(Wakka;12752)
So after Jesus died on the cross, he did go to hell (or the abyss) to preach to the souls. Right?
Uh, very much wrong.If we examine 1 Peter 3:18-20 honestly and closely tie the subject matter to what is being said we can clearly see that the same Holy Spirit that quickened Jesus (Made alive) is the same Holy Spirit that spoke through the preaching of Noah.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: (Jesus was put to death, but raised by the Spirit. Holy Spirit in this case because the word spirit is capitalized in the Bible). 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; (Jesus spoke to those in "prison" by the spirit. Being lost in sin, degradation and iniquity is likened in the Bible to being in prison. Psalm 142:7Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.Psalm 69:33For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.Isaiah 42:7To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.) 20 Which 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. (God was longsuffering and patient during the days of Noah when repentance and salvation were being preached in the days of Noah.)