Secrets from Beyond The Grave

temple. It was used to purchase a field in which to bury strangers who died in Jerusalem. The field, called Aceldama , meaning the "field of blood," was purchased in the valley where the lifeless corpse of Judas was found. While standing in the area of Aceldama in Jerusalem, I realized that this field is located on the edge of what was known as the Valley of Hinnom, or Ge-Hinnom. Judas literally took his life on the edge of what was labeled as hell in his time! Christ used the word Gehenna to describe hell. There are various historical and Jewish commentaries that give their insights and opinions on the subject of hell. Among the Jews there are seven names of seven different divisions of Gehenna and a belief that the entrances to this underworld are both in the sea and also on the dry land. According to Josephus, the Essenes described Gehenna as a cold and dark cave.7 This area throughout history was a place to bury the dead, as indicated by Jeremiah: They will bury in Tophet until there is no room. --Jeremiah 7:32 These words-- Hades, Sheol, Tartarus, Gehenna , and the abyss--are the five main words used to identify the underground world of fallen angels, certain evil spirits, and the souls of the unrighteous. The Location of the Underground Chambers After spending hundreds of hours in researching the possible locations and entrances to this rather mysterious underground world, there are three important facts that emerge. First, these chambers and caverns are all located underneath the earth's surface. In the Scriptures heaven is always identified as being up, and hell is always referred to as being down or beneath (Num. 16:30; Job 11:8). Never is hell spoken of as being up, and never is heaven's location given as down. Second, these underground holding places for the unrighteous and fallen angels are under the mountains, as revealed in the story of Jonah (Jon. 2:6). Finally, a lesser-known and -taught aspect of the underworld is that many of the entrances are located under the seas (Job 26:5). Hell is definitely located down and under the earth: "Go down quick into hell" (Ps. 55:15, KJV). "Shalt be brought down to hell" (Isa. 14:15, KJV). "Cast him down to hell" (Ezek. 31:16, KJV). "They also went down into hell" (Ezek. 31:17, KJV). "God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell" (2 Pet. 2:4, KJV). One example of hell being under the crust of the earth is in the case of the rebellion of Korah against Moses. Korah was jealous of Moses's and Aaron's authority over the people and sought to led a coup against these men of God. The Almighty brought a sudden judgment on Korah and his rebels: And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men with Korah, with all their goods. So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit; the earth closed over them, and they perished from among the congregation. --Numbers 16:32-33

This word pit is not the word for a small opening in the ground, like a crack caused by an earthquake. The Hebrew word is Sheol --the world of departed spirits. This was a supernatural