Believers do not go down to Sheol or Hades

any more when they die, like they did in the

Old Testament days. Instead they ascend to

Paradise, the Third Heaven. [2 Corinthians

12:1-4]

Jesus has held the keys of Hades. That is

why He could say in Matthew 16:18 that

"the gates of hell [Hades] shall not prevail

against it [the church]."