The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 1 I Peter 3: “Consequences of Christ's Suffering, Part 1” 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, –For connects vs with and relates to Christ as our example of suffering, a theme that we’ve already studied in detail in 1 Peter 3: –Notice once – Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27, 9:12,26,28, 10:10 Rom 6:10 - 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 5:6-10 –And the benefit - that He might bring us to God – 2 Cor 5:21 –Is the order important of what was accomplished here?

The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 2 I Peter 3: “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 27:46), 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 3: 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 2 nd chance? –In other words, is there purgatory?

The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 3 I Peter 3: “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 10:20, Heb 1:13,14 –Where are the spirits? In Prison –2 Peter 2:4 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 Satan’s response to Gen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” »‘Fatal vs. non-fatal – something’s got to be done here and now, about this male child’ - McCalley! »Gen 4:1,8 - 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.

The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 4 I Peter 3: “Consequences of Christ's Suffering, Part 1” »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 Christ’s day – male children put to death as exemplary. –And what was going on at the time of Noah? »Gen 6:1-5, 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 1:6, 2:1 and 37:6. »These are angels that abandoned their assigned position.

The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 5 I Peter 3: “Consequences of Christ's Suffering, Part 1” »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 didn’t procreate (Matt 22:30)? »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 (kēryssō) 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 2:14 - 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,

The First Epistle of Peter June 21, 2015 Bob Eckel 6 I Peter 3: “Consequences of Christ's Suffering, Part 1” »Col 2:14,15 - 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?