BELOVED, TO UNDERSTAND YOU NEED A CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF THIS PASSAGE IT MAY BE OBTAINED IN THE BOOK OF ( 1 PETER 3-19 ) AND NOW THE FOLLOWING FACTS,

NO 1. MAN ARE NEVER SPOKEN OF IN THE SCRIPTURE AS SPIRITS. MAN HAS A SPIRIT, BUT HE IS NOT A SPIRIT, FOR A SPIRIT HAS NO FLESH AND BONES. NOW IN THIS LIFE MAN HAS FLESH AND BLOOD, A NATURAL OR PSYCHICAL BODY.

AT DEATH THIS SPIRIT ‘RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT, ( PS. 31-5, ECCLES. 12-7, AND LUKE, 32-46, AND ACTS, 7-59 ).

IN RESURRECTION ‘GOD GIVETH IT A BODY AS IT HAD PLEASED HIM, ( 1 COR, 15=38 ), THIS IS NO LONGER A ‘NATURAL OR PSYCHICAL BODY, BUT A SPIRITUAL BODY, ( COR. 15-44 ).

NO 2. ANGELS ARE ‘SPIRITS, AND ARE SO CALLED HEB, 1. 7-14.

NO 3. IN ( 2. PETER, 2-4 ), WE READ OF THE ANGELS THAT SINNED AND IN ( 1. PETER 3, 19-20 ), OF SPIRITS WHICH SOMETIMES WERE DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOAH.

IN ( 2. PETER, 2-4 ), WE ARE FURTHER TOLD THAT THESE FALLEN ANGELS ARE RESERVED UNTO JUDGMENT, AND DELIVERED INTO CHAINS, ( I.E. BONDAGE OR PRISON , JUDE 6. ).

NO 4.THE CAUSE OF THEIR FALL AND THE NATURE OF THEIR SIN ARE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IN JUDE 6-7.

A .THEY ‘LEFT THEIR OWN HABITATION.

B. THIS ‘HABITATION IS CALLED ( IN THE GREEK , OIKETERION ), WHICH OCCURS AGAIN ONLY IN (2. COR, 5-2 ), WHERE IT IS CALLED OUR ‘HOUSE, I.E. ( THE BODY ), WHICH WE EARNESTLY LONG TO CLOTHED UPON, REFERRING TO WHICH THE CHANGE WHICH SHALL TAKE PLACE IN THE RESURRECTION. BELOVED, THIS IS THE SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, ( 1. COR 15-44.

C. THIS SPIRITUAL BODY OR ( OIKETERION ), IS WHAT THE ANGELS ‘LEFT, WHATEVER THAT MAY MEAN, AND THAT WE DO NOT KNOW. IT IS APOLEIPO AND IT MEANS TO LEAVE BEHIND, AS IN ( 2 TIM. 4, 13-20 ), WHERE PAUL USED IT OF THE CLOKE AND THE PARCHMENTS, WHICH HE LEFT BEHIND AT TROAS, AND OF TROPHIMUS WHOM HE LEFT BEHIND AT MILETUM, (HEB. 4, 6-9, 10-26, AND JUDE, 6 ).

D. THEY KEEP NOT THEIR FIRST ESTATE, ( ARCHE ), IN WHICH THEY WERE PLACE WHEN THEY WERE CREATED.

E. THE NATURE OF THEIR SIN IS CLEARLY STATED. THE SIN OF ‘SODOM AND GOMORRHA’ IS DECLARED TO BE IN LIKE MANNER TO THAT OF THE ANGLE, AND WHAT THAT SIN WAS IS DESCRIBED AS ‘GIVING THEMSELVES OVER TO FORNICATION, AND GOING AFTER STRANGE FLESH, ( JUDE. 6-7 ).

THE WORD ‘STRANGE HERE DENOTE OTHER, I.E. MEANS, DIFFERENT IN KIND. NOW WHAT THIS COULD BE, AND HOW IT COULD BE, WE ARE NOT TOLD. WE ARE NOT ASKED TO UNDERSTAND IT, BUT TO BELIEVE IT.

NO 5. IN GEN. 6: 1,2,4, WE HAVE THE HISTORICAL RECORD, WHICH IS REFERRED TO IN THE EPISTLES OF PETER AND JUDE. THERE THESE ANGELS ARE CALLED ‘THE SONS OF GOD, THIS EXPRESSION IN THE OLD TESTAMENT IS USED ALWAYS OF ANGELS, BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT BEGOTTEN, BUT CREATED.

AS ADAM WAS CREATED, AND HE IS SO CALLED IN ( LUKE. 3-38. NOW YOU WILL FIND A RECORD OF THESE ALSO IN THE BOOK OF , ( JOB. 1-6, 2-1, AND 38-7).

NO. 6 NOW RETURNING TO ( 1 PETER 3-19), THE EXPRESSION THESE SPIRIT IN PRISON CANNOT BE UNDERSTAND APART FROM THE WHOLE CONTEXT. THE PASSAGE COMMENCES WITH THE WORD ‘FOR (VERS 17 ), AND IS INTRODUCED AS THE REASON WHY THE IT IS BETTER, IF THE WILL OF GOD SHOULD (SO ), WILL, TO SUFFER FOR WIIL DOING, THEN FOR EVIL DOING.

CHRIST ALSO SUFFERED FOR SINS ONCE, A JUST ONE FOR UNJUST ONES IN ORDER THAT HE MIGHT BRING US TO GOD, HAVING BEEN PUT TO DEATH INDEED AS TO HIS FLESH, BUT MADE ALIVE AS TO HIS SPIRIT.

THIS CAN REFER ONLY TO HIS SPIRITUAL RESURRECTION BODY, ( 1, COR 15-45.

IN DEATH HIS BODY WAS PUT IN THE GRAVE OR ( SEOULCHRE, I.E. HADES ), ACTS. 2-31, BUT HIS SPIRIT WAS "COMMENDED TO GOD".

NOT UNTIL HIS SPIRIT WAS REUNITED TO THE BODY IN RESURRECTION COULD HE GO ELESEWHERE.

AND THEN HE WENT NOT TO "GEHENNA" OR BACK TO HADES, BUT TO TARTAURS, WHICH MEANS, IN THE DEEPES PART, (2. PETER 2-4 ), WHERE THE ANGLES WHO SINNED HAD BEEN DELIVERED INTO CHAINS.

TO THESE CHRIST PROCLAIMED HIS VICTORY, AND YOU SEE BELOVED, SOME BELIEVE, AND SOME DIDN’T BELIEVE, BELOVED, THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.