The Triumph of Christ’s Descent into Hell

The Eternal humbly descends into almost Nothingness, and rescues Adam and Eve, as promised in the Garden.

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For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison… (1 Peter 3:18-19)

But God raised him up, having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power… Foreseeing this, David spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, saying, ‘He was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh experience corruption’. (Acts 2:24,31)

“Do you mean then that Hell—all that infinite empty town—is down in some little crack like this?” “Yes. All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world: but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World. Look at yon butterfly. If it swallowed all Hell, Hell would not be big enough to do it any harm or to have any taste.” (The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis)

“Death has been swallowed up in victory.
Where, O death, is your victory?
Where, O death, is your sting?”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:54-55)