For twenty weeks ReturningKing.com has been releasing the author’s The Spirit World book one chapter at a time.  Very soon this book will be complete in its online free distribution.  The Spirit World systematically traces the abodes of the departed spirits of men and angels throughout scripture.  It examines the nature of Sheol/Hades, the Abyss, [...]

New Jerusalem
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
For purposes of this work, the name of this abode will be rendered “New Jerusalem,” but it is stated in that exact phraseology only one time in scripture.  There are, overall, three unique [...]

Heaven
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
In Hebrew, the term translated “heaven” or “heavens” is shamayim, which is used about four hundred times in the Old Testament.  “Heaven” is likewise translated into English from the Greek term ouranos and its [...]

The Migration of Paradise
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
As has been demonstrated thus far, the righteous are appointed to leave Sheol/Hades at some point in time.  The hope of a future release from Sheol for the righteous is a [...]

Paradise
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
“Paradise” is a Greek term literally meaning a “royal park” or a “garden.”  However, the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) translates “the garden of Eden” as “the garden of Paradise.”  Thus [...]

Abraham’s Bosom
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The Term
The terms “Abraham’s Bosom” are found only in Luke 16, in Jesus’ story of Lazarus and the rich man.  The terms are Greek “kolpos Abraam.”  Kolpos (or kolpon) is rendered “bosom” by [...]

Abaddon
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
Abaddon is also a Hebrew term, thus is constrained to the Old Testament, except for one occasion when the Hebrew term is referenced in its original language in the New Testament.  Abaddon appears seven [...]