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The Prince of Peace 4 powerful names for our Savior. Heaven, hell, death, hope, eternity. Add a note optional. Having trouble logging into your account? Try resetting your password. If that doesn't work, please contact our customer service team. Nevertheless you [Satan] will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. Tartarus is another New Testament name for Abaddon. The Greek word Tartarus appears in 2 Peter For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell [Tartarus], putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment.
The answer is heaven or paradise in the Old Testament era and in the New Testament era. In the Old Testament heaven is pictured as being above while Sheol is below. In 2 Kings , God took the prophet Elijah up to heaven in a fiery chariot to be with Him forever. Scripture also says that God took Enoch up to heaven Genesis ; Hebrews King David gives us the answer when he says that heaven is above and Sheol is below. Psalm NASB.
Sheol has no holding power over the spirit of a righteous person. The New Testament refers to paradise and heaven as the place where the spirits of the godly exist after physical death. The word heaven appears times in the gospels alone and times in the New Testament. Jesus told us that God the Father resides in heaven Matthew Mark says that the angels are in heaven. But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.
But according to His promise we are looking for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.. Jesus promised the thief that he would go to paradise. The thief believed in Jesus, and as a result, the thief was saved from the penalty of his sins.
This is a great example that salvation is a gift. It is not something we can earn. The thief just believed, trusted Jesus, and as a result he went to paradise Revelation The next time the word paradise occurs is in 2 Corinthians Paul tells us that once he was taken up to the third heaven.
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago — whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows — such a man was caught up to the third heaven. And I know how such a man — whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows — was caught up into Paradise, and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak. The Jews considered the first heaven to be our earthly atmosphere. The second heaven was outer space and the third heaven is what we normally call heaven.
In Acts the apostles saw Jesus ascend upward into heaven. Paradise is another word for heaven. Death is wonderful for Old and New saints. When New Testament saints or Christians die now, 2 Corinthians teaches that we go immediately to be with the Lord Jesus in heaven.
But we do not have resurrection bodies. Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord — for we walk by faith, not by sight — We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. Today there are many Christians in heaven.
Some day in the future Jesus Christ will descend briefly in order to rapture all living Christians up to heaven just before the Tribulation Period starts. When this happens, all Christians who are alive on earth at that time will meet Christ in the air,. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Every Christian since Pentecost will be instantly changed and receive immortal or heavenly bodies.
When He comes to earth second coming of Christ for the battle of Armageddon at the end of the tribulation period every Christian and Old Testament saint will join Him Revelation and we will reign with Him in an earthly kingdom for 1, years Revelation Old Testament saints will receive their resurrection bodies at the start of the 1, years earthly kingdom Revelation After the 1, years a rebellion will occur and everyone involved will be swiftly defeated and the universe will be destroyed 2 Peter ; Revelation New Heaven and New Earth.
God has prepared a wonderful place for the saints of the ages. Revelation calls this place the new heaven and new earth. It is new since the old universe will have been destroyed. It is a place of joy, comfort, peace and harmony. There will no longer be suffering of any kind. It will be a place of eternal joy Revelation ; Revelation states that the Tree of Life is in a place called Paradise. Where is Paradise?
The answer is found in Revelation Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, coming from the throne of God and of the Lamb, in the middle of its street.
On either side of the river was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. There will no longer be any curse; and the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and His bond-servants will serve Him. Paradise is the New Heaven and New Earth. That is where every saint will live for forever. Wow, what a great place in which to live.
In summary, we are told that the bodies of Christians will be buried in Hades or the grave and our bodiless spirits will go to heaven. We will wait until the rapture occurs at which time we receive our immortal bodies and continue living in heaven. At the second coming of Christ, He will descend from heaven to the battle of Armageddon with all of the saints of all the ages.
It will be a victory celebration. Then the Old Testament saints will receive their immortal bodies and we will reign with Jesus for 1, years. Then God the Father will destroy the universe and everyone who has rejected Jesus Christ will be judged at the great White Throne Judgment. Then we will enter the New Heaven and New Earth, which will last forever. That is unfortunate since Hell refers to the place where the spirits of the unrighteous dead go and not the grave. The grave is where dead bodies go.
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