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Let's just read the words:
"...He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. 19 After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits— "
Let's read all the words
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, 19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits now in prison, 20 who formerly were disobedient, when the Divine longsuffering waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. (NKJV)
So then
1. 8 souls saved
2. preached when God was waiting patiently while the ark was being built.
3. Made alive BY the Spirit By whom also He preached to the spirits now in prison WHO were in rebellion during the time the ark was being built.
4. Because 2 Peter 2 says Noah was preaching the Gospel to them during that time
5. And indeed the SPIRIT of Christ was speaking to ALL the OT prophets back then 1 Peter 1:10-11
1 Peter1:10 As to this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you made careful searches and inquiries, 11 seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow. (NASB)
10 Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, 11 searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow. NKJV
Peter is very focused on the historic fact of 8 saved in the ark ... because he wants to use the ark as a type/symbol of baptism. Just as we have the gospel preached before baptism he points out that the Spirit of Christ in 1 Peter 1 was having the gospel preached before the ark was completed.
See it now? The words are referring to Christ preaching by the Spirit specifically to those who were in rebellion during the time when the ark was being built. And the result was that EIGHT people were saved.
you said
died on the cross --
1) "put to death in the body"
and then He was
2) "made alive in the Spirit"
I am sure most of us are thinking Christ was already alive during His life and that at death he was not made alive but was alive before He died.
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