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As I have said this in other posts the OT is filled with imagery (types and shadows) that point to larger principles than themselves.
The promised land is a physical land but it represents the heavenly country - HEAVEN.
The grave and hades are physical places but they represent Hell - Lake of fire.
The pharisees at the time are smarter than we are at times because none of them ever question Jesus or raise concerns with Jesus on his use of Hell in this respect. He equates fire with it. He equates destruction with it.
Nor with words being different in places, do they even have a problem with the concept of Hell fire destruction, even though it is rarely spoken plainly in the OT as such. In the OT, it is mostly spoken of in physical terms (same as the promised land), such as, God will destroy the wicked, burn them, turn them into Hell (you can say grave if you'd like), and on and on. However, you will note words and passages which hint something greater, such as, burn them forever, even though the act of God's physical destruction of an enemy in the passage is not forever. These are subtle points throughout the OT but are consistent with subtleties of God's word revealed in the NT and even the people, at the time of Jesus, understood without debate that these existed.
It is the same for resurrection. Some sects of the Jews believed in the resurrection before Jesus, but it is not preached in the OT as often and openly as it is in the NT, but it is hinted through pictures of the language used. Hebrews 4 likewise reveals the use of the "rest" language that it was bigger than the physical objective and promise of its time. The same is true for the tabernacle which was made according to what God had shown Moses, however, the NT makes it clear that God showed Moses a heavenly pattern of greater things.
However, put all that aside and based on the other posts thus far, perhaps some of you should pull out your permanent pens and add to Psalm 139 that there is no place I can go and no place I can hide from you, that you are not there "except the lake of fire." "You can hide from God there."
(which btw may just be a lake of gasoline)
Tongue firmly planted in the side of the cheek.
The promised land is a physical land but it represents the heavenly country - HEAVEN.
The grave and hades are physical places but they represent Hell - Lake of fire.
The pharisees at the time are smarter than we are at times because none of them ever question Jesus or raise concerns with Jesus on his use of Hell in this respect. He equates fire with it. He equates destruction with it.
Nor with words being different in places, do they even have a problem with the concept of Hell fire destruction, even though it is rarely spoken plainly in the OT as such. In the OT, it is mostly spoken of in physical terms (same as the promised land), such as, God will destroy the wicked, burn them, turn them into Hell (you can say grave if you'd like), and on and on. However, you will note words and passages which hint something greater, such as, burn them forever, even though the act of God's physical destruction of an enemy in the passage is not forever. These are subtle points throughout the OT but are consistent with subtleties of God's word revealed in the NT and even the people, at the time of Jesus, understood without debate that these existed.
It is the same for resurrection. Some sects of the Jews believed in the resurrection before Jesus, but it is not preached in the OT as often and openly as it is in the NT, but it is hinted through pictures of the language used. Hebrews 4 likewise reveals the use of the "rest" language that it was bigger than the physical objective and promise of its time. The same is true for the tabernacle which was made according to what God had shown Moses, however, the NT makes it clear that God showed Moses a heavenly pattern of greater things.
However, put all that aside and based on the other posts thus far, perhaps some of you should pull out your permanent pens and add to Psalm 139 that there is no place I can go and no place I can hide from you, that you are not there "except the lake of fire." "You can hide from God there."
(which btw may just be a lake of gasoline)
Tongue firmly planted in the side of the cheek.
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