Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

 

[timothyu]

You'll have to wait for Mel Gibson's long awaited The Passion (part 2) The Resurrection to find out

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

Scripture does not tell us. There is only speculation. Blessings.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

I may recommend the book "From the Cross to the Throne" by E.W. Kenyon.
He may not be to your taste, but he addresses the subject at length.

 

[Sheila Davis]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

Ephesians 4:8-10
Bible Gateway passage: Ephesians 4:8-10 - New King James Version

1st Peter 3:18-20
Bible Gateway passage: 1 Peter 3:18-20 - King James Version

According to those scriptures he descended and preached to the people who were imprisoned. It is believed taught the people who are in what is termed hell even back to the time of Noah.
Most Christian churches teach that he descended and preached in hell and delivered those imprisoned.

 

[SavedByGrace3]

We had to memorize this for our first communion. It is not scripture... but there it is.
The Apostle’s Creed
I believe in God,
the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven,
sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

 

[timothyu]

Most Christian churches teach that he descended and preached in hell and delivered those imprisoned.

Some even relate the first world (the Book of Enoch) with those imprisoned.

 

[Neogaia777]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

The Spirit that was in Him stayed here, and after giving those a second chance in Hades, after three days and three nights, etc, came back and appeared to us from "a heaven", possibly Abraham's bosom, and then after forty days and forty nights both with us and there, etc, ascended to the Highest God and the Highest Heaven, to prepare places for us there, and until He should return another time and/or again, and will, at that time, set up and earthly Kingdom, that will be joined to the first heaven, and that will last until the end of this entire creation age, and then, or/and/or by then or after that, etc, all will begin again, but we will then, and by then, etc, and at that time, etc, will all get to stay with the Highest God and in the Highest Heaven from that time onward, while others will only get more of just only here, etc...

God Bless!

 

[timothyu]

Well, you know the old say, if it ain't in scripture...

 

[Sheila Davis]

Some even relate the first world (the Book of Enoch) with those imprisoned.

Are you saying some churches use The Book of Enoch in their sermons or studies.
I have read a portion of the book of Enoch. I would love to hear what a minister has to say, especially how it relates to the fall of Adam & Eve and the sons of God, what they were doing, how they experimented with man and animals creating monstrosities, and their mingling with the daughters of man. It wasn't until the the 1970s, possibly 1980s when ministries began to accept the idea of what Satan actually did to Eve and the sons of God we're doing with the daugters of man.

Yes I have heard ministries relate to the first world before Noah and Christ was preaching to them.
I am not quite sure what to believe on that subject - because I have also heard ministers preach the people who sinned before Noah were already judged and condemned. Example
Why Did God Flood the Earth in the Bible?

 

[Ivan Hlavanda]

Jesus descended to Sheol, which is where the souls go after they die. Sheol is split in to two parts, one where all the believers go, into Abraham's bosom, and they wait until the day of the rapture when all the believers in Christ, dead and alive, will meet Him in the clouds. This is where Jesus went, into Abraham's bosom.

Then you have the second part of Sheol, where all the pagan (non-believers) go. They are waiting for the day of the judgement, when God will judge them according to their sins, and then they will be thrown into the lake of fire, this is the second death. At the moment they are in Sheol and they are suffering a never ending horrible thirst. Read Luke 16:19-31 for more info.

 

[timothyu]

Are you saying some churches use The Book of Enoch in their sermons or studies.

Not that I have heard other than mention of the first world, a civilization that existed before ours, before Noah. So much left out in the teachings of gentile Christianity, perhaps on purpose because it shows just how off track humanity was after the fall in the Garden where the first world began, a way of life we still use today , and is written about in the Bible, starting almost immediately after Noah hit dry land. Jesus comes to teach that God still has no use for those who follow that way and offered another, yet here we all are, still following the same self serving actions of self interest, but without the influences of the first world now in limbo, or wherever they are until the lake is readied for them. Their time is over and now ours is about to meet the same fate.

 

[The Narrow Way]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

He didn't go anywhere for those 3 days. He didn't do anything. He just slept in the grave, just like Lazarus did for 4 days. Jesus said of Lazarus ~ "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep." John 11:11.

Matthew 27:52,53 tells us that when Jesus died on the cross, "...the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many."

Death is nothing more than a long, deep sleep. The breath goes back to God who gave it to us ~ "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Genesis 2:7.

"a living soul" just means a LIVE PERSON. When the Bible speaks of a SOUL, it just means a PERSON ~ "All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;" Genesis 46:26. This is how the NLT translates that verse ~ "The total number of Jacob’s direct descendants who went with him to Egypt, not counting his sons’ wives, was sixty-six."

