What is your take on 1 Peter 3:18-20
One of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible is found in 1 Peter 3:18-20 which says
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.”
What does this verse mean? Did Jesus preach to spirits in hades or hell? Or did He preach to fallen angels? Or does this verse mean something completely different?
How did Jesus preach to these spirits in prison?
Who are these spirits in prison?
And when did He do this?
Daniel, in Rev 12th ch. it is said, that the accuser of the Brethren has been cast down; who accuse them day and night before God, my paraphrase.
now this was after Christ was resurrected, they are the ones Messiah revealed Himself to in 'Abraham's Bosom', they are the faithful of Old Covenant Israel, who resided in Sheol and waited for the righteous Blood of Messiah to release them.
the unfaithful dead of Old Covenant Israel were across the gulf in Sheol could also hear Him, as they could hear the beggar who spoke to the rich man.
Jesus also sealed the Faithful of Old Covenant Israel in those same 3 days in Sheol, Rev Ch 7.
and He, Jesus, could have had a face off with these fallen angels, and Nephilim, before He was resurrected?!
because I'm sure they were at the walls of this gulf mocking His claims as Messiah.
hard to prove that, but this was Satan's domain still, so to speak.
But they all sure got a surprise when He was filled with the Light of God and was actually resurrected!
So, because the fallen angels are are called spirits, and Noah or the Adamic Race is referred to as souls; (hear in this passage anyway).
I would say it was the fallen angels who seduced the Adamic women, and tried to enter back into heaven through their Adamic Womb! Enoch spoke to God, about forgiveness to these same creatures and God said NO!
But that they (fallen angels who seduced those Adamic women) would be kept in their prison until their day of judgement.
So it would seem to me that Jesus had a special session with these fallen spirits for what they had done.
But a lot of these things were cleaned up out of the Christian doctrine,
because they did not want it preached to their women or children, or new comers into the church.
They did the church a disservice in my humble opinion, but I try to avoid it mostly because of the bitterness it causes.
From Adam to Adam it was Satan's chore to ruin the Adamic line to Messiah.
It is through the Adamic Womb that we enter back into heaven! And these fowl spirits knew this.
The Virgin, The Messiah!
many blessings
