My servant Isaiah has been going around too sexy for YouTube for three years. (Isaiah 20:3) Paraphrased
I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
(Hosea 13:14) KJV
A word frequently translated as the grave is the Hebrew שְׁא֣וֹל – sheol, but sheol is far more than just the grave. The grave is a portal into the underworld realm of the dead.
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– Matty
Volcanic activity is causing the earth to rise in Oregon, scientists have found. Though whether such uplift is a sign of an imminent eruption remains uncertain.
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– Matty
Underground heat is cooking the Thwaites Glacier from below, and could push it closer to collapse.
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And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
(Luke 16:23) KJV
We’ve made an extensive study of the ways in which the interior of the Earth is described in Old Testament Hebrew, but how is it described in New Testament Greek? The doctrine isn’t as well developed but it overlaps harmoniously.
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To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
(Ezekiel 31:14) KJV
If you know anything about Old Testament Hebrew you’ll be familiar a form of writing known as the couplet. Is there a triplet? Ezekiel uses triplets to educate us about a descent into the interior of the Earth.
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Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry.
(Psalms 18:7) ESV
Our model of the interior of the Earth groups the various ways which the Hebrew words erets (earth), tebel (world) and sheol (hell) are modified in alignment with the regions of the Earth deduced from seismology.
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Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities.
(Isaiah 14:21) ESV
The Bible includes many references to physical features and structures in the Earth’s crust and on the surface.
| Usage | Transliteration | Scripture | Post |
| Coasts of the earth | yerekah erets | Jeremiah 25:32 | 3/12 |
| Corners of the earth | 3/12 | ||
| Dry land | yabbashah | Genesis 1:9-10 | 3/3 |
| Earth | erets | Genesis 1:10 | 3/13 |
| Earth above the waters | erets | Psalms 136:6 | 3/6 |
| Eden, East of Eden | eden | Genesis 2:8-15; 3:23 | 3/4 |
| Ends of the earth | qatsah erets | Job 28:24 | 3/12 |
| Face of the world | paneh tebel | Isaiah 14:21 | |
| Farthest parts of the earth | yerekah erets | Jeremiah 25:32 | 3/12 |
| Fountains of the great deep | mayanah | Genesis 7:11 | 3/6 |
| Grave | sheol | Psalms 30:3 | 3/13 |
| Ground | adamah | Genesis 3:23 | 3/13 |
| Heads (headwaters) | rosh | Genesis 2:10 | 3/4 |
| Highest part | rosh | Proverbs 8:26 | 3/4 |
| Sea | |||
| Sides of the earth | yerekah erets | Jeremiah 6:22 | 3/12 |
| Waterspouts (waterfalls) | tsinnuwr | Psalms 42:7 | 3/5 |
| World | tebel | Proverbs 8:26; 31 | 3/13 |
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
(Psalms 86:13) KJV
The ancient Hebrews had a well developed idea of life after death. For them death, the grave, was a portal into a complex underworld realm. The grave is just the beginning of what happens next.
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to him who spread out the earth above the waters, for his steadfast love endures forever;
(Psalms 136:6) ESV
You can scratch your head all day pondering the spiritual truth behind a supposed metaphor, or you can take it literally and deduce that the Earth above the waters refers to the crust and mantle.
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For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
(Psalms 86:13) KJV
The levels of hell aren’t what you think. However, they’re what we would expect. The Hebrews had a well developed idea of life after death. For them physical death, the grave, was a portal into a complex underworld realm: sheol.
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