La Voluntad / Decreto de Dios, o Las Voluntades / Decretos de Dios

           Dios "hace todas las cosas conforme al consejo de propia su voluntad" (Efesios 1:11). Él ha decidido soberanamente desde toda la eternidad lo que va a pasar, y   lleva a cabo Su voluntad soberana en toda Su creación, tanto natural como espiritual, de acuerdo a Su plan predeterminado. Hablamos de los decretos / voluntad de Dios en plural, pero en su propia naturaleza el decreto divino / voluntad no es más que un simple acto de Dios. ** (1). ¿Hay una diferencia entonces entre el decreto de Dios y la voluntad de Dios? No, Su Voluntad como un Decreto (decretal) es lo que Él ha planeado o diseñado desde la fundación o antes de la fundación del mundo / la creación, todo de acuerdo a su propio consejo. Su voluntad / decreto puede ser prescriptiva, lo que se ha revelado como un comando.

             Gran parte de la parte decretal de la voluntad de Dios se mantiene en secreto hasta que se revela en el debido tiempo. La voluntad decretal se refiere a lo que el Consejo de Dios ha determinado de antemano. La parte prescriptiva de la voluntad de Dios declara al hombre cuáles son sus deberes.  Una voluntad, según Su propio consejo. Él no consulta a nadie.

"Porque Él dice a Moisés:" Tendré misericordia al que yo tenga misericordia, y me compadeceré del que yo me compadezca."Así que no depende del que quiere, ni del que corre, sino de Dios que tiene misericordia. Porque la Escritura dice a Faraón, "para esto mismo te he levantado, para mostrar en ti mi poder, y para que mi nombre sea anunciado por TODA LA TIERRA." De manera que Él tiene misericordia de quien Él desea, y endurece a quien quiere. Usted me dirá entonces: "¿Por qué, pues, todavía reprocha Dios? Porque, ¿quién ha resistido a su voluntad? "Por el contrario, ¿quién eres tú, oh hombre, que le contestas a Dios? Lo moldeado no voy a decir que el moldeador," ¿Por qué me has hecho así ", ¿verdad? ¿O es que no el alfarero derecho sobre el barro, para hacer de la misma nave un terrón para honra y otro para deshonra? (Romanos 9:15-21)

  ** (1) - Louis Berkof, Teología Sistemática; (Banner of Truth, 1958/2003 P100ss)

The Will/Decree of God, or The Wills/Decrees of God

 God “works  all things after the counsel of His will,” (Eph. 1:11). He has sovereignly determined from all eternity whatsoever will come to pass, and works His sovereign will in His entire creation, both natural and spiritual, according to His predetermined plan. We speak of the decrees/wills of God in the plural, yet in its own nature the divine decree/will is but a single act of God. **(1).   I there a difference then between the decree of God and the will of God? No, His Will as a Decree (decretive) is what He has planned or designed from the foundation or before the foundation of the world/creation, all according to His own counsel. His will/decree can be prescriptive, that which He has revealed as a command.

Much of the decretive part of God's will is kept secret until it is revealed in the due course of time.  the decretive will refers to what the Counsel of God has determined in advance. The prescriptive part of God's will declares to man what his duties are.

 

One will, according to His counsel. He does not consult anyone else.    

"For He says to Moses, "I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION." So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.  For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, "FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE I RAISED YOU UP, TO DEMONSTRATE MY POWER IN YOU, AND THAT MY NAME MIGHT BE PROCLAIMED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH." So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault ? For who resists His will ?" On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God ? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it? Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use ? (Romans 9:15-21)

 **(1)- Louis Berkof, Systematic Theology; (Banner of Truth, 1958/2003 P100ff)

The Will of God?

Not just that God be glorified, which He should be but that God has ordained that He IS Glorified. It is under His sovereign control. There is no other way. It's not only His choice, looking at it from our point of view, but it is His Nature. There is no other way. No other possibility. No other alternative. God is Glorified by the vessels of honor and the vessels of dishonor alike.(Romans 9, 10, 11) He has a purpose for each. If you were a Physicist/Theologian you might say, It is the First Law... God IS Glorified by all things always. "Thy will be done" is not a request but a declaration. THY WILL BE DONE! Light be, World Be, Water be, Man Be...The eternal creator proclaims My Will Be.... But that is a whole other sermon #:')

 

