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“…then I will bring you down with those who go down to
the pit, to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the
earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to
the pit, and you will not return or take your place in the land of
the living”
(Eze. 26:20).
Those of Assyria, who are partly composed of the present
day people of Iraq, have their end destination in the pit as well:
“They are all destined for death, for the earth below, among
mortal men, with those who go down to the pit”
(Eze. 31:14).
In Ezekiel 32:18-32, those from Assyria, Edom (Jordan), Egypt,
Elam (Iran), Meshech (Russia), Sidon, and Tubal, have their
end at the pit.
Satan, who has been such an evil servant of the Lord is to
be bound not only in the pit at the end of this present age, but
at the bottomless pit, the Abyss (Rev. 20:1).
The Abyss has to be located at the very center of the earth
one could not go down any deeper (because he would then be
going up or out) for every boundary is a ceiling. Satan will be as
far removed as possible from all human beings (and still be
within the earth), and will then remain in the pit, awaiting fur-
ther use by the Lord 1,000 years later (Rev. 20:3)!
Hades will be busy indeed. All humans, with the exception
of Christians, go there at death. There is no such thing as rein-
carnation, for one dies and is then judged (Heb. 9:27). The
Christian believers do not go to Hades, for as shown above,
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