Abraham and Lazarus

“Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’
(Luke 16:24-26) NKJV

We have spent considerable time on resolving all of the issues which pertain to the parable of Abraham and Lazarus. They aren’t in heaven, they’re in sheol. This isn’t metaphorical, it’s accurate geology.

July 13, 2020September 11, 2021

The Witch of Endor

Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, in his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the spiritists out of the land.
Then the woman said, “Whom shall I bring up for you?” And he said, “Bring up Samuel for me.”
And the king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What did you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I saw a spirit ascending out of the earth.”
And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up?
(1 Samuel 28:3, 11, 13, 15) KJV

You may be skeptical of the idea that there’s an underworld realm of the dead deep in the interior of the Earth, or that the souls of the Old Testament saints had to wait there for the messiah. That’s understandable.

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020

The Days Before Noah

Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire, and it devoured the great deep, and did eat up a part.
(Amos 7:4) KJV

The longsuffering of God waited in the days before Noah. Noah’s flood saw the waters of the deep (tehom), being boiled out from under the Earth creating the open space that Jesus referred to as the great gulf (sheol).

July 13, 2020July 13, 2020

Rebellious Angels

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
(Jude 1:6) NKJV

The angels who didn’t keep their former domain are the rebellious angels who were cast out of heaven with Satan. We’ve made the case that the everlasting chains which they were bound by are Mosaic gravity.

July 13, 2018July 16, 2022

July 13th

Spirits in Prison

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
(1 Peter 3:19-20) KJV

Jesus descended into the lower parts of the Earth. We can resolve this as being a place in the lower mantle, euphemistically called “Abraham’s bosom” the location that he described in Luke 16.