YBIC

Above is the letter I was referring to this morning.  God's Will, disobey His Will and that person will suffer the consequences, and if that person dies while disobeying, the suffering is eternal.  God does not condone, (be willing to overlook something: to regard something that is considered immoral or wrong in a tolerant way, without criticizing it or feeling strongly about it), evil, and to say that He has a Permissive Will is to say He gives His permission for the action that one is taking while in violation of His commands, His prohibitions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer says it this way, "The old life I left behind, and completely surrendered...The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity ... [to one that] is nothing else than bondage to Jesus Christ." (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, Cost of Discipleship; Touchstone 1995, p58). Again, as John MacArthur states it, "... the gospel is an invitation to slavery....(MArthur, John, The Gospel According to Jesus, Zondervan 2008 p34). 'Having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness' (Apostle Paul, Romans 6:18).  One moves from  being in bondage to sin, to being in bondage to God. Bob Dylan sang it in his song, "You're Gonna Serve Somebody, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord, but you're going to serve somebody".

 

So again, what is the Will of God? "For God so loved the world, that He gave His  only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."  What about those who do not want to do His Will?  "...he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.  For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed." (John 3:16, 18-19).

 

Again, the Lord God has ordained His Will, we say He has a Permissive Will to justify an action of someone that is contrary to the Will of the Lord. But what if at someone while in a state of disobedience  is killed in an accident? What if that person is not saved? What is said then? "Oh, he/she must not have been in the will of God. But is that person is not killed, and later someone is presenting the gospel  to him/her, they will more than likely say, "...well you didn't die because you were in God's Permissive Will while you were fornicating, smoking crack, stealing, cursing, in a homosexual relationship, etc. etc....". That individual is being told that by being in God's Permissive Will, God is by definition: "habitually or characteristically accepting or tolerating something, as social behavior or linguistic usage, that others might disapprove or forbid; He is granting or denoting permission."  If you give permission for someone, anyone to do something, by definition you are approving that action.  You can't have it both ways. God IS. When Moses ask who is sending him, [conjecture on my part, yes], I believe the Lord was annoyed from the answer He gave. What did He say?  I AM WHO I AM.

 

I like how John Piper explains it, bare (Arabic) with me:

 

1.  I AM WHO I AM is that God's personality and power are owing solely to himself and to no other;

2.  I AM WHO I AM is that God does not change. In Malachi 3:6 God says, "I Yahweh do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed." ;

3. When God says I AM WHO I AM, he summons us to humble objectivity. He puts an end to the notion that everybody's view of God is as good as everybody else's;

4.  I AM WHO I AM is that we must conform to God, not he to us. If children should learn their manners from their parents and not the parents from the children;

5. I AM WHO I AM, is that this infinite, absolute, self-determining God has drawn near to us in Jesus Christ. In John 8:56–58 Jesus is answering the criticism of the Jewish leaders. He says, "Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad." The Jews then said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly! I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." (Piper, John, Desiring God, Sermon: I Am Who I Am, Sept 15, 1984).

 

To conclude,  in the end it is the individual who must decide "... the course of your life. Make a bedrock decision right now how you're going to live your life. Are you going to live your life in the Self way, or are you going to live your life the Jesus way? ... be a slave to the flesh or a servant of God?" (Connell, John; Halos of Fire, Olive Press, 2004, p62)

 

"...consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its lusts and do not go on presenting  the members of your body to sin as  instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as  instruments of righteousness to God" (Romans 6:11-13). 

 

How many Will's does the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have? You tell me, I only know of one (1), and though as scared as I was when I first encountered being on the receiving end of an artillery attack in Vietnam, I know that my Lord, my God and Savior was more scared the night before He died than I could ever imagine, yet His words were "... Thy Will be done." 

 

All emphases are mine.

