God wants me to share with you all what Hell is like. As I spoke of in this post, Death and the Afterlife, Part I: My Dream, Hell is rooted in Sheol, the pit of the earth. Literally and figuratively it involves being buried deep in the bowels of the ground and being imprisoned without any chance for escape except by one means, the grace of God.
Adam, the word for man, and the original son of man, means ‘ruddy’ in the Hebrew language. Adamah is the Hebrew word for ground. It is feminine because it opens itself up for Adam to work it and keep it, which is the curse of man from the time of his original sin in the Garden of Eden.
God gives us every chance in our lifetime to regard Him, even if we have not heard of Him or heard His Word, because we can regard the world about us and marvel at its Maker (~Romans 1:19-21). To make it even more obvious and clear for us, He sent our Lord Jesus the Messiah to redeem our souls if we but believe in Him.
Hell is the place those go, who in their hardened hearts, do not believe in God. God consigns them to the ground from which earthly Adam came, which is also the path Cain chose, Abel’s wicked brother, the earthly son of Adam. Abel chose the spiritual path and was killed for it by his brother. The ground swallowed Abel’s holy blood by his brother’s hand. It is all fitting then that God places the wicked into the same ground for them to suffer their deeds. Their wicked hearts in denying their Maker will not have the final say.
I was obsessed with the movie Motel Hell when I was a girl and must have watched it no less than a dozen times (or so it seemed). I was 12 or 13 and beyond when I watched it and while it scared the living daylights out of me, I also found it irresistible for some reason I did not know. There were a few movies like that from my childhood, the ones I could watch over and over and never tire of: Blue Lagoon, Tootsie, Friday the 13th, and Motel Hell. Now I know these movies all have a common theme for me which is pertinent to my main mission I serve for God. I just was not aware of it at 12.
This movie is inspired for its accurate depiction of hell. I tried to research the writers and could find only that they were born in NYC, into a film production family. There was also an uncredited writer as well. The writers or director either were conscious of what hell is, or intuited it from God. Nonetheless, this is something like the hell in my visions and dreams,the hell which God is revealing to me to share with you. The people are buried in the ground. They are victims because a terrible fate has befallen them. They are alive but unable to communicate. They cannot move at all and are in a perpetual state of solitary confinement. Solitary confinement has been described as one of the worse tortures a man can endure, and is utilized as a last punishment for those who act out and hurt others. It causes mental illness because it is so contrary to human life. Try enduring it until the Judgment Day!
If you find this humorous, that was the writers’ intent. However, I am sure hell itself will not be funny at all. Hell is the holding ground for those who have denied their Maker. It is the embodiment of God’s final grace for those to turn their wicked hearts back to Him so that on the Final Day, they might find their names in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
You do not have to go to hell. You can turn and repent and believe in Jesus, do good works, and love God. Then you can escape this punishment.
~Selah
~Song of Mary~ 
In the bible is it is clearly told that when you die you have paid for your sins. Why should there be an other punishment. There is no such thing as a purgatory or a place for temporary or eternal torture, like hell-fire.
Sheol or hell is just the grave or sepulchre.
What verses are you referring to in the Bible specifically?
“For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 6:23 ASV)
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5 ASV)
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do [it] with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.” (Ecclesiastes 9:10 ASV)
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.” (Psalms 146:4 ASV)
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: In Sheol who shall give thee thanks?” (Psalms 6:5 ASV)
“18 For Sheol cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.” (Isaiah 38:18-19 ASV)
“19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.” (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20 ASV)
“The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;” (Psalms 115:17 ASV)
“For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:” (Acts 13:36 ASV)
“There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.” (Job 3:17 ASV)
“13 If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness; 14 If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, [Thou art] my mother, and my sister; 15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it? 16 It shall go down to the bars of Sheol, When once there is rest in the dust.” (Job 17:13-16 ASV)
“And he took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was hewn in stone, where never man had yet lain.” (Luke 23:53 ASV)
“But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.” (Matthew 23:8 ASV)
“The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came upon me.” (2 Samuel 22:6 ASV)
“What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? [[Selah” (Psalms 89:48 ASV)
“And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” (Revelation 20:13 ASV)
“And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.” (Revelation 6:8 ASV)
“7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.” (Psalms 139:7-8 ASV)
“Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!” (Proverbs 15:11 ASV)
“Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.” (Amos 9:2 ASV)
“They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.” (Psalms 49:14 ASV)
“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.” (Ezekiel 18:4 ASV)
“let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.” (James 5:20 ASV)
“but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:7 ASV)
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9 ASV)
“and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;” (Revelation 1:5 ASV)
“After these things I saw, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of [all] tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands;” (Revelation 7:9 ASV)
“And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.” (Revelation 7:14 ASV)
“26 For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 who needeth not daily, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the [sins] of the people: for this he did once for all, when he offered up himself.” (Hebrews 7:26-27 ASV)
“else must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once at the end of the ages hath he been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Hebrews 9:26 ASV)
“so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation.” (Hebrews 9:28 ASV)
“Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;” (1 Peter 3:18 ASV)
“for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;” (Ephesians 2:8 ASV)
Oh wow! Thank you for all those!
I have read them all and studied some in more depth, and I have concluded that Sheol exists and that God has the ability, through His grace, to save souls from it.
Some common themes erupt however which helps me refine my thoughts about the afterlife. But none of the verses you listed precludes the existence of a holding place between Heaven and the Lake of Fire. And indeed, many support it.
If interested you can refer to my next post: Sheol: Part IV
It is a nice article where you yourself give direction to the real meaning of the word sheol but do not seem to come to understand that it is really the “pit”, the “grave” though you mention it yourself?!?
Sheol is the pit, the grave or the sepulchre where dead people are placed in or when they are incinerated or when they are burned, they all come to dust.
God has formed man out of dust to which he shall return.
“And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7 ASV)
“in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” (Genesis 3:19 ASV)
“and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.” (Ecclesiastes 12:7 ASV)
“The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.” (1 Corinthians 15:47 ASV)