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This God-Man Jesus was able to come from death, was able to pass through to earth's depths,
to pass the burning, eternal inferno, to stop and preach to the captives being held in another
earthly depth, a place named “Paradise.” Preaching the power of His Redemption act,
that He had accomplished. Preaching to all the righteous soul's in this paradise which
was the place that was for those that believed God's promise of Genesis 3:15 until the time
of Christ, resurrection and Ascension. Psalm 68:18 KJV - Thou hast ascended on high, thou
hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also,
that the LORD God might dwell [among them]. Acts 2:27 KJV - Because thou wilt not leave
my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Ephesians
4:8 KJV - Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and
gave gifts unto men. Ephesians 4:9 KJV - (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also
descended first into the lower parts of the earth? Ephesians 4:10 KJV - He that descended
is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Matthew 12:40 KJV - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly;
so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. And
in doing so, passed outside of the camp, passed outside this earthly world, as he became the
human sacrifice, with the sin's of the world upon Him, it was outside the camp, it was
within this place created by God, for the eternal punishment of the rebels, and liars
of God. Hell, where the rebel angelic beings are, and, all of humanity that has rejected
Christ, as one's personal Lord and Savior, all who refuse to obey God's truths as revealed
in our current Protestant Christian Bible. The fallen angels of Heaven, the sinful men
of the world all are confined in, and burning for all of eternity, never to be released.
This burning infernal where all the sinful are, this place outside the camp, outside
this world, the place of refuse for the waste's of heaven and earth, for now this one time
only, in all of eternity, God has had the sins of the world placed on Jesus, and in
Jesus descending within hell has taken man's sins to this eternal refuse, and defeats Sin,
and in His physical resurrection defeats Death, both spiritual and physical. Jesus's resurrection
power is stronger than evil's power of Sin and Death, for Jesus's sinless sacrifice was
of greater worth and value to God, than the sin and death consequences of man disobedient.
Matthew 12:40 KJV - For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly;
so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Ephesians
4:9 KJV - (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the
lower parts of the earth? Ephesians 4:10 KJV - He that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And preaching to those
in paradise, of whom were held captive, as they waited for their final deliverance. Those
that where there, where those from the time of Adam and Eve, that believed God's promise
of Genesis 3:15. Now Christ preach to them, and those who believed Him, where resurrected
with Christ, and ascended with Christ in His Ascension to heaven, to be with God the Father,
as Jesus sits at His right hand, for He, Christ only is the “LAMB!” Now, and for all eternity,
man is free from sin and death, by the confession of one's mouth, of their personal acceptance
of the Lordship of Jesus, within one's heart and mind, and the obedience to the writings
of the Protestant Christian Bible New Testament writings of Christ, the Apostles, and Evangelists.
In this now sinned state, after Adam's sin. Man's ideal's were twisted and warped, by
sin's evil lusts, and corruptions. Prevailing through civilizations; yet, still, there was
to be a certain earthly lineage, and through this lineage, the son of man was to be born.
The Savior of the World. The result of man's rebellion was, and is sin, and continues to
this day, in, and through to all persons. Therefore, in these sinned, and evil clouded
generations, sprang forth man's own religions, as expressed through idolatry. Idolatry is
the rejection of the God of Adam and Eve. The refusal to believe in God's promises of
the forthcoming Messiah Jesus, the Savior of the world. This rejection began for mankind
almost immediately. Cane's murderous act of killing his brother, as recorded in the book
of Genesis, let's all vividly realize, the evil now that is capable within man.
Religions began as man began to look to other physical attributes of the earth, and heavenwards,
as the source of power. It was these other attributes, that man made into religions,
which enable man to create a universal power that he could therefore manage, and in managing,
man then was in control, and that is the hallmark of the rebel.