What does the Bible teach about sheol?

Question

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All the churches I have been to never touched on this subject. I would like to start up a bible study on it, but I dont have much information to go on. I also would really like to know what sheol is like now (after Jesus). Is that still were everyone goes? or did jesus take the rightous with him when he visited?

Answer 1

Sheol is the Hebrew equivalent of the Greek Hades, which means "the unseen world".

Sheol was regarded as an underground region ( Num 16:30,33, Amos 9:2 ), shadowy and gloomy, where disembodied souls had a conscious but dull and inactive existense ( 2 Sam 22:6, Eccl 9:20 ).

The Hebrew people regarded sheol as a place to which righteous and unrighteous go at death ( Gen 37:35, Ps 9:17, Is 38:10; death, Deut 32:22, the realm of death, NIV ), place where punishment is received and rewards are enjoyed. Sheol is pictured to have insatible appetite ( is 5:14, Hab 2:5, the grave, NIV)

However, God is present in sheol ( Ps 139:8, hell, NKJV the depths, NIV ). It is open and known to Him ( Job 26:6, Prov 5:11, Death, NIV). This suggests that in death God's people remain under His care, and wicked never escape His judgment. Sheol gives meaning to Psalm 16:10. Peter saw fulfillment of this messianic psalm in Jesus'resurrection ( Acts 2:27)

Answer 2

The word hell appears 31 times in the Old Testament, the other scriptures that mean the same thing use grave, pit, cave, tomb, sepulchre, burial place, sheol and hades mean identically the same as Acts 2:27-31; and in reality of it, hell in our language would be three [ 3 ] week after burial of the last deceased person, it is time to enter the cave, sepulchre, grave, burial place or tomb again with the next deceased person.
Death is:
Psm.49:14; 115:15-17; 146:3,4; All the kings slept with their fathers. In many ways an in many places it is sleep Luke 8:50,52,54,55; Jesus said, "sleep."
Job 19:25,26; 33:4,22; 34:14,15; Ps.104:29,30 [ the resurrection is as being created ]; The soul is the whole person if created, if born, if resurrected.
1Cor.15:22-28,51-53 [ 2 kinds of resurrections, the first for firstfruits is the heavenly for the new heavens, these resurrection the earthly for the new earth. Psm.6:5; 7:2; Isa.26:19; 45:18; 65:17; 66:1,22,23; Eze.37:12-14 [ THE LIFE IN EVERY SOUL IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD ALMIGHTY]; THE ONLY THING NONE CAN DESTROY. The spirit returns to God who gave it.
Num.16:22; Eccl.3:19-21; 12:7; Isa.42:5; James 2:26;
Rev.20:1-6,12,13;
No Satan 1000 years.
The heavenly first are with Jesus Rev.3:12; Heb.12:22-24; John 6:39,40,44; as those for the new heavens, to resurrect the earthly for the new earth Rev.21:1-5 [ all is made new ], 8 [ the second death ]; Rev.20:7-10; After the 1000 years ends, the earth is cleansed and No Satan, or Gog and Magog.
All enter into the kingdom paradise of God Rev.2:7;

ANGELS

Jude 6; 1Pet.3:18-20; 2Pet.2:4; These are in Tartarus prison hell and how bad can it be if Jesus went there to visit them, they sinned before the flood at Gen.6:2,4; They can not materialize again to do the same again.
So this and Acts 2:27-31; these hells have been covered, the other is Tophet, Gehenna or the valley of the son of Hinnom.
Death and burial by fire or burial by fire Jer.7:30,31; 19:2-5; Mar,9:42-48;
IMAGINATIONS:
Gen.8:21;
Luke 16:14-31;
Luke 16:16,17,29,31; Pay attention, believe what Moses and the law teaches, as the living dead and rich religios Pharisee leaders do not know what Moses teaches, but their living dead imaginations belongs to the world and mostly comes from Babylon Rev.18:1-6; Gen.3:19; God said dust to dust, the god of this worl 2Cor.4:3,4; Told Eve she would not surely die, so in imaginations is the living dead. Gen.13:2; Abraham was a rich man, no like the pharisees and their religions, by him all seed is blessed because the main seed is Jesus Heb.2:9,14,16; So Jesus put Lazarus where the rich pharisees think they will be, but Abraham's bosom is not heaven, and the imagination is just that.

Answer 3

Sheol: The Old Testament name for the place of departed souls, corresponding to the New Testament word "Hades." When translated "hell" it refers to the place of punishment, but when translated "grave" the reference is to the place of the dead in general. If often means the place or state of the soul between death and resurrection. The clearest indication of different conditions in Sheol is in Christ's parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31).

Answer 4

I've just searched an electronic NIV Bible and found no references to sheol. There is, of course, plenty of talk of Hell, and several refernces to Hades ("And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it." Mt 16:18 and many times in Revelation, both as a place and a person).

Answer 5

it is hell!