Look at the picture for awhile. What do you see? It's a picture to help us think of being inside a dark realm It's an idea of seeing Heaven, far away, and unreachable Pretty scary, only being able to see Heaven from afar Sheol = Hebrew word for - unperceived/unseen KJV translates Sheol - grave (31x), hell (31x), pit (3x) Sheol = Unseen What is Sheol? What is purpose of Sheol? Sheol is an unseen realm Do you think unseen is seen from Heaven? What does Sheol look like? We try to perceive and describe some of what we can't see - Read part of KJV - What did you envision? Westminster Leningrad Codex - and they descend(uirdu) ones-alive(chiim) unseen ward(shale) BIBLE VERSIONS - King James VERSION - and they go down quick into the pit American Standard VERSION - and they go down alive into Sheol Darby's Basic Translation - and they go down alive into Sheol Douay Rheims Bible - and they go down alive into hell Noah Webster Bible - and they go down quick into the pit World English Bible - and they go down alive into Sheol Young's Literal Translation - and they have gone down alive to Sheol Moses wrote - Sheol. Version variants read - pit, hell. Numbers 16:33 - affirms God's action Moses wrote - shale/sheol They went ALIVE - down into - Unseen Read part of KJV - What did you envision? Westminster Leningrad Codex - poles(bdi) unseen(shal) they shall descend(thrdne) - VERSIONS - King James VERSION - They shall go down to the bars of the pit American Standard VERSION - It shall go down to the bars of Sheol Darby's Basic Translation - Will they go down with me into the underworld? Douay Rheims Bible - It shall go down to the bars of Sheol Noah Webster Bible - All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit World English Bible - Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol Young's Literal Translation - To the parts of Sheol ye go down Check version variants Job said - Sheol -- variants read - pit, underworld Job said - poles -- variants read - bars, parts, gates, or delete it Job said - they -- variants read - it, you, I Death, and Unseen, are assigned to - Lake of Fire which is - SecondDeath Read part of KJV - Read KJV - To call Unperceived Unseen - just a pit - diminishes the message We lose perspective of God's plan of Judgment Sheol = Unseen - exists and will be thrown into - Lake of Fire