Hello everybody, I'm back with another video in the series Defending the New IFB in Faithful
Word Baptist Church, which is my church, from the slanderous attacks from people who don't
like us because we preach the Bible.
And today I want to talk about the subject of the fact that Jesus, when he was dead for
three days and three nights, that his soul was in hell.
And this is something that the Bible clearly says.
It is stated several times, and I'm going to read those scriptures in this video, but
some people don't like that.
Now the vast majority of people in this world who claim to be Christians, they will agree
with this doctrine.
Most so-called Christians, not saying they're saved or whatever, but most people out there
believe this.
Really the only people who are attacking us and saying that we're wrong on this is like
the old IFB and some other Baptists and maybe some Pentecostals and Evangelicals, etc.
The vast majority of so-called Christians believe that Jesus went to hell.
And the only reason why I point this out is not to say that that has anything to do with
whether it's the truth or not, because it doesn't really matter who believes what.
What matters is what the Bible says.
So the only reason why I point this out is just to make the point that the only people
who really attack the new IFB for believing that Jesus went to hell is the old IFB.
So just other Baptists, right?
And oftentimes some of these people are brethren, some of these people are saved people.
But unfortunately they just are ignorant of the Scriptures, or they're just holding
on to this false doctrine of dispensationalism which teaches that there's a good part of
hell called Abraham's bosom, and I'm going to debunk that in this video as well.
So I want to get into what the Bible says and show you from clear Scriptures that Jesus,
when he was dead for three days and three nights, his soul descended into hell.
And this is not something that we get from the Roman Catholic Church or something, which
is what people accuse us of.
Yes, they do believe this, but they believe it because it's what the Bible says.
We believe it because it's what the Bible says.
It's not something that just came out of thin air, it's what the Bible teaches.
So let me show you from the Scriptures.
And again, don't deny what the Bible says, just believe it.
Stop trying to argue against what the Bible clearly teaches.
You out there who don't believe that Jesus went to hell.
Here's where the Bible teaches us.
Acts chapter 2, verses 24 to 31.
This is the Apostle Peter preaching.
He says, whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death, because it was not possible
that he should be holden of it.
For David speaketh concerning him, talking about Jesus, I foresaw the Lord always before
my face, for he is on my right hand that I should not be moved.
Therefore did my heart rejoice and my tongue was glad, moreover also my flesh shall rest
in hope, because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine holy
one to see corruption.
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.
Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both
dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of
the fruit of his loins according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne,
He seeing this before, spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell,
neither did his flesh see corruption.
So here is clearly where Peter is quoting from Psalm 16 and saying that David the prophet
when he spoke of his soul not being left in hell, he was not speaking of himself because
his flesh saw corruption, but rather he was prophesying of Christ and speaking of the
resurrection of Christ.
So Psalm 16 verse 10 is a prophecy that Jesus' soul would not be left in hell.
Now how can his soul not be left in hell if his soul was not ever in hell?
This shows us that when Jesus was dead for the three days and three nights, his soul
was in hell.
And the resurrection means that his soul was not left there, right?
So if I have my car keys, and they're on the table, and then I pick them up and I take
them with me, then I did not leave my car keys on the table, right?
But how can I say I didn't leave them on the table if they never were on the table, right?
So what does it mean that Jesus' soul was not left in hell?
It means that when he was dead for the three days and three nights, his soul was in hell.
And his flesh was buried, and it did not see corruption, meaning it didn't rot, it didn't
deteriorate, it wasn't corrupted, right?
Jesus rose from the dead, right?
So what happened when Jesus rose from the dead?
His body came back to life, but his soul which was in hell entered back into his body, right?
That's what happened at the resurrection.
And this is what the Bible clearly says in Acts chapter 2.
This is not the only place where the Bible talks about Jesus going to hell for the three
days and three nights.
It says in Matthew chapter 12, verses 39 to 40.
But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a
sign, 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 whale's belly, so shall the Son of
man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
So according to Jesus, when he was dead for three days and three nights, he was in the
heart of the earth.
