“In your ‘Did Christ Suffer in Hell?’ article, you made no mention of 1 Peter 3:18-20.”

“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 quickened by the Spirit: By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison” (1 Pet. 3:18-19).

The Savior told the thief on the cross, “Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with Me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). From this, we know that, during the three days and three nights that He was in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40), Christ was in the paradise section of Hades. From paradise, Christ “preached unto the spirits in prison” (1 Pet. 3:19), or He addressed spirits in the torment section of Hades. The Lord preached to these spirits from paradise just as Abraham spoke to the rich man in torments across the great gulf in Hades (Luke 16:22-31).

The message the Lord preached to these spirits (1 Pet. 3:20) was one of judgment, assuring them that their everlasting doom was sure, because of His victorious death for sin at the Cross and impending resurrection in a matter of a couple of days and hours at that time.

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