I would say Hell is like a place where the soul goes after the body dies. For those not in the shelter of the most high it is a place of torment by demons. The spirit may be different though, closer to God than the soul by my limited understanding.
"Memorial tombs" is not found in most translations of John 5:28. They simply say "grave."
Did you ever hear of a "mortal soul?" What makes you think one exists? It would alter human nature if we did not have an immortal soul, you may as well be asking 'why did God create us in the first place.'
No plan of God has ever been withdrawn. He may have to purge the earth to accomplish them though.
Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, beginning and end. So he has been here through all time.
Many people gained glimpses into the nature of God, some laws, and the eternal gospel. But Romans 9:4: "Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;"
I asked, Who created Hell. If God created Hell then He created Adam and Eve with malicious intent, do you think?
The Memorial Tombs are just graves but of those that have been promised resurrection to a Paradise earth. People like John the baptist, Noah, Job, Moses all the way back to Abel. The faithful men and women who were under the Mosaic Law and followed that law faithfully.
Jesus was not immortal until he was taken up to the heavens after his murder on earth. If he was he would not have been able to die and the ransom sacrifice would be worthless.
You may get the impression that the Alpha and Omega refers to Jesus, however it refers to Jehovah the only true God.
These are the names of the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet and are used as a title three times in the book of Revelation. The additional occurrence of this phrase in the
King James rendering of
Revelation 1:11, however, does not receive support from some of the oldest Greek manuscripts, including the Alexandrine, Sinaitic, and Codex Ephraemi rescriptus. It is, therefore, omitted in many modern translations.
While many commentators apply this title both to God and to Christ, a more careful examination of its use restricts its application to Jehovah God. The
first verse of Revelation shows that the revelation was given originally by God and through Jesus Christ, hence the one speaking (through an angelic representative) at times is God himself, and at other times it is Christ Jesus. (
Re 22:8) Thus
Revelation 1:8 (
RS) says: “‘I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God [“Jehovah God,”
NW], who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Although the preceding verse speaks of Christ Jesus, it is clear that in
verse 8 the application of the title is to “the Almighty” God. In this regard
Barnes’ Notes on the New Testament (1974) observes: “It cannot be absolutely certain that the writer meant to refer to the Lord Jesus specifically here . . . There is no real incongruity in supposing, also, that the writer here meant to refer to God as such.”
The title occurs again at
Revelation 21:6, and the following verse identifies the speaker by saying: “Anyone conquering will inherit these things, and I shall be his God and he will be my son.” Inasmuch as Jesus referred to those who are joint heirs with him in his Kingdom as “brothers,” not “sons,” the speaker must be Jesus’ heavenly Father, Jehovah God.—
Mt 25:40; compare
Heb 2:10-12.
The final occurrence of the title is at
Revelation 22:13, which states: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” It is evident that a number of persons are represented as speaking in this chapter of Revelation;
verses 8 and
9 show that the angel spoke to John,
verse 16 obviously applies to Jesus, the first part of
verse 17 is credited to “the spirit and the bride,” and the one speaking in the latter part of
verse 20 is manifestly John himself. “The Alpha and the Omega” of
verses 12-15, therefore, may properly be identified as the same one who bears the title in the other two occurrences: Jehovah God. The expression, “Look! I am coming quickly,” in
verse 12, does not require that these aforementioned verses apply to Jesus, inasmuch as God also speaks of himself as “coming” to execute judgment. (Compare
Isa 26:21.)
Malachi 3:1-6 speaks of a
joint coming for judgment on the part of Jehovah and his “messenger of the covenant.”
The title “the Alpha and the Omega” carries the same thought as “the first and the last” and “the beginning and the end” when these terms are used with reference to Jehovah. Before him there was no Almighty God, and there will be none after him. He will bring to a successful conclusion the issue over Godship, forever vindicated as the one and only Almighty God.—Compare
Isa 44:6.