there you go getting all sideways heading off in another direction.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HELL not heaven please answer questions regarding hell
this is per your scripture
Let me reference you to the following words: Pit = Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to
hell, to the sides of the pit.
Can you give me an idea of whom this verse is speaking about and to what hell is in reference to?
Graves =Eze 32:23 Whose
graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about
her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
So we have pit, as hell as well as the graves. So far no reference to some eternal prison of which I speak of right?
2Sa 22:6 The
sorrows of hell compassed me about; the
snares of death prevented me;
Hmmm... hell here is an on going thing as "compassed me about"?
= A great gulf span between the two? Job 11:8 It
is as high as heaven; what canst thou do?
deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
Hell = nakedness/destruction Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and
destruction hath no covering.
Selective hell? Psa 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
And the good? Where do they go if this reference is the grave?
Not leave my soul in hell = Psa 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
The bible tells us that the body of Jesus was not left in hell, if here meant the grave, because came out of the tomb, meaning His body did not see corruption as like our does.
So what reference is hell in that verse meant?
You mean that there is degrees of hell? Psa 86:13 For great is thy mercy toward me: and
thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
Pro 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
We shall begin now to paint the picture of just where this place is begining with this verse as prphecied: Pro 23:14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
"beat him with the rod" in reference to Jesus being beaten by man (rule of man).
But God shall deliver His soul from hell.
Jesus was buried in a tomb as the custom was, so that reference of hell there does not apply.
This one applies to Jesus: Again prophesied: Isa 14:9
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee,
even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Hmmmm..; like in .....they are all waiting?
For what?
Looks like the strong among the mighty speak to whom, as perhaps a place where they are trapped in and in need of escape?
Eze 32:21 The
strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
Who is it that they are waiting for? Is it because they are like prisoners of something they themselves can not find the way of escape?
The one crying out of the Belly of hell? Jon 2:2 And said,
I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
This Jesus, as like all others sent to hell (The abode of the departed spirits without escape) with the sins of the whole world to deliver them from their prison: Hos 6:2
After two days will he revive us: in
the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
You mean, from the grave, the pit, sheol, or whatever term one wants to define what transpired as not being a prison or a holding place?
The reason why Jesus was raised on the third day?
Mat 16:21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed,
and be raised again the third day.
Rev 1:18
I am he that
liveth, and
was dead; and, behold,
I am alive for evermore, Amen; and
have the keys of hell and of death.
Keys to the grave....you think?
Or do you suppose to something other than the grave, like a prison maybe? Hmmm...keys = something to unlock or lock?
We still all die don't we? We still go down to the grave or get cremated?
Then what is the difference?
You want to stick to definitions, then guess what?
That where you will remain without any understanding.
If after what I just pointed out to you does not interest you any, then I have nothing else to say.
I heard a story once about two boys leaning by a large wood fence guarding a big bra-ma bull grasing in the pasture.
The one said to the other in a challenge, daring him to just go inside the fence to test his bravery.
Of course, not to show fear, he stepped in side the fenced area.
Seeing that he did it, the other boy said, well....get close to the bull.
He did. still nothing happened.
The challenger said yet again, grab the bulls tail.
Oh, I get it said the he, what you want is for the bull to attack me with his horns.
The point is that unless the bull (Hell word) attacks me directly, you will not believe a word I say.
It is evident, that the bull would give me allot of hell if I just pull his tail.
But as it is, I know without pulling his tail what hell really is, and you are still prompting.
Sorry, that's the way it is.
Blessings, AJ