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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