Bible Question: During those three dayshow was it Christ "went and preached unto the spiritsin prison 1Peter 3:19 ,22 |
Bible Answer: My appologies. Yes indeed, Christ did preach to those in prison. Where that prison is, I can't answer. But why there was a prison, I can. There were those before Christ's time that beleived in God, but yet have never heard about Christ. Those people that beleived God's Word and followed his commandments died without a meaningful sacrifice being offered for them. Remember, Jesus said, "Abraham saw my day and rejoiced". So Abraham knew the importance of the sacrifice of Christ. He had faith in the fact that the sacrifice would mean salvation. But there were those that died without hope, without knowledge of Christ's sacrifice, yet they trusted God, and lived according to the word they were given. These people were waiting for the day of the Messiah, yet they died without seeing it. God was just by fullfilling the promise that Messiah would come. The promise applied to ALL who beleived. So, the ones who died without seeing the Messiah, would be visited by the Messiah as a fullfillment of the promise. Today, we have His Word as a testimony, but they didn't have that, they only had a promise that the Messiah would come. |