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The Nether Parts of the Earth

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

(Ezekiel 31:18) KJV

Yesterday we took a detour to slam dunk relativistic time dilation as proof of the Bible. Today we’re going back to our discussion of a possible transition in the internal structure of the Earth when tehom became sheol.

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Graves and Pits

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

(Psalms 30:3) KJV

We are discussing the repercussions of the fall of man on the physical system of creation. One of the repercussions was the start of radioactive decay. This in turn is the beginning of hell, since the explosive rate of decay, concentrated at the core of the earth, caused the core to melt. This is the beginning of hell. We have now put this in the context of the rest of history with a leisurely stroll through the history of the expansion of hell over the last week or so.

We have built a very strong case for the existence of hell in the center of the earth by relating it to the major physical events in the history of the earth. This has been driven by scripture that describes these events. We start with the creation of gravity on the second day as the foundation of the earth which becomes hell. Scripture provides many clues about the changes to the earth over its history and up to the present day.

Let’s take a look at some of the scripture that describes hell and where it is as a way of confirming what is becoming a highly elaborate hypothesis for the cause of global warming. In its historical context the book of Job is the oldest book of the Bible. Genesis records for us an account of the creation, but it was written by Moses, who was many generations after the life of Job. Job was probably a contemporary of Abraham. It is clear that the people of this time had a clear concept of souls and what happens to them after the death of the body: they go to sheol. So what and where is sheol? The context of the verses below is that God has the power to keep the soul from going to sheol.

He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

(Job 33:18) KJV

In this passage we are told that the soul can go to “the pit,” and the word in the passage translated as “sword,” is elsewhere rendered as sheol. Essentially this is speaking about the pit of sheol. Pits are holes in the ground, so we are talking about someplace deep in the earth where souls go.

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.

(Job 33:22) KJV

This time the word “grave,” is a translation of the Hebrew sheol. Graves are holes in the ground, like pits, so once again we are placing sheol deep within the earth.

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

(Job 33:24) KJV

Once again a statement of God’s power to save the soul of an individual from going into sheol.

He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

(Job 33:28) KJV

Here the outcome of the soul going into the pit of sheol is connected with light and darkness. Sheol is darkness.

To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

(Job 33:30) KJV

Here we see a statement that the Lord is able to bring back a soul from the pit of sheol. There is clearly some nuance of meaning here that may be obscured by the various references to the pit, sword, and grave which are all translations of sheol. It should be obvious that sheol is a dark pit where souls go, but some are saved from it and others are not. Not only that, but it is not always a permanent outcome since souls can be brought back from it. As confusing as this may be it is completely compatible with the Matty’s Paradigm model of the interior of the earth. There is a sheol that you can’t come back from (the pit or molten core), and there is one that you can come back from (the grave or bosom of Abraham). The difference is whether or not you are reconciled to God. If you are saved from the pit you go to the grave.

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The Bottomless Pit

Cutaway of planet Earth showing the crust, mantle, great gulf and hell.

And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

(Revelation 9:1-2) KJV

A gravitational singularity at the center of the Earth stopped time. If time slows down the closer we get to it, then we’ll never get there. It’s a relativistic conundrum, and the center of the Earth has an event horizon.

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The Lowest Hell

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

(Psalms 86:13) KJV

I am making the case that hell is real but I am also attempting to show that this is the result of natural processes. This means by necessity knowing the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. The only way to know what the earth may have looked like in the past is by what we can see here in the present. This should be pretty obvious but it seems appropriate to point it out. Yesterday I described the current structure of the earth and related it to scripture, however, technically, this month we are looking at what the Bible says happened immediately after the fall of man. There are actually some steps involved in going from the earth as it was at the fall of man to the earth as it is today, so I will give you a brief synopsis.

I’m trying not to get ahead of myself, but on the other hand It’s probably a good idea to have a grasp of the context. I’m also trying to make my posts shorter than they have been getting, so rather than try to cover the whole sequence in one post, we’ll split it up over the next week of posts.

  1. The 2nd Day
  2. Before the Fall (you are here)
  3. The Cursed Earth
  4. Before Noah’s flood
  5. Noah’s flood
  6. Enduring Noah’s flood
  7. Pangaea
  8. The Time of Peleg
  9. Present day

Today’s image shows a proposed internal structure for the earth at the time when creation is completed and before the fall of man. For each physical feature on the diagram I have links to the posts which discuss how the explanation was deduced.

As you can see from the diagram, there is no hell. Hell was not part of the original created earth.

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The Midst Of Hell

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.

(Ezekiel 32:21) KJV

In the King James version of the Bible the word hell occurs 54 times. In the Old Testament this is a translation of the Hebrew word sheol – שְׁא֣וֹל. In the New Testament the word hell is a translation of three Greek words: hades– ᾅδῃ, tartarus – ταρταρώσας and gehenna – γέενναν. I will explain how all of these words relate to the internal structure of the earth or, in one case, why it doesn’t.

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The Great Gulf

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

(Luke 16:26) KJV

The great gulf is a translation of the Greek chasma mega (mega chasm) and it only occurs once when Jesus tells the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The passage, Luke 16:19-31, describes a conversation between Lazarus and Abraham who are in sheol, across the great gulf to the rich man who’s in the molten core of the Earth.

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There is a Great Gulf Fixed

And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

(Luke 16:26) KJV

Hell is located at the center of the Earth. Its position and size are verified by seismological data. There is a great gulf of open space between the surface of hell and the inner surface of the lower mantle.

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March 12th

The Ends of the Earth

God alone knows the way,
Knows the place where wisdom is found,
Because he sees the ends of the earth,
Sees everything under the sky.

(Job 28:23-24) Good News Translation

If the Earth has ends does that mean it has to be flat? No, because “end” is a translation of a word which means “extremity or furthest reaches of” in which case we’re talking about the beach.

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