Dr. Taylor Marshall

So in the Catholic Church and also in the Eastern Orthodox Church and many Protestants as well, they recognize that, of course, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ died at 3 p.m.

on Good Friday and he rose again early on Easter morning.

And there's this mystery on Saturday.

Where was our Lord Jesus Christ, fully God, fully man, during this period in the middle of these three days of

And tradition identifies this as the harrowing of hell.

And the tradition is, and St.

Paul teaches this in Ephesians, Peter mentions it in the book of Acts, that Christ in his soul, his body was in the tomb, but his soul descended downward into the grave.

the nether regions.

And in Hebrew, it's called Sheol.

Certain traditions call it Limbo or maybe in the Greek, Hades, the Infernum.

And he didn't go there to suffer.

He went there to greet and recognize and redeem all the holy men and women from Adam and Eve all the way up until the good thief on the cross.

And he announces his proclamation of eternal life to those who have been waiting for

Because it's the belief of both the Old Testament Jewish people and Christians for most of the past 2,000 years that until Christ died on the cross, the righteous people like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Esther, all these people were waiting.

When we get the phrase waiting in limbo, they were literally waiting in limbo, waiting in shale.

And Christ descends victorious.

And he announces the gospel and he brings them up.

So Saturday is the day.

It's a quiet day in the liturgy, but it's the day in which we recognize the redemption of all those who came before Christ, the harrowing of hell.

Yeah, that's the idea is that before Christ, people were saved and