Welcome to HELL... take a look around... We live among the tombs in the land of the dead- some with the appearance of white-washed sepulchers- yet dead bones on the inside. Most are unable to determine they/we are but rotting filth. As filthy rags we claim righteousness. We are looking out for our own interests or that of a select family- making a name for ourselves. It is the money, power, comfort, lust, greed, self-righteousness- all of it!! We are sick- this is a sick world. All the idols with which we consume ourselves have caused us to become as such- eyes that don't see- ears that don't hear... Most cannot see at all. It's a world of sadness and despair- some having a form of Godliness yet shallow below. Prisoners of the planet...
"And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, IT PROFITS ME NOTHING." (1 Cor 13:3, NKJV) "ALL WHO MAKE IDOLS ARE NOTHING, and THE THINGS THEY TREASURE ARE WORTHLESS. Those who would speak up for them are blind; they are ignorant, to their own shame." (Isaiah 44:9, NIV) "All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together." (Isaiah 45:6)
"But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands. They have mouths, but CANNOT SPEAK, eyes, but CANNOT SEE. They have ears, but CANNOT HEAR, noses, but CANNOT SMELL. They have hands, but CANNOT FEEL, feet, but CANNOT WALK, nor can they utter a sound with their throats. THOSE WHO MAKE THEM WILL BE LIKE THEM, AND SO WILL ALL WHO TRUST IN THEM." (Psalm 115:4-8)
The Body of Christ IS Christ IS The Word. Those that trust in idols cannot speak the Word... They/we are dead...
"Jesus said unto him, LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God." (Luke 9:60)
Who is the dead?
"WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE PASSED FROM DEATH TO LIFE, BECAUSE WE LOVE EACH OTHER. ANYONE WHO DOES NOT LOVE REMAINS IN DEATH." (1 John 3:14 NIV)
"...ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH." (Proverbs 8:36 NIV)
This happens everyday- here... Now... When our spells work no more... Realm of the dead... Suffer not a witch to live!! Did we not...
"Many will say to me, 'LORD, LORD, DID WE NOT PROPHESY IN YOUR NAME, CAST OUT DEVILS IN YOUR NAME, AND IN YOUR NAME PERFORM MANY MIRACLES?' Then I will tell them to their face, 'I NEVER KNEW YOU; OUT OF MY SIGHT, YOU AND YOUR WICKED WAYS!'" - Matthew 7:22 (NEB)
And so we live outside the City of God...
"OUTSIDE ARE THE DOGS, THOSE WHO PRACTICE MAGIC ARTS, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood." - Revelation 22:15 (NIV)
In the fiery lake of burning sulfur (God's purification process)...
"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars--THEIR PLACE WILL BE IN THE FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR. This is the second death." - Revelation 21:8 (NIV)
With the dead
The Realm of the Dead is figurative language referencing our spiritual fallen state paralleled with the dead. The Realm of the Dead... Hades/Sheol IS a Lake of Fire - the Pit. It IS all around us. Men/women are being tried and refined right here, prisoners of the planet! We live in a crypt!
"Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, IF THOU BE SILENT TO ME, I BECOME LIKE THEM THAT GO DOWN INTO THE PIT." (Psalm 28:1) "For Sheol CANNOT THANK YOU, Death CANNOT PRAISE YOU; Those who go down to the pit CANNOT HOPE for Your truth." (Isaiah 38:18, NKJV) "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but INSIDE ARE FULL OF DEAD MEN'S BONES and all uncleanness." (Matthew 23:27)
"And the multitude of THOSE SLEEPING in the dust of the ground do AWAKE, SOME TO LIFE age-during, and SOME TO REPROACHES [shame, NIV] -- to abhorrence age-during." (Daniel 12:2, YLT)
Realm of the Dead IS the Pit
"YOU, LORD, BROUGHT ME UP FROM THE REALM OF THE DEAD; YOU SPARED ME FROM GOING DOWN TO THE PIT." (Psalm 30:3)
The promiscuous woman…
"But little do they know that THE DEAD ARE THERE, THAT HER GUESTS ARE DEEP IN THE REALM OF THE DEAD." (Prov 9:18)
These people are NOT physically DEAD. It is a spiritual state of being...
"...Forsaking me, you uncovered your bed, you climbed into it and opened it wide; YOU MADE A PACT WITH THOSE WHOSE BEDS YOU LOVE, AND YOU LOOKED WITH LUST ON THEIR NAKED BODIES." (Isaiah 57:8)
"You went to Molek with olive oil and increased your perfumes. You sent your ambassadors far away; YOU DESCENDED TO THE VERY REALM OF THE DEAD!" (Isaiah 57:9)
The Path of Life...
"THE PATH OF LIFE LEADS UPWARD FOR THE PRUDENT TO KEEP THEM FROM GOING DOWN TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD." (Prov 15:24)
The Path of Death...
"YOU SAID IN YOUR HEART, 'I WILL ASCEND TO THE HEAVENS; I WILL RAISE MY THRONE ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.' BUT YOU ARE BROUGHT DOWN TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD, TO THE DEPTHS OF THE PIT." (Isaiah 14:13-15)
"He said: 'In my distress I called to the LORD, and he answered me. FROM DEEP IN THE REALM OF THE DEAD I CALLED FOR HELP, and you listened to my cry.'" (Jonah 2:2)
"Let me not be put to shame, lord, for I have cried out to you; but LET THE WICKED BE PUT TO SHAME AND BE SILENT IN THE REALM OF THE DEAD. LET THEIR LYING LIPS BE SILENCED, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous." (Psalm 31:17-18)
Their houses are as tombs for many generations
"THEIR TOMBS WILL REMAIN THEIR HOUSES forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves." (Psalm 49:11)
"They are like sheep and are destined to die; DEATH WILL BE THEIR SHEPHERD (but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions." (Psalm 49:14)
"But GOD WILL REDEEM ME FROM THE REALM OF THE DEAD; he will surely take me to himself." (Psalm 49:15)
"Let death take my enemies by surprise; LET THEM GO DOWN ALIVE TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD, FOR EVIL FINDS LODGING AMONG THEM." (Psalm 55:15)
"For A FIRE WILL BE KINDLED BY MY WRATH, ONE THAT BURNS DOWN TO THE REALM OF THE DEAD BELOW. It will devour the earth and its harvests and set afire the foundations of the mountains." (Deu 32:22)