When we read the words: Sheol, Hades, and Hell in the Bible, we automatically join them together as having the same relationship likewise to the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. However, these three words having totally separate meanings, and are identified by three separate accounts just as the Trinity.
We find the word Sheol in some of these Bible verses:
Psalm 89:48
What man can live and not see death? Can he deliver his soul for the power of Sheol? Selah.
Genesis 37:35
Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, "Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son." So his father wept for him.
Genesis 44:29
'If you take this one also from me, and harm befalls him, you bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.'
Psalm 18:5
The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.
Proverbs 1:12
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
Proverbs 30:16
Sheol, and the barren womb, Earth that is never satisfied with water, And fire that never says, "Enough."
Sheol is a not a place of torment, likewise to Hades and Hell, but it is death itself; the grave to be exact. Whether you are a righteous or unrighteous person; you will face Sheol. Sheol is appointed to each living person; it has an appointment with us that is inevitable. Sheol is sleep or rest for the body, where the soul is separate from it, either in paradise with God or in torment in Hades. Sheol like Hades and Hell, was not intended for man. We as mankind were to live forever; however, due to the fall of Adam, the grave was given rights to every man. The great news about Sheol is that it has been defeated by the life, blood, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We will not remain in the clutches of the grave if we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior; the righteous will rise again with both body and soul, to live upon the earth again forever.
Let us look at some Bible verses that contain the reference to the word Hades:
Revelation 20:13-14
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake fire.
Matthew 11:23
"And you, Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven, will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the miracles had occurred in Sodom which occurred in you, it would have remained to this day."
Luke 16:23
"In Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus in his bosom."
Acts 2:27
Because you will not abandon my soul to Hades, nor allow your Holy One to undergo decay.
Matthew 16:18
"I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it.
Hades is a place of torment for the soul but not the body which is left at the grave (Sheol). It is an intermediate place for the unrighteous; a holding place of horror until the Day of the Final Judgment, where both body and soul will rejoin itself before God. Hades is where the fallen angels reside; it is only a taste of Hell, but not Hell itself. It is appointed to each man the grave (Sheol) and after the grave, there is an immediate judgment. A person will go to Hades if they did not accept Jesus Christ as their Savior, nor lived a life of righteousness upon the earth. Many do not realize that accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior by mouth only, will only lead them to Hades. Jesus states that it is only those who obey His Father, that have truly accepted Him as their Lord and Savior (Romans 2:13, Matthew 7:21, 1 Peter 4:17). Upon everyone's acceptance of Christ as their Lord and Savior; their names are added to the Book of Life. However, without a genuine heart to live for Christ, a person's name is blotted out of the Book of Life, upon their arrival to the grave (Sheol). God is no FOOL, as loving and forgiving, as He may be. He gives time, and patience, to each person by the measure of their faith, to get it right with Him, before their death.
Psalm 69:28
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not be listed with the righteous.
Deuteronomy 29:20
"The Lord shall never be willing to forgive him, but rather the anger of the Lord and His jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse which is written in this book will rest on him, and the Lord will blot out his name for under heaven."
2 Kings 14:27
The lord did not say that He would blot out the name of Israel from heaven, but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
Hades is a place of darkness, fire, torture, profanity, screaming, yelling, stomach curling smells, rats, snakes, demons, clawing and ripping of flesh, worm infestation, high iron gates, pits, drought, thirst, desolation, remorse, separation from God, and NO HOPE. Yet, it is only temporary, awaiting its place in Hell.
Now, let's look at some Bible Verses that refer to Hell.
Revelation 21:8
But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars-their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.
Matthew 25:46
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.
Matthew 10:28
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Revelation 20:15
And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14
And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
Revelation 14:11
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Hell is the place or state of never ending fire and torment for both the body and soul which will have joined back together after the Final Judgment before God. After Hell, there will be no further judgment; it is an eternal state. Hell is where Satan, the fallen angels, and unrighteous people, will burn FOREVER.
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