In Sheol, demons won’t be torturing people. It won’t be a physical torture. Since people are already dead, they have no physical body. But since the sins are still on them, they will feel guilty about all the wrong things they did. It’s like that feeling you get when you do something bad, regret, it’s like your heart is on fire metaphorically. Even the demons will feel this spiritual pain there (2 Peter 2:4). It’s the natural consequence of sin, death. They will repent (2 Peter 3:9), which means, recognize that they have sin, thus recognize their need for a saviour (Matthew 4:17) from sin thus believe in Christ and be saved. Jesus is waiting for everyone with open arms, it’s their choice when they want to free themselves from that mental torture and have faith in Him for forgiveness. All creatures henceforth will be freed from Sheol and will be washed of all their sins.
Luke 2:10 [The Gospel is] "good tidings of great joy to ALL people."
It’s like, someone locks themselves up because they have guilt for what they’ve done, but Jesus tells them to have faith in Him and be freed.
Revelation 1:18: "I [Jesus] have the keys of Death and Hades."
Christ has come to get rid of all the self-hatred we have towards ourselves, to eliminate all the lingering feelings of regret we have for our past mistakes. So we can be redeemed through His blood and move forward.
Isaiah 65:17 See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Heaven will be so wonderful that everyone’s pain and suffering will not be remembered, there will be no more anguish, it’s temporary.
If a demon is indeed resting inside a person, then ultimately it will cause harm. Since LORD = Life. And anything that goes against life is painful.
(Reminds me of this English pun, how LIVE backwards is EVIL)
Luke 11:24 When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
The exact timing would depend, sometimes demons might be out of the house searching for another body. Other times they might cause active harm like Legion. (Luke 8:30).
If a person believes in Jesus Christ, then they are permanently saved. Because the Holy Spirit dwells inside them permanently. With the Holy Ghost there, there’s no room for demon.
Romans 5:5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
So the best way to get rid of demons inside of a person is to simply have them believe in Christ Jesus. A permanent way to keep all evil spirits out.
Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
No fancy magic exorcism tricks or convoluted work steps needed! Believe in Christ… and boom, done deal.
So, as soon as someone believes in Jesus, all demons are kicked out then and there by the Holy Spirit. So all people going to Heaven have the Holy Ghost and thus have no demons inside of them, as all sins are washed away.
If someone dies without believing in Christ yet, when that person dies, the demon can go to another host. Like how Legion fled to a herd of pigs.
Matthew 8:28-34 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters
It looks like here that the demons made the pigs, their host, commit suicide, by drowning themselves. So, the demons were able to switch hosts when they were kicked out by the Holy Spirit.
Eventually, they will be cast down into Tartarus.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment;
ταρταρώσας (tartarōsas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5020: To thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna
eternal = olam (Hebrew) = aionios (Greek) = pertaining to an age = temporary
You’re probably wondering… Tartarus? Where else does Tartarus appear in the Bible?
Well, here’s a handy list to show all the occurrences of “Tartarus”
One.
Yep, only one. That’s the only reference to Tartarus in the entire Bible.
So we can infer that this Tartarus location is a special location specifically for fallen angels. It can also be referred to as a pit, like the deepest part of the pit. “Pit” is related to Sheol, like Abaddon, the angel of the pit.
to Sheol,
לִשְׁא֑וֹל (liš·’ō·wl)
Preposition-l | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld
So Tartarus could be just a deeper part of Sheol, the “underworld” anything that goes down. And as people sin more and more, it’s like that idiom where, they’re digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole, inflicting themselves with more temporary suffering. Fallen angels have been sinning for thousands of years, so they might have dug themselves a particularly deep hole. Eventually, all suffering will end though, as Christ will save all.
So, it seems that angels have relations between the heavens, Earth and Sheol. But eventually, they will end up in Tartarus, which is like their special version of human’s Sheol after-death, but ultimately, both Tartarus and Sheol, all areas of the pit, no matter how deep, will be emptied out by the light of the Lamb.
Luke 2:10 [The Gospel is] "good tidings of great joy to ALL people."
It’s like, someone locks themselves up because they have guilt for what they’ve done, but Jesus tells them to have faith in Him and be freed.
Revelation 1:18: "I [Jesus] have the keys of Death and Hades."
Christ has come to get rid of all the self-hatred we have towards ourselves, to eliminate all the lingering feelings of regret we have for our past mistakes. So we can be redeemed through His blood and move forward.
Isaiah 65:17 See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
Heaven will be so wonderful that everyone’s pain and suffering will not be remembered, there will be no more anguish, it’s temporary.
If a demon is indeed resting inside a person, then ultimately it will cause harm. Since LORD = Life. And anything that goes against life is painful.
(Reminds me of this English pun, how LIVE backwards is EVIL)
Luke 11:24 When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’
The exact timing would depend, sometimes demons might be out of the house searching for another body. Other times they might cause active harm like Legion. (Luke 8:30).
If a person believes in Jesus Christ, then they are permanently saved. Because the Holy Spirit dwells inside them permanently. With the Holy Ghost there, there’s no room for demon.
Romans 5:5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
So the best way to get rid of demons inside of a person is to simply have them believe in Christ Jesus. A permanent way to keep all evil spirits out.
Luke 11:13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
No fancy magic exorcism tricks or convoluted work steps needed! Believe in Christ… and boom, done deal.
So, as soon as someone believes in Jesus, all demons are kicked out then and there by the Holy Spirit. So all people going to Heaven have the Holy Ghost and thus have no demons inside of them, as all sins are washed away.
If someone dies without believing in Christ yet, when that person dies, the demon can go to another host. Like how Legion fled to a herd of pigs.
Matthew 8:28-34 Now a herd of many pigs was feeding at some distance from them. And the demons begged him, saying, “If you cast us out, send us away into the herd of pigs.” And he said to them, “Go.” So they came out and went into the pigs, and behold, the whole herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned in the waters
It looks like here that the demons made the pigs, their host, commit suicide, by drowning themselves. So, the demons were able to switch hosts when they were kicked out by the Holy Spirit.
Eventually, they will be cast down into Tartarus.
2 Peter 2:4 For if God did not spare the angels having sinned, but having cast them down to Tartarus, in chains of gloomy darkness, delivered them, being kept for judgment;
ταρταρώσας (tartarōsas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5020: To thrust down to Tartarus or Gehenna
eternal = olam (Hebrew) = aionios (Greek) = pertaining to an age = temporary
You’re probably wondering… Tartarus? Where else does Tartarus appear in the Bible?
Well, here’s a handy list to show all the occurrences of “Tartarus”
One.
Yep, only one. That’s the only reference to Tartarus in the entire Bible.
So we can infer that this Tartarus location is a special location specifically for fallen angels. It can also be referred to as a pit, like the deepest part of the pit. “Pit” is related to Sheol, like Abaddon, the angel of the pit.
to Sheol,
לִשְׁא֑וֹל (liš·’ō·wl)
Preposition-l | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld
So Tartarus could be just a deeper part of Sheol, the “underworld” anything that goes down. And as people sin more and more, it’s like that idiom where, they’re digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole, inflicting themselves with more temporary suffering. Fallen angels have been sinning for thousands of years, so they might have dug themselves a particularly deep hole. Eventually, all suffering will end though, as Christ will save all.
So, it seems that angels have relations between the heavens, Earth and Sheol. But eventually, they will end up in Tartarus, which is like their special version of human’s Sheol after-death, but ultimately, both Tartarus and Sheol, all areas of the pit, no matter how deep, will be emptied out by the light of the Lamb.