We don't know what they talked about. You use the word "preach" like if he was trying to get them born again. He probably told them they were going to be screwed now cause I got up from the dead. Who knows what he told them. But he must have had some awesome charged up body to be able to get there and talk to that devil spirit world.
Jesus' sacrifice of himself, being the Lamb of God, was for all people, beginning with Adam.
As all are under the judgment of eternal death that fell on Adam, so also is the Grace of God through faith in Jesus' shed blood, for the gift of eternal life
KJV John 3:18 reveals the TWO judgments of God upon man.
1. Adam- the judgment of eternal death.
2. Jesus- the judgment of eternal life, on all who believe in Him.
From the past, up to this moment, all are still being held captive by death. Many are
still dieing without Christ.
However, Jesus has come to set the
captives free!!
Luke 4
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18] The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
1 Cor. 15
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50] Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
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51] Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
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52] In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
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53] For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
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54] So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
Death is swallowed up in victory.
[55] O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
[56] The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
[57] But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
EDIT: All people, prior to the literal manifestation of Jesus in the flesh, were to look forward in faith for the "Promise to come".
For all those who died in faith, their names were written in a
"book of remembrance" before God. Malachi 3:16.
God did not forget them.