PUEDE SER JUSGADA LA NACIÓN

Aunque David era un hombre conforme al corazón de Dios, fue confrontado por el profeta Natán quién proclamó el juicio de Dios por haber cometido adulterio con Betsabé y el posterior asesinó su marido. El reino del norte de Israel fue llamado una y otra vez al arrepentimiento, a volver a Dios, pero ellos se negaron. Sus reyes (líderes), no uno de ellos adoraron al Señor Dios. Judá le dio la espalda al Señor y sus mandamientos. Todas las naciones que se rebelaron en contra de Dios fueron juzgados y castigados. Los asirios capturaron a Israel y los dispersó nunca a ser una nación hasta el año 1948, más de 2600 años despues de su disperción. Judá fue juzgado dos veces, en el año 586 antes de Cristo y de nuevo en ca. 70 dC; se dispersaron esta segunda vez desde hace más de 1900 años a 1948. ¿Cuál fue su crimen? Rebelarse contra Dios, dando la espalda a Él, adorando ídolos y violando sus mandamientos.Puede ocurrir lo mismo a los Estados Unidos?  Sin duda alguna, y más aún que cualquier otro país! ¿Por qué sería? Porque ha habido sólo dos naciones en la historia del mundo, que se dedicaron a Dios. Israel cuando Salomón era el rey y los Estados Unidos por su primer presidente George Washington el día de su inauguración, . Los EE.UU. no ha sido perfecta, lleva muchos defectos pero ella honró el Señor Dios sobre todas las cosas y se mantuvo fiel a Él, y fue así hasta la mitad del siglo 20. Luego, poco a poco comenzaron a rechazarlo, el que les dio la vida. Tomaron las cosas que sabían eran una abominación al Señor y lo hicieron la norma. ¿Pueden volver? Sí pueden, pero habrá un momento en el tiempo en que será demasiado tarde.Entonces? preguntaras. Juicio caerá fuerte en este país, no sólo a esta nación, sino a todas las naciones que han rechazado al Señor Dios. Los líderes son los peores porque ellos están empujando este país hacia el abismo.
"49 He aquí que esta fue la maldad de Sodoma tu hermana: soberbia, saciedad de pan, y abundancia de ociosidad estaba en ella y sus hijas; y no fortaleció la mano del afligido y del menesteroso. 50 Y se llenaron de soberbia, y hicieron abominación delante de mí, y así que se los llevó como he visto bueno. " (Ezequiel 16:49-50)"22 No te echarás con varón como con mujer: es abominación 23 No codiciarás echarás con ningún animal tendrás contaminarse con él;. Ni mujer alguna se pondrá delante de animal para ayuntarse con él: es confusión 24 No contaminéis. vosotros en alguna de estas cosas, porque en todas estas cosas se han corrompido las naciones que yo echo de delante de vosotros: 25 Y la tierra fue contaminada; y yo visité su maldad sobre ella, y la tierra vomitó sus moradores ". (Levítico 18:22-25)"Como Sodoma y Gomorra, y las ciudades de las cuales de la misma manera que aquellos, habiendo fornicado e ido en pos de vicios contra naturaleza, fueron puestas por ejemplo, sufriendo el castigo del fuego eterno. 8 de la misma manera también estos soñadores mancillan la carne, rechazan la autoridad y blasfeman de las potestades superiores. "(Judas vss.7-8)"Ahora, la palabra del Señor vino a Jonás hijo de Amitai, diciendo: 2 Levántate y ve a Nínive, aquella gran ciudad, y pregona contra ella;. Porque su maldad ha subido delante de mí" (Jonás 1:1-2 )

