Jesus preached to the spirits of living people in his day, not to dead people in Noah’s day. Noah, a preacher of righteousness, preached to the spirits in prison in his day.
Isaiah 61:1 “The spirit of YAHWEH is upon me (Jesus) because YAHWEH has anointed me (Jesus) to proclaim the gospel to the poor. YAHWEH has sent me (Jesus) to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives (those in a spiritual prison) and release from darkness for the prisoners.”
Isaiah 49:9 “To say to the prisoners, come out and to those in darkness show yourselves….”
Isaiah 42:7 “To open the eyes of the blind, to free captives from the prison and to release those who sit in darkness from the prison house.”
Luke 4:20 “Then he (Jesus) rolled up the scroll and returned it to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began to say to them, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
Acts 10:38 “How GOD anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil because GOD was with him.”
Noah preached to living people in his day who were also spirits imprisoned by Satan. Noah was a preacher of righteousness.
2 Peter 2:5 “If GOD did not spare the ancient world when HE brought the flood on its ungodly people but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.”
Genesis 6:9 “This is the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man blameless in his time ; Noah walked with GOD.”
Hebrews 11:7 “By faith, Noah, when warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.”
It took 120 years to build the ark and during that time GOD waited patiently while Noah preached righteousness to the people to see if any would repent but none did. Only Noah and his family were saved.
Jesus Christ preached to the spirits in prison quoting Isaiah 61:1 to them. During all of his 3 1/2 years of preaching only 120 people were in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
In these verses of 1 Peter 3:18-20 there is an error in punctuation. After Jesus died, 3 days and nights later, Jesus was made alive by the spirit of GOD. In his ministry he preached the gospel to the imprisoned spirits, living people of his day, by the same spirit that raised him from the dead. Notice that the spirits of some who were formerly disobedient of which only 120 obeyed and right after the word disobedient there should be a period. Now Peter is comparing the preaching of Jesus to the preaching of Noah to show how baptism in water was like the water that saved Noah. Paul does a similar thing in 1 Corinthians 10:2 showing the shadow of the law compared to the light of Christ.
Immortality was withheld from humanity after Adam sinned. A human life is just like that of any other animal, as one dies so does the other. Ecclesiastes 3:19 This truth is still with us today. No murderer has everlasting life abiding in them. 1 John 3:15
The Holy Spirit is the guarantee of receiving everlasting life when Jesus returns. John 6:40,44,54 all these verses say the resurrection happens at the last day when this mortal must put on immortality. We do not have immortality now or when we die but only at the resurrection in the last day.
GODS truth, HIS doctrine, never changes. Certain people read 1 Peter 3:18-20 and conclude that after we die or Jesus died they were still alive and conscious as a disembodied spirit. This idea violates the gospel message and is a deception of Satan.
1 Corinthians 15:13-18 “If there is no resurrection of the dead then not even Christ has Been resurrected. If Christ has not been resurrected our preaching is useless and so is your faith. More than that we are found to be false witnesses about GOD for we have testified about GOD that HE resurrected Christ from the dead. But if HE did not resurrect Christ then the dead are not resurrected from the dead for if then the dead are not resurrected then Christ has not been resurrected either. And if Christ has not been resurrected your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost.”
Do you not see that the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, that is making the dead alive again, is the hope of both the living and the dead ? Paul says plainly that the dead in Christ, those who have fallen asleep, would be lost if there is no resurrection from the dead. The word lost in verse 18 is Strongs article G622 and it means, to destroy fully or permanent absolute destruction or utterly perish. The phrase “fallen asleep” is Strongs article G2837 and describes the peaceful death of the elect of GOD where sleep is used as a metaphor for death. Therefore prior to the resurrection the elect are sleeping in death, totally unaware and unconscious. There are no exceptions to this doctrine as even Christ had to be resurrected from the dead just as those who are asleep in death must be also. This is the truth of GOD and anything that contradicts this truth is a lie. Immediate life after death is a lie. Satans first lie was that humans do not surely die and people who believe this lie believe in immediate life after death. You are an imprisoned spirit awaiting the sentence of death and held in a spiritual prison with no way of escape. The message of the gospel is the hope that even if dead you can be resurrected from the dead to immortality in the kingdom of GOD.
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