 

[Albion]

Jesus descended to Sheol, which is where the souls go after they die. Sheol is split in to two parts, one where all the believers go, into Abraham's bosom, and they wait until the day of the rapture when all the believers in Christ, dead and alive, will meet Him in the clouds. This is where Jesus went, into Abraham's bosom.

It's usually believed that he went to Abraham's Bosom, that's right, where--according to the Scriptures--he preached, proclaiming his victory over death to the souls there. These are believed to be the people who died before Jesus came and were otherwise righteous but could not be admitted to heaven prior to Christ's sacrifice for sin. Abraham's Bosom, also called Paradise, no longer functions.

 

[Neogaia777]

Jesus, at that time, went to "spirits" that were "in prison", etc, and that is all it says, etc, but they more than likely were conscious, and that means it/they could have been Hades, or Abraham's Bosom, or both, etc, again, we are limited by what the scriptures say, and by what they actually reveal to us, etc, and our own individual definitions of terms also, etc, terms like "Hades", "Sheol", and "Gehenna", etc, and right now, I'm just going to tell you how I have defined them, or what I have come to know or think about them by what I was taught or learned, etc... Either way, when I am discussing these terms, I do think they are all each three, very very unique and very real places each individually that are 100% absolutely real and true, as I will get into right now, or in just a minute, etc...

And I'm going to start with the one that I am maybe most certain of first, and that is "Gehenna", etc, I don't know of very many people who will not say that this has to be the Lake of Fire, etc, but there still could maybe be some few who might disagree with me, etc, and it is the only true everlasting place where people go to that is a "very bad, bad, bad place", where people are in "torment" for an "eternity", etc, and people only go there at the very very end of this entire creation, who have either been "asleep" in "Sheol", or that were in torment in "Hades" before that, etc, and the next one is "Hades" and that is "a hell" where people are in fully conscious torment, right now, but is not the Lake of Fire (yet) that could maybe only be temporary maybe for some maybe, etc, and then I have also been taught that "Sheol" is the place of the resting, and as of yet and right now, still asleep, "dead", etc...

But also that all from each of these places will be resurrected or brought back at the very end of this entire creation, and some might go to Heaven, or at least those in Abraham's Bosom most certainly will, whereas others, might go or get into Heaven, but that some will be cast into the Lake of Fire to exist in only torment eternally after that, and that specific Judgement is final, and lasts for all eternity after that, etc...

And other than maybe just maybe some of my definition of terms maybe, etc, this is what I think the Bible actually teaches and says, and I have tried my best to not go beyond it, etc...

But and/or anyway...

God Bless!

 

[timothyu]

No one goes to Heaven. The Kingdom comes down from Heaven, a new world to replace the this one which is no more.

 

[Neogaia777]

No one goes to Heaven. The Kingdom comes down from Heaven, a new world to replace the this one which is no more.

Well, the/this earth (and day 7) cannot last forever, etc, but until then, I think you are very correct, but not afterwards, etc...

Afterwards, that same Kingdom will be "transferred", having been made just like it by the time it ends, etc, then a whole new one will begin, but we will all be in, or will go to Heaven then, or by then, etc...

That is also at the time of the second resurrection and very last judgement also, etc, when, right before it, Satan will let loose from his prison for a very, very short time, to test the saints involved in the first resurrection/Kingdom/judgment for one very last time before getting thrown into the Lake of Fire eternally afterwards, etc...

God Bless!

 

[1watchman]

We had to memorize this for our first communion. It is not scripture... but there it is.
The Apostle’s Creed
I believe in God,
the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven and earth;
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, Our Lord,
Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into Hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead;
He ascended into Heaven,
sitteth at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty;
from thence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

Good report, friend! I visited the tomb in Israel and saw where His body laid; however, since God is a Holy Spirit, and Jesus was God in the flesh, and God just waited and later returned to the body and restored Him to finish His ministry (before He commended His "disciples" and then assended bodily to Heaven), it shows how our God accomplished what man fails to understand.

Man should NEVER challenge or minimize or ignore what Holy Scripture shows honest seekers.
Christains should be reading and valuing "all the counsel of God" and "rightly dividing the "Word of truth" as God tells us; i.e. those who will value it. -1watchman

 

[ViaCrucis]

Where did Jesus go after he died on cross?
Before resurrection, His spirit went to where?
What did he do?

He descended to the place of the dead.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[LayHong_Loves_Christ]

Why he wants to go there?