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No such promises exist for the unbeliever at death. Both the spirit of Death and the spirit of Hades
have power over the unbeliever at the point of physical death. Death is both a physical event and a
demonic spirit. So is Hades (Hell) a physical place under the earth as well as a demonic spirit.

“…AND THE NAME OF HIM WHO SAT ON IT WAS DEATH,
AND HADES FOLLOWED WITH HIM. AND POWER WAS GIVEN TO THEM…”

Rev. 6:8

Not only is death a Based on the fact that man
physical event and is spirit, soul, and body,
Hades a literal place I believe it means this:
under the earth, but
Revelation 6:8 depicts (1) THE SPIRIT
Death and Hades as OF DEATH
personages
(their names are IS GIVEN POWER
Death and Hades.) TO IMPRISON
Notice that power was
given to them. It is my THE PHYSICAL BODY
suspicion that Death, OF THE UNBELIEVER
as a demonic
personage, meets IN THE GRAVE.
those who die outside
of Christ at the moment (2) THE SPIRIT
of death. Rev. 6:8 OF HADES,
states that Hades
follows with him. What WHO FOLLOWS
does that mean? WITH HIM,

IS GIVEN POWER
TO IMPRISON

THE SPIRIT AND SOUL
OF THE UNBELIEVER

IN HADES (HELL).

We can safely deduce from the Scriptures that the spirit, soul and body of the unbeliever are
imprisoned by Death and Hades, for we read of the yet-future Great White Throne Judgment
that will judge all unbelievers:

“THEN I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE AND HIM WHO
SAT ON IT…AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT,

STANDING BEFORE GOD, AND THE BOOKS WERE
OPENED…AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO

THEIR WORKS, BY THE THINGS WRITTEN IN THE
BOOKS…DEATH AND HADES DELIVERED UP THE DEAD
WHO WERE IN THEM. AND THEY WERE JUDGED, EACH
ONE ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS. THEN DEATH AND
HADES WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE
SECOND DEATH. AND ANYONE NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN
THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE….

THE COWARDLY, UNBELIEVING, ABOMINABLE,
MURDERERS, SEXUAL IMMORAL, SORCERERS, IDOLATERS,
AND ALL LIARS SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE OF

FIRE WHICH BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE,
WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH.”
Rev. 20:11-15 and 21:8

Death and Hades presently have power over the dead (unbelievers). However, on this judgment day,

God will require them to “deliver up the dead who were in them.” Not only are these unbelievers cast

into the Lake of Fire, but also God casts the personages of Death and Hades into the same place. Why

so? God no longer needs them to imprison the dead for it is at this moment that God will destroy His

last enemy which is Death! Sandwiched inbetween these two depictions of the Lake of Fire are these

great words: “…THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH,
NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN,

FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY.” Rev. 21:4