As I said, the word "hades" is always referring to the place of departed spirits. Did you not read the definition of the word that I provided.
Hades was the place where the spirit of the rich man went after the death of his body:
"One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side."
So, we have the body of the rich man dying, yet his spirit is conscious and aware down in Hades. How is that the grave? Was Abraham and the rich man having a conversation in the grave? No! Their spirits were in Hades, while their bodies were up on the earth decaying. Below is 1 Cor.15:15
"Where, O Death, is your victory?
Where, O Death, is your sting?”
In the previous scriptures, Paul just got done saying the following:
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality."
So, Paul was saying that not all will be dead, but we will all be changed and caught up. This is because believers in Christ will either be resurrected or changed and caught up. This is what prompts Paul to say "Where, O Death is your Victory, Where Death is your sting?" Because though believers die, yet shall they live at the resurrection. And the living will be changed and caught up with them. So, death has not power over those who are in Christ.
No where in that scripture is Paul speaking about the grave.
When the resurrection takes place, the body will be resurrected and the spirit will be reunited with that resurrected body. The living believer will simply be changed immortal and glorified. Because of this, Death has no victory because believers come back to life.
Hades was the place where the spirit of the rich man went after the death of his body:
"One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side."
So, we have the body of the rich man dying, yet his spirit is conscious and aware down in Hades. How is that the grave? Was Abraham and the rich man having a conversation in the grave? No! Their spirits were in Hades, while their bodies were up on the earth decaying. Below is 1 Cor.15:15
"Where, O Death, is your victory?
Where, O Death, is your sting?”
In the previous scriptures, Paul just got done saying the following:
"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must be clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality."
So, Paul was saying that not all will be dead, but we will all be changed and caught up. This is because believers in Christ will either be resurrected or changed and caught up. This is what prompts Paul to say "Where, O Death is your Victory, Where Death is your sting?" Because though believers die, yet shall they live at the resurrection. And the living will be changed and caught up with them. So, death has not power over those who are in Christ.
No where in that scripture is Paul speaking about the grave.
When the resurrection takes place, the body will be resurrected and the spirit will be reunited with that resurrected body. The living believer will simply be changed immortal and glorified. Because of this, Death has no victory because believers come back to life.
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