Jesus’ Redemption Is For All

There is a time between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday when Jesus was in the tomb. I Peter 3:18-20 gives us insight to where His Spirit was at the time. Jesus had finished His role of bearing our sins on the cross when He said, “It is finished!” (John 19:30)

“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, by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison, who formerly were disobedient, when once 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)

God designed hell for Lucifer and his fallen angels. Because He loves us so much He made a way of escape for us. Jesus shed His blood on the cross so we appear to be righteous when we are covered by His blood. It is our responsibility to accept the blood covering the same way the children of Israel instructed to put blood on the doorposts in Egypt to protect them from death. The Jewish nation celebrates Passover as we celebrate the ability to be passed over from the curse of sin and death by accepting Jesus’ redemptive blood that He shed to cover our sins.

Jesus didn’t just die for us; He overcame death, so our spirits could live forever, by coming back to life. In John we see the conversation He had with Mary when she went the tomb.

“Jesus said to her, ‘Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, “I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.” Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that He had spoken these things to her.” John 20:17,18