A couple of months ago, my daughter came to me asking a question about a specific passage in her bible. As Yahweh’s timing would have it, I had just been re-examining such passage a few weeks prior. The passage is as follows:
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also hath 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: 19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20Which 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. 21The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
I am sure that many of you might be familiar with this passage, specifically with the explanation given the Yeshua/Jesus went to hell to preach to the spirits in prison, to what that exactly entailed many have speculated and created doctrines that are undoubtedly false. I had never been fully satisfied with such explanation, nor did it really make any sense to me. Like many other passages in the bible, sometimes we have to examine certain passages multiple times before we come to a complete understanding of it. I had begun to re-examine this passage a few weeks or so before my daughter’s prompting and came to a solidifying explanation that satisfied my spirit through the Holy Spirit.
In a nutshell, I had responded back to my daughter that Noah was a type/shadow to Christ and that through his preaching, offered salvation to the world through the ark by which he was building. The ark itself represents Jesus as by the only means which we can be saved. Those who rejected such offer back then, perished in the flood, and likewise today will perish at the rejection of Jesus. Continue reading “Spirits in Prison and the Settling of Debts”
