I want to thank you for posting my previous comments, and I apologize for any offensive words. If I am permitted, I wish to go in depth regarding this bible verse in 1 Peter 3:19-20. The concept of salvation has not yet been fully understood by the inhabitants of the lower regions, due to their spiritual infant state. That is why their conception of almost everything is doll and full of errors and misconceptions. Their understanding of spiritual things is like little children trying to understand astronomy. But eventually with time, as the little children grow to manhood, they will come the a perfect understanding and make great progress in that field of knowledge.
Should I start from the beginning? Surely no, it will take us days. But let me reveal to you a few things.
1.First of all, we are spirit beings like our Father (God), and we were originally created as spirits, not as humans, neither as demons. The transfiguration from our original forms to the present ones, took place as a consequence of what we call sin. Sin took place for the first time not on earth, neither in hell, but in heaven (Rev 12:7-12). In the beginning God created the heavens (Gen 1:1). Many have come to understand that there is but one heaven, even though the bible explicitly says “heavens”. Due to the incomprehension of this, many have deleted “the heavens” from their bibles and replaced it with “ the heaven”, because they try to reason how come can God live in many “heavens”.
2.The sin of apostasy that later led to the physical separation from God of a fast number of his children took place in heaven, unlike the believe of many. The Garden of Eden is a place in Paradise, not on Earth. Genesis 2:8-9 ‘The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.’ Revelation 2:7 'He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’
The tree of life is planted in Eden, in Paradise. Paradise is one of the heavens that Genesis 1:1 is referring to. That is why no-one on earth knows where Eden is. They would reason that it vanished with the flood. Others would say is a place in present middle east. But they forget about the tree of life and the cherub and flaming sword.
Genesis 3:21 The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. This garment of skin the bible is referring to, is the body of flesh and bone and blood that we have been clothed with by God. Since our spirit forms have been clothed with a garment of skin, there was no more place for us to inhabit the high planes, therefore God had to create other places to accommodate his apostate children, been the chief of them all, Lucifer, the very one who instigated the revolt against God’s appointed ruler, Jesus. Many in reading this verse in Genesis, have rushed to conclude that God killed and animal in order to provide clothing for Adan and Eve. Do not you realize that is referring to your body? We always recite that we are made up of spirit, soul and body, but with no true understanding. Hebrews 2:13-14 ‘See, here am I, and here are the children whom God has given me.” Now since he had clothed the children in bodies of flesh and blood, he could not do otherwise than share the same lot.’ Once the sin of apostasy was committed by a great mass of spirit beings in the heavens, God cast them out to various scattered places, places called the kingdom of the dead or the spiritually dead, the lower regions, the abyss, hell, earth, the heavens below, name them. All of these places are inferior places inhabited by apostate spirits who could not make their way back except through a helper or redeemer.
3.Jesus is such helper and redeemer we all know about, but before Jesus, other volunteer spirits from the heavens above descended in human form and spirit form to come and prepare the way for him. These are the great men and women of God in the Old Testament. Now that we know that some of the apostate children of God were scattered in different spiritual realms, it was also necessary for the redeemer to visit all such places in order to proclaim the good news from God. That is why Jesus first was incarnated on earth and took a human form, preached and taught us the path to redemption, the way back to our original homes. Later, in spirit form, when to other lower regions than earth (vulgarly known as hell), to the same thing, preach the gospel to its inhabitants. We are citizens of heaven, we recite, but lacking understanding of it. This is what 1 Peter 3:19-20 explains, yet many cannot comprehend it.
-One more thing, we should come to the knowledge and understanding that all created spirit beings are God’s children. There is no group of created beings who are not God’s children, I mean spirit with free will. There is no demon or Satan as created beings, these are attributes or characteristics. They are God’s children as well, with the difference that they went strayed, just like some of us have gone during this present incarnation. In as much as some have as well turned their ways back to God, so also at the end of the day all will eventually return back to God, because God has declared so. Isaiah 49:15"Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.”
-Angels are not a type of spirit beings, we are the ones that have created this mirage. Angel means messenger of God in spirit form, nothing else. You know this is true. We will all become like angels of God, meaning more perfect spirit beings than we are today. If someone is at God’s service, is because he has attained a high degree of perfection and God can use him as a messenger or angel.
I wish to say more but I will stop here. I know all this knowledge about God is difficult, even to me it was difficult and is stills, but God is a good God. Even this expression we confess, but we do not know the extent of his goodness.