Questions & Answers
Questions 139 (COD Page 606)
Some people say that “Christ was in Hades before the resurrection.” Is this...Is there Scripture for this?
51 Now, here’s a Scriptural question I’d like to answer you from the Scriptures, ’cause they’ve asked, “Is it in the Scriptures?”
52 I would that you would turn with me to First Peter 3:18 and 20, you that wants to hear It, whether you asked the question or not, so that you won’t have to take someone else’s word. You may read It and find out whether this be true or not. We always want to stay with the Truth, and where the Bible says it. And this dear person, whoever it was, has asked it as wanting to know for a reference from the Bible if this is so or not.
53 Now, we find this in...If I’ve got it. This old Bible is about tore up, here, that I–I’ve had it now for several years. If I can see if I got it in here, I think maybe...Just one second, brother, if I–I–I’m sure that’s...Let’s see, it comes right after Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews. Here we are, yeah, I got it. Thank you. First Peter 3, the 3rd chapter of First Peter. The 3rd chapter, and let’s begin with the–with the 18th verse.
For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: (quickened by the Spirit)
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
54 Now turn to Acts 2, Acts 2, and we’ll take the–the 30th verse, begin in Acts 2, and this is the Apostle Peter also speaking. Acts, the 2nd chapter, and the–the 30th verse I have written down here.
Where...Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had swore with an oath to him, that of the fruits of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither did His flesh see corruption (Christ’s body).
55 His soul descended into hell and preached to spirits, or souls that repented not in the long-suffering in the days of Noah. His soul did descend into hell and He preached to spirits, and rose on the third day. That is Scriptural, the Truth.