"Ellos derramaron la sangre inocente, la sangre de sus hijos e hijas, a quienes sacrificaron a los ídolos de Canaán, y la tierra fue contaminada con sangre. 39They contaminado por lo que hicieron, con las obras que se prostituían. 40Therefore Jehová estaba enojado con su pueblo, y abominó su heredad. "(Salmo 106:38)7 Porque se levantará nación contra nación, y reino contra reino, y habrá hambres y terremotos en diferentes lugares. 8 Pero todo esto será principio de dolores. 9 Entonces os entregarán a tribulación, y os matarán, y seréis aborrecidos de todas las gentes por causa de mi nombre. 10 Y entonces muchos tropezarán, y se entregarán unos a otros, y se aborrecerán. 11 Y muchos falsos profetas se levantarán, y engañarán a muchos. 12 y por haberse multiplicado la maldad, el amor de muchos se enfriará. 13 Mas el que persevere hasta el fin, éste será salvo. (Mateo 24:7-13)"
1 También debes saber esto: que en los postreros días vendrán tiempos peligrosos vendrán. 2 Porque habrá hombres amadores de sí mismos, avaros, jactanciosos, soberbios, maldicientes, desobedientes a los padres, ingratos, impíos, 3 sin afecto natural, implacables, calumniadores, sin autodominio, feroces, aborrecedores de lo bueno, 4 traidores , testarudos, hinchados, amadores de los deleites más que de Dios, 5 que sostienen una apariencia de piedad, pero habiendo negado el poder tanto. De estos también se alejan. 6 Porque de éstos son los que se meten en las casas y toman cautivas a las mujercillas cargadas de pecados, arrastradas por diversas concupiscencias; 7 Estas siempre están aprendiendo, y nunca pueden llegar al conocimiento de la verdad. 8 Y así como Janes y Jambres resistieron a Moisés, así también estos resisten la verdad. Hombres corruptos de entendimiento, réprobos acerca de la fe. 9 Mas no irán más allá. Porque su insensatez será evidente a todos, como también lo llegó a ser. "(2 Timoteo 3:1-9)Bienaventurada la nación cuyo Dios es el Señor, el pueblo que él se escogió como su herencia! Salmo 33:12Y Jesús se acercó y les dijo: "Toda autoridad en el cielo y en la tierra se ha dado a mí. Id, pues, y haced discípulos a todas las naciones, bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo Mateo 28:18-19Si mi pueblo, que lleva mi nombre se humilla, orando y buscando mi rostro, y se convirtieren de sus malos caminos, entonces yo oiré desde los cielos, y perdonaré sus pecados, y sanaré su tierra. 2 Crónicas 07:14"Por tanto, esperadme," declara el Señor, "el día en que me levante para aprovechar la presa. Por mi determinación es reunir las naciones, juntar los reinos, para derramar sobre ellos mi enojo, todo el ardor de mi ira, porque en el fuego de mi celo será consumida toda la tierra. Sofonías 3:08Entonces, ¿qué puede hacer usted? Arrepentíos, a su vez a Dios el Señor Jesucristo, a quien por medio de él sólo se puede obtener la salvación,"Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo, que ha dado a su Hijo unigénito para que todo aquel que en él cree no se pierda, mas tenga vida eterna" (Juan 3:16). Pero sabed esto, que no es sólo creer, sino "Dios no envió a su Hijo al mundo para juzgar al mundo, sino que lo envió para que el mundo sea salvo por él. El hombre que tiene fe en él no aparece para ser juzgado, pero el que no tiene fe en él ha sido juzgado hasta ahora, porque no tiene fe en el nombre del unigénito Hijo de Dios. Y esta es la prueba de que los hombres son juzgados: que la luz vino al mundo, y los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz, porque sus obras eran malas. La luz es odiado por todos, cuyos actos son malos y no viene a la luz, para que se pueden ver sus actos. (Juan 3:17-20)
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CAN WE AS A NATION BE JUDGED?

Though David was a man after God’s own heart, he was confronted by the prophet Nathan proclaiming God’s judgment for committing adultery with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband. The northern Kingdom of Israel was called time and time again to repent, to turn back to God but they refused. Their kings, (leaders), not a one of them worshipped the Lord God. Judah also turned her back to the Lord and His commands. All nations that rebelled against God were judged and punished. The Assyrians captured Israel and scattered them never to be one again until 1948, over 2600 years.  Judah also was judged twice, in 586 BC and again in ca. 70AD being scattered this second time for over 1900 years to 1948.  What was their crime? Rebelling against God, turning their backs to Him, worshipping idols and violating His commands.

Can the same happen to the United States?  Yes, definitely, and more so than any other country!  Why would that be? Because there have been only two nations in the history of the world that dedicated themselves to God.  Israel when Solomon was King and the United States by her first President on his inauguration day, George Washington.  The U.S. has not been perfect with many faults yet she honored the Lord God above all else and remained faithful to Him, and loved Him up to the middle of the 20^th century. Then little by little they began to reject Him, the one who gave them life.  They took those things they knew were an abomination to the Lord and made them the norm.  Can they come back?  Yes they can but there will be a point in time when it will be to late.

So what you ask?  Judgment will fall hard on this nation; not just this nation but all the nations that have rejected the Lord God.  The leaders are the worse for they are pushing this nation into the abyss.

"49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good." (Ezekiel 16:49-50)

"22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. 24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants." (Leviticus 18:22-25)

“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. 8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities." (Jude vss.7-8)

“Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me." (Jonah 1:1-2)

“They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was desecrated by their blood. 39They defiled themselves by what they did; by their deeds they prostituted themselves. 40Therefore the LORD was angry with his people and abhorred his inheritance.” (Ps. 106:38)

⁷ For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. ⁸ But all these things are the beginning of travail. ⁹ Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. ¹⁰ And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. ¹¹ And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. ¹² And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold. ¹³ But he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:7-13)

            “¹ But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. ² For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, ³ without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, ⁴ traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; ⁵ holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away. ⁶ For of these are they that creep into houses, and take captive silly women laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, ⁷ ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁸ And even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also withstand the truth. Men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith. ⁹ But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.” (2 Timothy 3:1-9)

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!  Psalm 33:12

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Matthew 28:18-19

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

“Therefore wait for me,” declares the Lord, “for the day when I rise up to seize the prey. For my decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them my indignation, all my burning anger; for in the fire of my jealousy all the earth shall be consumed. Zephaniah 3:8

What then can you do? Repent, turn to the Lord God Jesus Christ whom through Him only can one obtain salvation,

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life,” (John 3:16).  But know this, it is not just believing but, “ God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen. (John 3:17-20)

 

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WHERE WAS JESUS WHILE HIS BODY WAS IN THE GRAVE?

