Post-death/pre-resurrection

Did he go to Hell for those few days, as many believe?

It is extremely unfortunate that Hades was not transliterated, but translated incorrectly as "hell". While the body of Christ was in His tomb, His soul and spirit were in Hades for three days and three nights.

Before Christ's resurrection, all souls (saved and unsaved) went to Hades. On the day of His resurrection, Christ took all the OT saints from Hades to Heaven. Ever since all the NT saints who have passed on have gone to Heaven (the New Jerusalem). See Hebrews 12:22-24. There are no souls "sleeping" since in Heaven everyone is alive, awake, and alert. So just reject the false doctrine of Soul Sleep.

It is extremely unfortunate that Hades was not transliterated, but translated incorrectly as "hell". While the body of Christ was in His tomb, His soul and spirit were in Hades for three days and three nights.

Before Christ's resurrection, all souls (saved and unsaved) went to Hades. On the day of His resurrection, Christ took all the OT saints from Hades to Heaven. Ever since all the NT saints who have passed on have gone to Heaven (the New Jerusalem). See Hebrews 12:22-24. There are no souls "sleeping" since in Heaven everyone is alive, awake, and alert. So just reject the false doctrine of Soul Sleep.

You have to understand how time and eternity interact. I was taught there's a time-line, that there was eternity, then time, then eternity again. It was depicted graphically like this: eternity) -----------time----------(eternity . But a better image of the time/eternity relationship is a wheel.

A wheel has a hub and a rim... now picture God and eternity existing in the hub, while time curves along the rim. This relationship gives God the ability to reach out and touch any point in time, at any time, like randomly inserted spokes.

To illustrate; from eternity/the hub, God can reach out and do something in David’s time. Having done that, He can pull back then reach out to Abraham’s time. Next He could reach out to your time. Then reach out and go see Peter. Again, like lacing a wheel with spokes.

With this image we can then answer many questions, like how can God be with everyone all the time at the same time. Suppose on the day you are born, God reaches out from the hub to your spot on the rim to spend your entire life with you. Then when your time ends He brings you home. Then He reaches from the hub again to the spot on the rim where your best friend is born, and spends their life with them, until He brings them home. The He reaches yet again when someone else is born and spends their life with them, until they come home. On and on, walking with each and every one of us one at a time, while all at the same time.

It also helps us see the power of praise and thanksgiving for answered prayers. Our rim/time based after-the-fact praise and thanksgiving enter eternity/the hub before God ... God in the hub says wow s/he was really grateful for that answered prayer ... so He then reaches out to the rim to give a blessing to our request – which here on the rim is at a point that's behind us ... and puts in motion the answer to the prayer or request that we will at a later date express true appreciation for.

God is not constrained to our time line. He has access to all of time, all of the time. Even that which is behind us. And visualizing a wheel helps us to see that.

Regarding the resurrection, on our time-line rim, our body dirt naps until that resurrection. But in the hub, or eternity, it arrives at the same time our spirit does. Thus even tho in time (the rim) the body sleeps, in the hub/eternity the thief and his body both arrive in paradise that very day.

It is extremely unfortunate that Hades was not transliterated, but translated incorrectly as "hell". While the body of Christ was in His tomb, His soul and spirit were in Hades for three days and three nights.

Before Christ's resurrection, all souls (saved and unsaved) went to Hades. On the day of His resurrection, Christ took all the OT saints from Hades to Heaven. Ever since all the NT saints who have passed on have gone to Heaven (the New Jerusalem). See Hebrews 12:22-24. There are no souls "sleeping" since in Heaven everyone is alive, awake, and alert. So just reject the false doctrine of Soul Sleep.

I recently posted a question re. the state of people when they die, before Jesus' second coming - ie - have they gone to Heaven or Hell or are they "at sleep", awaiting resurrection.
Whereas I tend toward the latter, I am unsure as to what a careful reading of the whole of the NT would signify, and some posts have already made me question my leanings.
I want now to pose a question about Christ Himself. What was His condition post-death and pre-resurrection? Did he go to Hell for those few days, as many believe? Or was He unconscious?
I'd be interested in others' biblically-based opinions.

You might want to read Luke 16.

Your post reminded me….

One day while reading about the miracle of God using the 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people…. I asked God, “How did You do that? It happened in the physical realm so there must be some kind of physical law that You manipulated… what was it? How did you do it?”

He did not answer me until a month later, I was reading about creation and seed, time and harvest… and how all the plants and herbs had seed within them…

BINGO! Understanding came!

