What REALLY Happens After You Die According To The Bible? (The Afterlife Explained) - YouTube
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This is a guide map to the spiritual realm. Most Christians think the spiritual realm looks like this. Two options, heaven or hell. But it's actually more like this. We looked at every Bible verse that mentions the afterlife and discovered there's actually seven different dimensions. Spiritual realms vastly different from one another.
All created by God for a unique purpose with secrets you've probably never even heard of. Every one of them is mentioned in your Bible and every one of them is extremely important to understand as a Christian. The first spiritual realm is known as Shol in Hebrew and Hades in Greek. The word Shiel means the land of the dead and it's quite a lot more fascinating than I initially thought.
You can think of Shiol as an enormous holding cell for all the dead who are awaiting resurrection and judgment. But the interesting thing about Shiol is that it's divided into two distinct realms. In the Old Testament, every single person who died went to Shiel. But which realm of Shiel they ended up in depended on what choice they made on Earth.
But before we go any further in the afterlife, we need to understand the truth about our own planet. Because there's spiritual beings here that we share this space with who will also share eternity with. and it's important we meet them. Now, now you might think Earth is home to humanity alone, but that's not actually true.
We share this planet with at least two other groups of invisible aliens. Okay, sounds crazy, but stay with me. Both alien groups didn't originate here, but came here for different reasons. The first is a race of demons, fallen angels who were cast down from heaven and forced to roam the earth.
The second are a race of angels, ministering spirits sent by God to visit Earth and to carry out certain missions and deliver messages. Demons are servants of Satan, but they too only seem to act with God's permission. Uniquely, demons also seem to inhabit people or places, but they're not stuck there, as some demons are sent to one of our other seven realms called the abyss.
But we're going to explore the abyss a little bit later in this video. Some of the more prominent spiritual beings on both sides are assigned a person, a community, or even a nation to rule over. The higher rulers are called princes. But one of these beings rose to become the prince of something much greater.
The entirety of the earth was under his power and [music] sway. It's the same being who plummeted the world into sin and darkness in the Garden of Eden. The devil himself, Satan, the serpent, the great dragon. In the Old Testament, if a person died, they'd be sent to one of these two realms within Shol.
Those who had faith in the God of Israel were sent to the realm Jesus calls Abraham's side, described as a place of comfort. Those who didn't trust in God were sent to a place simply called torment. Torment is a realm within Shiel described as a fiery agony where no relief is [music] provided. Not so much as a droplet of water on a dried tongue.
Not a very nice experience, is it? Don't worry though, there are far worse realms on our list today that we are going to explore. A great chasm separates the two places as the inhabitants await their ultimate sentence. These are the realms of Shol. But our next spiritual realm is something quite different. Our third spiritual realm is called paradise.
And here's where most people's understanding of the afterlife completely falls apart. Later in this video, we'll be talking about heaven as a dimension. But there's a few places on earth where I've experienced a taste of heaven. [music] when singing praises in church, when having fellowship with my family in Christ, and in the still meditation of my own bedroom.
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Paradise is a place mentioned by both Jesus and Paul in scripture. Jesus of course says it to the repentant thief on the cross and Paul mentions being called up to paradise also naming it the third heaven. But the realm called paradise isn't as simple as we think it is. The reason paradise is such a complex realm is because it has three different forms throughout the Bible.
The first was the creation of the Garden of Eden where the dimensions of heaven and earth overoverlapped one another. a place where God could descend from heaven and walk with mankind, a place where the physical and spiritual over overlapped. Notably, the tree of life was rooted in the Garden of Eden, providing immortality to humanity until they were removed from the garden because of their sin.
As you can see, there is an overlap where God can visit humans, but he hasn't completely moved into their space. The physical and spiritual are still distinct realms. After the fall of mankind, the first form of paradise was cut off from men. As we read, angels were sent to guard the entrance. The physical and spiritual realms were separated and they have remained that way up until this very day.
But as we speak, paradise in its second form is rapidly being populated. Every Christian who dies in faith today goes straight to this second paradise. And that's all thanks to one very specific and often neglected action done by Jesus. It's not his teaching. It's not his death. And it's not even his resurrection, but something most people gloss over.
In between his death and resurrection, Jesus paid a visit to Shol. As we stated, this place was packed full of every single soul who'd ever lived and died on earth. After bearing the sins of the world and paying for them with his blood, he had some life-changing news to share to those imprisoned spirits. To those by Abraham's side, the faithful in life, he declared that it is finished and opened a pathway between Shol and paradise for them.
