🔥 **LIVE! REPLAY** INCENTIVIZED TO OVERCOME: CHAPTER 8 | THE INTERMEDIATE PLACE OF THE DEAD 🔥

Mike Balloun teaches today. 11-15-25
Orignal Date Aired: 03-16-2019

🔥 *LIVE! REPLAY* INCENTIVIZED TO OVERCOME: CHAPTER 8 | THE INTERMEDIATE PLACE OF THE DEAD 🔥

VERSES: Ecclesiastes 3:20, 6:6, 12:7; Daniel 12:1-2; Luke 16:19-31, 20:35, 23:43; Matthew 16:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:16

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What does dying mean? We are going to examine this thoroughly from Scripture. In other chapters we have endeavored to show from Scripture that we are a triad being; spirit soul and body (1st Thessalonians 5:23). We are a Living Soul (Nephesh in Hebrew), we have a spirit, and we are covered with a body. And dying means that, at death, these 3 parts of our being are separated, in that our spirit goes back to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7), our body returns to the dust from which it was made (Genesis 3:19), and that which remains is the essence of who we are as a created soul, which is then carried by Angels to Hades/Sheol (Luke 16:22).

Scripture locates this special vast region within the interior of the Earth. (See Genesis 37:35, 42:38; 1st Samuel 2:6; 1st Kings 2:6; Amos 9:2; Numbers 16:30,33, 1st Samuel 28, etc) This is where all “dead” go (Ecclesiastes 3:20, 6:6).
Hades/Sheol is The Place of the Dead. There are different locales or places within Hades/Sheol (Luke 16:23,26, Revelation 20:3).

There are Gates that keep the entrance to Hades/Sheol (Job 17:16, Isaiah 38:10, Revelation 1:18). “And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock (revelation revealed by Spirit/spirit) I will build my church; and the gates of hell (Hades) shall not prevail against it.” [Matthew 16:16-18]

The point which Christ is making, that which He is referring back to, as the rock on which He shall build His “Church”, is revelation knowledge, that is to say; that which is revealed of Him by the Spirit/spirit. And these shall pass from this life, into Hades (meaning the abode of the dead) where its securing Gates are to prevent the departure of any placed within it. Nevertheless, His promise is that those Gates would not prevent His Church from ascending out from among the remaining dead in the First Resurrection (Luke 20:35), that one monumental event which that great Resurrection chapter of 1st Corinthians 15 has in view. See verse 55b “…..O Hades where is thy victory?” Hades today is the intermediate place of the dead, and is revealed as a holding place of hope to us who believe.

HADES WAS THE PATH OF THE LORD

His Jewish brethren had rejected Him, and had him nailed to the Cross. And as He suffered there, He responded to one of the malefactors hung upon a cross beside Him saying, “Verily I say unto thee, Today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” [Luke 23:43] And just before His dying He prayed. “And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost. So it was that His spirit departed Him and went back to the Father (verse 46). And His body was wrapped and carried into the Tomb (Luke 23:53). And as it relates to His Soul, the essence of His self, His soul is discovered in Hades. That being what Psalms 16:9-10 had predicted, and what the historical account, given by Peter, declares as fact in Acts 2:27,32. “Because thou wilt not leave my soul in Hades, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” So it is that we may trace every man’s path at dying: His spirit goes back to God, his body goes to the dust in the grave, and Hades then is the destination of all souls at dying.

Now Psalm 16 goes on to trace the predicted unique path of Jesus Christ, as the Son of Man. That is that His Soul and body would be reunited before corruption (3 days) and after separation. ‘Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for ever-more.” (verse 11) As to the historical fulfillment of this Scripture, we have the further Words of Peter in that same Passage of Scripture in Acts 2:32,33. “This Jesus hath God raised up whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted.…”

All that have passed from this earth in death immediately descend into Hades, and are carried there by Angels, as seen in Luke 16. It is there, in Hades, where Christ spoke of to the one hanging on a cross near Him when……

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