Studying Death, Dying and Future Hope in the SSnet.org
series Lesson 9, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: “Preaching for spirits in the prison in Peter’s
Book for Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson Death, Dying and Future
Hope”. Edition is on page 115 and for the laymen edition or Standard
Edition, on page 76. The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in
their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also to your
heart. Why do you not click on this now? --- https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:4Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ422_09.pdf ---The purpose of the lesson this week is to deal with difficult
verses. ---A quick reading of 1 Peter 3:19-20 gives the impression that
Christ, while in tomb, left His skeleton by “immortal spirit” to preach for the
antediluvians in hell! ---Many non-Adventist commentaries read it this way. ---But here is the lesson we must learn from this. When you have a
difficult reading, it is not because the verse is difficult. It is because you
read with the wrong glasses. ---You cannot come to the biblical text full of pagan poet Homer
and pagan philosopher Plato’s ideas and superimpose that upon the text to “squeeze”
your own interpretation aligning with their ideas, out of the biblical text. ---Nowhere in Scripture is there any support for this fable
creation on these two verses by non-Adventist commentators. ---Antediluvians in 1 Peter 3:20 are people not angels. ---The angels are kept in prison waiting for the Hell event with no
possibility of conversion (Jude 6). ---The dead knows nothing. No spirit is floating in Hell now to
whom Christ went to preach in 31 AD as non-SDA commentaries are saying. ---Once a person dies, there is no more conversion (Hebrews 9:27,
28). ---Why would Christ preach only to a certain group and not all
people who died in the same situation since Adam and Eve? ---Peter refers to Noah that was used by Christ to instruct his
generation as “preacher of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5). ---The whole concept of comparing the Last Days with the “just as
it was in the days of Noah” sermon of Jesus, Peter was familiar with. ---Christ outlined the condition of the Last Days similar to the
days of Noah. ---Noah was preaching in the Spirit of Elijah, was standing up
though the heavens fall, but the people rejected his message and laughed at it.
---Hebrews 11:7 says that the people of the antediluvian world were
instructed by Noah. Paul wrote about this. Paul and Peter were in the same
prison before they died. ---It was the same Holy Spirit Who resurrected Christ as composite
action by the Trinity (1 Peter 3:18). ---It is the same Spirit that preached through Noah to the people
who were in prison of sin (Romans 6 and Romans 7) in Noah’s days in 2692 BC. ---Peter is using a “figure”, he says in 1 Peter 3:21 “the like
figure” is baptism for Peter. ---Peter brought a number of “figurative examples” together here:
Jesus, Noah, Baptism. ---Is it now clearer? ---Throw away the immortality of the soul glasses please.