Now that's not talking about his body, because his body was buried in an above-ground sepulcher,
okay?
So his body was not in the heart of the earth, his body was in a sepulcher, right?
What does heart mean?
It means the core, or the middle, or the center, it means deep within something.
So he says, for the three days that he was dead, he was in the heart of the earth.
What does this mean?
It means that his soul was in hell.
And we'll see this later in Ephesians chapter 4 as well, that the Bible says that he descended
into the lower parts of the earth, right?
So not just being buried in an above-ground tomb, he was actually in the heart of the
earth, in hell, right?
Because whenever the Bible talks about people going into hell, it talks about them going
down into hell, right?
It says, let them go down quick into hell, right?
It talks about in Exodus, or not Exodus, Numbers, when, you know, Korah and Nathan
of Bairam, you know, they went to hell, it talks about the earth opening up, like splitting
open and then them going down quick into hell, right?
So that means hell is down, hell is in the heart of the earth, right?
And we can even just go back to the book of Jonah, because Jesus said that, you know,
the prophet Jonah being three days and three nights in the whale's belly, that is a sign
of the Son of Man being dead for three days and three nights.
So the event that happened to Jonah, of him being in the whale's belly, that was a prophecy,
that was a symbol of Jesus' death.
So let's go back to the book of Jonah and see where Jonah also prophesied that Jesus
would be in hell.
Jonah chapter 2, verses 1 to 6.
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.
Now is Jonah actually in hell?
No he's not.
He's in the whale's belly, right?
So why is he saying out of the belly of hell cried I?
Because as Jesus said in the New Testament, Jonah being three days and three nights in
the heart of the earth is symbolic of Jesus being dead for three days and three nights
and being in the heart of the earth.
I think I said Jonah was in the heart of the earth, I meant in the whale's belly.
You know what I mean, right?
Verse 3, for thou hast cast me into the deep, in the midst of the sea.
So this is what happened to Jonah, right?
Now he's talking about himself.
And the floods compassed me about, all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight, yet I will look again towards thy holy temple.
The waters compass me about, even to the soul.
The depth closed me around about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains, the earth with her bars was about me forever.
Yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
So here's another reference to going to the heart of the earth where he says my soul was
enclosed or went down to the bottoms of the mountains and it was enclosed, the earth was
about me with her bars forever, right?
So how can he say that I was surrounded by the earth forever at the bottoms of the mountains,
at the belly of hell, cried I, when he was in the whale's belly.
That didn't literally happen to Jonah, so what is he talking about?
He's prophesying of Jesus Christ because Jesus said in Matthew chapter 12 and other
places that Jonah in the whale's belly was symbolic of Jesus being dead for three days
and three nights.
And where was he for three days and three nights?
In the heart of the earth, which we know to be hell.
It says in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 8, wherefore he saith, when he ascended up on high, he
led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men.
Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts
of the earth?
The same that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that he
might fill all things.
So according to the Bible, before Jesus ascended up into heaven, it says he first descended
into the lower parts of the earth.
What is that talking about?
It's talking about hell.
Just like he said in Matthew chapter 12 that for three days and three nights he was in
the heart of the earth.
He descended into the lower parts of the earth, right?
He went into hell.
Acts chapter 2, right?
What's so hard to understand about this?
I mean, it's just clear.
He went into the lower parts of the earth.
He was in the heart of the earth.
His soul was not left in hell.
So where was Jesus when he was dead?
He was in hell, right?
Now not only this, but according to the Bible, Jesus was actually dead.
See, what some people don't realize is that death equals going to hell, right?
So you say, well, what about people who believe in Jesus and they die?
Well, according to the Bible, whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
So when a believer's body perishes, when a believer's body falls asleep, as the Bible
says, they're not actually dead.
And that's why in the Bible, when Jesus is talking about the dead that they rise, he
says about God, where he said, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
He is not the God of the dead, but he is the God of the living, right?
So what is he saying?
