The Spiritual World of Jezebel and Elijah by Brian Godawa

Author:Brian Godawa [Godawa, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942858461
Publisher: Embedded Pictures Publishing
Published: 2019-11-06T23:00:00+00:00

Sheol

Sheol was the Hebrew word for the underworld.[146] Though the Bible doesn’t contain any narratives of experiences in Sheol, it was nevertheless described as the abode of the dead that was below the earth. Sheol was sometimes used interchangeably with Abaddon as the place of destruction of the body (Proverbs 15:11; 27:20),[147] and the grave as a reference to the state of being dead and buried in the earth (Psalm 88:11; Isaiah 14:9-11). But it was also considered to be physically located beneath the earth.

When the sons of Korah were swallowed up by the earth for their rebellion against God, Numbers chapter 16 says that “they went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly” (v. 33). People would not “fall alive” into death or the grave and then perish if Sheol wasn’t a location. But they would die after they fell down into a location (Sheol) and the earth closed over them in that order.

The divine being (elohim), known as the departed spirit of Samuel, “came up out of the earth” for the witch of Endor’s necromancy with Saul (1 Samuel 28:13). This wasn’t a reference to a body coming out of a grave, but a spirit of the dead coming from the underworld beneath the earth.

When Isaiah writes about Sheol in Isaiah 14, he combines the notion of the physical location of the dead body in the earth (v. 11) with the location beneath the earth of the spirits of the dead (v. 9). It’s really a both/and proposition.

Isaiah 14:9, 11:

Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come; it rouses the shades to greet you…Your pomp is brought down to Sheol.

Here is a list of some verses that speak of Sheol geographically as an underworld habitation for spirits in contrast with heaven as an overworld habitation for spirits.

Amos 9:2:

“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.

Job 11:8 :

It is higher than heaven—what can you do? Deeper than Sheol—what can you know?

Psalm 139:8:

If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Isaiah 7:11:

Ask a sign of the LORD your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

These are not mere references to the body in the grave but to locations of the spiritual soul as well. Sheol and heaven are a dichotomous totality of geographical opposites. As the above verses attest, they are shown in the Bible to be opposing locations. Sheol is a combined term that describes both the grave for the body and the underworld location of the departed souls of the dead.

In the New Testament, the word Hades is used for the underworld, which was the Greek equivalent of Sheol.[148] Jesus himself used the term Hades as the location of damned spirits in contrast with heaven as the location of redeemed spirits when he

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