The "Night"

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Below is my response to a comment which was left after: (where-is-hades)

Here is that comment, quoted:

"Hi Pearl,
Jesus did not preach to anyone while in Hades, because neither He nor 
anyone else would be alive while in there.
Peter says that Jesus was MADE ALIVE in the Spirit BEFORE He went to 
preach to the fallen angels in prison, and He could not have been thus 
made alive BEFORE His resurrection on the third day, according to 
scripture. 
Jesus preached not to spiritually unresponsive humans but to the 
fallen angels who sinned in Noah’s day who were kept in Tartarus, 
a restrictive condition, but only AFTER He was made alive in the 
Spirit; and Tartarus has got nothing to do with Hades, which is 
a place or condition of lifelessness for human beings, just as 
Ec 9:5,10 also points out that the dead in Sheol, or Hades, are 
conscious of NOTHING AT ALL, and are therefore not consciously 
existing in spiritual darkness, as you wrongly claim.
Like I said before: yes, spiritual blindness exists among the 
living of the human race, but that condition is NEVER referred 
to as Sheol or Hades in scripture.
The best you can say is that ‘spiritual darkness’ and ‘spiritual 
death’ will lead to Hades or even Gehenna if not repented of 
before the coming of Christ.
You need to be precise where the word of God is precise, otherwise 
you only obscure truth and confuse people unnecessarily."

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MY RESPONSE:

I will quote you and then respond:

"Jesus did not preach to anyone while in Hades, because neither He nor 
anyone else would be alive while in there."

I assume you believe that Jesus was in Hades/Sheole (Ps.16:10) while you say he was dead (meaning, unconscious).

Please note, that Hades/Sheole (where Jesus was), is also called, the Abyss (Rom.10:7).

Can you see from Rev.20:1,3;  2Pet.2:4 and Luke 8:31, that not only did Satan need to be "chained" (in darkness) while in the abyss (to prevent his misleading the nations), but that the demons who were put there [Matt.8:29; Jude 1:6 (Rev.20:1)] by Christ's authority over darkness (Luke 10:17,18,19), were not dead, in the sense that you mean? 

Can you see that the demons were consigned to the abyss? (Luke 8:31; Rev.20:1; Jude 1:6;  2Pet.2:4)... the same place where God brought Jesus up from (Rom.10:7), 

because it was impossible for the realm of "death" to hold him? (Acts 2:24,25,27)
The same is true, of those Chosen to be released from that place 

(Col.1:13; Ps.40:2; Matt.16:18;  1Pet.2:9;  2Cor.4:6).

It is clear that both Jesus and the demons were in the abyss. While with them, he preached to them....

whether you call that place the Abyss, Hades, or "Tartarus" --meaning, "pit of darkness".
Are you stumbled, because one thing can have many names? (Isa.9:6; Luke 1:31; Matt.1:23; Rev.3:12)

One cannot preach, or be preached to, unless they are conscious. 

You said;

"Ec 9:5,10 also points out that the dead in Sheol, or Hades, are 
conscious of NOTHING AT ALL, and are therefore not consciously existing in spiritual darkness, as you wrongly claim."

I must correct you.  Ec.9:5 makes no mention of Hades/Sheole.
Verse 10 does.
In what way are those in Hades, "neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"?

It reads;
"For the living know that they will die (Phil.2:12),
    but the dead *know nothing...

(Jer.4:22; 5:21; 10:14; Deut.28:28; Ps.92:6; Eph.4:18; Luke 8:18; Eph.2:1; *Mark 4:12);

   they have no further reward,

(Heb.11:6; James 1:12; Rev.3:11; Matt.6:1;  2John 1:8; Matt.10:41; Luke 10:16)

   and even their name is forgotten (Rev.13:8)...

   Whatever your hand finds to do (Ps.45:4; 110:2;  2Cor.6:7), 

   do it with all your might, 

   for in the realm of the dead (Sheole/Hades), where you are going, 

   (Jer.13:16; Luke 21:22,35-36; Ps.40:2; 49:15; Eph.2:6; Col.1:13)

   there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."

(See: https://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2017/04/what-is-sheole-hades.html)

Jesus said; "As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. 

Night is coming, when no one can work.  While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.’ " (John 9:4-5)

What was the "night" that Christ prophesied was to come upon his disciples? (1Thess.5:5,6,7) [Jer.13:16; Rev.9:2-3; Joel 2:2 -LINK]

 Do you assume it is physical death?

(Jer.13:16;  2Cor.4:4; Isa.59:10; Deut.28:29; Mark 13:24; Rev.6:12,13; 9:2; 13:7; Prov.4:19; Isa.60:2; Mal.4:2; Rev.22:16; Eph.5:11)

When you learn the authentic meaning of this "night" (Rom.13:12;  1Thess.5:7), then you will perceive the current, Great Tribulation. (G.T.-what-why)

You say;

"Peter says that Jesus was MADE ALIVE in the Spirit BEFORE He went to 
preach to the fallen angels in prison, and He could not have been thus 
made alive BEFORE His resurrection on the third day, according to scripture."

Really? Do you mean 1Pet.3:18,19? 

It reads;

"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits ".

I see no mention of the word "BEFORE", regarding when he went into Hades/abyss, to preach to the imprisoned spirits, other than "after being made alive". Well he could not preach to them if he were spiritually dead, could he?

Obviously, if they are "imprisoned", he must be where they are to preach to them... Not so?

Also note... that Jesus was "put to death in the flesh"... not in the spirit. 
In the spirit he was made alive first, because the punishing "agony of death" (such as what the demons suffer -Matt.8:29) cannot hold a spirit without sin (Acts 2:24; 13:34; 3:26; John 1:5). On the third day, he rose, spiritually (1Pet.3:18)...and thereafter had the ability to materialize physically. 

    Did God raise Jesus from the abyss, twice? Did he raise him to earth on the third day, and then send him back to the abyss to preach, and then raise him from the abyss again? Do you have a scripture which indicates this, contradicting that he preached to them, while he was already there? (Rom.10:7; Luke 8:31; Rev.20:1,3; Jude 1:6;  1Pet.3:19 -- "Made alive in the spirit" 1Pet.3:18,19)
So, after Jesus was "made alive in the spirit" (not in the flesh), 
he preached to the spirits. (1Pet.3:18-19)
On the third earth day, he rose physically.

You admit that spiritual darkness, leads to Hades.

Do you have a scripture that makes a distinction between the two? 

If the result of spiritual darkness, is consignment to Hades...

can you not consider that those in Hades, are spiritually blind and spiritually dead?

(LINK)

All those born on this planet, are born subject to sin and death (Rom.5:12). Yet Jesus came to us without sin. His presence here did not subject him, to sin and death (John 1:14,9,4,5; Heb.4:15)

Heb.5:11 reads;

"We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.".

It seems to me that you are not trying to understand, but rather, are trying to defend what you have already chosen to believe...

Or are trying to correct me, and restrain my present testimony.

I don't know the source of your confidence, but I do know the source of mine.

There is much to say about the scrolls now being opened and which have begun to be served at the marriage feast.

The "appetizers" are already available, and are appreciable for those who respect the source of the provisions.

    Many will turn down their invitation. Or, they may be dissatisfied with what is offered, or by who does the offering.

I am here to offer all, what I have been given to serve. Nothing more.

If it does not suit you, you will not invest the work needed to digest it. In that case, my continuing efforts are futile. 

If your motive in engaging me, is to correct and restrain my work,

Please know that a comparison between your directions and those of Christ, cannot be appreciated within my mind.

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