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To: Logophile
Since Sheol means "the grave" or "realm of the dead" (and is so translated in the NIV), I would say that every human who dies will go down to Sheol. (That includes almost all of us.)Thankfully, because of Jesus Christ, all will come out of the grave again.

Ohh...just who among us will be exempt from "going down to Sheol"? This, perhaps?

To have one's calling and election made sure is to be sealed up unto eternal life; it is to have the unconditional guarantee of exaltation in the highest heaven of the celestial world; it is to receive the assurance of godhood; it is, in effect, to have the day of judgment advanced, so that an inheritance of all the glory and honor of the Father's kingdom is assured prior to the day when the faithful actually enter into the divine presence to sit with Christ in his throne, even as he is "set down" with his "Father in his throne." (Rev 3:21.)

 

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48 posted on 10/14/2010 3:18:20 PM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: greyfoxx39; CynicalBear
Ohh...just who among us will be exempt from "going down to Sheol"? This, perhaps?

CynicalBear mentioned one: Elijah was taken directly into heaven. (See 2 Kings 2:11). I believe a few others have been taken up without tasting death; the rest of us will die.

50 posted on 10/14/2010 5:32:17 PM PDT by Logophile
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