In that moment, the souls of all who died in faith traveled from Shol to paradise in spiritual form. They're yet to receive their new physical bodies and be completely reunited with their creator. But this paradise is nothing to scoff at. Think of the second form of paradise like a spiritual restoration of the Garden of Eden, just without the physical overlap.
We even see the tree of life make a reappearance, a defining feature in all three forms of paradise. But this is not the final form of the realm. The first form was an overlap between the spiritual and physical. The second is a purely spiritual realm, but the third will be a complete merging of the two.
Something unfathomably awesome that we'll dive into at the end of this video. The fifth dimension is known as the abyss. This is by far the most unique of the spiritual realms we've discussed so far because it was created by God with a very specific purpose in mind. It's described as a dark bottomless pit where the most wicked of demons are imprisoned.
If Shol is a holding cell for humanity, the abyss is a dungeon for the demonic. Now, here's where I started to get confused because the question I had in my mind was, what determines which demons are cast into the abyss and which are permitted to stay on the earth? I mean, aren't all of them just as evil as one another? They're demons.
They torture people and possess people and all that. Now, this is a bit of a theory, but there's biblical evidence to suggest that the demons sent to the abyss are uniquely rebellious. As we know from passages like Job 1 and Luke 8, the demons on earth can only act under express permission from God himself. Now, demons have the capacity and desire to wage war and destroy humanity as we know it.
But the reason they don't is because the demons know that if they acted without God's permission, they'll be thrown into the abyss, a place where they are chained in darkness, completely barred from the physical realm, where their days of possessing and tormenting humanity are over. So, I had to ask, what crimes could a demon possibly commit that deserve this brutal jail sentence? And why doesn't God lock all of them up in there? They're already torturing and terrorizing his people.
So, what's the difference between these demons and these demons? Well, there's one story that comes to mind where demons seem to have crossed the line. The creation of the Nephilim in Genesis where we hear the sons of God slept with the daughters of men and produced offspring. The halfdemon, halfhuman offspring turned out to be somewhat of a superhuman species.
Perhaps this is a biblical example of demons who acted beyond the express permission of God. And as a result, they were locked up in the abyss. They simply didn't have permission from God to sleep with these women. This might explain why demons haven't tried to reproduce with human women ever since.
So, of all the demons, the worst of the worst are locked up in the abyss. We can only pray that the security in the abyss is top tier because a world where the most vile demons roamed free would be worse than anything the earth has ever seen. Right. Well, sorry to say, but I've got some bad news. Because in the book of Revelation at the fifth trumpet of judgment, something utterly terrifying happens.
One of the demons is described as a fallen star, which we know from scripture is a picture of the angels that followed Satan in his fall. His name was Abdon in Hebrew, Apolon inGreek, and destroyer in English. His name is so awesome in not one, not two, but three different languages. He is established as king over the most wicked demons in the abyss, dubbed the angel of the abyss.
And after the fifth trumpet is sounded, he's given the keys to the shaft of the abyss. with it. He opens the demonic dungeon and thick smoke pours out. Smoke like that from a gigantic furnace. The smoke blocked out the sun and sky and from the smoke came hordes of imprisoned demons. They formed up like waves of locusts. When the locusts were sent upon the Egyptians, they were told to devour every green plant they could.
But this time, the locusts are commanded not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant, but only the people who aren't sealed by God on their foreheads. They weren't allowed to kill, but they were given power to torture rebellious mankind for 5 months. And these demons are unlike any locusts you've ever seen. They're described as horses prepared for battle with golden crowns on their heads, faces that resemble human faces, hair like that of human women, and teeth like that of lions.
They wore breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. They also had tails with stingers like scorpions, with which they would torment the people for 5 months. All these horrific aberrations are led by their king, Apolon, the angel of the abyss, one of the fallen stars from heaven.
But there's more to the abyss in Revelation than meets the eye. And I'm not ashamed to admit, but I don't completely understand all of it. In Revelation 11, it seems that the beast, who is commonly believed to be the Antichrist, comes out of the abyss. But in Revelation 13, he comes out of the sea. I have no idea how this makes any sense, but I heard some interesting ideas.
It's possible that when Apolon opens the abyss, he lets loose the demonic spirit of the Antichrist that later takes the form of or possesses a man that comes from a country around the Mediterranean Sea, which is why he comes from both the abyss and the sea. But that's a bit of a theory. There is one more event that takes place in the abyss of significance.
