Continuing our study of Bible prophecy, we returned to look at the Abyss again.
In Romans 10:7, the Lord Jesus is mentioned as coming up from the Abyss (ἄβυσσος). This is the place that the "free-range" demons begged the Lord not to send them to join their imprisoned compatriots (Luke 8:31).
It is the Pit, Sheol (שְׁאוֹל) that the pre-Christian rabbis translated as Hades (ᾅδης), and English translators sometimes translate as the grave and other times by hell (Isaiah 14:9).
The abode of the dead is a murky and mysterious place until the resurrection of the Lord Jesus (2 Timothy 1:10). It is a place of compartments (2 Peter 2:4; Jude 1:6). In his parable of the rich man and Lazarus, Jesus uses the Old Testament picture of Sheol, the Underworld with at least two compartments, one for the righteous (Luke 16:22), the other for the lost (Luke 16:23-26).
The eternal Son of God, without ceasing to be God, became a real and true human being (Hebrews 2:14-15, 17-18; 4:14-15). He experienced birth, life, and death. He not only died, he experienced what it was like to be dead, and having done so, he conquered death. This helps us understand John 11:26 in light of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus: No New Testament believer will ever experience what it is to be dead.
It also illustrates that a cosmic change took place when Jesus joined the dead (Matthew 27:50-53).
For some of these insights, I am indebted to my son's pastor, Gerrit Dawson, of First Presbyterian Baton Rouge, gleaned from his book, _Raising Adam_.
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After serving Grace Presbyterian Church in Alexandria, Louisiana, Bob was honorably retired on Sunday, September 27, 2015, and given the title "Pastor Emeritus." This was forty years to the day after he became their pastor.
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