(Edit: Thank you for your humble response. I almost forgot to include that.
I am definitely human.)....
Whaaaat? LOL
If Christ had indeed gone to imprisoned human spirits it would have had been to far more than just those who sinned while the patience of God waited for man to repent in the days of Noah before the flood. For many people died since then by that time and a lot of them were wicked. And so that right there indicates it means that he had a message from his Father to deliver to the angels that sinned during that time. For those angels too sinned while the patience of God waited in the days of Noah and we have evidence that was why the earth became so incredibly wicked in those days.
Jesus' soul went to hell for 3 days, while His body lay dead in a tomb, and His Spirit went to Heaven. Not sure if we agree on that, but anyway...
Jesus preached in hell for 3 days, to those
Inprisoned. I believed he preached to those saved living souls, that WOULD be LEAVING, and going to heaven.
Did He also preach to the Unsaved Souls ?
To also the fallen angels inprisoned ?
Everything in hell was inprisoned...
Saved souls, unsaved souls, fallen angles..
None could leave via their own will or power.
Take a simple verse like Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
All created Angels, are called sons of God.
All created Angels, HAD an estate, in the Heavens, God created as their estate.
Angels, who fell from Gods Grace, lost access to their original estate, and earth became their estate, and for some, hell became their estate.
We know no man after Adam's fall was considered a son of God because Paul tells us:
Man was not "MADE" as a son of God.
Man was a form God MADE, and called a
Very good thing. That "thing", called man, a form from the dust of the ground, was being taught Gods Truth, by Gods Word.
Man also fell, from obedience to Gods Word.
Yet God has a merciful redemption offered to Man.
A man who becomes obedient to God, TO BELIEVE IN HIS WORD, becomes forgiven for not having BELIEVED, and such man is converted BY GOD, and THEN born of His SEED, and called a "son of God".
Even though Adam (who by the way, is male and female), disobeyed, Adam BECAME converted, and is called a "son of God".
Luke 3:38
Romans 8:20-21 "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God."
Correct. The "creature" can "ONLY" be delivered out of bondage, ONLY "WITH" the Spirit of God.
And not everyone has, does, or will, ACCEPT the SPIRIT of God......but a FEW WILL.
And we know that liberation only began taking place as a result of Christ's death and the liberating of men from that futility and into the body of Christ.
I don't know that.
OT men received SAVED souls and QUICKENED spirits, and were called SAINTS.
They ALSO had the Word of God IN THEM....
They simply DID NOT HAVE REVEALED TO THEM...Gods Word, is NAMED Jesus....and Gods Power, is NAMED Christ.
THe WORD of God, (ie named Jesus), is FIRST IN ALL THINGS..before mankind..
"even death".
The Word of God was MURDERED While mankinds "estate", ie (earth) was being formed.
Thus the Word of God was MURDERED, BEFORE mankind was created.
Besides that, there is absolutely no good reason to challenge the the sons of God spoken of at Job 1:6 and Job 2:1. For neither Satan nor his angels had yet been ousted from heaven:
..sons of God....angels, or men who become sons of God, do not become..."not sons of God", because of their behavior.
Something called a "son of God", informs us,
The things being call a "son of God"...
Either IS a forever living "spirit", or
Has a forever living "spirit".
Jesus was called THEE "Son" of God.
He was not created, but IS the EVER lasting,
Without beginning or ending, SPIRIT of God.
He came forth OUT from God, and IS the Seed of God, the Word of God, the Power of God....that made and created ....
Angelic spirits, that can never die
(THEY are GIVEN their OWN great POWER to act....If they reject Him, they become forever separated from Him.
If they remain faithful to Him, they are forever WITH Him)
Mankind IS NOT a created spirit, but HAS a natural spirit from a mans seed.
"IF" <---- "IF" the man is GIVEN Gods SEED, the man thereafter "HAS" a forever NEW, born again, Living spirit, (from Gods Seed) that can not die or every become Separated from God. THAT spirit is forever KEPT faithful, TO GOD, "BY GODS OWN POWER", not the mans (physical muscle power or the mans spiritual power, but by Gods Power, IN and with the mans new spirit).
Luke 10:18-19 "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Yes. Satan has great power; to persuade, tempt, trick, deceive, lie, mimic things God has said will come to pass.....in an effort to KEEP men AS an ENEMY of God...
And as Luke 10:18-19 teaches...
A man WHO has overcome being Gods enemy, and believe IN GOD in his heart, is a man WHO thereafter HAS GODS POWER in Him, that TRUMPS Satan power, that Satan can NEVER SWAY that man AWAY FROM God.
Revelation 12:9 "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."
Yes, they lost access to their FIRST "estate".
And since then, are present on mans "estate", ie Earth, Tempting all of Gods enemies, to KEEP standing Against God, and remain Gods enemy.
And so 2 Peter 2:4 was not until Christ was on earth, just as is:
Jude 1:6 "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day."
Christ - the Power of God
Jesus - the Word of God
Has been ON earth, since it was created, and before mankind was created, to inhabit the Earth (mankinds estate) day 6.
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And by the way, proclamations of the gospel does not mean general preaching but things like proclaiming the day of the Lord as John the Baptist in the wilderness was doing, which is also part of the gospel.
BTW, teaching and preaching from the beginning, has been in man's own words, and are always approved of God, when a man's own words, are verified by Gods own teaching, preaching, spoken revelations, Truths.
God Bless,
SBC