After the war between Ultra Instinct Christ and the armies of the unholy trinity, the beast and the false prophet are restrained, but the brains behind it all is set apart for his own unique punishment. An angel comes down from heaven with a great chain in one hand and the key to the abyss in the other. He seizes Satan and binds him with the chain, throwing him into the abyss for 1,000 years.
The abyss was locked and sealed over him, keeping him from deceiving the nations for a thousand years. But before we get to the next part of Satan's story, we need to look at the final spiritual realms. These two dimensions are considered final destinations. Where all the other realms were temporary holdings or prisons, these two are the only realms that will remain indefinitely.
Right now, both of these dimensions are actually empty. So, in order to understand how they work, there's an event that occurs before the doors are opened that must happen in order for them to be populated. That event is called the resurrection. Every single human to have ever lived and died will experience a resurrection.
No matter where you died or what happened to your physical body, you will be summoned before God. This was such a mystery to me for such a long time, and to be honest, it still is. This resurrection event takes place in two parts. Believers and non-believers are both resurrected, just at different times, facing different judgments and going to different destinations.
But the experience of each is vastly different from one another. The first resurrection is a joyous occasion. Every single believer is promised a glorified body like the one Jesus Christ received after his resurrection. God created male and female in his image and considered the creation good.
It turns out that this good creation included our bodies. For the first time ever, humans will have their spiritual bodies and their physical bodies completely and miraculously merged together in a perfect, powerful, and complete body. Not only does God wish to redeem our spiritual selves, but also our physical selves.
[music] And to do that, he will bring back to life our physical forms in a glorified state. No matter where you died or what happened to your bones, God will recreate every person who ever lived to face him on that day. The second resurrection, though, really sucks. It's where the dead being held in the torment realm of Shol are finally released only to be sentenced to a far worse fate.
Instead of being resurrected for glory, these individuals are resurrected for judgment. Every unbeliever who has ever existed stands to be judged based on their deeds. For the first time ever, the divide between Christian and non-Christian will be as clear as day. And what comes next forthe unbelievers is certainly the most horrific spiritual dimension ever created.
The sixth dimension of the spiritual afterlife is known as the lake of fire. So far, we've explored a few dimensions that probably freaked you out, but none of them should scare you half as much as this one. The lake of fire is a place of eternal torment and destruction. The final destination of the majority of humanity, commonly known as hell.
Believe it or not, hell wasn't created for humans. The lake of fire was prepared by God as a place to ultimately punish the devil and the demons who rebelled with him. The word hell is used by Jesus more than anyone else in the Bible. But the word Jesus is using literally translates to Gehenna, which referred to a trash dump located outside Jerusalem.
It's a location mentioned multiple times throughout the Old Testament where demonic sacrifices and sorceress spells took place. Fire raged constantly as trash was burnt in neverending flames. Maggots and worms infested all of the dead and rotting things being consumed in the fire. And the smoke of the dump was a disgusting lingering smell obvious to everyone nearby.
It was a sickening, repulsive location. Nobody wanted to be around for long. A physical and spiritual wasteland. Jesus uses this word to describe what hell would be like. With this in mind, the image of hell becomes a lot clearer and a lot more terrifying. But his descriptions don't stop there. Time and time again, Jesus spoke about some people inheriting eternal life and some people eternal punishment.
Those thrown into the fire are said to be in a place where there is weeping and nashing of teeth. The weeping we understand, but almost everyone misinterprets what nashing of teeth actually means biblically. Most people think you nash your teeth in pain, but the expression is used multiple times in the Bible to refer to fierce anger and hatred towards someone.
In other words, those who are cast into hell will be in deep despair, but they won't be repentant. Their response towards God will be one of hatred and anger. In a poetic sense, they will burn with anger for all of eternity. Their anger itself acting as an infinite fuel source for the everlasting fire. For the last 2,000 years, Satan has known that this is where he will inevitably end up.
But his hatred for humanity has not subsided, and he is determined not to go down alone. His plan is to drag as many humans down with him. The first to taste the lake of fire are two of the leaders responsible for mankind's worldwide rebellion against God. Remember the war I mentioned earlier between Christ and the unholy trinity? Well, two of the demonic trio are cast immediately into the lake of fire while Satan is bound in the abyss for a thousand years.
