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Job 26:6
6 Hell [sha'owl] is naked [`arowm] before him, and destruction ['abaddown] hath no covering [kacuwth].
KJV-Interlinear
6 'Naked is Sheol before Him And
Abaddon has no covering. NASB
Within these verses there is no reference to Paradise,
which is one of the four compartments of Hades.
Hades is the general reference to the underworld. The other three compartments are Tartarus,
Torments, and the Abyss.
Torments is the holding place for all
unbelievers. Tartarus is the holding
place for all of the half-angel, half-man products of Genesis six. It is the destination of the defeated gods of
Greek mythology. The Abyss is the
deepest and darkest of the habitations of Hades, and it holds all of the really
bad demon angels. Their character is
identified by the name of their general, Abaddon, which means destruction in
its worst possible sense.
Abaddon is sometimes used as the name for hell or
destruction, Prov. 15:11 and Psa. 88:11, and as the name of the demon leader of
the demons in the Abyss from Rev. 9. The
names here are used to identify the residences of the dead. And more specifically those demons of extreme
ancient times.
Even in their bodiless form, as shadows or ghosts of
the deep underworld, they all still possess life or a consciousness which
allows them to experience extreme fear from the only source of fear, which is
God.
Nothing else in existence can bring fear in such a
manner. Everything else in existence has
no power, no strength in which to cast any type of control over life and/or
death.
The deepest most darkest recesses of the Abyss, house
the worst of the worst of creatures. And
even in their hiding places, they are naked, they have no covering, no shield,
and are totally exposed to Gods eyes.
They cannot hide. They cannot escape the eyes or reach of God.
Such are the extremes of Gods dominion. There is nothing so far, so deep, so dark, as
to escape the sovereignty or command of God.
Anyone who presumes that God is not interested in them,
that God is asleep, that they can somehow get past Gods observation, are indeed
the dumbest of the dumb.
And that is the nature of arrogance. It allows the imagination to paint a picture
of the absurd into the mind of the spiritually negative, and then that picture
becomes their reality. A false reality
which is nothing more than a shadow, and then within that shadow which has no
substance, they become easily offended, easily boastful, easily intimidated,
easily affected by all ranges of emotions.
And over what? Nothing. And nothing has become the god of the
spiritually deficient person.
And unfortunately it isn't until one leaves this life,
that the real realities of truth become apparent.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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