Why are some spirits currently confined in the abyss and some not? (Luke 8:31)
In 2 Peter 2:4 some fallen spirits are confined to Tartarus, being "kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day" (Jude 6).
Before the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus (2 Timothy 1:10), people sometimes thought of life after death as a kind of hibernation.
"Again, as in 7:7–10, Job expresses the standard OT view, shared by his friends. There is no afterlife worthy of the name. The torpor of the shades in the netherworld cannot be regarded as life." (Pope, Marvin H. (1974), _Job. The Anchor Yale Bible_. (New Haven: Yale University Press), p. 108)
Death was terrifying: 'The Canaanites understood death as a god with one lip touching the earth and the other touching the heavens so that he swallowed up everything. According to Bildad, "the firstborn of death," following in the footsteps of his father, eats away the skin and devours the limbs of the wicked. According to Is. 25:8, the Lord will "swallow up death forever."' (Sproul, R.C., eds. (1995) _The New Geneva Study Bible_ (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc.), p. 721)
How should we view death and the grave in light of Job 14:10-14 and Job 18:13-14?
Death is our last enemy (1 Corinthians 15:26).
Do the concepts of the Ancient Near East throw light on 1 Corinthians 15:54 and Isaiah 25:6-8?
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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.
He now works for the Presbytery of the Gulf South as...