The 2 fish - one was female and one was male… God took their seed, manipulated time and created a harvest of fish!!!

In other words, God took those 2 fish back in time to when they were alive, mated them which created more fish then took those more fish forward in time and kept mating them which created more fish, then gathered all the fish and brought them back to the time and had plenty of fish to feed 5,000 people and 12 baskets of leftovers.

It’s the same principle with the 5 loaves… seed, time, and harvest… all brought back to the same time.

Only God controls and manipulates time.

Then, God showed me something I did not even ask about…. How did the Israelites sandals never wear out for 40 years in the desert?

Even though the Israelites were existing in Time, God took there sandals out of Time so that their sandals never changed, their sandals remained the same.

God is amazing!! Full of wonder, wisdom and awe!!!

Ask Him questions!!! He desires to share all He knows with us!

BUT, if the Body of Christ has been gathering to heaven for all these years (I AGREE) and the 'last' of it will be when He returns as LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS and the alive and remaining who have endured to the end are changed, (I BELIEVE) when Satan destroyed bound and sealed in the abyss as the Lords Day begins, why the rapture 7 years earlier? Why divide the church within full view of the finish line?

Christ went to hell to get the keys to hell and death, deposit man's sins into hell, preached to the spirits in prison, then walked across the great gulf to Abraham's bosom where he would unite with the thief on the cross.

Your post reminded me….

One day while reading about the miracle of God using the 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread to feed 5,000 people…. I asked God, “How did You do that? It happened in the physical realm so there must be some kind of physical law that You manipulated… what was it? How did you do it?”

He did not answer me until a month later, I was reading about creation and seed, time and harvest… and how all the plants and herbs had seed within them…

BINGO! Understanding came!

The 2 fish - one was female and one was male… God took their seed, manipulated time and created a harvest of fish!!!

In other words, God took those 2 fish back in time to when they were alive, mated them which created more fish then took those more fish forward in time and kept mating them which created more fish, then gathered all the fish and brought them back to the time and had plenty of fish to feed 5,000 people and 12 baskets of leftovers.

It’s the same principle with the 5 loaves… seed, time, and harvest… all brought back to the same time.

Only God controls and manipulates time.

Then, God showed me something I did not even ask about…. How did the Israelites sandals never wear out for 40 years in the desert?

Even though the Israelites were existing in Time, God took there sandals out of Time so that their sandals never changed, their sandals remained the same.

God is amazing!! Full of wonder, wisdom and awe!!!

Ask Him questions!!! He desires to share all He knows with us!

It is extremely unfortunate that Hades was not transliterated, but translated incorrectly as "hell". While the body of Christ was in His tomb, His soul and spirit were in Hades for three days and three nights.

Before Christ's resurrection, all souls (saved and unsaved) went to Hades. On the day of His resurrection, Christ took all the OT saints from Hades to Heaven. Ever since all the NT saints who have passed on have gone to Heaven (the New Jerusalem). See Hebrews 12:22-24. There are no souls "sleeping" since in Heaven everyone is alive, awake, and alert. So just reject the false doctrine of Soul Sleep.

That word should be "Hades" not hell. Hades corresponds to Sheol. So Christ went to Sheol/Hades, and here is the proof.

PSALM 16:10 (Sheol marked in red)
כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־תַעֲזֹ֣ב נַפְשִׁ֣י לִשְׁאֹ֑ול לֹֽא־תִתֵּ֥ן חֲ֝סִידְךָ֗ לִרְאֹ֥ות שָֽׁחַת ׃
For thou wilt not leave my soul in [Sheol]; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. (KJB)

ACTS 2:27 (Hades marked in red)
ὅτι οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψεις τὴν ψυχήν μου εἰς ᾅδου, οὐδὲ δώσεις τὸν ὅσιόν σου ἰδεῖν διαφθοράν
Because thou wilt not leave my soul in [Hades], neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Hades is the place of departed souls and spirits. After the resurrection of Christ, only the unsaved dead go to Hades to await their final judgment for Hell (the Lake of Fire).

My Bible does not dabble in Greek

Now you’re becoming an expert in languages.

Hell is the correct English word. Hades is Greek mythology. My Bible does not dabble in Greek mythology. My Bible is consistent from start to finish.

Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Now you’re becoming an expert in languages.

Hell is the correct English word. Hades is Greek mythology. My Bible does not dabble in Greek mythology. My Bible is consistent from start to finish.

Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.