From Passover to Shavuot

(Crucifixion) to (Pentecost)
the foreshadowing
Passover/Crucifixion
Saved from death

3rd day - Red Sea/Resurrection

Delivered unto Life
 From Passover to Shavuot
(Crucifixion) to (Pentecost)
the foreshadowing
40 days – Moses on Sinai/
Jesus on earth
Law/Grace

50 days – Law given to Israel/

Holy Spirit given to Church
Old covenant/New Covenant
Three days in the Tomb

Lazarus – 4 days
John 11: 17

Jesus - 3 days in the earth

Matthew 12: 38-41
 The Apostle’s Creed
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
    the Maker of heaven and earth,
    and in Jesus Christ, His only Son,
our Lord:
Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,
    born of the virgin Mary,
    suffered under Pontius Pilate,
    was crucified, dead, and buried;
He descended into hell.
 The third day He arose again from the
dead;
He ascended into heaven,
    and sitteth on the right hand of God
the Father Almighty;
    from thence he shall come to judge the
quick and the dead.
 I believe in the Holy Ghost;
    the holy catholic church;
    the communion of saints;
    the forgiveness of sins;
    the resurrection of the body;
    and the life everlasting.
Amen.
 The Athanasian Creed
37. For as the reasonable soul and flesh is
one man, so God and man is one Christ;
38. Who suffered for our salvation,
descended into hell, rose again the third
day from the dead;
39. He ascended into heaven, He sits on
the right hand of the Father, God,
Almighty;
40. From thence He shall come to judge
the quick and the dead.
 He descended into hell
Ascended – led captives
in His train
Descended to the lower,
earthly regions
Ephesians 4: 7-10
Preached to the spirits
in prison
I Peter 3: 18-22
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek

“I will go down to the grave (sheol)

to my son.”

Genesis 37: 34-35

 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek

“…hide me in sheol.”
Set a time & remember me
“If a man dies, will he live again?”
“I will wait for my renewal to come.”
Job 14: 13-14
He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek

Death = sheol
Destruction = Abaddon

Job 26: 6
Revelation 9: 11
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
Not the abyss!!
Tartarus
Eternal lake of fire/sulfur
Luke 8: 30-31 Matthew 25: 41
II Peter 2: 4 Revelation 20: 10
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
“you will not abandon me to sheol”
“He was not abandoned to hades”

Psalm 16: 7-11

Acts 2: 24-32
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek

“…if I make my bed in sheol,

You are there.”

Psalm 139: 7-8

 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
“Sheol is all astir to
meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits
of the departed to greet you-”
Isaiah 14: 9-10
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
Multitudes asleep in the dust
An awakening
A separation, based on a book
Daniel 12: 1-2
Revelation 20
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
“I will ransom them
from the power of sheol;
I will redeem them from death.”

Hosea 13: 14
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
“Though they dig down
to the depths of sheol,
from there My hand will take them.”

Amos 9: 2
 He descended into hades
Sheol / Hades
Hebrew Greek
“From the depths of sheol
I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.”
Jonah 2: 1-2
“…so the Son of Man will be
three days and three nights
in the heart of the earth.” Matthew 12: 38-41
Three Days in the Tomb
The king’s forest/garden
Hebrew = pardec
Greek Septuagint = paradeisos
Nehemiah 2: 8
 Three Days in the Tomb
Greek = paradeisos
“Today you will be with Me
in paradeisos.” Luke 23: 43

“…caught up to paradeisos”
II Corinthians 12: 4

Tree of life in the paradeisos of God

Revelation 2: 7
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Hebrew = pardec Greek = paradeisos

The place of spiritual reward

for the righteous is often referred to
in Hebrew as Gan Eden (GAHN ehy-DEHN)
(the Garden of Eden).
This is not the same place where
Adam and Eve were;
it is a place of spiritual perfection.
http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm
 Three Days in the Tomb
Hebrew = pardec Greek = paradeisos

Only the very righteous go directly

to Gan Eden. The average person descends
to a place of punishment and/or
purification, generally referred to as
Gehinnom (guh-hee-NOHM)
(in Yiddish, Gehenna), but sometimes
as She'ol or by other names.
 Three Days in the Tomb
Hebrew = pardec Greek = paradeisos

The period of time in Gehinnom does not

exceed 12 months, and then ascends
to take his place on Olam Ha-Ba.
(The World to Come)
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Hebrew = pardec Greek = paradeisos
Only the utterly wicked do not ascend
at the end of this period; their souls are
punished for the entire 12 months.
Sources differ on what happens at the end
of those 12 months: some say that the
wicked soul is utterly destroyed and ceases
to exist while others say that the soul
continues to exist in a state of
consciousness of remorse.
 Three Days in the Tomb
Abraham’s side/lap/bosom
In hades, where he was in torment
He is comforted, you are in agony
Separated by a great fixed gulf/chasm