He's saying that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are still alive when Jesus is on this earth,
right?
Because even though their bodies physically died, even though they were buried, their
soul continued to live on after that.
They were alive.
But according to Jesus, he was literally dead when he died on the cross.
Revelation 1 verse 18, I am he that liveth and was dead.
So Jesus wasn't just sleeping, as the Bible calls the death of a believer.
Jesus was not sleeping.
He was actually dead.
And look what he says now, and behold, I am alive forevermore, amen, and have the keys
of hell and of death.
Now how can Jesus have the keys of hell and of death if Jesus died, but then he didn't
go to hell?
Right?
Because these people who deny this doctrine, they believe that Jesus died on the cross,
but they don't believe his soul was in hell.
But Jesus said, well, I am he that liveth and I was dead.
Meaning he didn't say, you know, I was sleeping.
He says I actually was dead.
And he says he has the keys of hell and of death.
Why?
Because he went to hell.
Now another aspect of this is that Jesus is the Passover, as the Bible teaches.
And the Passover has symbolism of, again, Jesus going to hell, right?
So we've seen some clear verses where the Bible says he was in the heart of the earth.
His soul was not left in hell.
He descended into the lower parts of the earth.
But then there's also some symbolism in the Old Testament as well that also shows us that
Jesus was in hell for three days and three nights.
So it says in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7, purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may
be a new lump as ye are unleavened.
For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
So Jesus Christ, according to the Bible, is the fulfillment of the feast of Passover which
is given in the Old Testament.
And I think most Christians recognize this.
This is pretty obvious because the Bible literally calls him the Lamb of God which taketh away
the sin of the world, right?
Now let's go back to some of the scriptures about the Passover in the Old Testament and
see what God commands concerning the Passover and explain how these things were fulfilled
in Jesus Christ.
So in Exodus chapter 12 verse 5 to 10, God says, your lamb shall be without blemish,
a male of the first year.
Ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats.
Now when he talks about the lamb being without blemish, this of course is symbolic of the
fact that Jesus Christ was without sin.
And it explains this in 1 Peter chapter 1 as well, that Jesus Christ was without blemish
and without spot because he was perfect, he was without sin, right?
Then it says in verse 6, you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And again, that's symbolic of Jesus because Jesus literally died on the day of Passover
in the evening, right?
Right before the sun set.
Verse 7, and they shall take the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the
upper door posts of the houses wherein they shall eat it.
This again is symbolic of the fact that Jesus' blood is what gives us our salvation.
Verse 8, and they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire and unleavened bread,
and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden it all with water, but roast with fire, his head with
his legs and with the pertinence thereof, and ye shall let nothing of it remain until
the morning, and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
So according to this scripture, there's all these symbolisms of Jesus Christ, right?
We see these things fulfilled in Jesus and his death, but according to these people who
don't believe that Jesus went to hell, apparently the roast with fire part wasn't actually fulfilled
in Jesus.
Now we do believe that it was fulfilled in Jesus because he was roast with fire because
when he died, his soul went to hell, it descended into the lower parts of the earth, right?
Deuteronomy chapter 16 verses 1 to 7, another scripture about the Passover.
Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover unto the Lord thy God, for in the month of
Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the Passover unto the Lord thy God of the flock and the
herd in the place which the Lord shall choose to place his name there.
So that of course is fulfilled in the fact that Jesus actually died in Jerusalem, right?
Thou shall eat no leavened bread with it, seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread
therewith, even the bread of affliction.
For thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste, that thou mayest remember
the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coasts seven days, neither
shall there any thing of the flesh which thou sacrifices the first day at even, remain all
night until the morning.
Thou mayest not sacrifice the Passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth
thee.
But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt
sacrifice the Passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest
forth out of Egypt.
And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the Lord thy God shall choose, and thou
shalt turn of the morning and go into thy tent.
So again, when the Bible talks about the Passover, it again states that this Passover should
be roast.
And even all the other animal sacrifices, they were burnt upon the altar, right?
