three days in the belly
 

I am looking for your thoughts and scrptures on what took place the three days Jesus was dead?

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Jesus slept for three days in the heart of the Earth. I mean the sleep of death. His death paid for our sins. That he rose again is the good news otherwise known as "the gospel"

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I always thought this is when He went and got the "keys"

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Well I ask this question. Could he "go get the keys" before he rose from the dead?

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1 Peter 3:18-22 speaks of Him preaching "unto the spirits in prison." Not to bring up the Book of Enoch again...

It does seem that He didn't spend the whole time sawing logs.

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Doesn't Peter say Jesus preached to those spiritual prisoners through Noah by His Spirit in the days of Noah?

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See what Sam said.

Also could Yeshua have went anywhere before he was raised from the dead?

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uh... no.

Dude, you were batting 1000 all last week - you were an an amazing font of knowledge - and now ... what's happened to you? (lol)
Yes, Yeshua could have pretty much done anything He wanted at any time. But the question is, what did He do?

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That is indeed what the bible says.

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What did Peter preach he did on the first sermon preached at Pentecost?

22: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
23: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
24: Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
25: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
26: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
27: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
28: Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
29: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
30: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
31: He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
32: This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses. Acts 2:22-32

Jesus was in Hades where all the dead go. It is the grave same place David expected to go and did. His soul and his flesh was delivered from there by the resurrection! Look carefully at verse 31.

The resurrection of Christ is the GOOD NEWS! That although men die they can live again.

David SLEPT with his Fathers. Peter defines that clearly in verse 29. It says he was both dead and buried.

Paul taught us that Jesus was the FIRSTFRUITS OF THEM THAT SLEPT.

20: But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
21: For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

Of all who ever died (slept) he was the FIRST to be raised from death and gain eternal life. Paul says Jesus was sleeping until his resurrection.

As concerning the Lords death it was what he HAD TO DO to pay for our sins. After that was accomplished God could raise him up again.

The key is to understand RESURRECTION. It means "a standing up again" or to "raise".

We raise from the dead. Not from life. Notice all the preaching about the resurrection. Thats the greatest event since the creation of the world!