The Dead Start Waking Up
The Import Log — Part 3 of 5 eFireTemple.com For most of the Hebrew Bible, death is simple and it is final. You die. You go to Sheol. Everyone goes to Sheol. The righteous go to Sheol. The wicked go to Sheol. Kings go to Sheol. Slaves go to Sheol. There is no light there, no activity, no reward, no punishment. The dead are shades — dim, silent, forgotten. They do not praise God. They do not suffer. They simply stop.
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The Import Log — Part 3 of 5 eFireTemple.com For most of the Hebrew Bible, death is simple and it is final. You die. You go to Sheol. Everyone goes to Sheol. The righteous go to Sheol. The wicked go to Sheol. Kings go to Sheol. Slaves go to Sheol. There is no light there, no activity, no reward, no punishment. The dead are shades — dim, silent, forgotten. They do not praise God. They do not suffer. They simply stop. Ecclesiastes 9:5 says it plainly: "The dead know nothing." Psalm 6:5: "In death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?" Psalm 115:17: "The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence." This is the Jewish theology of death for the overwhelming majority of the Hebrew Bible. One destination. No sorting. No judgment after death. No resurrection. The covenant is about this life — land, descendants, prosperity.
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