A question was presented today this morning concerning Jesus’ Spirit while His body was in the grave. Just what occurred? The person who had asked this question had never been given an understandable answer. I can understand this because I have asked many times in the long past the same question to only received nebulous replies.  Through the years I believe that an answer can be given with the caution that regardless if accepted or not it has no relation to one’s salvation keeping in mind Paul’s words to Titus and Timothy and subsequently to all believers,

“But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the Law, for they are unprofitable and worthless.” (Titus 3:9); “But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;” (1Timothy 4:7); “Remind them of these things, and solemnly charge them in the presence of God not to wrangle about words, which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers” (2 Timothy 2:14).

The question then is where did Jesus go during the time His body was in the grave, before the resurrection? Let’s start very briefly with what Scripture has to say so we’ll look at 1 Peter 3:18-22 which directly addresses the event:

 “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, because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, . . . .”

Evidently, Jesus was alive but not out of the grave, and used this time to proclaim His victory, this is where some “controversy” begins, in the heart of Satan’s domain, being Hell or is it in Hades which held both those who were awaiting final sentencing to Hell and those, who were awaiting, (in Abraham’s bosom), the death of Jesus the Messiah who would then open the gates of heaven and allow them in. This just mentioned is the Roman Catholic, and the Lutheran church hold a similar view that Christ from the time of His death to the resurrection went to Hades and brought out those who were waiting in Paradise.

 In Matthew 12:28-40 Jesus in replying to those who were asking Him for a sign to prove His Messiah-ship were told:

“An evil and adulterous generation seeks 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.”

Paul in his letter to the Ephesians writes:

"Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men. (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)"  (Ephesians 4:8-10)

 

“Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; My flesh also will dwell securely. For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, [Hades]; Nor will You allow Your Holy One to undergo decay,” (Psalm 16:9-10).

At this point it could be said it is conjecture to say that Jesus descended to Hades and there are many theologians who hold a contrary view. That is fine, but here let’s look in Matthew’s account of the crucifixion. Chapter 27: 45-54 reads as follows:   

“Now from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness over all the land. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”  Some of those who stood there, when they heard that, said, “This Man is calling for Elijah!”  Immediately on of them ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and offered it to Him to drink.  The rest said, “Let Him alone; let us see if Elijah will come to save Him.” 

 “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.  Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many. So when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus, saw the earthquake and the things that had happened, they feared greatly, saying. “Truly this was the Son of God!” (Matt 27:45-54).

Mark and Luke both write the same except do not mention the bodies of some of the dead coming out of the grave. Some theologians say that this occurred at a later time. Taking the written word of the Gospel as the inspired word of God, if this event did not happen at the moment or moments immediately following the death of Jesus on the cross, why should I then believe that the shroud at the Temple was torn in two?

The point being made is that because some translations use the word Hell / Gehenna instead of Sheol/Hades and in that Jesus atoned for all sin on the cross; He therefore could not have descended to Hell.  But on the other hand, all those who died before the atoning work of Jesus and trusted God were waiting in Sheol / Hades, the section that was Paradise, (Abraham’s bosom), because they still could not enter  into the presence of the Lord God. Read Luke 16: 19-31. Those who lived trusting God before the atoning death of Jesus could not enter into the presence of God, so Jesus upon His death descend as he said to the heart of the earth and led those that had trusted in God, but were still in a sense  captive because of the separation, into the presence of God.

The bottom line and my conviction is that the time period beginning when Jesus left His earthly body to the morning of His resurrection, He took with Him the thief that asked Him to be taken to the Kingdom and, to keep it simple, got everybody else that was in Sheol,  and took them all to Heaven to be with the Father to await the first resurrection. Why not? Do you believe what Paul says in 1 Thessalonians 4: 16-17:

“Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.”

Everybody, well almost everybody, says yes and amen to this verse, so why not believe the same for those that speak of what happened those three days. The only other option is that He stayed sleeping inside His body, but that would be "soul sleep" and Christians don't believe in that, only certain "Christian cults". I pray that this is clear. If not, ask again.

Shema Yisreal Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad.