Re: DOWNLOAD FREE BOOK THE AMAZING GRACE OF THE HIDDEN WORD - Linda Lee

Kendall,

The Greek's concept of Hell had three parts. In Greek terms, John's
statement about hell and death being thrown into the lake of fire would
be - Hades and Tartaros will be thrown into Gehenna.

Luke 16 does indicate that Hell (here translated from the word Hades)
is a place of "torments" - since they are in spirit form it would have
to be emotional or spiritual torment. But which is worse? Physical or
emotional or spiritual torment? They can all be overwhelmingly
torturous.

The man's spirit in Luke 16 in Hades was not tormented with 'fire'. NT
scripture here indicates there are two states one's spirit can be in in
Sheol (as Hades). One a state of rest, here called being in Abraham's
bosom, and one not too restful at all. But before the incarnation and
resurrection, both states in which a spirit resided involved a
separation from God. After the resurrection, when the Messiah, as he
said, supplied the keys to 'hell and death', those in a state of rest
would have been allowed entry into Heaven.

The Hebrew Sheol (sometimes translated Hell) had three parts also, but
'the lake of fire' (of which the Greek's Gehenna is symbolic) was not a
part of their Hell.

The Messiah said they did not understand their own scriptures. At one
point, he told them they were already in 'the world of the dead' (a
part of Sheol).

The Messiah informs us that we are already in the world of the dead by
saying in Matt. 8:22 "let the dead bury their dead". Only those on
Earth in the flesh are able to "bury their dead". Those in this
world who are yet unsaved are already dead because their body and
spirit are under a death sentence. Many other scriptures in the Old
and New Testament indicate that this flesh life is a part of Hell.
When the Messiah said, "let the dead bury their dead", his words
were mysterious even to the Hebrews to whom he spoke because they did
not understand the concept of Sheol and did not realize they were
already trapped in it.

Sheol (the Hebrew word translated as 'hell') contains three parts.
The fallen remain in one or another part of Sheol until the end of time
when God will cast death and Hell into 'the lake of fire'.

Sheol as 'the world of the dead' is the physical life on Earth in
the flesh after birth. This world is where the flesh of everyone who
enters through the womb will someday die. If God does not intervene,
those who die will also suffer the second death of their spirit. Life
in the flesh in this world on the Earth is "the world of the dead".

Sheol as 'the pit', also called the bottomless pit, is the womb.
We all enter the physical world through the womb.

Sheol as 'the grave' is the realm of the unseen unsaved spirits
after the death of the flesh. This state is called 'the grave'
because it is the realm the spirit enters when their deceased bodies
are put in the grave. 'The grave' part of Sheol is equivalent to
the Greek concept of Hades. (Luke Chapter 16 indicates that, before
the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Saviour, there were two
different dimensions that the spirits of deceased people could inhabit,
one dimension of peace for those who had been righteous (i.e.
worshipped God) and one dimension of torments for those who had been
unrighteous. Those 'in torments' await rebirth into the flesh.
Both realms still involved separation from God in Heaven.)

In Rev. 3:12, the Spirit of the resurrected Messiah says, "Him that
overcometh ...he shall go no more out". After the Messiah
resurrected into Heaven, those who have overcome the lies of the Devil
would resurrect into Heaven and would "go no more out" into the
world in the flesh.

Sheol (Hell) is the life in the womb, physical life after birth, and
the after-life of unsaved spirits in 'the grave' part of Sheol
after their deaths.

'Hades' ('the grave' part of Sheol that contains the unsaved
spirits) is the Greek word translated as "hell" in the New
Testament in relation to a man who has died and is in the
"torments" of "hell". In Luke 16:19-31, during the Messiah's
incarnation, he tells a parable about a man who died and was in spirit
form, but was "in hell" and "in torments". This man's spirit
was able to see Lazarus "afar off" and to communicate with him.

Lazarus was also in spirit form, but his righteous spirit was not in
torment because Lazarus had obtained liberation from Sheol. The spirit
of Lazarus was in the same realm as the spirit of Abraham (whom God had
blessed). In Luke 16:26, the spirit of Abraham says to the spirit of
the man in torment, "...between us and you there is a great gulf
fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither
can they pass to us, that would come from thence." The spirit of the
man who felt tormented was in 'the grave' part of Sheol that
contains the unseen unsaved spirits, i.e. evil spirits. The spirit of
Lazarus was in the realm of righteous spirits wherein the spirit of
Abraham resided.

