I Peter 3:18 - 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,

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The First Epistle of Peter
I Peter 318-22 - Consequences of Christ's
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• I Peter 318 - 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,
• For connects vs. 13-17 with 18-22 and relates to
  Christ as our example of suffering, a theme that
  weve already studied in detail in 1 Peter
  321-25.
• Notice once Rom 610 Heb 727, 912,26,28,
  1010
• Rom 610 - For the death that He died, He died to
  sin once for all but the life that He lives, He
  lives to God.
• Everything was accomplished once - do you ponder
  this incredible truth?
• Think of the many exceptions to this doctrine in
  the organized church.
• And notice the basis of His suffering - sins
• the just for the unjust - Rom 56-10
• And the benefit - that He might bring us to God
  2 Cor 521
• Is the order important of what was accomplished
  here?

June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel
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The First Epistle of Peter
I Peter 318-22 - Consequences of Christ's
Suffering, Part 1

• being put to death in the flesh but made alive by
  the spirit
• being put to death perfect passive participle
• Note the link and/or contrast between flesh and
  spirit (not the Spirit)
• In the ILG there is no article before flesh or
  spirit.
• This alive by spirit is a very controversial
  issue.
• Here are my best thoughts Spiritual death
  actually occurred when Christ was alive (Matt
  2746), but He was made alive (quickened) by
  spirit (His own) to His pre-incarnate nature
  thus, He returned to earth and then to heavenly
  places in His glorified body, the nature of which
  is eternal.
• I Peter 319-20 - 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.
• Who are the spirits?
• Are these humans with a doctrine of 2nd chance?
• In other words, is there purgatory?

June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel
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I Peter 318-22 - Consequences of Christ's
Suffering, Part 1

• No when the Greek noun spirit stands alone it
  never refers to man but always to angelic and/or
  demonic beings Luke 1020, Heb 113,14
• Where are the spirits?
• In Prison
• 2 Peter 24 For if God did not spare the angels
  who sinned, but cast them down to hell and
  delivered them into chains of darkness, to be
  reserved for judgment
• Hell here is Tartarus not Sheol, only NT use and
  denotes a place of custody.
• A unique place for angels who sinned.
• When did they sin?
• At the time of Noah?
• Consider Satans response to Gen 315 - And I
  will put enmitybetween you and the woman, And
  between your seed and her SeedHe shall bruise
  your head, And you shall bruise His heel.
• Fatal vs. non-fatal somethings got to be done
  here and now, about this male child - McCalley!
• Gen 41,8 - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she
  conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have
  acquired a man from the Lord. Now Cain talked
  with Abel his brother and it came to pass, when
  they were in the field, that Cain rose up against
  Abel his brother and killed him.

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• Little did Satan know there would be many
  generations yet to come before His head would be
  bruised.
• Thus, Pharaoh of Egypt and the Herod of Christs
  day male children put to death as exemplary.
• And what was going on at the time of Noah?
• Gen 61-5, 7-8 Now it came to pass, when men
  began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
  daughters were born to them, that the sons of God
  saw the daughters of men, that they were
  beautiful and they took wives for themselves of
  all whom they chose. And the Lord said, My
  Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he
  is indeed flesh yet his days shall be one
  hundred and twenty years. There were giants on
  the earth in those days, and also afterward, when
  the sons of God came in to the daughters of men
  and they bore children to them. Then the Lord saw
  that the wickedness of man was great in the
  earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of
  his heart was only evil continually. So the Lord
  said, I will destroy man whom I have created
  from the face of the earth, both man and beast,
  creeping things and birds of the air, for I am
  sorry that I have made them. But Noah found
  grace in the eyes of the Lord.
• sons of God ben 'elohiym is also referred to in
  Job 16, 21 and 376.
• These are angels that abandoned their assigned
  position.

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• Jude 6,7 And the angels who did not keep their
  proper domain, but left their own abode, He has
  reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for
  the judgment of the great day as Sodom and
  Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar
  manner to these, having given themselves over to
  sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh,
  are set forth as an example, suffering the
  vengeance of eternal fire.
• But I thought angels didnt procreate (Matt
  2230)?
• Nevertheless the Jude passage indicates that
  their sin was similar to that in Sodom and
  Gomorrah.
• A hybrid progeny would result the mighty men of
  old.
• When and what did Christ preach?
• When once and refers to while the ark was being
  prepared.
• Once (longsuffering) suggests that there was a
  furthermost day appointed
• For 120 years.
• What first, preach (kerysso) here is to
  proclaim a message, not necessarily the gospel.
• Remember He is speaking to Satan and his
  prisoners, and Christ likely proclaimed His very
  recent and everlasting bruising.
• Heb 214 - Inasmuch then as the children have
  partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise
  shared in the same, that through death He might
  destroy him who had the power of death, that is,
  the devil,

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• Col 214,15 - having wiped out the handwriting of
  requirements that was against us, which was
  contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the
  way, having nailed it to the cross. Having
  disarmed principalities and powers, He made a
  public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in
  it.
• And who and why were 8 souls saved through water?
• Who - Noah, and his wife, and his three sons,
  Shem, Ham, and Japhet, and their three wives.
• Why - Is this spiritual or physical?
• The Greek term means to escape not spiritual
  salvation, yet by grace!
• Why do you think that the Lord wanted this
  section in His Word?

June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel
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