Sheol
(pronounced "Sheh-ole")
[1], in Hebrew שאול (Sh'ol), is the
"abode of the dead", the "underworld", or "pit".
[2], Sheol is the common destination of both the righteous and the unrighteous
dead, as recounted in Ecclesiastes and Job.
There are three
Greek words for our English word
"hell", Hades, Gehenna, and
Tartarus,
of which are rendered by the word prison.
Hades had a section
commonly known as "hell" and a compartment known as
"paradise," separated by "a great gulf fixed" (Luke 16:26).
Gehenna is used of our Lord in the warnings and "danger of hell fire"
that the "whole body should [not] be cast into hell" (Matt. 5:22,
29-30; etc.).
While
"tartarus" is found only one time (in 2 Peter 2:4), to describe the
intended purpose for this "hell":
Now if "TODAY" the thief
was to be with Christ in "Paradise" (Luke 23:43),
then it was at the
time of His death that he went to "Paradise."
Since Christ had
"not yet ascended to [His] Father" (John 20:17), and could therefore
not be "touched,"
it is more than logical that "Paradise"
was "
IN THE HEART OF THE EARTH",
where "the Son of man"
spent "three days and three nights" (Matt. 12:40).
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