The Battle for the Keys: Revelation 1:18 and Christ's Descent into the Underworld (Paternoster Biblical Monographs)

by Justin W. Bass

I agree with Harris against Heidel and others since the account in Genesis not only testifies that Jacob will go to Sheol (Gen 37:35; 42:38; 44:29, 31), but being “gathered to one’s fathers” is parallel with Sheol (Gen 49:29). If being “gathered to one’s fathers” and “sleeping with your fathers” is parallel with Sheol then it is clear that the vast majority of the righteous went to Sheol.30