You look at Matthew chapter 12, I'm gonna read to you from Jonah chapter 2 verse 1
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly and said I
cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord and he heard me out of the
belly of hell cried I and thou heardest my voice for thou has cast me into the
deep and the midst of the seas and the floods come past me about all thy
billows and thy waves pass over me then I said I am cast out of thy sight and
yet I will look again toward thy holy temple thy waters come past me about
even to the soul the death closed me round about the weeds were wrapped about
my head I went down to the bottom of the mountains the earth with their bars was
about me forever yet has thou brought up my life from corruption O Lord my God
so what is this referring to is referring to the Prophet Jonah who
disobeyed God God had to chastise him and allow him to be swallowed up by a
whale okay not cool at all because you know it's probably not a very pleasant
place to be in the belly of a whale but when you read the account here he's
talking about the sea weeds you know wrapping around his head it's like okay
that makes sense you know whales can swallow that but then he talks about
being in hell and we know Jonah did not go to hell right he talks about being at
the bottoms of the mountains we know that Jonah did not go to the bottoms of
mountains he was in the ocean he was baptized in the ocean right God's wrath
was very much on Jonah his punishment was on Jonah we can see that clearly but
a lot of things that he said about his experience wasn't necessarily his
personal experience he was prophesying of Jesus Christ of what something that
he was going to experience and the proof of that is found in Matthew chapter 12
and verse 39 look what it says but he answered and said unto them an evil and
adulterous generation seeketh after a sign preached that on a sunny morning
amen and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of the Prophet Jonas for
as Jonas was three days and three nights in the well's belly I want you to notice
this so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of
the earth now if you're to place someone in the heart of the earth then you can
say yeah they're below the mountains yeah the bars are compassing them round
about yeah they are in hell because the Bible explicitly describes hell as being
in the center of the earth so what was Jonah representing he was representing
the fact that when Jesus died his soul descended into hell okay now a lot of the
modern versions would like for you to think well no he descended into Abraham's
bosom but Abraham was not in hell folks he is in heaven when he died okay he's
still in heaven today this is referring to the literal health okay and you know
sometimes people they kind of have a knee-jerk reaction at that they're just
like what are you saying that Jesus went to hell folks the Bible says that he
went to hell and to prove that Acts chapter 2 it says my soul was not let
his soul was not left in hell neither that his flesh see corruption the Bible
says and the proof look from a logical perspective we understand that he went
to hell because of the fact that if we died to pay for our sins where would we
go to hell so if Jesus Christ is dying to pay for our sins that means he went
to hell as well and it's explicitly said throughout the Bible the desk that's
exactly where he went and even if you were to discount all those other
scriptures then you would have to say that Jesus took Jonah out of context
right because he specifically said like as Jonah's was three days and three
nights in the in the well's belly so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth and Jesus knew what Jonah chapter 2 said
about the prophesying of Jesus being in hell you understand so when Jesus Christ
died when he talks about his burial yeah it's referring to his physical body
being buried in or being placed in the tomb but more specifically it's
referring to the fact that his soul descended to hell what is it that he
ascended but that he first descended into the lower parts of the earth that's
what the Bible says