"88 Facts Proving Hell Not the Grave (Cont'd.)

• 19. A place of fire (Deuteronomy 32:22; Cant. 8:16; Luke 16:19-31).
• 20. A place hidden from man, but naked before God (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11; Psalm 139:8; Amos 9:2).
• 21. A place of power (Psalm 49:15; Hosea 13:14; Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-56; Revelation 1:18; 6:8).
• 22. A place of full consciousness (Isaiah 14:9-15; Ezekiel 27:31; Luke 16:19-31).
• 23. A place for the soul and spirit, not the body (Psalm 16:10, 30:3; 49:15; 86:13; 89:48; Proverbs 23:14; Acts 2:2529).
• 24. A place of conversation (Isaiah 14:9-16; Ezekiel 32:21; Luke 16:19-31).
• 25. A place where many kings and chief ones of the earth live after death (Isaiah 14:9-11)
• 26. A place where its inhabitants are stirred up at the coming of others (Isaiah 14:9-11; Ezekiel 32:27-32).
• 27. A place where great men acknowledge their defeat (Isaiah 14:9-11).
• 28. A place where men recognize and converse with one another (Isaiah 14:16; Luke 16:19-31).
• 29. A place where memory and knowledge exist (Isaiah 14:10;, 16; Luke 16:19-31).
• 30. A place for the proud (Matthew 11:23; Luke 10:15). If the grave is hell, then the curse of Jesus here is meaningless, for all go to graves bodily, the proud and the humble, without such a curse (Hebrews 9:27).
• 31. A place of torment (Luke 16:23).
• 32. A place of prayer (Jonah 2:2; Luke 16-19-31).
• 33. A place of regret over mistreatment of others (Luke 16:24-31).
• 34. A place where men still have will power, though it is too late to accept God's terms and escape hell (Luke 16:24-3 1).
• 35. A place where men are conscious of life on earth, but cannot visit earth to warn men of its real torments (Luke 16:26-31).
• 36. A place where the lost become conscious of the need of soul-winning (Luke 16:19-31).
• 37. A place so terrible that those who are in it plead for some means of warning others not to come there (Luke 16:2631).
• 38. A place where souls are not burned up by the fire (Luke 16:22-31; 1 Peter 3:4).
• 39. A place of cruelty (Cant. 8:6).
• 40. A place that has enlarged itself, not been enlarged by men (Isaiah 5:14).
• 41. A place that is never full or satisfied (Proverbs 27:20; 30:16; Habbakkuk 2:5).
• 42. A place that receives men in numbers like flocks of sheep (Psalm 49:14).
• 43. A place where only salvation can deliver from (Psalm 36:18).
• 44. A place of gates and bars (Job 17:16; Isaiah 3 8:10; Matthew 16:18; Revelation 1:18).
• 45. A place of debasement (Isaiah 57:9).
• 46. A place of pains (Psalm 18:5; 116:3; Luke 16:19-31).
• 47. A temporary place of torments (Luke 16:19-31; Revelation 20:11-15).
• 48. A place of two compartments, one for the righteous before the resurrection of Christ, and one for the wicked departed souls from Abel's time to the end of the Millennium, with a great gulf between the compartments forbidding inter-travel but not inter-communication (Luke 16-19-31).
• 49. A place other than the grave for the righteous who, until Christ came, were captives of the devil against their will (Hebrews 2:14-15. It was called Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22) and paradise (Luke 23:43).
• 50. ?? It was a hiding place from God's wrath after death (Job 14:13; Luke 16:19-31).
• 51. Lazarus went into this place of comfort, but his body went into the grave (Luke 16:19-31).
• 52. Christ and the penitent thief went into paradise at death. (Psalm 16:10; Matthew 12:40; Luke 23:43; Ephesians 4:8-10).
• 53.......... [Regarding Jonah]
• 54. Angels carried the righteous souls into this compartment, but men carried their bodies to the grave (Luke 18:2226; 23:40).
• 55. Christ while there, preached to [the spirits in that prison], proving that the hell he was in was not the grave (Psalm 16:10; 1 Peter 3:19).
• 56. Christ while in sheol-hades liberated the righteous captives of Satan, taking them to heaven with Him when He ascended on high (Ephesians 4:8-10; Hebrews 2:14-1).