Luke 16: 19-31

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Roman Catholic - Purgatory
Purgatory (Lat., "purgare", to make clean, to purify
in accordance with Catholic teaching is a
Place or condition of temporal punishment
for those who, departing this life in God’s grace,
are, not entirely free from venial faults,
or have not fully paid the satisfaction due
to their transgressions.
www.newadvent.org
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Roman Catholic - Purgatory
he living aid the dead by their prayers
and works of satisfaction
Whether our works of satisfaction performed
on behalf of the dead avail purely out of God’s
benevolence and mercy, or whether God obliges
himself in justice to accept our vicarious atonement
s not a settled question.
www.newadvent.org
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Roman Catholic - Purgatory

indulgences may be applied to the souls

detained in purgatory
our prayers and our sacrifices can help those
who are still waiting in purgatory

www.newadvent.org
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Mormon – Baptism for the Dead
Many people have died without receiving
a valid baptism, and they cannot undergo
this precious ritual as mere spirits.
"Because all on the earth do not have
the opportunity to accept the gospel
during mortality, the Lord has authorized
baptisms performed by proxy for the dead.

www.ldschurchtemples.com/
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Mormon – Baptism for the Dead
Therefore, those who accept the gospel in the spirit
world may qualify for entrance into God's kingdom
One thing that should be made perfectly clear
about Mormon baptisms for the dead is that
each deceased soul has the personal choice
o accept or reject it.

www.ldschurchtemples.com/
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Mormon – Baptism for the Dead

There is nothing in Mormonism that states

that the person who is being baptized by proxy
must accept this ordinance;
he or she is simply given the opportunity to choose

www.ldschurchtemples.com/
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Jehovah’s Witnesses – Hell is the grave

“…true believers will enjoy paradise on earth

while 144,000 of the anointed rule with Jesus
in heaven. Others will be annihilated,
not punished eternally, since Hell is the grave.”

Amarillo Globe News 7/16/11

Also see: www.watchman.org/jw/jwafterl.htm
 Three Days in the Tomb
Sheol/Hades

Place of departed dead, relatives

Genesis 37: 35

Temporary – then released

Job 14: 13-14

Not final/eternal
Job 26: 6
Revelation 20: 10
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Sheol/Hades

David/Jesus not abandoned there

Psalm 16: 10
Acts 2: 31
God can go there
Psalm 139: 8

Righteous & unrighteous

Psalm 139: 8
Isaiah 14: 9
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Sheol/Hades

Temporary – waiting for ‘separation’

Daniel 12: 1-2

God will ransom, redeem, release

Hosea 13: 14
Amos 9: 2
Job 14: 13-14
 Three Days in the Tomb
Sheol/Hades

Immediate, knowing afterlife

Luke 23: 43

Divided – righteous > comfort

unrighteous > agony
Un-crossable gulf Luke 16: 25-26
 S e p a r a tio n (Bo d y fr o m S o u l) HEAVEN
Hebrews 9: 27
Revelation 20: 12 GOD
HADES (SHEOL)
EVERLASTING
(Abode of the Disembodied) J LIFE
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PARADISE D
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Luke 16: 19-31 & Luke 23: 43

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 Three Days in the Tomb
Sheol/Hades
“…death and Hades gave up the dead”
Revelation 20: 13-15
“And I hold the keys
to death and Hades.”
Revelation 1: 18
“He who overcomes will not be hurt
at all by the second death.”
Revelation 2: 11; 21: 8
 Three Days in the Tomb
Ascended – led captives
in His train
Descended to the lower,
earthly regions
Ephesians 4: 7-10
Psalm 68: 17-18
 Three Days in the Tomb
“On this mountain
he will destroy the shroud
that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
he will swallow up death forever.”
Isaiah 25: 6-8
I Corinthians 15: 54-57
 Three Days in the Tomb
“…and free those held in slavery
by their fear of death.”

“so that He might taste death

for everyone.”
Hebrews 2: 14-15
Hebrews 2: 9
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“…and preached to
the spirits in prison.”
“…the gospel was preached
even to those
who are now dead…”
I Peter 3: 18-22
I Peter 4: 1-6
 S e p a r a tio n (Bo d y fr o m S o u l) HEAVEN
Hebrews 9: 27
Revelation 20: 12 GOD
HADES (SHEOL)
EVERLASTING
(Abode of the Disembodied) J LIFE
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Luke 16: 19-31 & Luke 23: 43

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“…the gospel was preached
even to those
who are now dead…”
I Peter 4: 6
“…the gospel… that has been
proclaimed to every creature
under heaven…”
Colossians 1: 21-23
 Three Days in the Tomb
The message of Christ
“Did they not hear?
Of course they did.”
Romans 10: 16-18
“There is no speech or language
where their voice is not heard.”
“…to the ends of the world.”
Psalm 19: 1-4
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“For since the creation of the world
God's invisible qualities —
his eternal power and divine nature
— have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been
made, so that men are without
excuse.”
Romans 1: 18-20
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There is NO excuse
“…since they show that the
requirements of the law
are written on their hearts…”

Romans 2: 12-16
 IX. The Descent of Christ Into Hell.
STATUS CONTROVERSIAE.
Chief Controversy concerning This Article.
4] For it is sufficient that we know that Christ
descended into hell, destroyed hell for all
believers, and delivered them from the power
of death and of the devil, from eternal
condemnation and the jaws of hell. But how
this occurred we should [not curiously
investigate, but] reserve until the other world,
where not only this point [mystery], but also
still others will be revealed, which we here
simply believe, and cannot comprehend with
our blind reason.