Another circumstance concerning the promise
that Jesus gave that was perverted; in the
Old Testament days all believers went to hades,
or sheol at death. Even Jacob and David went
to sheol (Genesis 37:35), although not to the
same compartment as the wicked (Luke 16:19-
31).

But at the resurrection of Jesus, paradise was
no longer left in sheol, but was transferred to the
third heaven (Ephesians 4:8-10; 2 Corinthians
12:1-4). So the saints of the New Testament
times do not go to hades, but ascend to the third
heaven for now being "absent from the body" is
to be "present with the Lord" (2 Corinthians
5:8).