The Messiah undoubtedly implemented the name of Lazarus for this
parable because of the meaning of that name. The name Lazarus means
one whom God helps and surrounds with protection.

God allowed the 'god' (i.e. angel/spirit) of the righteous prophet
and judge Samuel to ascend "out of the earth", and to be
"disquieted" from his 'rest' in the afterlife, in order to
appear to King Saul to deliver him a message from God (I Sam.
28:11-19).

In Job 17:13-16, Job speaks of "the grave" that awaited all mankind
and says of the heathen, "They shall go down to the bars of the pit,
when our rest together is in the dust". (Job, a perfect and
righteous man would receive rest, but the wicked would not be in the
same realm of 'the grave'.)

In these verses in Job, "the grave" that awaited all fallen mankind
in the flesh was a translation of the same Hebrew word translated
elsewhere as 'hell' - 'Sheol' - Heb. 7585. The word here
translated as the 'pit' is a translation of 'Sheol', as well,
and here means 'the womb' part of Sheol.

The word here translated in the KJV Bible as the 'bars' of 'the
pit' - Heb. 905 - means in part "separation; by impl. a part of
the body", apart, by self, alone, and bar, and in its root form means
"be solitary:--alone".

Job says the unsaved would return to "the bars of the pit" (the
physical life in the womb) while the righteous received rest after
death. Those who "shall go down to the bars of the pit" (alone in
the flesh body in the womb) are separated from God by their physical
bodies and await eventual death of the spirit if they remain unsaved.

In Ezek. 31:15-17, God compares the impending doom of the Pharaoh and
Egypt to the fall of Assyria and the fall of Satan, saying, "he went
down to the grave ...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
....They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with
the sword, and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in
the midst of the heathen."

The word here translated as the 'grave' is a translation of the
word 'Sheol' (meaning Hell) as the afterlife of the unsaved.

The word here translated 'cast' - Heb 3381 - is defined in part
as "to descend (lit. to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower
region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc. or fig. to fall")
i.e. the fall of Satan and the angels.

When Satan perverted God's angels, God "cast him down to hell with
them". "They also went down into hell with him ...in the midst of
the heathen." Satan and the fallen angels became "the heathen"
- fallen mankind whom God had cast into Sheol.

God is identifying "the heathen" (the Gentile nations) as the
angels who fell with Satan from Heaven to Hell. Fallen "heathen"
people's spirits are confined in 'the grave' part of Sheol at
death to await birth (or re-birth) in Adamic flesh.

This scripture's comparison of the fallen Satan with those
"heathen" who are "slain with the sword" indicates that God
cast Satan into 'the grave' part of Sheol. When Satan was "cast
down" out of Heaven, Satan warred against "the inhabiters of the
earth" (Rev. 12:10-12), but those who dwelt in Heaven (unfallen
angels) rejoiced at his absence.

God reveals He has driven Satan out because of his wickedness (Ezek.
31:11). Those angels who followed Satan into wickedness and had become
"all the people of the earth" have left their leader. Ezek. 31:12
says of Satan, "...all the people of the earth are gone down from his
shadow, and have left him."

In Ezek. 31:14, in comparing the heathen Assyrians and Egyptians to
those angels who followed Satan into sin, God says, "they are all
delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of
the children of men, with them that go down to the pit."

The word here translated as the 'pit' is Heb. 953 - defined as a
pit, a prison, and a cistern (In the English, 'cistern' anatomically
meaning, "a sac or cavity containing a natural body fluid" - such
as the impregnated womb.

The word here translated as 'nether' - Heb. 8482 - is defined
in part as lower part, nether part, the "lower most", "the
depths, (fig. a pit, the womb)". This definition of 'nether'
identifies 'the pit' as being a figurative expression meaning
"the womb".

This scripture in Ezek. 31:14 indicates the fallen were delivered into
'the grave' part of Sheol ("delivered unto death") to await
rebirth on the Earth through the womb ("to the nether parts of the
earth" and "to the pit") in flesh God had formed ("in the midst
of the children of men" - Adamic mankind).

Sorry that's so long, Kendall. 'Hell' is a more complicated concept
than just the fiery hell as often thought. There's I think 30 pages on
Sheol - The Hidden Hell in my book The Amazing Grace of the Hidden
Word, and it also addresses the Greek concept of Hell in more detail,
as well.

Linda Lee
.

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