But it doesn't end there because as it turns out, hell consumes not only rebellious people, not only spiritual beings, but entire spiritual dimensions as well. The list of victims in this dimension is vast. Every satanic power and principality is cast into the lake of fire. The abyss is emptied of its prisoners, as is Shiel, the land of the dead.
Every person who was not listed in the lamb's book of life is thrown into the lake of fire along with the very dimensions they spent their time waiting in. Shol and the abyss are cast into the lake of fire as well as the ultimate enemy of man, death itself. There, in the place where the worm never dies, the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever.
Although death and punishment are being carried out, there's a simultaneous and much happier story going on. The realm we discussed known as paradise has experienced two expressions so far in our story. But what is to come is the third and ultimate expression where for the first time ever the spiritual and physical realms not just cross over but are completely united, joined together and made one.
But last we saw the paradise realm, it was exclusively spiritual. So to understand how we've gotten to this point, we need to first follow the journey of a redeemed individual as paradise is changed from its second form to its final form. As we know, as soon as Jesus returns, every believer gets a glorified body. This is the first resurrection, as scripture states.
But what do I do with this glorified body now that Jesus is here on earth? Scripture paints a picture of us ruling and reigning alongside Christ for a thousand-year period. This is actually the same thousand years that the devil is locked up in the abyss. Jesus has come for a specific purpose and every believer who was raised at his coming is given a specific role.
The task we all share alongside our Lord and Savior is preparing humanity and the world for the coming of the father. The purpose of the Thousand-Year reign is to pull together what was once separated, to prepare both the physical and spiritual realms to be united together in a sort of marriageelike union.
The first paradise saw God visiting us in the physical realm,walking with Adam and Eve in the garden. The second paradise saw us visiting God in the spiritual realm. But the third paradise is God making his home with us on earth. The spiritual and physical realms that were severed at the fall in the Garden of Eden are now merged into one complete dimension.
Throughout the entire Bible, God reveals his desire to live with mankind. from his presence in the tabernacle to his presence in the ark of the covenant all the way to his presence in the church and in the hearts of his people through his spirit. But the father has always had to veil his glory or else we'd all be destroyed.
However, at the end of the millennial reign, the time has finally come where God will move in with his people permanently, where his home will be made among us and his being will be seen clearly for the first time. Instead of being neighbors who visit each other every now and then, we are united in a marriage to the one enthroned, living together as a perfect family in perfect love, without sadness, without weakness, and without sin.
We can't even begin to comprehend how awesome this paradise will be. But the Bible does give us some marvelous pictures. The old earth passes away and a new earth is created. The new Jerusalem, a beautiful city with streets of gold shining with colorful gemstones, is brought down and planted on the new earth.
We see another complete amalgamation of the spiritual and physical in Jerusalem. As the spiritual Jerusalem settles on the physical Jerusalem, just as our physical and spiritual bodies were joined, and just as Christ's physical and spiritual bodies were joined. But this beautiful union gets even more wondrous. God the Father finally enters our realm to live with us forever.
The sun and stars are replaced by his glorious presence. The temple is nowhere to be seen as access to God is unrestricted. The city contains streets of gold pure as transparent glass. Within the city flows the river of life, clear as crystal from the throne of God and of the Lamb. On each side stood the tree of life, bearing 12 crops of fruit, each in its own month.
The leaves of that tree provide healing for the people, and there shall be no longer any curse. God will dwell in the city, and his people will serve him. They will see him face to face, and there will no longer be any night, nor any need for the light of a lamp or of the sun. For the Lord God will give them light, and they will reign forever and ever.
This whole scene is just incredible. But the thing that blows me away the most is this. It's been a mystery since the beginning of time, but is only now fully revealed at this very moment. It's the picture of a wedding, the union between Jesus and his bride, the church. Ever since the first man and woman were made, we've heard that the two will become one flesh.
A relationship like no other that's reserved only for your spouse, but one that we will now experience with Christ forever and ever. At this wedding supper, we see the final amalgamation of the physical and spiritual realms. For the last time, the two would be separate. From now on, the spiritual and physical are made one completely and forever.
And what God has put together, let no man separate. We started with seven spiritual dimensions, but by the end of time, we're left with just two. People are either completely separated from God or completely united with him. Today, you are faced with this very question. Where do you want to spend your eternity? How do you want your afterlife experience to play out? Will you choose to live a life glorifying to yourself and end up in eternal destruction? Or will you bend your knee to the father of the universe and spend eternity worshiping the lamb
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