If you read the book of Exodus and the book of Leviticus and the book of Numbers in Deuteronomy,
whenever it's talking about the sacrifices, it doesn't just say to kill it, most of the
time it says to also burn it, right?
To burn the sacrifice, to roast the sacrifice.
So Jesus going to hell is a fulfillment of these pictures in the Old Testament of the
animal sacrifices being burnt with fire, right?
Otherwise, what is the explanation for the reason why God said that they should be burnt
with fire, right?
Because as we see in the book of Hebrews, all of these things of the animal sacrifices,
they were just pictures of things to come.
They were shadows of Jesus Christ, right?
They couldn't actually take away sins, so what they were doing was foreshadowing the
coming of Jesus Christ.
Now, this is all pretty clear.
The Bible says his soul was not left in hell.
How can you argue with that unless you just don't believe that hell exists or you think
that hell doesn't really mean hell, so you're just changing what the Bible means.
It says lower parts of the earth, heart of the earth, right?
Obviously we know that wasn't his body because again, his body was in a sepulcher, right?
And even if he was underground a little bit, that's not the heart of the earth.
That's not the lower parts of the earth if he's just a few feet underground, right?
So it's not talking about his body, it's talking about his soul, right?
Now we'll say this, we'll show people verses on this and people who still want to argue,
people who still just want to deny clear scriptures, usually the common argument for why they believe
Jesus didn't go to hell is because Jesus said it is finished on the cross with a complete
lack of understanding of what that statement means, right?
And this is something that really can lead to a lot of heresy where people think that
Jesus's death on the cross is all that was needed for us to go to heaven, okay?
And I'm sick of people saying, well, it's the finished work of Christ on the cross,
that's all that happened and then they just leave out the resurrection, right?
Because according to the Bible, and I'm going to show you some scriptures on this in a second,
if Jesus did not rise from the dead, we would not be saved.
It wasn't just enough for Jesus to die, he also had to rise from the dead.
Jesus's death on the cross is not the whole gospel, Jesus also rose from the dead.
So to say that Jesus saying it is finished on the cross means that the cross was all
that's needed to pay for our sins is false because the Bible teaches that other things
had to happen after that in order for us to be saved.
And if you deny that, then you're denying the Bible.
If you think that Jesus rising from the dead isn't important, then I question whether you're
even saved because according to the Bible, you have to believe that Jesus rose from the
dead in order to be saved.
If you don't believe that, you're going to hell, okay?
And for some reason, a lot of old IFB, a lot of Baptists leave out the resurrection when
they're preaching the gospel.
But according to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the resurrection is part of the gospel.
It isn't just that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, but it's that he was buried
and then he rose again the third day according to the scriptures, right?
So let me explain this in more detail, right?
John chapter 19 verse 30, this is what they will quote out of context to try to teach
that Jesus dying on the cross is all that we need.
And then they say, well, you're saying that Jesus also had to go to hell, you're saying
that Jesus's death on the cross wasn't enough.
It says in John 19 verse 30, when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished
and he bowed his head and gave up the ghost.
Now here's the thing, they just insert what they think it means without any evidence.
They just say, well, it is finished.
That means that Jesus did everything that we need for our salvation.
He paid it all when he died on the cross.
Is this true?
Well, let's see what Jesus said in previous chapters leading up to this about things that
are finished, right?
Because if he says it is finished, you would have to see something in the context to determine
what is he talking about?
What is it?
Well, he says in John 17 verse four, when he prays unto the father, just the day before
he gets crucified, I have glorified thee on the earth, I have finished the work which
thou gave us me to do, right?
Notice how he says on the earth, right?
Because Jesus's earthly ministry, of course, was finished when Jesus died on the cross.
Does that mean that the whole plan of redemption and what Jesus had to do for us to be saved
was done?
No, it wasn't.
Because the Bible says in First Corinthians chapter 15 verse 12, now if Christ be preached
that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen?
And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain.
So according to the Bible, if Jesus did not rise from the dead, what we believe would
be vain.
