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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2025 5:28 pm
“In the Bible, many cases of resurrection of the dead and one case of resurrection itself are described: ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in Himself. And He has given Him authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come out – those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.’” This is exactly that mythical time, the middle of the world, and the distribution. I think it is probably necessary to focus more and read not about the resurrection of Jesus Christ but perhaps about the resurrection of the church. I came across an interesting article that I hadn’t seen before, “The Descent of Christ into Hell,” you should read it in detail later: “according to which, after the crucifixion, Jesus Christ descended into hell and, breaking its gates, brought His gospel message, freed the souls imprisoned there, and led out of hell all the Old Testament righteous, as well as Adam and Eve. The descent of Christ into hell is part of the Passion of Christ. It is believed that this event took place on the second day of Christ’s entombment and is commemorated in the worship of Holy Saturday. Sometimes this teaching is understood not literally but metaphorically.” See, even Jesus descended into hell. And then they further decipher the terminology: “’the lowest depth’ can also be translated as ‘underworld,’ ‘netherworld,’ ‘abode of the dead.’” “The evangelists do not explicitly speak about the descent into hell. In the canonical books of the New Testament, there are only isolated mentions by the apostles about Christ’s presence in hell...
... in the third chapter of the first epistle, it says: ‘For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which He went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison’... ‘For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh as people are, they might live in the spirit according to God.’”
It is written: “Christ, ‘descending into hell, put death to death and destroyed
... in the third chapter of the first epistle, it says: ‘For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which He went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison’... ‘For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh as people are, they might live in the spirit according to God.’”
It is written: “Christ, ‘descending into hell, put death to death and destroyed