The Great White Throne
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
With the fullness of the righteous dead accounted for, one remaining category of resurrection and judgment remains.  From the beginning of time there has been no resurrection or judgment appointed for [...]

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, [...]

The Great River Euphrates
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
The Euphrates River is noted several times in scripture in its common usage.  It normally refers to the literal Euphrates River, of course, which begins in Russia and flows through Syria [...]

Gehenna
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
Gehenna is a Greek term, yet it comes to the Greek from the combination of two Hebrew terms, Gei and Hinnom.  Gei Hinnom literally means “the Valley of Hinnom.”
The Valley of Hinnom was an [...]

The Lake of Fire
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
The phrases describing the “lake of fire” occur four times in scripture, each in the book of Revelation.  Being a phrase of several very common terms, the “lake of fire” is [...]

Hell
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
Of all abodes of the dead, perhaps none bring the immediate sense of recognition as does the term, “Hell.”  Hell is an English word from the Saxon “helan,” which means “to cover” or “to [...]

The Pit
(This is a continuation of The Spirit World book series. This post assumes the prerequisite reading of earlier posts in the series.)
The term
“The Pit,” is to be described in this work using its English rendering because two different Hebrew terms are translated “the pit” in the Old Testament.  Both terms, when used metaphorically, clearly [...]