So it's not just enough that Jesus died on the cross, he also had to rise from the dead.
And if you only preach Jesus's death and not his resurrection, you preach an incomplete
gospel.
Verse 15, yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that
he raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.
For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised.
And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain, your yet in your sins.
So they say, oh, well, Jesus died on the cross for our sins.
That means that when he said it is finished, that all of our sins were already paid for
and it was done.
Well, according to the Bible, if Jesus did not rise from the dead, your yet in your sins.
So it's not just that Jesus died for your sins, he then had to rise from the dead.
If Jesus did not rise from the dead, your sins would not be forgiven.
That's what the Bible says.
So let's continue.
Verse 18, then they also which have fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
So the Bible teaches that if Jesus did not rise from the dead, then we would not rise
from the dead.
Right?
Jesus had to rise from the dead in order for our salvation to be complete.
So this argument of it is finished means that everything was done on the cross that concerns
our salvation is false because Jesus also had to rise from the dead.
Right?
And it says in Romans chapter 4 verse 25 as well, who was delivered for our offenses and
was raised again for our justification.
What does justification mean?
It means to be declared as righteous before God.
So according to the Bible, he rose from the dead for our justification.
So again, can we be justified?
Can we be forgiven if Jesus didn't rise from the dead?
No, according to the Bible.
So saying it is finished on the cross, he's talking about the work of his earthly ministry.
If you actually read the context back in John 17, it isn't saying that your salvation is
100% complete because Jesus died on the cross.
No, no.
He had to do other things after that as well.
So that argument is illogical when it comes to saying that Jesus didn't go to hell just
because he said it is finished on the cross.
Not only this, but even Jesus rising from the dead, according to the Bible, there were
other things that happened after that that also concern our salvation.
It teaches us in Hebrews chapter 9.
Hebrews chapter 9 verse 7 to 14, But into the second went the high priest alone once
every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the heirs of the people,
the Holy Ghost, this signifying that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest
while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, which was a figure for the time then present
in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the service
perfect as pertaining to the conscience, which stood only in meats and drinks and divers
washings and carnal ordinances imposed on them until the time of reformation.
But Christ being come and high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered in once into the holy place,
having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an heifer, sprinkling the unclean,
sanctify it through the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who
through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God.
And then later in the chapter in verse 24, it says, For Christ is not entered into the
holy place made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of God for us.
So according to the Bible, after Jesus rose from the dead, he ascended up into heaven,
and then in heaven, he offered his own blood in the holy place in heaven, the holiest of
all.
Right?
So just like in the Old Testament, the animal sacrifices, they had to go into, in the Day
of Atonement, they had to go into the holiest, the high priest had to go into the holiest
of all to sprinkle the blood on the mercy seat.
Jesus did the same thing, except not in the one made with hands, but in the true, which
is heaven.
Right?
So this is what the Bible teaches in the book of Hebrews, right?
So Jesus did not just die on the cross for our sins.
He also rose from the dead, and then after he rose from the dead, he went into the holiest
of all, and he offered his blood upon the mercy seat.
Okay?
That is what he had to do for our salvation, and even now, according to the Bible, he still
makes intercession for us.
Bible says he ever liveth to make intercession for us, right?
So every day, Jesus is up in heaven at the right hand of the Father, being an advocate
for us.
Right?
So salvation was not 100% done just by dying on the cross.
They say, oh, it's finished, right?
So that just means everything was done.
No, it doesn't, because Jesus also had to rise from the dead.
If Jesus did not rise from the dead, you would not be saved.
That is a fact.
That's what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15.
If you don't believe that, too bad.
So why am I pointing this out?
To explain that after Jesus died, there were still other things that had to be done.
So this does not nullify the fact that Jesus went to hell for our sins.
Okay?
Because of the fact that Jesus took the sins of the world on himself, the punishment for
our sins is not just physical death.
Okay?
The challenge is that the punishment for our sins is also going to hell.
Okay?
I think most Christians understand this.
