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Originally Posted by SpeakersCorner
Hm. That's a thought worth pursuing. The lord of Hades -- that is, Hades himself -- had one main job: to keep people in Hades. Losing Lazarus (the brother of Mary and Martha) would have been a failure on his part. Zeus might've said to his brother, "I give you ONE JOB to do and you can't do it." What Zeus wouldn't realize until a bit later was the situation was about to get far worse. When Jesus resurrects, many tombs were opened and "Lazaruses" came forth.
There really is a lot of mystery which is unsolved. But I enjoy speculating. And sometimes such speculations yield food to my soul.
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Agreed. In the LC I grew so weary of missing the plain words of scripture and always looking for some hidden significance, which only the "ministry" could provide. Speculations are great. I call them "hunches." I love to get a "hunch" about something, and then go digging in the Word for corroboration. Sometimes I end up on a dead end road, and sometimes I find something new. Either way, there is so much benefit just in the "digging."
I find it interesting that there is some fallen power keeping the gate of Hades. I believe one day the structured hierarchy of the kingdom of darkness may be revealed to us. Perhaps we will learn which among the principalities have been fired for failures and which ones promoted for successes. The one who recently devised "wokeness" surely got a promotion.