Dr. Taylor Marshall

And then the people of the Old Testament are also admitted into heaven through Christ.

Like I said before, from Adam all the way to the thief on the cross are now incorporated into that heavenly bliss process.

And so you asked, you know, I guess instead there are Christians before Christ.

That's exactly that's exactly correct.

Not the way we understand Christianity today, but they were looking forward to the Messiah.

Christ means Messiah.

They were looking.

So in that sense, they are Christian.

They're sort of proto Christian might be a better term.

Right.

I am, yes, and I was able to talk to Mel Gibson about this, and he doesn't want any of the details of the film, of course, being shared, but he's announced that he is going to do the resurrection of the Christ, and it's going to also incorporate this mystery of the harrowing of hell, which I think on the big screen is going to be magnificent when it's accomplished.

And yes, the vision of Anne Catherine Emmerich, she was a German nun, a consecrated version, and she had extensive visions about the entire life of Christ.

But also this mystery of the descent of Christ into hell.

And she gives the same basic outline or structure that you see in the early Greek church fathers, the early Latin church fathers.

And that is Christ coming down and he smashes the gates of hell.

He breaks down the gates of hell and many of the early icons, there's an image of Christ standing on top of the broken gates of hell and he's reaching his hand out and he's grabbing the hands of Adam and Eve and pulling them

out and upward into heaven.

It's a very beautiful image to see that mankind all the way back to Adam and Eve is being offered eternal salvation.

And Anne Catherine Emmerich has that same vision.

And she reveals that the faithful of the Old Testament, men and women are now being incorporated.