So in order for Jesus to pay for that sin, it wasn't just shedding his blood on the cross,
but he also went to hell for three days and three nights.
And it doesn't matter if you don't like that, that's what the Bible says.
And people will accuse us of blasphemy for saying that, as if we're saying that Jesus
deserved that.
No, he did not deserve to go to hell.
He didn't deserve to die on the cross either.
The Bible teaches that he bore the sins of the world on himself, right?
God had made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness
of God in him, right?
Who his own self bear our sins and his own body on the tree, right?
So Jesus took the sins of the world on himself.
The Bible says God made him to be sin for us, right?
So why did Jesus suffer?
Not for his own sin because he had no sin.
Jesus was perfect.
Jesus was without sin.
He suffered because of our sins.
And you know what?
Our sins without Jesus Christ would not just lead us to physical death, but it also lead
us to hell.
That's why Jesus said, I am he that liveth and was dead.
What does dead mean?
It means the body has perished, but it also means the soul is in hell.
That is the biblical definition of death.
And so that's where Jesus was for three days and three nights, right?
Now the next objection to this doctrine, because again, people will come up with ways to try
to fight against this and try to say this isn't true.
So the next objection would be to try to redefine what hell means, right?
And this is something that's done in the modern versions.
I talked about why you should be King James only in the previous video about how the modern
versions change things and add things and remove things from the Bible.
One of the things that these modern versions do is change hell to the grave or Sheol or
Hades or whatever, which is basically just hell in a different language, right?
So it's not really saying something different.
It's just, it's not translating it basically.
And it deceives people with the thinking that it's something different because people know
what hell means.
But then if you leave it as saying Hades or Sheol or whatever, then they assume that that
must mean something different, right?
Because they don't know those words because most people don't speak Greek or Hebrew.
But these words are simply just hell in a different language, right?
So the old IFB, who are supposedly King James only, you know, they won't really change what
the scriptures actually say in Acts chapter two, they'll say, well, yeah, it says hell,
but hell means something different in this context, right?
Because they believe based on this false dispensational doctrine of Abraham's bosom, that there is
a good part of hell, right?
So their explanation for the Bible saying that Jesus descended into hell and was in
the lower parts of the earth, et cetera, is that there's two compartments of hell, a bad
side for the unsaved and a good side for the saved, right?
So they'll try to say, well, in the Old Testament, no saint went to heaven, right?
In the Old Testament, all the Old Testament saints just went to a good part of hell, right?
Which they call paradise or Abraham's bosom.
Now I'm going to explain why this is wrong.
I did a much more detailed video on this in the past about three years ago.
If you scroll down on my page, you might be able to find it.
So I'm not going to go super in-depth in this video.
I think that one was a lot clearer, but I am going to still explain that this Abraham's
bosom slash paradise slash good compartment of hell or whatever you want to call it doctrine
is false and not in the Bible.
And in the Bible, it teaches that Old Testament saints went to heaven after they died.
So in Luke chapter 16, verse 22 to 26, the Bible says, and it came to pass that the beggar
died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
Now right off the bat, we see that this man, according to the Bible, was carried by the
angels to Abraham's bosom, right?
So sounds to me that this man went to heaven and this was in the Old Testament, meaning
the Old Covenant before Jesus had died.
Because according to Hebrews chapter 9, the death of the testator was necessary for the
New Testament to start, right?
Meaning the New Testament began at the death of Jesus Christ.
Even though obviously the book of Luke, we call it the New Testament, it was technically
under the Old Covenant still when this event happened, right?
So it says the rich man also died and was buried and in hell he left up his eyes being
in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom, okay?
Now according to the dispensationalists and the people who will try to change the definition
of hell, when it says this man was in hell, this is real hell.
This is fire, right?
And then he sees Abraham and Lazarus in his bosom.
Now they will try to redefine the word bosom as, I don't know, I don't know what their
explanation for the word bosom is, but they think it's like a compartment of hell.
Now the word bosom just means chest.
So in this story, Abraham is literally there, right?
