s better to do these drastic measures than be thrown to the place where the gods of evil sacrificed children; the place that YHWH called the Valley of Slaughter, where people become a meal to birds and beast, in a perverted and polluted land. Zoroastrianism is a strongly dualistic … Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, In most instances when Yeshua talked about Hell, the Greek word. For David says of Him, ‘I saw YHWH always in my presence; for He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. After Yeshua’s death and resurrection, Peter delivered a poignant message. If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. The phrase “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” comes directly from Solomon’s writings: For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same… All go to the same place. Other Scriptures in the New Testament indicated that sheol/hades is a temporary place … No one was in heaven before Jesus came onto the scene. No one was in heaven before Jesus came onto the scene. He would hear David’s cry and save him from Sheol: “YHWH is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge; my Saviour, You save me from violence. Does not distinguish between good and evil dead. It is the same thing as the lake of fire mentioned in Revelation Ch.20. Dr. Robert A. Morey states, [from his book, 'Death and the Afterlife', Bethany House Publishers, Minneapolis, Mn, 1984, p. 72-93]: SHEOL. Haidees (Hades) is one of the three Greek words (haidees, tartaroo, geenna) that the King James Version of the Bible translates as “hell”. Yeshua was making a startling claim… and the Pharisees would get it. And it shall be from and from sabbath to sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says YHWH. Death. Although Sheol is not the hell that our culture imagines, it is not a happy place either. Sarah has a Master of Arts degree in Early Medieval Studies from the University of York in England. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. In rabbinic literature, Gehenna is also a destination of the wicked. I call upon YHWH, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies. He, . If we all go to the grave, what does Salvation do for us? It first appears in the Bible in… But he also called God out… where is the promise that you swore to David. of assembly in the recesses of the north. Atheists believe that at the end of life there is nothing; the pit of nothingness is all there is. This would be the fate of the Shining one, the Chief Evildoer, the Adversary, thrust down to Sheol to the recesses of the pit, ; and the upright shall rule over them in the morning, and their form shall be, Yeshua had to defeat death before we could be, , and have not let my enemies rejoice over me. But did YHWH really have a plan that would save us from the fate of Sheol? Ethan the Ezrahite, writer of Psalm 89, asked a similar question: How long, O YHWH? *9 The Unseen World] Greek, 'Hades,' the adobe of departed spirits; Hebrew, 'Sheol.' 2. Before looking at these words though, we should first give our attention to the Greek word Gehenna, which is always translated hell and used in reference to the Lake of Fire. In the New Testament, Abaddon (Apollyon in Greek) was the name of the king of the bottomless, smoky, pit, also known as the angel of the abyss, from John’s Revelation (9:11). Scripture passages in which Gehenna is used should be distinguished from those using Hades, which refers to a place of temporary torment that we might refer to as the immediate, or present, Hell. Her recent love of learning the Hebrew language from pictographic proto-Canaanite to the adopted Aramaic script has led her to create this blog. Will Your wrath burn like fire? Sheol and Hades were the Hebrew and the Greek names attached to the same idea, which was the place where the souls of all the dead dwelt in the afterlife. I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. For their worm will not die and their fire will not be quenched; and they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.”. It is an allusion and alternate name to refer to the hell of the damned. which I make will endure before Me,” declares YHWH, “So your offspring and your name will endure. Hades, to those living within Greek culture (as the early Messiah followers were), was the god … For there is no mention of You in death; in Sheol [bish’ohl] who will give You thanks? The spices were prepared to mask the scent of rot, but they were not needed. Gehenna is a Greek word used in the New Testament that referred to the Valley of Hinnom, an actual valley outside of Jerusalem known as a burning rubbish pile. It was a place of death, fire and torment, but not of the guilty. Sorting out Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, the Abode of the Just, and Hell What happened to Christ after He died? Meaning of the word “Gehenna” Gehenna means valley of Hinnom. Tradition and mythology vs. Scripture. (Revelation 19:20; 20:10, 14, 15; 21:8) The following are cast into the lake of fire: 1. As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and being satisfied, their heart became proud; therefore, Interesting that both Job and Ethan talked about being forgotten in Sheol. Gehenna or Gehinnom is thought to be a small valley in Jerusalem. Ransom and redemption was exactly what YHWH planned and it was exactly what He would deliver! With a careful study of the text, you come to realize that Yeshua used this word, instead of Hades, to make a specific point. Will it go down with me to Sheol? Let my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry! O YHWH, why do You reject my soul? They knew of the Valley of Gei Hinnom and its connection to child sacrifice by fire to malevolent foreign gods. The only place outside of … In my distress I called upon YHWH, yes, I cried to my God; and from His temple He heard my voice, and my cry for help came into His ears.”. But you have been, , clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, , because you have ruined your country, you have slain your people. Couldn’t God go anywhere, if He pleased? “Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; it arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; it raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. The Bible uses words Hades, Sheol, and even Gehenna when referring to hell. To Heman, Sheol was a grave of forgetfulness, a dark pit where souls were rejected and cut off from YHWH, unable to see His face, and remembered no more. Selah. , according to the abominations of the nations whom YHWH had driven out before the sons of Israel. I was afflicted and about to die from my youth on; I suffer Your terrors; I am overcome. I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level; then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters will overflow the secret place. Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.”. The ultimate fate of the wicked is suffering outside of the gates of the New Jerusalem. Now they were Mary Magdalene and Joanna and Mary the mother of James; also the other women with them were telling these things to the apostles. … “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God. Death, chaos and destruction were what the Adversary loved and what YHWH despised. But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for He will receive me. Would He deliver our souls from the power of Sheol? It is the place of the final “2 nd death” of utter destruction. Death, chaos and destruction were what the Adversary loved and what YHWH despised. So here’s a list of all the verses where they are mentioned by name in the Bible, complete with an excerpt of that part of the verse. This word shows up twelve times in the New Testament (B’rit Chadashah) in four books: Matthew, Mark, Luke and James. Like Jonah, we must cry out to God before Sheol takes us and we lose out on the promise that one day, when our time on earth is done, we will meet YHWH face to face. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on His throne, he looked ahead and spoke of, is an English rendition of the Greek word. In most instances when Yeshua talked about Hell, the Greek word Hades was used by the Gospel writers. The Hebrew is “Ge-Hinnom.” This ravine or valley is just outside of Jerusalem to the southwest. After Yeshua’s death and resurrection, Peter delivered a poignant message. And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. After that pivitol moment, Yeshua was ready to declare His mission… He would be killed, but He would not be bound by Sheol. I cared for you in the wilderness, in the land of drought. O YHWH, You have brought up my soul from Sheol; You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit. What man can live and not see death? Gei Hinnom eventually becomes, in English. The treasured child that Hannah had was Samuel, the priest who would later anoint David as king. “My days are past, my plans are torn apart, even the wishes of my heart. After Yeshua was raised up onto the cross, He came down and was buried in the grave… but Sheol could not hold Him down. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing; and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “, how He spoke to you while He was still in Galilee, saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the, His words, and returned from the tomb and reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. In Luke 16:19-31, Jesus described the abode of the dead as having two compartments.One, a place of torment. Hades, to those living within Greek culture (as the early Messiah followers were), was the god of the dead and the underworld, and the place of the dead was named after him. He paid the price to set us free: And a man named Joseph, who was a member of the Council, a good and righteous man(he had not consented to their plan and action [to crucify Jesus]), a man from Arimathea, a city of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God; this man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. The Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem is basically a deep, fine narrow valley on the south end of Jerusalem. All Your breakers and billows passed over me. Job addressed this: “Remember that my life is but breath; my eye will not again see good. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! ^ par. Everyone dies and goes down to Sheol… even the patriarch Jacob knew he would go there, eventually. The earth and the works therein shall all be burned up (2 Peter 3:10), but they … Here was his response after he heard that his son Joseph had died (although really, he had not): So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days. He was not just speaking words, He was making the point visually. The New Testament term Gehenna renders the Hebrew place name Ge Hinnom, Valley of (the son of) Hinnom, immediately south of the walls of Jerusalem. Why do You hide Your face from me? They looked on the corpses (not bodies being tortured, just lifeless bodies) and it was unacceptable in their sight. But I, O YHWH, have cried out to You for help, and in the morning my prayer comes before You. SHEOL/HADES: THE PRESENT HELL. For. How could God save David from the grave? Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. The Devil. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know— this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death. Jesus used this word ten times as recorded in the New Testament. , that You would conceal me until Your wrath returns to You, that You would set a limit for me and. Yeshua stood in the village which held (many believed) the gate of Hades and he preached that the gate of Hades would never overcome his kingdom of followers. ( Log Out / , which I did not command, and it did not come into My mind. “Then they will go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. It comes from the root word abad, meaning to perish. The Anointed One became the Living One, and He was found nowhere amongst the dead. Is it too slight a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? The word Gehenna, “Hell” occurs twelve times in the New Testament. I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and. Hades is a Greek term used in the New Testament as a rough equivalent to the Hebrew word sheol and also describes the grave or location of the dead. Sheol, hades and hell are basically the same thing: "hell" is English, "sheol" is Hebrew "hades" is Greek; So let's use the word "hell" since that's our English word for it. This is a fascinating passage. Until the heavens are no longer, he will not awake nor be aroused out of his sleep. Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’”. The terms that are used: 'Sheol', 'Hades' and 'Gehenna… Though its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the dry soil, at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant. It was only toward the end of the OT period that Judaism developed the idea of a segregated Heaven and Hell, one where good people are rewarded and the other place where bad people are punished. Gehenna is NOT hell. And it shall be from and from sabbath to sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me,” says YHWH. Then Jonah prayed to YHWH his God from the stomach of the fish, and he said, “I called out of my distress to YHWH, and He answered me. We would no longer be chained to death or the grave. It’s fascinating that in the Gospel account of Mark, Yeshua started his diatribe about hell (or. ) Your wrath has rested upon me, and You have afflicted me with all Your waves…. But is it really possible to be separated from YHWH? ( Log Out / But if you believe in a Creator God who brought life out of nothing, then trust that He came to save and not to kill. Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? They are all mentioned in Scripture. Selah. As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, and being satisfied, their heart became proud; therefore they forgot Me…. They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness. . And it makes a big difference if the Bible is talking about one or the other. Return, O YHWH, rescue my soul; save me because of Your lovingkindness. They are all mentioned in Scripture. He was not just speaking words, He was making the point visually. He who believes in it will not be disturbed. …Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and he is like death, never satisfied. Whatever your thoughts of hell may be, the hope that believers should hold onto is this: We go to the grave, but it won’t hold us down. Here’s the thing, WE can’t find God in Sheol but HE can find us anywhere. Instead, the word gehenna refers to a literal place outside the walls of Jerusalem. She is the administrator of the website www.booklives.ca and is a library technician at the University of Prince Edward Island. WHAT IS “GEHENNA?” IS THAT THE SAME AS HELL? 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