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Introduction
So the question is, where was Lazarus’ Spirit for those 4 days?
Two schools of thought.
Lazarus was asleep in Sheol.
Jacob mourning Joseph
David says in
Job speaks in
Hezekiah writes in
We get a picture in the OT that evil men went to Sheol, but there is Scriptural evidence that even the faithful went there as well.
Look at what Jesus says in .
Some say that Hades has the same mean as Sheol.
Those translations that translate the Greek word as Hell in verse 23 are inaccurate.
The Chasm is not up and down but side to side.
There are two places in Hades.
One for the righteous (they are asleep waiting on salvation)
One is for the wicked where they are tormented.
Hell does not happen until the Day of Judgement.
Heaven happens after the death of Jesus.
When Peter speaks of Jesus going to Hades, He is not just speaking to fallen angels and man.
He is speaking to the saints of old.
See 1 Peter
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The first instance of someone going to heaven is the thief on the cross.
Why? Jesus died before the thief.
Jesus death marks the change of the righteous going to Heaven instead of going to the good part of Sheol.
Sheol (Hades) for the righteous ends with Jesus’ death.
2. Lazarus was in Heaven.
Just as there is compelling evidence that OT saints went to Sheol, the same came be said that they went to Heaven.
Conclusions
I don’t know :)
It could be that the saints of the OT could not enter Heaven until the atoning sacrifice of Jesus.
The place where they stayed was not a place of torment, but a place of waiting.
When Jesus died, He spoke to the saints, and spoke to the sinners.
The saints were able to go to heaven with Him.
the sinners are still in Hades until the day of judgement when they will go to Hell.
I still believe that there is a valid argument that OT saints went to Heaven.
Scriptural evidence is there, not as much as the other belief.
What I hang on to is that some of the OT saints, (Enoch, Elijah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) were in Heaven.
Why them and not others?
Where ever Lazarus was those 4 days, his Resurrection was to bring glory to God and Jesus.
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