And Lazarus, according to the Bible, is in his bosom.
So Lazarus is standing next to Abraham and he's resting on his chest.
That's what it means that he's in his bosom.
But for some reason, they get this weird idea that Abraham's bosom equals some special matter
with the compartment of hell, whatever that means.
But nowhere in the scripture, nowhere in this passage does it say anything like that because
Abraham's literally in the story.
So Abraham's bosom means the body part, the chest of Abraham, right?
So verse 24, and he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus
that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in
this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receiveth thy good things
and likewise Lazarus evil things, but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you, there is a great goal fixed so that they which would
pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us that would come from thence.
So Abraham, again, is literally in the story.
He's having a conversation with the rich man who was in hell, okay?
So what do we learn from this?
Number one, that Abraham's bosom is not a place, it's a body part.
Number two, that Lazarus is carried by the angels, right, into Abraham's bosom, right?
So it's not him descending into hell.
And then another point that I would make is that the only person it says in this passage
who is in hell is the rich man, right?
It says the rich man in hell lifted up his eyes.
But does it say Lazarus was in hell?
It's just the good side of hell?
No.
So when Jesus defines hell, when he's telling this story, he says that this man, the rich
man, he's in hell and he's being tormented in flames.
So the Bible says Jesus' soul was not left in hell.
So what does that mean?
It means he was tormented in flames.
You say, oh, well, I can't believe you say that.
That's what hell is.
You'll never find a place in the Bible where it talks about hell and it's not fire.
Hell is a place of fire and torment.
So when the rich man was in hell, he was tormented in flames.
Because he was unsaved.
Because he was paying for his own sins.
So Jesus, when he was in hell, it's the same thing.
He was in flames because he was paying for our sins.
Because he had our sins on himself, according to the Bible.
I don't know why that's hard to understand.
Nowhere does it say that Abraham's bosom is some body part of some special place in hell.
It never says that Lazarus was in hell.
It says the rich man was in hell and Lazarus was a far off in Abraham's bosom, right?
Meaning he was in heaven, right?
So they also say that this place is called paradise, right?
And we'll get this from Luke chapter 23 verse 43 where Jesus says to the man on the cross,
the thief on the cross who got saved, Jesus said unto him, verily I say unto thee, today
shalt thou be with me in paradise.
So they say, see, Jesus wasn't in hell because he promised that the man would be with him
in paradise.
And the way that they try to reconcile this with the scriptures that say that Jesus was
in hell is saying, well paradise must be a special compartment of hell for those who
are saved, right?
But here's what the Bible says that paradise actually is.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 4, how that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable
words which it is not lawful for a man to utter, right?
So one of the other two times when it mentions paradise in the Bible, it says that this man
who had a vision out of the body or in the body, I cannot tell, Paul talks about, he
says that he was caught up into paradise.
So no, he didn't descend down into paradise because paradise isn't a place in the heart
of the earth.
He said he ascended up into paradise, right?
So where is paradise?
It is heaven.
Revelation chapter 2 verse 7 shows us this as well.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst
of the paradise of God.
So according to the Bible, the tree of life is in the paradise of God.
So where is paradise?
It's in heaven.
If you read later in Revelation, Revelation chapter 21 and 22, it talks about New Jerusalem.
It describes what it's like and it tells us that the tree of life is in New Jerusalem
which came down from heaven from God, right?
So the paradise of God is New Jerusalem.
It's heaven.
It's where God dwells.
It's from up, right?
That's where paradise is.
It's up in heaven, right?
Not down in hell.
So they ask, well, why does Jesus then say, today you'll be with me in paradise?
Well, that's simple because according to the Bible, Jesus being God can be in multiple
places at once, right?
I mean, how can Jesus say, you know, where two or three are gathered in my name, there
am I in the midst of them, right?
That means Jesus could be in multiple places at once.
Why?
Because he's God.
John 3 verse 13, this is spoken by Jesus when he's on this earth.
No man hath ascended into heaven, save he which is come down from heaven, even the Son
of Man which is in heaven.
