{"id":795,"date":"2011-11-09T13:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-11-09T13:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T17:59:19","slug":"did-jesus-go-to-hell-before-anyone-touched-him","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=795","title":{"rendered":"Did Jesus go to hell before anyone touched him?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Resurrection Day, Jesus told Mary <em>not to touch him<\/em>.\u00a0 Did he tell her <em>not to touch him<\/em> because he was on his way to hell, to preach to the captives?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, He was not on His way to hell.\u00a0 As soon as a person dies, his soul immediately goes to either heaven or hell.\u00a0 An example of this is given in Lu. 16:22-23; \u201c\u2026..it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham&#8217;s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried\u2026..and in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.\u201d\u00a0 Jesus\u2019 soul went to hell immediately when he died on the cross and he remained there until Resurrection Day.\u00a0 During Jesus\u2019 visit to hell, He preached to those who had previously died; 1 Pet. 3:19, \u201c\u2026..preached unto the spirits in prison\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 This is also address in 1 Pet. 4:6; \u201c\u2026..the gospel preached also to them that are dead\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 When Jesus spoke to Mary on Resurrection Day, He was not on His way to hell; he had already been there.\u00a0 Now, He was on His way to Galilee, to see the disciples; Mt. 28:10, \u201c\u2026..go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Resurrection Day, Jesus told Mary not to touch him.\u00a0 Did he tell her not to touch him because he was on his way to hell, to preach to the captives? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No, He was not on His way to hell.\u00a0 As soon as a person dies, his soul immediately goes to either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-795","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/795\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}