RESURRECTION !
When HE+ had received the vinegar HE+ cried with a LOUD VOICE,
" FATHER, INTO YOUR HANDS I+ COMMIT MY SPIRIT."
Having said this HE+ bowed HIS+ Head and released HIS Spirit and Descended into the Heart of the Earth, leaving HIS+ tired Body on the Cross.
And the Earth SHOOK and the rocks were sheared and the Veil of the Temple was torn in TWO... from TOP TO BOTTOM !
Where did JESUS go during the Three days and Three nights?
The Scripture states plainly from our LORD'S own lips that HE+ would be Three Days and Three Nights in The Heart of the Earth., the Realm of the departed human soul and spirit, called in the Hebrew sheol.
One thing we DO know is where JESUS our LORD+ went when HE+ left the CROSS and HIS Crucified Body there because HE+ said so HIMSELF+.
Also... we can KNOW that HE+ went there as a Victor and a Conqueror! HE+ did not go there as some cults, some groups, and yes, witches' covens, teach to be tortured by satan.
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
NO! On HIS+ CROSS HE+ Broke satan's back and broke his head as well! JESUS said, "IT IS FINISHED!" HE+ went into "sheol" in HIS+ FATHER'S STRENGTH, to the TERROR and HORROR of the Unclean rebel spirits. ( Genesis 3:15 )
What did HE+ do during the three days and nights?
.... WHATEVER HE+ WANTED TO DO !
HE+ was CHRISTUS VICTOR!
CHRIST the VICTOR !
Taking down the gates of Hell from the area called in Scriptures, Abraham's Bosom ... only the dead could enter the realm of the departed human soul and spirit, but THIS ONE TIME... the Crucified , SECOND ADAM+ entered into it!
For GOOD REASON Abraham "rejoiced to see HIS+ Day... He saw it ... and was GLAD !
GLORIOUS LIGHT FLOODED SHEOL!
Here are some quotes from Scripture from the Ancient Pre-Nicene Church Writings. They had the same Scriptures we do, and they knew how to use them and TO LIVE BY THEM.
...The LORD DESCENDED INTO THE REGIONS BENEATH THE EARTH PREACHING HIS+ ADVENT THERE ALSO AND DECLARING THE REMISSION OF SINS RECEIVED BY THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIM+...
ANF vol 1, pg. 499, Irenaeus Against Heresies, chapter 27, section 2
Preaching Salvation to the Righteous Dead. The Patriarchs, the Prophets, the Ninevites who repented at the preaching of Jonah
( ANF vol 1, pg 7, chapter 7, First Epistle of Clement )
From I Peter ...
3:18 ....
For 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 Made Alive by the SPIRIT:
3:19 By Which ( HOLY SPIRIT/RUACH ha KADOSH,) also HE+ went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
1 Peter 4:6
For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.