So Jesus, when he was on this earth, said he came down from heaven, he's speaking to
Nicodemus these words, and he says, the Son of Man which is in heaven, present tense.
So Jesus was both on the earth, but then somehow he was also in heaven, right?
That's what the Bible teaches.
We might not be able to understand why that is, but that's what the Bible says.
So in the same way, Jesus could say to the thief who died on the cross, today you'll
be with me in paradise.
So when the man died, he went to heaven, but then Jesus was in hell, right?
Because that's what the Bible says he was at, right?
In Acts chapter 2, his soul was not left in hell, very clear.
Now here's where the Bible teaches that people who died in the Old Testament, they did not
go to hell, they actually went to heaven.
Ecclesiastes 3 verse 21, who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of
the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
So in the book of Ecclesiastes, which was written about a thousand years before Jesus
Christ, it says the spirit of man goeth upward, right?
So where do people go when they die in the Old Testament?
Upward, meaning to heaven, not to hell.
The Bible doesn't say people who die in the Old Testament who were saved go into hell.
The Bible never teaches that anywhere and you can't find a single verse that says that.
Mark chapter 12 verses 26 to 27, I referenced this earlier.
As touching the dead that they rise, have ye not read in the book of Moses how in the
bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob?
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living.
Ye therefore do greatly err.
Luke chapter 20 verse 37 to 38, it teaches the same thing.
Now that the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the bush, when he calleth the Lord the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto him.
So he says that God said, I am the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, because Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob are alive.
Because God is not the God of the dead.
What does that mean?
That Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were not dead when Moses was spoken to by God of the burning
bush.
So when he said, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that means that Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, even many hundreds of years later, were still alive.
Now again, the Bible teaches that hell was the place of death.
In Revelation chapter 20, when it talks about the great white throne judgment, it says the
dead who were in hell were delivered up, I'm paraphrasing, were delivered up and stood
before the throne.
Death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them.
And so people who are dead, they're in hell.
People who are alive, they're in heaven.
That's what the Bible teaches.
So in the Old Testament, people who died without Christ still went to hell, but then people
who were saved, people who were saints, the Bible says their spirit goeth upward.
So they were alive, they were in heaven, they were in the paradise of God.
So this is the truth.
Abraham's bosom slash paradise being a special compartment of hell is a false doctrine.
You won't get this from the Bible, you'll get this from commentaries and books written
by fools who teach a lot of other heresy and weird doctrine.
If you didn't read the Schofield reference Bible and the, so the one called, whatever
chart book written by Clarence Larkin and all this kind of stuff, and if you didn't
get your doctrine from Jewish rabbis, because I'm pretty sure this is a doctrine of Judaism
as well, you wouldn't believe this crap.
The Bible never teaches that there's a special place in hell for the Old Testament saints.
Okay.
So where was Jesus when he was dead?
Well, he was dead, so he was in hell.
And that's what the Bible says.
And again, if you don't like that, too bad, we're right, you're wrong.
There's no scriptures that say that Jesus wasn't in hell.
There's a lot of scripture that say he was.
I mean, so many clear verses, plus the Bible teaches that, you know, Jesus is the Passover
and the Passover was burned with fire.
So hope this makes sense.
And I don't really know what else to say about this doctrine because these are, I tried to
explain as many scriptures as possible on this subject.
I don't think there's any others that reference Jesus, what happened when he died, but there's
very, a few very clear scriptures that say Jesus was dead, that Jesus descended in the
lower parts of the earth, that he was in the heart of the earth, that his soul was not
left in hell, that the Passover was to be roast with fire, that he has the keys of hell
and of death.
And that's just what it says, right?
Oh, well it is finished.
Well, that doesn't mean that salvation was done because he also had to rise from the
dead.
So that argument is meaningless.
So it's very clear, just stop denying the Bible.
You're right, you're wrong.
If you deny Jesus went to hell, start believing that because that's what the Bible says.
So thank you everybody for watching.
God bless you and goodbye.